November 3, 1924

November 3, 1924

View Full Issue Table of Contents

Flying from an Engineering Standpoint

By GROVER LOENING20 min

Navy Sets 13 New Records at Baltimore

The Baltimore Seaplane Meet

By C. G. GREY9 min

View Full Issue
More Features
12261227

Flying from an Engineering Standpoint

We often hear that the public is intensely interested in aeronautics, but there is clear evidence that engineers have failed to spread their technical knowledge of aviation widely enough. There is probably no field of engineering commanding public interest today, that is less understood than that of the airplane and the airship.

By GROVER LOENING20 min

12201221

Navy Sets 13 New Records at Baltimore

Most Successful Naval Seaplane Race Meet Ever Held
12221223

The Baltimore Seaplane Meet

Baltimore is a good city and it is full of good citizens. Whether they would be considered 100 per cent good from the pUrely civic point of view one would hate to say, for when the stranger arrives in that hospitable place and is met by a kindly inhabitant who offers forthwith to put him next a guaranteed reliable boot-legger one appreciates the good fellowship although the Federal, State and Civic Authorities might not think so highly of the said inhabitant.

By C. G. GREY9 min

12321233
UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

Capt. George W. Steele, det. Bu. of Aero., Navy Dept.; to C. O. Nav. Air Sta., Lakehurst, N. J. Comdr. Jacob H. Klein, det. command Nav. Air Sta., Lakehurst; to executive officer Naval Air Sta., Lakehurst, N. J. Ens. Elbert A. Palmer, det. U.S.S. Shawmut; to U.S.S. Richmond.
12301231
UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

Special Orders No. 103, relating to Sec. Lt. Lyman P. Whitten. A.S., amended to relieve Lieutenant Whitten from further assignment and duty as a student at the Mass. Inst. Tech. Sec. Lt. Donald Reuben Goodrich, A.S., promoted to grade of first lieutenant.
12261227

A Real Christmas Present

By Out-of-Control3 min

12161217
Editorials

Political Expansion and Aircraft

12281229
AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Dayton News

By Maurice C. Hutton3 min

12281229
AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Philadelphia News

By C. T. Ludington3 min

12201221

BALTIMORE NAVY RECORD TRIALS OCT. 25, 1924

Pilot Plane Engine Lap 6 Lap 7 Lap 8 Lap 9 Lap 10 Lap 11 Lap 12 Lt. Geo. Henderson PN7 Wright T3 76.89 78.81 79.13 79.35 79.21 79.12 77.08 Duration Record carrying 1000 kg., 5 hr. 28 min. 43 sec. Speed and Distance Record, 100 km 77.834 mi./hr. Speed and Distance Record for 200 km. 78.507 mi./hr.

By Chester S. Ricker3 min

October 271924 November 101924