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Air Force To Hold B52 Bomber
Production To 15 Planes a Month
Washington U.R The Air
Force has announced that it
will hold B52 heavy bomber
production at the 'present rate
of 15 a month instead of expand
ing to the 20 a month goal given
Congress last year.
The service said that the total
number "of the intercontinental
HA bombers to be produced is
not being changed but that pro
duction will be stretched out an
extra six months.
The planned total production
of eight-jet B52s is now 603.
The stretchout will keep pro
duction going longer and thus
make a "favorable" situation for
the 'Air Force and the Boeing
Airline Co., Seattle, if it is de
cided later to buy more of the
aircraft. '
The Air Force said the new
production schedule will make
it possible to obtain "a substan
tially greater proportion" of
Quotes From the News
Br UNITED STATES
Lo Angeles U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., in
aying that Communism should be taught in American schools,
but not by Communists:
"A Communist -steadier forfeits the. privileges of academic
freedom because his training, purposes and design are all at odds
with It."
Dlroii James H. Hoffa, Taamiterg union vic president, on
the recent meeting of the' Teamsters Executive council:
"We agreed that Dave Beck is entitled Jo his constitutional
rights aqd we are not making any judgments about him until he
has his day in court on any and all charges.".
Cairo The Mid East News agency, quoting a "responsible dip
lomatic source" on progress in American-Egyptian negotiations on
the Suez canal:
"I am optimistic and it can be said the next few days will bring
good news which will inspire confidence."
Washington President Eisenhower in congratulating U.P.
photographer James K. W. Atherton for his prize-winning photo
graph of Mrs. Eisenhower at a GOP rally:
"Wait till Mrs. Ike sees that in the papers."
Belgrade Jugoslav Vice Premier Aleksander Rankovic, tak
ing notice of a renewed Soviet campaign of words against the Tito
government:
"We are again witnessing really comic accusations."
Vew Orleans Don Inman, one of the divers who went over a
capsized oil drilling barge to determine whether the six men in
side might be alive:
"I'm sorry to say it. but these men are dead."
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a new B52 model which is re
ported to .have considerably in
creased fuel capacity and thus
greater range than the models
now in the Strategic Air Com
mand. Fewer Tankers
Present plans call for equip
ping 11 heavy bomber wings
with the airplanes. There are 45
planes to a wing.
The Air Force also announced
that production of the KC135
jet tanker plane will be held to
15 a month, a goal to be reached
in about one year. Previously
it had been planned to go to 20
a month.
Under congressional pressure
resulting from concern about
Russian air power progress, De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son increased the B52 produc
tion goal to 20 planes a month
last year.
Wilson took credit at the
time for pushing the Air Force
somewhat faster than it had
plann, ? to go.
Air Force production experts
testified to the Senate air power
inquiry at the time that 20 a
month was a larger than "opti
ura" number for a production
program calling for some 600
airplanes.
As a result of the congres
sional concern, and over Wil
son's objections, Congress ap
propriated $900 million in extra
Air Force funds of which the
lion's share was supposed to go
for bombers and jet tankers.
Ahead of Soviet
Meanwhile, the Pentagon
learned that it had overestimat
ed the number of Bison jet
bombers Russia had produced.
The Reds actually possessed, it
i- now known, probably no
more than 50 and had no expec
tation of overtaking U.S. pro
duction of the B52 for some
years.
Also the Air Force in Janu
ary came to the conclusion that
it could not afford to continue
to expand the B52 production
rate if it also started a large
scale production program for
the supersonic B58 bomber. It
was forecast in January that by
April flight tests would show
whether the B58 should be
pushed and the B52 schedule
eased.
Paradoxically, the B52 is a
heavy bomber replacing the old
B36 super bomber and the B58
is a medium bomber scheduled
to replace the B47 stratojet. The
B58's speed is estimated at 1,000
miles an hour.
The Air Force said its new
B52 schedule will "somewhat
ease" training and conversion
from B36s to B52s.
