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...vice admirals (rank equals lieutenant general) the Navy has 21, including one "EDO" (Engineering Duty Only), five aviators, one aviation observer. Their average...
...commodores, the rank re-created by Congress in April 1943, the Navy has 23, including one EDO, six aviators. Commodores, who wear one star like the Army's brigadier generals, command small task forces; one is serving on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff; one is commandant of the Naval Operations Base in Londonderry, Northern Ireland; one is chief of the Moroccan Sea Frontier. Youngest of the commodores-and youngest flag officer in the Navy-is Thomas Selby Combs, 45, commander of Navy Aircraft in the Southwest Pacific.*Advancement. Rules of seniority have controlled advancement in the Navy...
...hopes for airline patronage, so far has none. The two seaplane "Skyports" in the East River, at 31st Street and the foot of Wall Street, are important private landings which serve such potent business figures as Henry Morgan, Harry P. Davison, Roland Harriman and Rudolph Loening. Other fields-Flushing, Edo, Holmes at Jackson Heights and Jamaica-are important only to manufacturers of aircraft, students, amateurs and taxi services. Newark still dominates metropolitan air facilities, will continue to do so until ousted by LaGuardia's North Beach scheme...
Korvan Kruhovsky, chief engineer of Edo Aircraft Corp., which builds 90% of airplane floats and pontoons used...
...wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear for land planes. Most resplendent exhibit of all was Colonel Roscoe Turner, strutting about in a fawn-colored uniform...