Word: floberg
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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This week in Manhattan, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg explained how aeronautical engineers have dug into the back drawer files and dusted off some old ideas, to start a new trend in naval aircraft. Today's high speeds, said the Secretary, mean that planes must be stronger than ever to stand the strain. The size and weight of a seaplane hull is hardly more of a drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray...
Hydro-ski aircraft, said Floberg, would be handy in many situations for which the U.S. now has no practical plane. They could be based in the protected water of forward areas before airfields are built. In some cases they might do away entirely with the necessity of building an expensive runway on land. They could also be used to protect long-range bombers, landing at sea to refuel from submarines or high-speed surface craft...
...Pensacola, Fla., John F. Floberg, 36, World War II reserve officer and now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, made the regulation three sole carrier landings on the U.S.S. Cabot in a North American SNJ monoplane, and thus qualified as an aircraft carrier pilot...
...issue, knocked the breath out of me. "Current production [of planes for the Navy] is so slow that it cannot even make up the deficit in Korean losses, training accidents and normal wear & tear. The situation is so bad, said [Assistant Navy Secretary for Air] Floberg, that the Navy actually has 1,000 planes fewer than it did 20 months ago when the Korean war began." Bad enough, but still worse, is that an Assistant Navy Secretary for Air can make such a statement without raising a skyrocketing scandal, without a big and hearty outburst of public indignation, without...
...only a thin crust of modern planes, and too many of its squadrons still fly obsolete World War II models. Current production is so slow that it cannot even make up the deficit in Korean losses, training accidents, and normal wear & tear. The situation is so bad, said Floberg, that the Navy actually has 1,000 planes fewer than it did 20 months ago when the Korean war began...