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off uie plane today and thi di. I birth announcement is a signifi-
patrb rive. President Stanley Hiller't . , .
own estimate of the, future of lum i cant aeronautical news event.
aircraft.
frr GLENN STACKHOUSE
Unitad Pr.n Corraipondant
Palo Alto, Calif. (U.PJ Tlie
X18 propelloplane, an unpedi
greed cross-breed between a heli
copter and a conventional air
liner which is expected to revo
lutionize aviation, is being con
structed under Air Force con
tract at the Hiller Helicopter
plant here.
It is a twin-engine transport
aircraft, approximately the size
of a ConVair airliner, which can
rise straight into the air like a
helicopter, then dart forward in i
high speed level flight like an 1
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Women and Pigs Unusual Feature of
Russians' Detachment in Antarctic
McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
(U.R) The lone- American
"scientist attached to the Soviet
Antarctic expedition said today
the Rus.'ins have two refine
ments not found in the U. S. ex
pedition womwi and pigs.
Meteorologist Gordon D. Cart
wright, 47, Newcastle, Pa., was
Interviewed by United Press
her by radio from the Russian
camp on the Indian Ocean side
of the continent.
He has been with the Russians
for more than a month and will
remain there through the win
ter. In exchange, a Soviet scien
tist will winter over at the U.S.
International Geophysical Year
BEWARE FLYING CANOES
EvanstonIll. (U.R) George
Bates, 37, a telephone company
personnel man, ran into a new
traffic hazard a flying canoe.
H was struck by the 16-foot ca
noe when it sailed through the
windshield of his car and hit him
on the head and, shoulders.
Strong wind tore the canoe from
theauto of Douglas Swihart, 17,
where he had tied it
Detroit (U.PJ Grant D.
Turnboe Jr. was fined $20 for
causing an accident despite his
pies that a Sunday, sermon on
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Will Realize Long Dp-eam
It it performs up to expecta
tions, and both Hiller and the
Air Force are betting it will,
it will represent the realization
of aviation's long dream of com
bining the best features of both
the helicopter and the airplane,
without the limitations of either.
Stanley Hiller Jr., youthful
president of the parent company,
told the United Press his firm
had been working on vertical
take-off
(VTO) designs since
1947 and settled on the tilt-wing
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Antarctic headquarters at Little
America.
Cartwright said the Russian
expedition ship Ob has three
women scientists and there are
I eight to 10 women crewmem-
bers on other . ships.
Hundredi Applied
None; are at the Soviet land
Kadar thanks Russia
For Halting Rebellion
London (U.R) Hungarian
puppet Premier Janos Kadar has
officially thanked Hungary's
"great self-denying friend, the
Soviet Union" for putting down
the Hungarian rebellion. Radio
Moscow said today.
The broadcast said Kadar ex
pressed his thanks in an inter
view with the Budapest corres
pondent of the Soviet govern
ment organ Izvestia.
Hong Kong-Okinawa
Flight Time Reduced
Hong Kong (U.R) A Vis
count turbo-jet airliner of Hong
Kong airways has shaved 37
minutes off the record flying
time for the 930 mile flight be
tween Hong Kong and Okinawa
it was reported today.
The plane covered the dis
tance in three hours and 25 min
utes Sunday for an average air
speed of 332 miles per hour.
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concept three years ago as "the
optimum of technical improve
ments we were looking for."
Actual construction of the X18
beEan last year under Air Force
orders.
Although production schedules
are not released, it was expected
the strange new plane would
take the air some time next
year.
Hiller said the prototype pro
pelloplane was "strictly a re
search aircraft" designed pri
marily for the military. But its
potential for both military and
commercial 'use is almost tUn
limited. The X18 is literally an aero
nautical mongrel.
Using 'Existing Components'
In its construction, Hiller's en
gineers are making maximum
use of "existing components."
bases, however, and none will
remain the winter although hun
dreds of Soviet women applied
for permission to join the ex
pedition, he said.
Cartwright reported that Rus
sian ship captains saicLthe wom
en are "very efficient on ships
and no difficulties whatsoever
have been experienced with
mixed crews."
The American scientist said he
discovered the Russians were
raising 40 pigs at their Mirny
base and had imported eight tons
of soil for an experimental gar
den. He did not say how either pro
ject was faring but both are
unique for this frozen continent.
Well Established
Mirny is 1,400 miles from the
U.S. base at McMurdo Sound.
Both are equi-distant from the
South Pole.
Cartwright said the Russian
camp is modern, well-equipped
and comfortable. His description
made it sound comparable to the
facilities at the U.S. base.
But the Soviets' clothing, he
said, "seems superior in appearr
ance, variety and utility. All
personnel are equipped with
leather and fur garments."
