Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman

Index

A
Aeromarine Airplane and Motor Corporation, 18, 32-33
Aeromarine Inertia Starter, 33, 40-41
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, 213, 264, 268-269
Personal Aircraft Council, 273
reorganization of, 269-270
“Affair Fleet,” 47-48, 99
Air cargo (see Air carrier service)
Air carrier service, 280, 296, 306
certified, 303-304, 306-307
international, 303-304
uncertified, 304, 307
(See also Air transport; Airlines)
Air Coordinating Committee, 282
Air Corps Act of 1926, 69, 72, 244-245
Air Force, appropriations for, 293-295
and Berlin blockade, 307
created by Navy, 10, 20, 148
mobility of, 292
independent, 10, 25-26, 58-70, 107, 278-279, 291
and procurement, 282, 293
seventy-group, 293
and strategic bombing, 293
unification of, 293
(See also Army Air Corps; Aviation, naval)
Air France, 208
Air freight (see Air carrier service)
Air mail, 280
ocean, subsidies for, 187
revenues from, 300-301
Air-mail contracts, canceling of, 181-182, 186, 209
Air-mail rates, 298-299, 301
cut in, 298
and subsidies, 298-301
Air Policy Commission, temporary, 289
Air power, 5, 267-268, 285, 293
American, Lindbergh’s influence on, 103-104
economics of, 279-282
and foreign policy, 288
new concept of, 276-277, 287-288
public relations program for, 270, 283-284
and sea power, 267
studies of, 279-283
Air Power for Peace, 287-288
Air transport, commercial, 97, 186-187, 255, 267, 285, 288, 291, 294-296
and foreign policy, 295
military, 279-280, 291
veterans’ development of, 303-304
wartime importance of, 287-288
(See also Air carrier service)
Air Transport Association, 294, 303
Air Transport Command (ATC), 255, 279
Aircraft, 4
carrier, 21-22
combat, 195
experimental, 297
foreign, 95-96, 204
personal, 96, 273, 277
rigid, 10, 56, 58, 67, 70, 181
styling of, 110
and world freedom, 310
(See also kinds of aircraft, as Bombers)
Aircraft carriers, 5, 21-22, 127-128, 182, 190, 257-258
deck landings on, 116, 122, 125, 249-250
number of planes on, 116, 194
in relation to battleships, 134-135, 141-142, 147-148
vulnerability of, 292
Aircraft Industries Association of America, 283, 287, 290, 295, 308
Aircraft industry, 16, 23, 29-36, 51, 66-67, 72, 109-111, 183, 197, 199-203
air-power policy of, 276-277, 295, 297
assembly line in, 240-241
conference of, 1938, 213-216
consolidations in, 153-154
foreign, 196
and foreign markets, 188-192, 204, 220-222, 229
and foreign policy, 195
importance of, 275-276
investigations of, 181-182, 187, 249, 258, 270-287
nationalization of, 23
postwar difficulties of, 285-286
and public relations, 262-271, 283-284, 297
reconversion in, 260-262, 272
and red tape, 306-307
unification of, 262-263
and the unions, 249-251, 273
wartime criticism of, 242
Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet (FLEET AIR), 111-112, 117-118, 121, 123-124, 126, 129-130, 137, 151-152, 157, 183, 187, 202
Airfoil, wing-flapped, 179
Airline operators, policy recommendations of, 297
Airlines, 280
“Big Four,” 298, 304
feeder lines for, 301
legal fees paid by, 306-307
mismanagement of, 302
monopoly in, 303
number of employees in, 302
overseas, 294, 305-306
private investment in, 302
reasonable regulation of, 280-281, 294, 298, 303-308
and subsidies, 299-301, 306
(See also Air carrier service; Air transport)
AIRONS (see Aircraft squadrons)
Airplane, The, 91, 188
Airplane catapults, 5-6, 21, 49
Airplane engines, 9, 27, 222
air-cooled, 18, 30-31, 35, 38, 44-45, 49, 50-51, 78-80, 119, 134, 147, 188, 196-200, 203, 206, 217-218
commercial, 14
cost and price of, 243-244
early history of, 13-18
government building of, 231-232
Japanese, 193
licensing production of, 232, 239
liquid-cooled, 13-14, 18-19, 30-31, 35, 50-51, 74-75, 78-79, 134, 147, 196-200, 202-203, 217-218
military, 14, 22
precision tools for, 247-248
types of, 12-13, 16-18, 49, 193
variations in, 243
(See also kinds of engines, as Liberty)
Airplanes (see Aircraft)
Airports and airways, 301
Aktiebolaget Aerotransport, 207
Akron, dirigible, 70, 181
Alabama, battleship, 25
Alaska, air transportation to, 304
Allison Engineering Company, 197
Allison liquid-cooled engines, 217, 238
Altitude, high, research on, 257
Alvis, Limited, Coventry, 171
Amphibians (see Sikorsky planes)
American Airlines, 304
American Export Airlines, 183
American Overseas Airlines, 305, 307
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 93
Anacostia Naval Air Station, 99, 104
Andrews, Frank, 214
Annapolis, 2, 142, 268
(See also U.S. Naval Academy)
