January 17, 1921

January 17, 1921

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Navy Design Competition for Shipplane

The Rateau Turbo-compressor

By H. M. Buckwald12 min

Training Reserve Air Officers

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Navy Design Competition for Shipplane

Rules for a Design Competition for shipboard airplanes have just been issued jointly by the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy Department. Substantial payments are offered for designs finally accepted, and the competition marks an extremely interesting departure on the part of the Navy Department.
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The Rateau Turbo-compressor

Several weeks before the Armistice was signed, the Rateau Turbo-Compressor was placed on French bombing planes. Two hundred were ordered by the French government and eighty were delivered before Nov. 11, 1918. "During the last year of the war, fighting took place above 15,000 ft., where the motive power was low and the engine sluggish.

By H. M. Buckwald12 min

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Training Reserve Air Officers

In a letter of November 1, 1920, from the Adjutant General of the Army to the Chief of Air Service, the Air Service was authorized to proceed with the plan for organization of Air Service units of the R.O.T.C. at selected colleges. Subsequently, authority was obtained to establish five units, one at each of the following universities, with the officer in charge as noted:
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The Navy Bureau of Engineering-1920

With a view to providing a suitable power plant for aircraft of apparently ever-increasing size, the Navy’s Bureau of Engineering has taken up the question of multi-engined power plants driving a single propeller with a view to using either a single unit of this type in large craft, or a number of such units.
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Review of Aviation in 1920

A review of the progress and achievements of aviation in 1920 which has just been prepared by the Manufacturers’ Aircraft Association says in part: Despite many handicaps such as lack of aerial laws, landing fields and a strong government policy, aircraft designed and built in America maintained a high rate of efficiency during 1920.
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The Air Mail and American Aeronautics

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New York Regulates Flying

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Navy Balloon in Noteworthy Flight

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Hart Reversible Pitch Propeller

As has been generally known the Engineering Division of the Army Air Service has for sometime past been making experiments and tests with an air screw the pitch of which is not only adjustable but reversible. The feature of actual reversibility is of greatest importance on account of its possibilities and significance in future airplane development and operation.
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Pigeons Useful in Naval Aviation

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