December 10, 1923

December 10, 1923

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Commercial Aviation in 1923

By EDWARD P. WARNER15 min

U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

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Commercial Aviation in 1923

Lessons to be Learned from Five Years’ Commercial Air Transport

By EDWARD P. WARNER15 min

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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

The War Department has extended for one year the period in which veterans of the War of 1914-18 are eligible for appointment without examination other than physical in the Officers' Reserve Corps in a grade not higher than that formerly held by them.
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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

What will be the second longest flight in the history of aviation, and the second longest American flight, when it is completed, is nearing its end. Lieuts. F. O. Rogers and H. D. Palmor, U. S. Marine Corps, who left the island of Haiti Sept. 19 for a flight to various parts of the United States, are on the last lap of their flight, having left Washington Nov. 28, bound for Haiti.
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Metal-Clad versus Fabric-Covered Rigid Airships

Metal Envelope has Advantage of Fire Resisting Quality, Greater Gas Tightness, Durability and Lesser Weight

By RALPH UPSON8 min

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Air Mail Planes to Have Radio Telepho

Successful Experiments Made at Schenectady, N. Y., Promise To Solve Numerous Problems of Flying
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Secretary Denby’s Annual Report

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“Aviation and the Navy”

In AVIATION, NOV. 12, 1923, page 604-5, there is an article by Capt. L. McNamee, U.S.N. on “Aviation and the Navy.” It may be regarded as an authoritative statement of the Navy’s point of view regarding aviation. Far be it from me to question the judgment of one who has been in the Navy thirty-five years, who has had wide experience and who doubtless is fully aware of the following facts, Avhich however seem to run counter to the statement that “the battleship still stands the backbone of every country’s Naval defense.”

By ALEXANDER MCADIE5 min

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An Interesting Controversy

A controversy that has been smoldering for months has flamed up between the two branches of service aviation and threatens to find its way into Congress this winter. It centers at present over the insistence of the Army Air Service that one or both of the two giant rigid airships of the Navy, the U.S.S. Shenandoah and the ZR3, nearing completion in Germany, be allocated to the Army fliers, a proposal just as insistently fought by Naval Aeronautics.
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PUBLISHER'S NEWS LETTER

In connection with the letter from Lieut. A. J. Williams, U.S.N., appearing elsewhere in this issue, disavowing the article that appeared in The Aeronautical Digest over his signature, AVIATION was greatly amused over the following paragraph that appears in The Aeronautical Digest for December:
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Two Pioneers of American Naval Aeronautics

In view of the remarkable strides made by American Naval Aviation during the present year, it is timely to give here brief biographical sketches of the two naval officers who have borne a very large share in this accomplishment—Comdr. J. C. Hunsaker and Comdr. II. C. Richardson.

By Comdr. J. C. Hunsaker,Comdr. H. C. Richardson4 min

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