Approved Type Certificate (ATC), 176-177
Argentine Navy, 189-190
Argus, carrier, 5
Arkansas, battleship, 4, 121
Arklight, The, 259
Armed forces, 295
procurement for, 66, 187, 232
reorganization of, 290
(See also Army; Navy)
Arms Embargo Act, 210, 218, 221-222
repeal of, 222
Army, 19, 25, 35, 41, 58, 72, 147, 290, 292-293
and aircraft industry, 23, 65, 172, 213-216, 243, 262
General Mitchell’s attack on, 58-59
Personnel Procurement Branch, 251
and procurement, 66, 187
war plans effort of, 213-216
war schedule of, 241
Army Air Corps, 196, 203, 214, 216-218, 229, 278, 292
Army Air Service, 9, 23-24, 71, 98, 148
Army Engineering Division, 33, 39, 191, 197
Army-Navy rivalry, 10-11, 24-27, 34, 43, 278, 290-292
Army Ordnance, 24
Army planes, C-54’s, 256
DH’s, 17, 29, 110
F4B’s, 134
Jennys, 14, 43
Lightnings, 257
PT’s, 44
Thunderbolts, 195
(See also kinds of aircraft, as Bombers)
Army Reorganization Act of 1921, 213, 233
Arnold, Gen. “Hap,” 213-214, 217
Arnold, Les, 118, 147-148
Arnold, Milton, 294
Aroostook, mine planter, 122
ATC (see Approved Type Certificate; Army Transport Command)
Atkins, Capt. A. K., 17
Atom bomb, 288, 293, 310
Aunt Lucy, 85-86, 90, 92
Automotive industry, 237
and aircraft engines, 14-16, 238-240, 249
and foreign markets, 205
reconversion in, 272
Aviation, 270
Aviation, 9-10, 298
civil, 69, 76, 206
commercial, 110, 174, 179, 212, 276, 279
foreign, 205
overseas, 180, 183, 208-209
(See also Air transport)
government agencies concerned with, 279-282, 284, 297
government control of, 205-206
investigations into, 60-62, 181-182, 187, 289-290, 293-298
Lindbergh’s influence on, 103-108
and mass production, 14-15
naval, 5-8, 10, 19-20, 26-27, 68, 70, 278, 291-296
naval, five-year building program for, 71-72, 95
proposed advisory committee for, 276-277, 282, 284-285
appointment of, 289
opposition to, 278-279
service rivalry in (see Army-Navy rivalry)
(See also Aircraft; Aircraft industry)
Aviation Game, 28
Aviation mechanic schools, during World War I, 5-6
Aviation Writers’ Association, 270
B
Baker, George P., 290
Balchen, Bernt, 207
Baldwin, Hanson, 149
Ballanca, Giuseppe, 96
Bankers Trust Company, New York, 302
Battle of Britain, 171
Battle fleet, 151
morale of, 132-133
organization of, 130
Battleships, 134-135, 141-142, 147-148, 152
Bavarian Motoren Werke, 208
Beach, Joe, 251-252
Beatty, Adm. Sir David, 4, 259, 266
Beaverbrook, Lord, 222, 233
Bee Hive, 296
Beisel, Rex, 186
Belgium, 207
Bell, Larry, 97
Berle, Adolphe, 294
Berlin Airlift, 296, 310
Berlin blockade, 307
Bermuda, 208, 266
Berrien, Capt. Frank D., 127
Bethpage, Long Island, 199
Beverly Hills, California, 265, 268
“Big Four” airlines, 298, 304
Bingham, Hiram, 61
Biplanes, passing of, 170, 190
Black, Hugo, 181, 187, 263, 271
Bloch, Capt. Claude C., 29, 138
Boeing, William E., 66, 76-77, 105, 110, 153-154, 182, 185, 200-201
Boeing Airplane Company, 48, 73, 76-77, 153, 169, 182-183, 194, 200-201, 251
fighters, 73, 75, 76, 134, 147
mail planes, 40-B’s (Monomail), 76, 169
Stratocruiser, 180
training planes, 98
transports, 169, 171, 208
Bogan, Gerry, 125-127
Bogusch, Harry, 89, 141, 147, 152
Bolling Field, 99
Bomb rack for Corsairs, 257
Bomber escort planes, 195
Bombers, 202
heavy long-range, 194, 251
twin-engined, 198
Borrup, Jack, 55
Boston, Massachusetts, 33
Botta, Lt. Ricco, 23, 38, 48, 78
Brainard, Morgan B., 264
Breck, destroyer, 144-145
Bremerton, Washington, 153
Brereton, Louis, 214
Brewster, Owen, 285, 289
Brewster Bill, 285
Bridgeport, Connecticut, 164, 172
Bridgeport, destroyer tender, 7, 11, 145
Bristol airplane factory, 188
Bristol Jupiter engine, 56, 193, 196
British Air Ministry, 10, 170, 266, 291
British Committee of Inquiry into Civil Aviation, 206
British Grand Fleet, 4-5, 21, 207, 259, 266
British National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 94
British Purchasing Commission, 224-225
British Spitfire fighters, 171
Brown, Admiral Moffett’s messenger, 60
Brown, Donald L., 55, 182, 185, 213, 216-220, 229, 239, 249
BUAERO (see U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics)
Buffalo, New York, 35, 43
Buick, 232, 237, 241, 252, 254
Buivid, Mr., 179
BUNAV (see U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Navigation)
Burbank, California, 201
Burden, William A. M., 278
Burns, Colonel, 213, 216
Business cycles, 163
Businessmen vs. professional men, 163-164
on United Aircraft board, 264
Butler, Admiral, 151
Butler, Congressman, 71-72
Byrd, Dick, 96, 104
C
Cadillac, 232
Cadman Report, 206
Caldwell, Frank, 78, 155, 165-167, 169-171, 256
