February 12, 1923

February 12, 1923

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Army and Navy Air News

New Aircraft at the Paris Aero Exposition

Naval Shore Establishments Need Air Stations

By Carl H. Butman6 min

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Army and Navy Air News

Purpose of the Army “Transport” Planes—The recent proposal to aircraft builders to submit bids for ten Army “Transport” planes, extended by the Engineering Department of the Air Service at McCook Field, is believed by some Army officials to be the forerunner of an independent Army Air Force.
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New Aircraft at the Paris Aero Exposition

Additional Descriptions of New Aircraft with Special Reference to the Pescara Helicopter
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Naval Shore Establishments Need Air Stations

Special Board on Naval Shore Establishments Makes Recommendations for Extensive Aviation Facilities

By Carl H. Butman6 min

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Proposed Landing Field Nomenclature

Every new field of effort necessitates the creation of its own new terminology. This usually develops spontaneously in different localities and results in some confusion until the use of terms becomes more or less standardized. When we took up the study of air station work in the attempt to develop it as a branch of engineering, it was only natural to expect the confusion in present terminology which we found existing.

By Archibald Black,Donald R. Black6 min

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Determining Economical and Constructional Limits of Airships

In air navigation effected by lighter-than-air craft, as also in the case of sea navigation, an increase in dimensions is always an advantage because the power necessary for obtaining a certain velocity increases in a minor degree than does the available total buoyant force.

By Col. G. Arturo Crocco5 min

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Editorials

Sound Opinion IN a recent statement, John J. Roscob, of the General Motors Corporation, put into a few words the crucial difficulty in which the aeronautical industry finds itself. His words should be taken to represent the present attitude of “big business” toward aircraft industrial expansion.
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French Pilots Make New Gliding Records

Maneyrol Stays Up 8 hr. 5 min.; Barbot 8 hr. 37 min.
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General Mitchell on Aeronautical Progress

Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Air Service, speaking before the National Geographic Society on Jan. 19, said, in part: “Aeronautics is progressing more rapidly at this time both from a scientific standpoint—as far as the development of flying machines of all kinds is concerned—and also in the art of actually handling and flying them.
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Flying Boat Design and Construction

At a recent meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society Maj. J. D. Rennie read a paper entitled “Some Notes on the Design, Construction and Operation of Flying Boats.” The author mentioned at the outset that his paper was to be followed by two other papers on Seaplanes before the Royal Aeronautical Society: one by G. S. Baker of the National Physical Laboratory on Feb. 1 on “Ten Years Testing of Model Seaplanes” and another by Wing Commander T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave on Feb. 15 on “The Practical Aspects of the Seaplane.” He therefore would not touch on the matters to be dealt with in those papers.
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Official World’s Records for the Year 1922

As Recognized by the International Aeronautic Federation
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