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Forethought & Combat. Officially, Douglas calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought...
...Says Heinemann: "We analyzed psychologically and physiologically just how a man reacts under combat stress, just how much he can really attend to . . . If he's going to skip some things, there's simply no use putting them in the cockpit to confuse him further." The cockpit of the A4D is as simple and uncluttered as a fledgling pilot's first trainer, though Heinemann shies away from the words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those...
...born into the world like a child"). Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. But it was not until the book was ready for the presses that Photographer Man got his contribution from Pablo Picasso. This week the book (Eight European Artists, Heinemann, Ltd., London) was out with a message for posterity from the world's greatest painter. The message: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ...
DOUGLAS Aircraft's Chief Designer E. H. Heinemann last week predicted that U.S.-built jet passenger planes will fly 500 m.p.h. by 1960, 600 m.p.h. by 1970, and ultimately 1,000 m.p.h. (at 35,000 ft.), but that there will probably be no atomic-powered passenger jets until after...
Somehow the Brahmins of Beacon Hill who run this place seem to have been particularly adept at picking Presidents in the past; why not give them another chance? H. E. Heinemann...