It said the B52s supported by
KC135 tankers, will "greatly in
crease our deterent striking
power and provide a powerful
restraining force to Communist
aggression."
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air
Force chief and chairman
designate of the Joint Chief of
Staff, has proposed to his super
iors that the Air Force build 17
B52 ' wings instead of the
planned 11.
The proposal so far has nei
ther been rejected nor accepted.
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Rearward Seats Ruled Out as Safety
Feature in Event of Airplane Smashup
Frfttnr' nntc: Following is the last
in i series of articles dealing with air
traffic congestion and passenger
safety.
By ROBERT J. SERLING
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) The build
ers of America's new jet trans
ports have decided that passen
gers are just as safe riding front
wards as backwards.
British experts have been in
sisting for years that aft-facing
airline seats are safer in low
speed crashes. The theory is that
in the sudden deceleration, a
passenger in a rearward seat is
pressed against the cushioned
back instead of being thrown
forward.
The U.S. Military. Air Trans
port Service liked the idea and
equipped all of its four-engined
transports with aft-facing seats.
But American aircraft manu
facturers, who have received or
ders for more than 200 new
jet airliners, said not a single
order specifies seats that face
to the rear. They added that
American scientists do not agree
that such seating arrangements
are any safer.
"We figured that because of
all the publicity about backward
seats, some airlines would at
least consider putting them in
their new jets," said a Douglas
Aircraft Co. official. "But they
didn't."
Backward Seats Heavier
A Boeing engineer who has
worked on that company's 707
jet transport said Boeing "went
to every aviation research out
fit that had done work on the
subject and found unanimous op
position to the idea."
The research organization, he
said, reported that in many acci
dents occuring at relatively low
speeds, aft-facing seats actually
were more dangerous than con
ventional seats. This was true
in so-called "ground loops" or
cart-wheeling.
celeration threw passengers side
ways instead of forward.
Tests also showed that to with
stand the same amount of de
celeration force as a front-facing
seat, a backward seat has to be
three times stronger. This adds
weight to the plane, and weight
is an airplane's greatest enemy.
If rearward seats are out as
a safety device, how about para
chutes for passengers?
Aviation industry spokesmen
list three arguments against pro
viding parachutes:
The majority of accidents
occur while landing or taking
off, at altitudes too low for use
of parachutes, or happen with
such suddenness that there
would be no time to jump.
Equipping every passenger
with a parachute would add
enormous weight to a plane.
Safety Research Promising
Unless a plane were disinte
grating in the air or being con
sumed by fire at a high altitude,
it would be far safer for a pas
senger to take his chances on
riding a crippled plane to earth
Even expert chutists frequently
are injured.
Jumping out of a plane at
30,000-40,000 feet (the altitude
at which jet airliners will op
erate) would require oxygen
masks for every passenger, add
ing further to a plane's weight.
Aviation scientists see more
promise in other air safety re
search projects.
The Guggenheim Aviation
TRAIN BOWS TO AUTO
Toledo, Ohio (U.R) Train
men on a northbound train took
one look at the southbound
track early Thursday and flag
ged down an oncoming south
bound train. The southbound
train stopped just in time to
prevent a head-on collision with
Marion T. Watson's car. Watson,
59, was locked up on a drunk
when violent ac- and disorderly charge.
Safety Center at Cornell Uni
versity has 213 separate safety
projects in progress. They deal
with such subjects as airport
lighting, ditching techniques,
metal fatigue, turbulence, run
way de-icing, stall warning de
vices, altimeter accuracy, auto
matic throttle control for ap
proaches, cockpit visibility, anti
skid brakes, snow and ice re
moval chemicals for parked
planes, and even an experiment
involving utilization of a jet en
gine's blast . as a windshield
wiper in heavy rain. ' . -
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Bill Before Senate
Salem (U.R) A bill which
would give the public utilities
commissioner authority to regu
late rate reductions as he now
may control rate increase has
been sent to the floor of the
Senate without recommendation.
The Senate Commerce and
Utilities Committee first tabled
the bill but later decided to let
the Senate consider it without
making a recommendation.
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