Word: aero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What personality makes the best jet pilot? Air Force Psychologist Saul B. Sells told the Aero Medical Association last week that after a five-year study, still going on, he and his colleagues have constructed this composite picture...
...inventories will be worked off by the end of the first quarter, expects a sharp upturn in spring and total sales of at least 160,000 this year. Kaiser Motors is only in limited production for 1954, has made just minor changes in its three-car (Henry J, Kaiser, Aero Willys) line. Packard, which only face-lifted its 1954 cars but boosted horsepower (to 212), has a new V-8 engine in the works and a completely new body on the drawing boards for 1955. But Packard is having its troubles, has stopped producing cars for a week and laid...
...Surgical Spray. A plastic surgical dressing that can be sprayed on wounds was put on sale to physicians by Aeroplast Corp., Dayton. First developed in cooperation with the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory for mass treatment of burns, such as in an atomic attack, the spray dressing has since been used on all types of wounds. The transparent plastic permits a check without changing the dressing, can be stripped off easily. Price...
...occupation to make plans, the aircraft manufacturers switched their lines to make a living: Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...
Last week a member of the Aero Union broke the prudent silence, suggested that the industry get back to work. Said shrewd, ambitious Ernst Heinkel, once a top bomber-builder: "Germany is too far behind and too poor to attempt developing its own aircraft. But Germany could well play her part in the Western defense program" by making parts (e.g., optical instruments) for Western aircraft...