May 7, 1928

May 7, 1928

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Design of Wing Beams

By PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KLEMIN,GEORGE F. TITTERTON15 min

Interior view of the cabin showing the seating arrangement.

The Fokker F-10

Airplane Spruce

By EDWARD M. MILLER8 min

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Design of Wing Beams

Stress Analysis of Commercial Aircraft, Chapter Number Nine

By PROFESSOR ALEXANDER KLEMIN,GEORGE F. TITTERTON15 min

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Interior view of the cabin showing the seating arrangement.

The Fokker F-10

First of Three 12 Passenger W.A.E. Planes is Powered With Three “Wasp” Engines and has a High Speed of 148 M.P.H.
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Airplane Spruce

Quality Sitka from the Pacific Northwest is Inspected Many Times Before Being Shipped to the Plane Manufacturers

By EDWARD M. MILLER8 min

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The Velie M5 Aircraft Engine

VELIE MOTORS Corp., Moline, I11., recently completed a five cylinder 70 hp. radial engine that is to be standard equipment in the Monocoupe produced by Mono Aircraft, Inc., a subsidiary of Velie Motors Corp. When Mono Aircraft, Inc., was taken over by the Velie Motors Corp., a short time ago, it was decided to build an engine specifically for that plane.
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MANUFACTURERS’ SPECIFICATIONS ON ENGINES AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL USE AS COMPILED BY AVIATION

Engines of foreign manufactore t-rebuilt A-Air cooled Aa-Alorninuni alloy Ae-Aeromarine Al-Aluminum As-Anzani or Scintilla B-Battery ignition Bs-Scintilla booster magneto C-Cast iron Ch-Champion Cylinder Construction firat-head second-walls or water
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AVIATION offers another service to its readers

Books on aviation regardless of where published may be obtained through AVIATION’S book department.
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Last Minute Briefs

Oil City, Penna., formally dedicated its municipal airport Saturday May 5. The day was made a city holiday. A banquet was held in the evening. The International Aircraft Corp., Ancor, O., will shortly complete '25 of its model F-17 “International Sportsman” biplanes.
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Side Slips

It hardly seems worth while writing anything foi this issue of AVIATION, or for the next few to come, as the probability is great that the magazine will be torn up along with hundreds of others and numerous newspapers and telephone directories, to celebrate a welcome to any one of several groups of successful fliers.

By ROBERT R. OSBORN3 min

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Wm. Beardmore & Co., Glasgow, Scotland, Completes Largest of Military Airplanes

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Detroit Preparing for the Gordon Bennett Race, Reliability Tour, and Model Contest

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