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
Transcriber’s Notes
pg 5 Changed: some thought, had helped pursuade
to: some thought, had helped persuade
pg 5 Changed: one of the few battleships with an airpline
to: one of the few battleships with an airplane
pg 58 Changed: wiley as the famous German Baron von Richtofen
to: wiley as the famous German Baron von Richthofen
pg 82 Changed: while the old seaplane tender and kite-ballon
to: while the old seaplane tender and kite-balloon
pg 82 Changed: this fault immediately they would loose
to: this fault immediately they would lose
pg 98 Changed: But aften Don had produced a masterpiece
to: But after Don had produced a masterpiece
pg 103 Changed: make capital of it by pursuading
to: make capital of it by persuading
pg 123 Changed: during tactical exercises, using Voughts to stimulate
to: during tactical exercises, using Voughts to simulate
pg 155 Changed: To match Tom Hamilton’s propellor-design
to: To match Tom Hamilton’s propeller-design
pg 159 Changed: professional slaves to every officier
to: professional slaves to every officer
pg 184 Changed: When the final account is cast up, Igor Ivanovitch
to: When the final account is cast up, Igor Ivanovich
pg 237 Changed: It would take some doing to pursuade
to: It would take some doing to persuade