January 30, 1922

January 30, 1922

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The Washington Conference and Aircraft

New Method for Testing Aerofoils in Flight*

By F. H. Norton12 min

Picking up Burdens from an Airplane

By M. Fitzhugh Browne10 min

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The Washington Conference and Aircraft

Report of the Sub-Committee on the Limitation of Aircraft as to Numbers, Character and Use
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New Method for Testing Aerofoils in Flight*

Consisting in Suspending an Aerofoil from an Airplane and Measuring the Resultant Force by Tension in Wires

By F. H. Norton12 min

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Picking up Burdens from an Airplane

An Account of the First Experiments of Godfrey L. Cabot, and of their Development by the Huff, Daland Co.

By M. Fitzhugh Browne10 min

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The Loening Claim for the Collier Trophy

Principal Features of Document Submitted to Contest Committee, Aero Club of America, Claiming Outstanding Achievement During 1921
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Existence of Air Mail Service Threatened

Director of Budget Recommended Air Mail Appropriation of $2,200,000 -- House Appropriations Committee Eliminated It
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Editorials

The Record of the Air Mail Service

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Staff of Naval Bureau of Aeronautics

Chief of Bureau—Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, U. S. N. Asst. Chief of Bureau—Capt. H. C. Mustin, U. S. N. Aide to Chief of Bureau—Comdr. W. J. Giles, U. S. N. Administration Division—Comdr. V. K. Coman, U. S. N. ; Lt. Comdr. R. M. Griffin, U. S. N. ; Lt. Comdr. S. H. Quarles, U. S. N.
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Helium and Airship Piloting

The following letter has been received: Editor, AVIATION: I was surprised to read in an editorial entitled “Helium as an Aid to Airship Piloting” in Aviation Vol. XII, No. 1, Jan. 2, 1922, the following sentence: “In the case of an airship—it will obviously make no difference in the riding qualities whether some given portion of the total weight be carried in the car or in the gas.”

By R. H. U.3 min

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Foreign News

By consent of the Dutch government, two aviation schools have been opened under the supervision of German flying officers, in the Dutch East Indies. France Admiral Fournier has communicated to the Academic des Sciences an account of successful tests of apparatus for the guidance of planes to their aerodromes by night or in fog carried out at Villaeoublay by Lieutenant Loth of the French Navy.
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Aeromarine Services

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