The food is wholesome and
there is plenty of it, he said.
"The tea is wonderful, but
caviar for breakfast is hard. to
face," he said.
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Hence, it has the "boxcar" fusel
age and tail assembly of a Chase
C122 transport. Its power plant
consists of two out-sized Alli
son turboprop engines pirated
from, the Navy's XFY1 "Pogo
stick" plane, a tail-sitting VTO
fighter first flown at nearby
Hoffett Naval Air Station in
1954. As in the Pogo, the en
gines will spin six-bladed, counter-rotating
Curtiss propellors.
The principal, and most start
ling, innovation is the unique
Hiller-designed tilting wing that
sets the plane apart from any
thing that has ever taken the
air.
Squatting on the ground in
position for take-off, the wings
will tilt vertically at a 90-degree
angle from the fuselage, with
the two props pointing straight
I up. When the pilot pours on the
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Raps Demo Critics
San Francisco (U.R) Re
publican Gov. Charles H. Rus
sell of Nevada has taken sharp
issue with Democratic critics of
the administration.
The Democrats, 1.000 strong
met .during the week end in a
western conference that gave
them a forum from which to
criticize the Eisenhower Admin
policy and for its attitude on
civil rights.
"The Republican party has
done more for civil rights in
four years than the Democratic
party did in 20," Russell said.
"The civil rights issue is a
battle within the Democratic
party. Let the Democrats clean
their own house before critic
izing President Eisenhower and
the Republicans."
Russell said he preferred Pres
ident Eisenhower's foreign pol
icy to Democratic programs of
"iridetermination and appease
ment." "How can we in so short a
time forget the meetings at Yal
ta, Malta and Potsdam when the
leaders of the Democratic party
yielded to Soviet influence?" he
asked.
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fered for sale but there were
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throttle, the two powerful en
gines will literally yank the
plane off the ground by its boot
straps. Once airborne, the pilot
will touch a control which will
swing the wings into normal
flying position and shove oft
in level flight.
Will Climb Faster
Hiller has predicted that de
spite its bulk and weight, the
tilt-wing transport will climb
"two to three times as fast as a
DC7" and will "potentially out
fly the fastest propeller-driven
plane in existence today."
In addition to its ability to
take off, hover and land vertical
ly, the X18 is also perfectly
adapted for the STOL (short
take-off and landing) facility
also sought by the Air Force.
"Not only will it be able to
take off vertically," Hiller said,
"but it will be able to load itself
to the gills with cargo and take
off as a conventional airplane
when fields are available. But
that's not all.
"Furthermore," Hiller said,
"by tilting the wings less than
90 degrees, it may take off in
any given distance, depending
entirely on the runway length
and or the degree of cargo
overloading or extra range de
sired." Minus Drawbacks
The X18 will incorporate all
of the versatility of the 'copter
minus all of the whirlybird's
drawbacks, namely limited for
ward speed, short range, high
cost and "prodigious" mainten
ance problems.
The helicopter is basically a
hovering device which is also de
signed to fly forward. The pro
pelloplane is a forward-flying
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Hiller said the door to VTO
flight was opened with the de
velopment of the turboprop en
gine with its comparatively light
weight and high power.
Although the intercontinental
jet or rocket versions of the X18
are "most certain" to come, Hil
ler said, research has shown
that present day jet engines just
can't do the job of the turboprop
in VTO flight.
Available jet power plants
would require so much fuel to
lift the entire dead weight of a
transport aircraft from ' speed
zero "that the aircraft's cargo
would be almost exclusively
fuel, and little else," Hiller said.
Revolutionary Move
The aviation executive views
the development of the XI 8 as
a truly revolutionary move in
flying. "One day we'll probably
regard all conventional take-off
planes of this age as nothing
more than elements of an ex
tended transition period which
necessarily had to precede VTO
aircraft." he said.
The X18's ability to hover mo
tionless in the air will be lim
ited, as compared with a heli
copter. But it will be enough
to lend it to the myriad of res
cue and airborne loading mis
sions now impossible for an air
plane. This helicopter facility, com
bined with the forward speed
and load-carrying capacity of the
airplane, is expected to make
the tilt-wing plane the prime
mover in the new atomic infan
try pattern which calls for quick
movement of supplies to the for
ward areas and the hop-skipping
of troops from one section of a
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The manufacturers make It
very evident they feel the X18
will prove, the first time it goes
up, that it is the forerunner of
a new era in flying an age
that will eventually see the
modern airport, with its mile
long superhighway landing
strips, a thing of the past.
The airport of the tilt-wing
era, as envisioned by Hiller, will
be a rooftop heliport in the cen
ter of the metropolis, instead of
a sprawled - out, land - devour
ing ranch a $6 taxi ride from
town.
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