California, battleship, 152, 182
Camp Perry, 2
Canadian Pratt and Whitney, 253
Carburetors, 42
Carriers (see Aircraft carriers)
Champion, Lt. C. C., 38, 73, 96
Chance Vought Corporation, 17, 43, 47, 153, 170, 182, 185, 187, 190, 193, 196, 205, 230, 241, 265
(See also Vought-Sikorsky; United Aircraft Corporation)
Chatfield, Hugh, 73
Chevrolet, 232, 237, 241, 252
Cheyenne, Wyoming, 168-170
Chicago-San Francisco contract air mail route, 76
Chilton, Roland, 32, 40-41
Chourré, Emile, 117
Christianity, 7, 88, 209-210, 212, 309-310
Churchill, Winston, 171
C.I.O., 273-275
Civil Aeronautics Act, 70, 298, 303-306
Civil Aeronautics Authority, 302
Civil Aeronautics Board, 298-299, 301-305, 307-308
Clerget engine, 17
Clippers, 176-177, 180, 200, 255
(See also Transports)
Coco Solo, 151
Coffin, Howard, 61
Colbert, M., 205
Cole, Francis W., 264
Collective bargaining, 249-250
College Point, Long Island, 173
Collins, Capt. Harry, 218-219, 224
Colorado, cruiser, 143
COMAIRONS, 124, 127, 134-135, 138, 140
Combustion, principle of, 3
Command of the Air, 10
Competition, 24, 95, 97, 111, 161, 191, 230, 262, 276, 278, 297, 303-305
and foreign markets, 188
international, 205-208, 294
subsidized, 301
in transport planes, 202, 295, 297
unfair, 164-165
Conant, Hersey, 28
Congress, 71-72
appropriation committees of, 302
aviation appropriations from, 20, 53, 55, 95, 216-217, 229, 293-294
Congressional Aviation Policy Board, 289
report of, 294-295
Congressional committees, public hearings before, 271
Congressional investigations, 181-182, 187, 263
Connecticut State War Finance Committee, 246
Consolidated Aircraft, 43, 183, 202
army trainers, 43-46
Catalinas, 195
NY’s, 44, 84, 91
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 273
Cook, Capt. Arthur B., 127
Coolidge, Calvin, 8, 61, 69, 79, 94-95
Cowl-flaps, 188
Coyle, Mr., 241
Coyne, Bob, 246
Crane, Henry, 238
Curtice, Harlow, 241, 254
Curtiss, Glenn, 113
Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company, 16, 34-37, 51-52, 73-74, 97, 153
Hawks, 73-74, 99
TS’s, 43
(See also Curtiss-Wright)
Curtiss engines, D-12’s, 35-36, 73, 75
R-1454’s, 35-36, 52, 56, 74
Curtiss-Wright, 153-156, 191, 230
(See also Wright Aeronautical Corporation; Wright Martin)
Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, 172
D
Davis, Art, 141
Davis, Bill, 150
Davison, F. Trubee, 104, 168
Dayton, Ohio, 23, 34
(See also Wright Field)
de Chevalier, Godfrey de Courcelles, 5, 21, 268
Defense Plant Corporation, 253
de Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd., 171
DH’s, 15, 17, 110
de la Verne Machine Shop, 17
Delco Company, 39
Demobilization, 277
Dennison, Arthur C., 62
Depression, 163, 220
DESRONS (see Destroyer squadrons)
de Steiguer, Adm. Louis R., 121
Destroyer Squadrons (DESRONS), 130, 140
Detroit, cruiser, 145-146
Detroit, Michigan, 134
Dexter, Mrs., 229-230
Diamond, Jimmy, 42
Dickinson, Arnold, 173, 175
Diesel engines, 197
Dive bombers, 147, 193
Corsairs as, 258
monoplane, 190, 198
two-seat, 188-190
Dive bombing, 121, 123, 193
Donaldson, John W., 267
Donaldson, Postmaster General, 299-300
Doolittle, Jimmy, 98, 214
Douglas, Don, 47, 97-98, 194, 198, 201-202, 251, 255, 265, 267-268
Douglas, Lt. Robert, 106-107
Douglas transports, DC-3’s, 194, 207
DC-4’s, 194, 256
Douhet, General Jiulio, 10, 206, 212
Douhet doctrine, 206, 293
DuBose, Lieutenant Commander, 62, 68, 71
Duralumin, 78, 155, 165
Durant, William F., 61
Durham, J. A., 307
E
East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, 126
East Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 269
East Haddam Fish and Game Club, 198
East Hartford, Connecticut, 192, 234
Eastern Airlines, 298, 301-302
Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 292
Echols, Gen. Oliver P., 286-287
Eclipse Machine Company, 41
Edgar, Graham, 42
Egtvedt, Claire, 48, 76, 134, 185, 200
Engineering, 2, 8
intuitive, 177
and politics, 19
Engineering Thermodynamics, 3
Engineers, professional, 3, 177
Engines (see Airplane engines)
England (see Great Britain)
English Voyages, The, 288
Ethyl Corporation, 42
Ethylene glycol, 197
Export permits, 189-190
F
Fagan, Tom, 39, 42
Fairchild Aviation Corporation, 273
Farley, James, 181
Farmington, Long Island, 195, 199
Fechet, Jim, 134
Feldstein, M. J., 307
Fighter bombers, 134, 147, 193-194
long-range, 195
Fighter planes, 22, 73, 75-76, 99, 121-124, 127, 134, 140, 147, 191-192, 194, 195
single seat, 199
two-seated, 123, 187-188
Finland, 208
Finletter, Thomas K., 289-290
Finletter Board, 290, 293-294
