June 25, 1923

June 25, 1923

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Rules Governing the St. Louis Air Races

Packard Model 1551 300 Hp. Airship Engine

By J. G. VINCENT8 min

Official Bulletin of National Aeronautic Association of U.S.A.

Philadelphia Chapter Formed

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Rules Governing the St. Louis Air Races

Jointly Issued by St. Louis Air Board and Flying Club of St. Louis Under N.A.A. Sanction
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Packard Model 1551 300 Hp. Airship Engine

The six engines which will drive the Navy’s great airship, the ZR1 now nearing completion at Lakehurst, N. J., are being bui’t by the Packard Motor Car Co, at its factory in Detroit. All are expected to be complete in time for installation about July 1.

By J. G. VINCENT8 min

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Philadelphia Chapter Formed

On Tuesday evening, June 6, the Philadelphia Chapter was formed following a dinner at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. The charter was presented by Conway W. Cooke, chairman of the membership committee of the association, and the officers of the chapter were elected as follows:—Hollingshead Tay’or, president; Samuel B. Eckert, vice president; and C. T. Ludington, secretary-treasurer.
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The Value of Barrage Balloons*

Airplanes in order to reach, during the night, an objective at a great distance, find in space a beaten path that is fixed by marks on the ground, and even navigation by compass does not entirely obviate orientation by marks along their route.

By CAPT. G. FONTAINE3 min

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Flying Over New York

The Merchants’ Association of New York recently wrote to Police Commissioner Enright complaining of the danger of permitting airplanes to fly low over large crowds, and asked him whether there was any regulation applicable. The Secretary of the Commissioner, in replying to this question calls attention to an ordinance passed in 1921 which is still in force in the absence of any national law on the subject.
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Transporting Cotton By Airplane

During the Shriners Convention in Washington the Army Air Service gave an impressive demonstration of the rapidity with which a commercial project can be successfully carried out through the medium of the airplane. This project involved the transportation of two bales of cotton from Augusta, Ga. to New Bedford, Mass., where the raw material was fabricated and cut up into Masonic aprons by the Wamsutta Mills, and delivered by airplane to Bolling Field, Anacostia, D. C., where they were distributed to the visiting Nobles.
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Naval Aviation During Shrine Convention

The Naval Aviation activities during Shrine Week gathered in Washington representative units and planes from practically all Naval Aviation activities, and were on a scale that is likely to impress the several hundred thousand visitors who thronged the city with the importance that aviation has come to have in Naval activities.
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Book Reviews

LES HELICOPTERES. By W. Margoulis, formerly director of the Eiffel Laboratory. 91 pp., 21 ill (GauthiersVillars & Cie. Paris.) This is the first modern work on the theory and the practical applications of the helicopter or direct lift machine.
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Mishap of Dewoitine Light Plane

The Dewoitine light plane fitted with a 15 hp. Clerget engine which Georges Barbot' demonstrated for the first time in America on June 1 at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I. on June 4 made its first cross country flight in this country. Piloted by Barbot and convoyed by Air Mail Pilot R. H. Pearson, the little ship was flown from Roosevelt Field to West Point, N. Y. where it was proposed to give a demonstration to the officials and cadets of the Military Academy.
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Army Orders

First Lieut. Charles Douglas, A. S., relieved from duty at Kelly Field; assigned to Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., with Ordnance Dept. Maj. George E. Lowell, jr., A.S., relieved from duty at Bolling Field; to sail about Aug. 4, 1923, from San Francisco for Honolulu, T. H., for duty with Air Service troops.
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