June 18, 1923

June 18, 1923

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U. S. Army and Navy Air Forces

Airships a Necessity for the United States

By CLIFFORD A. TINKER9 min

General Regulations of National Balloon Race

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U. S. Army and Navy Air Forces

A flight to the Panama Canal Zone will be undertaken not later than this fall by the United States Army Air Service, employing the same type of DeHaviland planes used in ordinary flying overland in the continental United States. According to the Boston Transcript, all nations whose territory will be entered or crossed by the fliers have given their consent to the flight, the last communication signifying assent to the proposal having reached Washington recently.
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Airships a Necessity for the United States

Because Of Enormous Expanse of Country They Are Indispensable, Says Official Of The National Aeronautic Association.

By CLIFFORD A. TINKER9 min

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General Regulations of National Balloon Race

American Elimination Contest for Gordon Bennett Race Indianapolis, July 4, 1923
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Glimpses of the French Aircraft Industry

Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America issues Interesting Statement
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Strong Air Board Is Organized in Detroit

Brig. Gen. C. Godloe Edgar in Inaugural Address Asks for Wholehearted Support of Citizens
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Editorials

The N.A.A. Reorganization

ENCOURAGING reports are being received from Washington about the reorganization of the National Aeronautic Association since its President's return. The extravagance and favoritism have been eliminated and the organization has been curtailed to reasonable proportions.
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Regarding European Air Liners

I read with much interest in AVIATION of May 7, 1923, the leading article entitled “Commercial Aircraft,” but I was sorry to find in it an unfair criticism of the aircraft which fly on the European Air Lines. The statement to which I take exception is that “the much vaunted European air liner, even if it be fast enough, has such a poor climb that it can hardly stagger out of an airport, and that it has to operate at a few hundred feet altitude all along the route for lack of excess power.”
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Florida to Assist Air Transport

The State of Florida under the terms of a bill now before the Legislature proposes to appropriate $100,000 as a fund for “the aid of aerial transportation into and within the State of Florida”, according to information just received by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce.
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An Attack on the British Royal Air Force

English Accused of Double Dealing in Statement Attributing ZR2 Wreck to Neglect
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Exhibition of 4000-lb. Demolition Bomb

The largest aircraft bomb in the world was on exhibition last week with the Provisional Ordnance Company, parked between the Munitions Building and the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D. C. The four thousand pound demolition bomb is of especial interest as being the first of the largest size of bombs ever produced, as well as being the heaviest projectile and the greatest mass of explosive ever used in a single military charge except in mines.
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