Finletter Board, report of, 293-294
Fireside chat, on airplane production program, 229, 233
Fisher, Paul, 296
Five freedoms, 294
Fleet, Reuben, 43, 195, 202, 250
FLEET AIR (see Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet)
Fletcher, Adm. Frank J., 61
Flight Manual, 87, 98
Flying boats, 248-249
Flynn, “Tiny,” 252
Fokker, Anthony, 43, 47, 95
Fokker Universal, 96
Ford, Edsel, 239
Ford, Henry, 96, 256
Ford Motor Company, 232, 239-241, 252
Ford Trimotor, 153, 155, 204
Foreign policy, and aviation, 195, 288
Forrestal, James V., 260-263, 290, 292-293
Foster, Cedric, 242
France, 205-208, 210-212, 218-219
declares war on Germany, 221
Fraser, Peter M., 264
French Purchasing Commission, 218-219, 224-225
Fuel, aviation, 42
Fuel pumps, 42
G
Gamble, Ted, 246
Gates, Artemus L., 277
General Electric Company, 39-40
General Motors, 67, 197, 217, 237, 241
George-Murray Bill, 273
German High Seas Fleet, 4
German Lufthansa, 208
Germany, 196, 204, 208, 210-212, 293
attack on Russia by, 247
invasion of Poland by, 221
war production in, 235
Geuting, Joseph T., Jr., 273, 277
Gibson, Professor, 34
Gilman, “Pop,” 197
Gluhareff, Michael, 179
Gluhareff, Serge, 179
Gnome-Rhone engine, 17, 193
Goering, Hermann, 195, 210
Goldsmith, Mr., 42
Goodyear Rubber, 241
Gordon Wyman, 240
Grand Fleet, British, 4-5, 21, 207, 259, 266
Great Britain, and American aircraft, 222, 224-225
before World War II, 206-208, 211
Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 5-6, 25, 151
Great Seal of the Navy Department, 39
Green, Fitzhugh, 108
Green, Joseph, 189
Grey, C. J., 94, 188
Griffen, “Squash,” 141, 147
Gross, Bob, 194, 201-202, 251
Grumman, Roy, 199
Grumman Wildcats, 193
Guam, 151
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 6
Guggenheim, Harry, 108
Guided missiles, 296-297
Gunnery, 1, 4, 8, 21
H
Hakluyt, Richard, 288
Hall, Charles Ward, 80
Halligan, Capt. John, 127
Halsey, Bill, 127
Hamilton, Thomas, 96, 154-157, 160, 192, 204-207, 209-212, 218
Hamilton, Ohio, 51
Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company, 154-156, 160, 204
Hamilton Metalplane Company, 154, 204
Hamilton-Standard, 165-166, 168-172, 177, 179, 182, 196, 204, 229, 241
Harbord, Maj. Gen. James G., 61
Harding, Warren G., 8, 94
Hartford, Connecticut, 51-52, 203, 206, 242
Hartford Times, The, 242
Harvard School of Business, 282
Hawaiian cruise, 1928, 122, 125-128
Hawthorne, California, 201
Heacock, Amos E., 303
Helicopters, 184, 241, 248
Herbster, “Spig,” 113
Herron, Sam, 34
Hillman, Sidney, 249-251
Himalayan Hump, air-transport service over, 256, 287, 303
Hirohito, 209
Hispano Suiza engines, 12, 16-17, 30, 43, 50, 53
Hitler, Adolf, 204, 209-212, 221
Hobbs, Leonard S., 42
Hobbs, Luke, 42
Holland, 207
Hoover, Herbert, 69, 104, 246
Hoover, Mrs., 106
Hopkins, Harry, 216
Horner, Jack, 192, 229, 243, 253, 263
Hoyt, Dick, 50
Hoyt, Palmer, 290
Hubbard, Eddie, 76
Huff-Daland training planes, 98
Hughes, Admiral, 64
Hughes, Howard, 249
Hull, destroyer, 2
Hunsaker, “Jerry,” 22-23
Hurley, Pat, 168
Hurley, Roy, 42
I
I.A.M.-A.F. of L., 277
Ickes, Harold, 216
Indianapolis, Indiana, 197
Inglewood, California, 201
Inspection, in war production, 258
Institute of Electrical Engineers, 93
International Civil Aviation Conference, Chicago, 294
International free rifle matches, Milan, Italy, 7
Invisible Encounter, The, 209
Iris, destroyer tender, 219
Isthmian Airways, 204
Italy, 207-208
J
Jacquin, Col. Paul, 219, 224-225
Jap Zeros, 192
Japanese pilots, 192
Jet propulsion, 257
Jeter, Tom, 134
Johnson, Capt. Alfred W., 22, 29
Johnson, Edwin C., 296
Johnson, Louis, 213, 217, 220, 233
Johnson, Phillip G., 76, 182, 185, 201, 230, 251
Johnson Committee, 296-297
Joliet, Illinois, 2, 6
Jones, Ed, 34
Jones, Harold A., 298-299
Jorge Luro y Cia, Argentina, 189
Joyce, Temple, 74
Jugoslavia, 208
K
Kahn, Albert, 222
Kaiser, Henry J., 248-249
Kansas City, Missouri, 253
Kartveli, Mr., 195, 200
Kauffman, Freddie, 89
Kennedy-Purvis, Vice Adm. Sir Charles E., 266-268
Ketcham, “Dixie,” 91
Kettering, “Boss,” 110
Keyes, C. M., 65-66
Keyes, Roy, 36
Keyport, New Jersey, 18, 32
Kimball, Dr., 104
Kindleberger, Dutch, 47, 97, 194, 201-202, 214-215, 251, 254
King, Adm. E. J., 128, 136, 141-142, 181-182, 189
Kinney Manufacturing Company, 18, 33
KLM, 207
Knerr, Hugh, 214
KNILM, 207
Knudsen, Bill, 233, 237-241, 247, 252
Kraeling, Harry, 156, 160, 165
Kraus, Comdr. Sidney M., 17, 50, 54, 66, 72, 75
Krug, Julius, 286
L
Labor, 207
Labor unions, 249-251, 273
Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 56, 82
Lampert, Congressman, 60
