October 31, 1921

October 31, 1921

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Multi-Engined Commercial Airplanes

By Donald W. Mcllhiney12 min

Aviation in China

By Major De Senn Chung10 min

Experiences in the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race

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Multi-Engined Commercial Airplanes

That the transport airplane of the future on the principal airways will be a super-giant is the general opinion of today. Due to an unfortunate world financial depression, very little has been done to develop sueh machines. Except on a few favored airways, even the twoor three-engined machines have not been employed.

By Donald W. Mcllhiney12 min

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Aviation in China

The history of aviation in China commenced in 1910, when a Russian pilot made the first historical exhibition in the Chinese capital, Peking, with a Blériot monoplane at the Legation Quarter. As it was the first airplane ever flown in China an unusually large throng was attracted from great distance.

By Major De Senn Chung10 min

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Experiences in the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race

The week preceding the balloon race the weather conditions were such as to make a flight into Russia an almost inevitable fact in order to ensure the safety of the contestants in the balloon race. The Federation of Aeronautics saw fit to describe the 25 degrees of altitude as a point which if passed would form the boundary for which credit for distance could be given the contestants.
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Lessons of the Gordon Bennett Balloon Race

Even in these enlightened days one sometimes hears the question “What is the use of free-ballooning?” To this I feel like countering “What is the use of golf, yachting, poetry, music, polar exploration, “relativity” and a host of other examples from the whole world of sport, art and abstract science?” Ballooning does not claim to be any more than these, but it is the most satisfying combination of the three that was ever invented by man.

By Ralph Upson5 min

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Promoting a Municipal Field

By Ralph B. Eckley4 min

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A New Zeppelin - Staaken Monoplane

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Completion of Flying Training at Post Field

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A French Surgery Airplane

By George F. Paul2 min

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“Who’s Who in American Aeronautics”

Clarence C. Culver

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