December 3, 1923

December 3, 1923

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Selecting a Landing Field in Case of Trouble

By CAPT. H. J. HOUGHLAND12 min

The Technical Development of the Airplane

By J. D. NORTH11 min

U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

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Selecting a Landing Field in Case of Trouble

Some Pertinent Hints Regarding What to Do and What to Avoid

By CAPT. H. J. HOUGHLAND12 min

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The Technical Development of the Airplane

Mechanical flight in the brief twenty years of its existence has passed through four phases, each of an approximately equal period, and which are defined sufficiently clearly to be marked by the observer. There are indications that we are now entering on a fifth phase in the art and practice of aviation, the trend of which forms a legitimate field for speculation.

By J. D. NORTH11 min

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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

The following is quoted from the annual report of Maj. Gen. F. W. Coe, Chief of Coast Artillery, to the Secretary of War:— “One of the valuable operations from a training point of view, carried on during the year, was the Joint Coast Artillery —Air Service Exercises conducted in the Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay.
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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

The Navy rigid airship Shenandoah made a flight over New England on Nov. 20. The airship left the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., at 6.52 a. m. Tuesday morning and returned about midnight that night. The original schedule was speeded up considerably on the trip north, as a 30 mi. wind was with the ship on her way to Boston.
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Baltimore News

By T. W. Tipton4 min

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Airways Work Is Progressing

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PUBLISHER’S NEWS LETTER

The absence in this week’s issue, for the first time in seven years, of the advertisement of the Thomas-Morse Co. has a much broader meaning than just the temporary discontinuance of that company’s policy of upholding and broadening all that is best in the aeronautical field.
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Editorials

Making Our Races International

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Airways to Panama

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Minneapolis News

By Kenneth Smith2 min

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