Land, Capt. Emory S., 22
Land, Adm. Jerry, 65, 104-105, 294
Lang, Antone, 7
Lang, Frau, 7
Langley, carrier, 21, 111-128, 135, 265
Langley, Professor, 74
Lansing, Raymond P., 40-42
Lawrance, Charles Lanier, 17, 36, 39, 50, 286-287
Lawrance engines, 12-13, 17, 30, 38-39, 41
Lawrence, David, 277
Lebensky, Bob, 179
Lee, John G., 198-199, 256, 265, 267, 269
Leighton, Lt. Comdr. B. G., 9, 12-14, 17-20, 22-27, 29-38, 98, 123, 194
Leloir, Guillermo, 190
Lenin, 209
Lewis, Fulton, Jr., 242
Lexington, carrier, 21
new, 49, 77, 119, 121, 127-129, 135-136, 143-145, 152
Liberty, 310
Liberty engines, 12, 15, 17-18, 30, 35, 53, 95, 98
Licenses, to build aircraft engines, 231-232, 239
Limitation of Arms Conference, 9, 21, 64, 67
Lindbergh, Charles A., 40, 103-108, 134, 149-150, 176, 178, 256-257
address to Nazis, 210-211
Pacific mission of, 257
quoted, 309
Lindbergh Field, 133
Lobbying, 271
Lockheed, 194, 202
Lockheed fighters, Lightning, 194
Loening, Grover, 66
Loening amphibians, 138
Long Beach, California, 117, 129-130
Long Island City, New York, 17, 47
Los Angeles, 133-134, 153, 201, 265
Los Angeles, dirigible, 10, 56, 67
LOT, 208
Lowry, Jimmy, 84-85
Lucke, Charles Edward, 3, 5-6, 8, 92, 142, 158, 256
Luro, Jorge, 189
Lyman, Deac, 270
M
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 59
McCain, Adm. J. S., 258
McCarthy, Charles J., 77, 185-186, 229
McCarthy, Joseph F., 161, 164, 175, 229, 243
McCone, John A., 290
McCook Field, 23, 33-34, 42
McCracken, Bill, 104
MacIntyre, Marvin, 65, 71
MacMahon, Brian, 285
Macon, dirigible, 181
Magnesium, 167
Magnetos, 39-40
Mahan, 149, 287
on sea power, 129-130, 288
Mail planes, 76, 154, 169
Maile, Lt. Frank, 23
Maintenance crews, 132
Manly, Charles M., 74, 93
Manly engine, 74
Marcus, Charles, 40-41
Mare Island Navy Yard, 114, 121, 151
Marines, 67, 121, 257
Marks, Charles, 55
Martin, Glenn L., 47, 79-80, 97, 104, 195, 200, 214-216
Martin Company, 183, 200
Thunderbolt, 195
torpedo bombers, SC’s, 77-79
torpedo bomber scouts, T4M’s, 104-106, 134, 140
Mason, Mr., 241
Mayflower, yacht, 78-79
Mayo, William, 96
Mead, George J., 30-32, 37, 42, 55-56, 74, 93, 140, 185, 232-233, 238, 241
Mellon, Andrew, 95
“Memoranda for file,” 39
Memphis, cruiser, 103, 106-108
Menasco Company, 154
Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 306
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 156, 160
Mines Field, 133
Mississippi, battleship, 5-6
Mitchell, Billy, 9-10, 25-27, 46, 56-59, 109, 213, 278-279
court-martial of, 70
and independent air force, 60-69, 291
Mitchell, Hugh B., 284
Mitchell, Gen. J. B., 148
Mitchell, Bill, 285
Mitscher, Pete, 98-99, 115, 146
Mobilization, 216, 235
for drill purposes, 214-215
Moffett, Rear Adm. William Adger, 1, 4-6, 8-11, 17, 19-20, 24-27, 45-46, 52-53, 55-57, 60, 62-68, 70-71, 80-81, 89, 93-95, 98, 101, 104, 109, 111, 119, 123, 128, 137, 142, 149, 151, 181, 278, 291-292
Mongolia, liner, 112
Monoplanes, 96, 169-170, 190, 204
metal, 154
Monopoly, 164, 207, 303
Montgomery, Monty, 115
Morale, 259
Morgan, John E. P., 286
Morgenthau, Henry, 218, 223-228, 230
Morrow, Dwight, 61
Morrow Board, 61-71, 95, 186, 188, 276-277, 285
Moulton, Bobby, 115-117
Mullinix, Henry, 38, 48, 96
Murphy, Francis S., 242
Murray, James E., 271, 273-274, 277-278
Murray, Roger F., 302
Mussolini, 209
Mustin, Capt. Henry C., 21, 68
Mustin plan for naval aviation, 68, 71
N
Nash-Kelvinator Company, 232, 241, 252
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 232-233
National Air Races, Los Angeles, 133-134
Philadelphia, 96
National Aircraft War Council, 269
National Association of Manufacturers, 242
“National Aviation Policy,” 294
National City Bank, New York, Bulletin, 274-275
National Defense Advisory Committee, 216
National Independent Carriers, 303
National Planning Association, 279, 282
National Rifle Association of America, 7, 24
National rifle matches, 1909, 2
NATS (see Naval Air Transport Service)
Naval Air Stations (see names of stations, as Pensacola)
Naval Air Transport Service (NATS), 255
Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, 23, 80, 124, 200
Aero Engine Laboratory, 38
Naval Operation (OPNAV), 20
Naval War College, Newport, 129
Navy, 19, 76, 202, 290, 292-293, 295
and air-cooled engines, 18, 31
and aircraft industry, 23, 52, 65-68, 172, 243, 260-262, 274-278
feuds in, 63
General Mitchell’s attack on, 58-61
growth of, 142
Hawaiian cruise of, 121-125
leadership in, 131-132
Panama maneuvers of, 135-148
procurement for, 66, 187
proposed reduction of, 25-26
public relations for, 291
