June 23, 1924

June 23, 1924

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Long Island News

From Keyport to Porto Rico and Back

By C. J. ZIMMERMAN10 min

Equipment Required for High Altitude Flying*

By PAUL B. KING,THOMAS CARROLL7 min

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Long Island News

The Republican Convention in Cleveland is bringing money into the pockets of aircraft operators. The Curtiss Exhibition Co. is running a daily messenger service from Curtiss Field, Garden City, to Glenn Martin Field at Cleveland, carrying the N. Y. Times, the N. Y. World and the N. Y. Herald-Tribune.
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From Keyport to Porto Rico and Back

On Jan. 16 at 11 a. m. we took off front Keyport harbor, headed south, with four passengers and a crew of two in the Aeromarine metal hull flying boat Morro Castle II. Beside our load of passengers we had eleven pieces of baggage, a 50 lb. aerial mapping kodak, a box of motor spares weighing 125 lb., two extra Liberty cylinders, a special 65 lb. anchor and our regular 35 lb. folding anchor.

By C. J. ZIMMERMAN10 min

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Equipment Required for High Altitude Flying*

Early in the flight work incidental to the development of supercharged engines at the Committee'S Laboratory at Langley Field, we were somewhat astonished to find that the information concerning this branch of flying was very meager. As our experience developed, we were further surprised to find that even this fragmentary information was unreliable; that it was apparently collected rather for its news value than for its value as scientific data.

By PAUL B. KING,THOMAS CARROLL7 min

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National Guard Air Meet at New Dorp, S. I.

The first annual aviation meet of the 27th Division Air Service (102d Squadron, N. Y. National Guard) will he held Saturday, June 28, at New Dorp, S. I., N. Y. A great variety of interesting events has heen arranged, as will be seen from the program jointed below, and it is hoped that all who can do so will not fail to attend the meet.
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LIGHT PLANES AND GLIDERS

The A4 Light Plane

In general, considerations looking toward the least labor, the _hghtest structural weight and the maximum efficiency, determined the layout of the A4. Therefore the monoplane type, in part because it is structurally the simpler, recommends itself.

By Edmund T. Allen6 min

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Aviation in Congress

AIR MAIL APPROPRIATION
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UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

A fine long distance flight of approximately 1300 mi. was made June 15 by Maj. William N. Hensley, A.S., commandant of Mitchel Field, Mineola, L. I., and Lieut. M. L. Ellliott, A.S., operations officer of the same field, when they flew in a DH4B to Columbus, Xebr.
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Publisher’s News Letter

One of our friends who was particularly grieved over something that had recently appeared in AVIATION, asked that we be a little less caustic in our point of view on some subjects so that we would not be placed in the class of the “common scold.
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UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

The first subsurface launching of a torpedo from a plane was inadvertently made recently at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola. Fla. In making an approach run with a torpedo, with an R6L torpedo training plane, Lieut, (jg) G. Van Deui'. Student Naval Aviator, misjudged his distance because of the very glassy water and dove into Pensacola Bay about 100 yd. in advance of his launching point.
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LIGHT PLANES AND GLIDERS

Current Comments

What has happened to all the glider enthusiasts in America ? So far as is known at present, plans for any soaring competition are indefinitely postponed because there are no funds available for prizes. Some of the glider builders transferred their interest to light planes.
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