November 19, 1923

November 19, 1923

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Cost Accounting in Aerial Transportation

By EARL D. OSBORN13 min

U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

The English Light Plane Meeting at Lympne

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Cost Accounting in Aerial Transportation

The most perfect system of cost accounting consecutively carried through will give misleading results if the industry to which it is applied is unstable. Nobody has yet claimed that air transportation has gone beyond that stage. Though the art of showing the different elements of cost has reached an almost scientific stage of perfection, yet the system chosen for a given industry and its application must be the result of long experience.

By EARL D. OSBORN13 min

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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

A flight of 8600 mi. without a forced landing and with the same engines used throughout is the record made by two Marine pilots in two DH4B landplanes. This flight is the fourth longest in the history of aviation. The two planes landed at the Naval Air Station at Anaeostia, D. C. on Nov. 2 after having been from the Island of Haiti to Washington, to St. Louis, to San Francisco and back to Washingron.
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The English Light Plane Meeting at Lympne

Performances: Speed, 76.5 mi.-hr.; Ceiling, 14,400 ft. Economy, 87.5 mi.-gal.
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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

Air Service Topics from Boston Capt. L. R. Knight, who has been on duty with the Air Service Tactical School as Instructor for the last three years is now tne Air Officer for the First Corps Area, relieving Capt. Edwin B. Lyon, who has been Air Officer for the last two year.
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Water Balast Recovery for Airships

By LT. COL. IRA F. FRAVEL
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The Mitchel Field Air Carnival

A crowd estimated at 25,000 persons enjoyed the various events of the Air Carnival given at Mitchel Field, Garden City, L. I., on Election Day, Nov. 6., for the benefit of the Army Relief Society. Approximately 12,000 persons paid admission, while the rest lined the highways skirting the field.
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U. S. Navy to Participate in Amundsen Polar Flight

Amundsen Will Take Three Flying Boats into Arctic Ocean To Reconnoiter Unexplored Territory
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Chicago News

By Otto Klein4 min

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PUBLISHER’S NEWS LETTER

If the readers of a publication knew the interest the letters they send to the Editor create they would write more often. From these letters are secured many suggestions that give ideas for articles of interest and editorial comment. It would be very helpful if our readers would consider themselves as an unorganized group that is keeping AVIATION in the field so that the information they secure from it will help them advance aeronautics in this country.
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Description of the Curtiss Reed Metal Propeller

The Curtiss-Reed metal propeller, with which the winning planes of the 1923 Pulitzer Trophy and Schneider Trophy races were equipped, is quite novel in its plan and construction. It is made from a single plate 1½ in. or less of forged duralumin, tapered in thickness toward the tips, machined or formed to airfoil sections, then twisted to pitch and mounted with aluminum filler bosses fitting the central twisted surfaces on the same steel hub which is used for wooden propellers, and therefore is interchangeable with the latter.
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