Navy, and sea power, 129-130
war schedule of, 241
(See also U.S. Navy Department)
Navy lend-lease, 252
Navy planes, Boeing fighters, 73, 75, 76, 134, 147
Catalinas, 195
Corsairs, 124, 140, 156, 187, 193, 257-258, 265
C-54’s, 256
F-5-L’s, 84
N-9’s, 43-44, 84, 91
P12’s, 134
SBU’s, 187-191
SC’s, 77-79
T4M’s, 104-106, 134, 140
UO’s, 43, 48, 50, 117
(See also Kinds of aircraft, as Bombers)
Nazis, 210-212, 235
NC boats, 22
Nelson, Arvid, 160
Nelson, Donald, 286
Neutrality proclamation, 1939, 221
Neville, Leslie, 270
New Deal, 186
New Knowledge, The, 87
New York, New York, 3, 6, 60, 67, 93, 172
New York Central, 282
New York Times, The, 149, 270
Niles Tool Company, 51
Nimitz, Chester, 268
Noble, Warren, 33-34
Norden, Raymond A., 306-307
Norfolk Naval Air Station, 119, 121
North American, 194
North American Mustangs, 195
North Island Naval Air Station, 37, 128-129
Northrup, Jack, 169, 191-192, 201-202
Northrup Company, 154
Northrup-Vought fighter plane, 191-193
sold to Japan, 192
Norway, 207
NRA, 273
Nulton, Adm. Louis M., 151-153
Nutt, Arthur, 36, 42
Nye, Gerald P., 181, 187, 263, 271
O
Oberammergau, Passion Play at, 7
O’Connell, Joseph J., Jr., 299, 301-302
Of Flight and Life, 309
Old Ark (see Arkansas)
Omaha, light cruiser, 136, 140, 143, 145
Oman, C. W. C., 250
OPNAV (see Naval Operation)
Oregon, 112
P
Pacific air bases, 182
Pacific Northwest-Alaska carrier service, nonscheduled, 304
Pacific Overseas Airlines, 303-304
Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, 2, 112
Packard engines, 75, 78-79
Packard Motor Company, 16, 34-35
Palm Beach, Florida, 6
Palm Springs, California, 265, 267
Pan American Airways, 149, 174, 208, 294, 305-307
(See also Clippers)
Panama Canal, 1929 maneuvers at, 135-150
Parker, James S., 61
Parkes, John, 171
Parsons, Lt. Ralph M., 23, 38
Passion Play, Oberammergau, 7
Patents, 41-42
Paterson, New Jersey, 29
Patrick, Maj. Gen. Mason M., 168
Patterson, Bill, 255
Patterson, Robert P., 277
Pearl Harbor, 29, 120-121, 125-127, 191, 219, 252, 267-268
Pensacola Naval Air Station, 38, 45, 81-96, 98, 112, 119, 130
Plant depreciation, 225, 227-228
Plevin, M. René, 222, 224
Ploesti oil fields, bombing of, 293
Poland, 208
invasion of, 221
Polish Airlines (LOT), 208
Pownall, “Baldy,” 89
Pratt, Admiral, 138-139, 148, 151-152
Pratt and Whitney engines, 216
1830’s, 193, 222, 241, 255
Hornet, 78, 80, 96, 104, 140, 187, 204, 208
2800’s, 194
two-row radial (R-1535), 188, 192
standardization of, 254-255
Wasp, 72-78, 98, 140, 154, 169, 187, 193, 196, 285
Wasp, Jr., 241
Wasp Major, 285
Pratt and Whitney Tool Company, 51, 66, 72-75, 154, 170, 177, 182, 196-198, 200, 202-203, 216-217, 219, 229, 251, 258, 263, 285
American addition for, 234, 238
British plant of, 224-228
as charge of Navy, 243
French plant of, 222, 226
War Plans Division, 218, 222, 226, 234
Press, the, 59-60, 67, 270, 274, 276, 290
Prestone, 197
Price Adjustment Act, 246, 274
Price Adjustment Board, 254
Profit control, 221, 246
Profiteering, 163, 210, 228, 245, 249, 265, 273, 275
Profits, 161-162, 274-277, 303
Propellers, 77-78, 154-157, 160, 204, 208, 241
controllable-pitch, 166-171, 174, 179
metal, 78, 164-165, 186
Public speakers, 283
Pursuit planes, 217-218
Putnam, Carleton, 297, 300
Putnam, George Palmer, 104
Q
Queen Elizabeth, flagship, 4, 259
Quisenberry, Alma, 23
R
Radford, Vice Adm. Arthur, 63, 292
Radio commentators, 242
Railroads, early expansion of, 280
government subsidizing of, 280-281
Ramsey, Vice Adm. de Witt C. (“Duke”), 63, 291
Ramspeck, Bob, 294
Rantoul, Illinois, 25
Rayburn, Sam, 271, 284, 302
Ream Field, 117
Reconversion, 256, 260-262, 272, 275-276
Reconversion Act, Section 102, 286
Reed, Sylvanus, 155-156
Reed Propeller Company, 155
Reeves, Rear Adm. Joseph M. (Bull), 111-112, 114-129, 131-133, 135-143, 145-146, 148, 151-152, 182-183, 193, 252
Reeves, Mrs., 118
Renegotiation, 246
Rentschler, Frederick B., 29-32, 36, 50-55, 66-67, 75, 77, 109-112, 153-157, 164, 167, 172-174, 182, 185, 205, 219, 229, 237-239, 247, 260-264, 278
Republic Aviation, 199
Rescue craft, 22
Reuther, Walter, 247-248
Richardson, “Captain Dick,” 174, 177
Richardson, Capt. H. C., 22
Richardson, Comdr. L. B., 243
Richthofen, Baron von, 58
Rickenbacker, Capt. Eddie, 191, 297-298, 301, 306
Ripley, Joseph P., 264
Roberts Board, 252
Rolls Royce engines, Merlin, 194
racing-plane, 196
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis, 211-212
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 181-182, 186, 221, 229, 246, 249, 256
airplane program of, 229, 233, 237, 251
Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted, 1
’Round the world flight, first, 98
Rowe, Gordon, 118, 122
Royal Aeronautical Society, London, 94, 208
Russell, Frank, 80, 269
Russia, 211-212, 289
attacked by Germany, 247
blockade of Berlin by, 307
(See also Soviet)
Ryan, Claude, 105
S
Sabena, 207
San Diego, California, 2, 112-113, 117-119, 128, 130, 133-134, 152, 156, 193, 202
San Diego Union, 113
San Francisco, 265
San Francisco Advertising Club, 299
San Pedro, California, 117-118, 126, 138, 153
Santa Monica, California, 198, 201, 268
Saratoga, carrier, 21
Saratoga, carrier, new, 49, 77, 119, 127, 129, 135-141, 145-149, 152
Savoia Marchettis, 207
Schneider Trophy race, 98
Schwoble, Jake, 199
Scouts, long-range, 22
Sea Cow, SC-6, 77-79
Sea power, 4-5, 129-130, 288
Seaboard and Western Airlines, Inc., 303, 306-307
Seaplanes, 21, 43-44, 77-79, 84, 91
Seattle, Washington, 48
Secretary of the Navy, 40, 59
Selection Board, 9
Selective Service, 251
Self, Sir Henry, 222, 224, 226
Seligman, Mort, 134
Senn, Adm. Thomas J., 122, 136, 140
Service rivalry (see Army-Navy rivalry)
Seven Roman Statesmen, The, 250
Seversky, Alex P. de, 191, 199-200
Shenandoah, dirigible, 56-58
Sheppard, Edgar W., 56-57
Sherman, Vice Adm. Forrest, 63, 268, 292
Shipbuilders, 248
Sidney, New York, 40
Sikorsky, Igor, 47, 96, 173-174, 177-180, 183-184, 200, 208, 248
quoted, 309
Sikorsky Aviation Company, 164, 170, 172-175, 182-183, 196, 200, 204-205
reorganization of, 176-179
(See also Vought-Sikorsky)
Sikorsky planes, amphibians, S-39’s, 167, 173
clippers, S-40’s, 176-177
S-42’s, 180, 208
Sims, Admiral, 115
Sixth Battle Squadron, British Royal Fleet, 4
Slater, John, 183
Smith, C. R., 304
Smith, Karl, 112
Snyder, John W., 278, 286
Social security, 166
corporate, 273
Society of Civil Engineers, 93
Soleure, Switzerland, 39
Sorenson, Charles, 239-240
Soviet, 296
(See also Russia)
Southampton, light cruiser, 266
Southern California, wartime migration to, 272
Spaatz, Gen. Carl, 214, 292
Spark plugs, 42
Speer, Albert, 235
Speer, Genevieve, 2
(See also Mrs. Wilson)
Sperry Gyro Compass School, 74
Spirit of St. Louis, 103-106
Squadron commanders, selection of, 131-132
Stalin, 295
Standard Steel Propeller Company, 155-156, 160
Standley, Adm. William H., 189
Stark, Capt. Harold R., 136, 140
Starters, 33, 40-42
Stearman, Mr., 96, 172
Stewart, Sidney, 229
Stinson, Mr., 96
Stock-market crash, 1929, 158, 160, 172-173, 186
Stock-market speculation, 97-98, 154
Stoddard, Harry G., 264
Storrs, Put, 150
Strategic Bombing Surveys, 287
Stratford, Connecticut, 170, 173, 175
Strohm, “Matchew,” 142
Stromberg, 42
Studebaker, 232
Studley, Lt. Barrett, 87, 90
Stunt flying, 103
Submarine divisions (SUBDIVS), 130
Submarines, 292
German, 248, 287
Subsidies, 187, 280-281, 298-301, 306
Sullivan, Tiny, 117
Sulzberger, Arthur, 270
“Survival in the Air Age,” 290, 294
Sweden, 207
Sylph, yacht, 104, 106
Symington, Stuart, 292-293
T
Taxes, 95
excess profits, 245, 274
income, 160, 221, 227-228
Teal, sweeper, 122
Thomas, “Woody,” 89
Three Musketeers, 134, 150
Three Sea Hawks, 134, 141, 150
Tillinghast, “Tilly,” 214
Time magazine, 265
Tomlinson, Tommy (“Injun Joe”), 126, 133-134, 150
Torpedo bombers, 22, 77-79, 97-98, 104-106, 140
Torpedoplanes, 104-106
Towers, Rear Adm. John H., 113-115, 119, 121, 124, 127, 267
Trade associations, 271, 273
Training planes, 98-99, 241
Trans-Canada Airlines, 182, 201
Transocean Airlines, 303
Transport planes, 95-96, 202
four-engined, 194, 255-256
(See also Air transport; Clippers)
Trippe, Juan, 174, 294, 305
Truman, Harry S., 258, 278, 282, 286
Truxtun, four-piper, 219
Turbines, 4
Turner, Comdr. Richmond Kelly (“Spuds”), 168, 171
TWA, 306-307
U
Unemployment, postwar, 272, 274
Unemployment compensation, 272
Union League Club, Chicago, 254
Unions (see Labor unions)
United Aircraft Corporation, 182, 192, 204, 216, 229, 251-253, 256-257, 259, 260-264, 275, 285
board of directors of, 264
Kansas City plant of, 253
licencees of, 252-253
United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, 77, 153-154, 156, 161, 169-170, 172-175, 177-178, 180, 185-186
United Airlines Transport Corporation, 182, 255
U.A.W. of C.I.O., 277
U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 279
U.S. Department of Commerce, 69, 176, 180
U.S. Department of Defense, 290
U.S. House of Representatives, Naval Affairs Committee, 71
Report on War Department Appropriation Bill, 299
U.S. Naval Academy, 2, 112
(See also Annapolis)
