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...occupations are available' here as in any other industry. Good selling and desk jobs need filling for the aviation people in todays' complicated business environment, but companies don't scout for men to fill them. The search is for the future inventor of an economical rocket, a foolproof de-icer, or a radical new wing design...
...That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead . . . Wind is now north northwest . . . The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . Are you in charge of putting de-icer fluid in aircraft? Well, who the hell...
...simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...
Similar trouble encountered before when bigger planes went into service has always been successfully overcome. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. was busy perfecting a reinforcement for the wing where the de-icer is attached, and B. F. Goodrich Co.. maker of the deicers, was busy hunting for a way to strengthen the rubber. Both promised results by next ice weather...
...heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After considerable high jinks, Davis braves a storm to test a de-icer invention crashes to his death a slightly tarnished Hero...