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...apron of its Bethpage, L.I. flying field, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. last week showed off its newest Navy plane, the 52F-I, a submarine killer. The 52F-I, powered by two Wright 1,450-h.p. piston engines, looks like a lumpy cigar and is built for range, not speed. But it is probably crammed with more electronic gear than any other U.S. warplane; its search equipment can locate a completely submerged submarine by picking up the sub's magnetic field. And when it finds a sub, it has a type of guided missile to blast...
...teams; one radar plane hunted the sub while the other carried the weapons to kill it. The new hunter-killer plane will not only save valuable carrier space but its range is so great that it can patrol a much wider area than the old teams. By next fall, Grumman will hit peak production, and manufacture of the old teams will be stopped...
...stubby Grumman Hellcat, No. 1 Navy fighter craft in World War II, has long been outmoded by later propeller-driven types and by jets. Now the Navy has found a use for some of its old Hellcats: it has turned them into robots to punch the Communist enemy in Korea...
Back in Tokyo after an interesting trip, U.P.'s Robert Gibson and A.P.'s Fred Waters wrote the story anyway of how they had seen Grumman Hellcat fighters, carrying TV transmitters, take off without pilots and be guided from "mother" planes. They thought censors might clear the story. They also mailed their home offices uncensored carbons of the stories to use in trying to get clearance from the Pentagon. The I.N.S.'s Don Dixon, taking the Navy at its word on the supersecrecy, did not even write the story...
...Grumman's F9F6 "Cougar," a much faster, swept-wing version of the old Grumman Panther now with the fleet...