U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics (BUAERO), 1, 19-24, 29, 32, 38, 45, 47, 57, 59-60, 62, 70, 72, 94-95, 109, 122-123, 137, 139-140, 149, 157, 168, 181, 183, 187, 189-190, 194, 196, 216, 243-244, 253
Design Section, 22-23, 48, 180
Engine Section, 9, 12, 16-18, 22-23, 27, 32, 38, 44-45, 47-56, 77-78, 96, 186, 200
Matériel Division, 22, 65
need for, 6, 10
Plans Division, 123, 168
Stress Analysis Department, 185
U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Engineering, 4
Bureau of Navigation (BUNAV), 19-20, 80-81, 131
(See also Navy)
U.S. Post Office Department, and air mail, 281, 299-301
deficits in, 300
U.S. Senate, Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, 296
Military Affairs Committee, 284
War Contracts Subcommittee, 270, 272
U.S. State Department, 189, 294
U.S. Treasury, 218, 225-228
Internal Revenue Bureau, 221, 227
U.S. War Department, 61
(See also Army)
Upham, Rear Adm. F. Brooks, 81-84, 86-89
Upham, Madame, 86-89
V
Vanadium, 165
Vandenburgh, Clyde, 269
Vaughan, Guy, 37, 39, 50, 103-105, 112, 230-231, 239
Vaughan, Helen (Mrs. Guy), 104
V.D.M. propeller, 208
Veterans, and air-carrier service, 303-304
Vincent, Col. Jesse G., 35
Vinson, Carl, 61, 64, 295
Vinson-Trammel Act, 1934, amendment to, 245
Virginia Law Review, 307
Vought, Chance Milton, 47-48, 54, 66, 72-73, 109-112, 124-125, 140, 164, 185-186
Vought, Russell R., 265, 267
Vought airplanes, Corsairs, 124, 140, 156, 187, 193, 257-258, 265
dive bomber, SBU, 187-191
UO, 43, 48, 50, 117
Vought-Sikorsky Division, United Aircraft, 229
(See also Chance Vought Corporation)
W
Wagner, Frank D. (Honus), 118, 123-124, 131-133, 137-138, 141, 144, 150-152, 182
Walsh, Raycroft, 168, 170-171, 205, 214, 229, 263-264
War contracts, 273-274
canceling of, 15-16, 237, 275, 286
escalator clause in, 250
War debt, 95
War Investigating Committee, 258
War production, 237, 247
and private industry, 235-236
War Production Board, 249, 277, 286
Ward, J. C., 273, 277
Warner, Ed, 104
Warner, Seth, 118
We, 104-108
Webb, Lt. L. D., 78
West Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 265, 269
Westover, General, 213, 216
Wheat, George S., 52, 67, 168, 185
White, Capt. R. Drace, 8, 145-147
Whiteside, Arthur D., 290
Whiting, Kenneth, 21, 145-146, 151
Wick, Skinny, 140, 147
Wilbur, Curtis D., 64, 103-104
Wiley, Admiral, 150
Willgoos, Andy, 30, 55
Williamson, Fred, 282
Willis, Charles F., Jr., 307-308
Willis Air Service, Inc., 307
Wilner, Mort, 286
Wilson, Charles E., 277, 286
Wilson, Eugene E., address before Union League Club, Chicago, 254
on Admiral Nulton’s staff, 151-159
airplane crack-up of, 100-101, 186
assigned to Langley, 111
as author, 93, 287-289
automobile accident to, 198
education of, 2-4
elected president of United Aircraft Corporation, 229
at Great Lakes, 5-6
on Hawaiian cruise, 122-128
joins Pratt and Whitney, 198
joins United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, 160
made president, 178
made senior vice-president, 182
as Lindbergh’s technical adviser, 104-108
made chief, Airplane Design Section, 93
made chief, Engine Section, 9
made president, Chance Vought Corporation, 164
made president, Sikorsky, 164
marriage of, 2
before Murray Committee, 274
on Panama maneuvers, 135-148
at Pensacola, 82-92
poem by, 83
private office of, 226-227
resignation from business, 289
resignation from Navy, 158
Wilson, Mrs., 2, 7, 27, 81, 92, 101, 109, 125, 158-159, 266
Wilson, Woodrow, 247
Wind tunnels, 188
Wing flaps, 174
Wing loading, 180
Woodhead, Harry, 273, 277
Woodring, Harry, 233
Woolson, Capt. Lionel, 35, 42, 78
World War I, 4, 14-16, 58, 95, 101, 115, 123, 208, 210, 213, 222, 246-247, 259, 266
World War II, 168, 171, 178, 191-192, 194, 195, 209, 222, 246, 288, 295
Wright, seaplane tender, 6, 22, 82, 84, 135
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 16-17, 29-32, 43, 50-52, 54-55, 73, 106, 153, 197-198, 238-239, 285
fraud accusation against, 258
wartime plant of, 252
(See also Curtiss-Wright; Wright Martin)
Wright Apache, 73
Wright brothers, 13-14, 113, 184, 308
Wright engines, 77
Cyclone, 49, 80, 193
1510 two-row, 191
Hispano E-4’s, 17, 30, 33, 43
radial, 196
P-1’s, 30
P-2’s, 35, 49, 54
(See also Wright Cyclone)
R-1200’s, 50, 54
(See also Wright Simoon)
Simoon, 50, 54, 73
T-3’s, 77
Whirlwind, 49, 54, 78, 96, 99, 103, 107, 200, 286-287
Wright Field, 191-192, 197-198, 217
Wright Martin Aircraft Corporation, 16
Y
Yarnell, Capt. Harry E., 136
Young, James, 253
Z
Zar, Capt. Marco, 190
Zeppelins, 10
Zeros, 192

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