June 29, 1925

June 29, 1925

View Full Issue Table of Contents
UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

“Who’s Who in American Aeronautics”

LIGHT PLANES AND GLIDERS

The Construction of a Simple Glider—II

By Edmund T. Allen7 min

View Full Issue
More Features
730731
UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

The nation-wide popularity of radio, coupled with its incalculable practical advantages, opens to scientific research a new world as patent for development as the Sahara. That numerous civilian institutions of learning have incorporated the study of this fascinating science in their curricula is more or less general knowledge, yet the layman, and even a majority of craftsmen, are ignorant of a government established school where intensive instruction is given in radio subjects.
722723

“Who’s Who in American Aeronautics”

EGGE, CARL FRANCIS, General Supt., Air Mail; born, Grand Island, Nebr., Aug 6, 1870; son of A. A. Egge and Ollie (Rosencranse) Egge; married, A. Elizabeth Hensinger, August 6, 1892. Educated: Grand Island, Nebr. Professional: Clerk, Grand Island, Nebr.
726727
LIGHT PLANES AND GLIDERS

The Construction of a Simple Glider—II

The fuselage of the M.I.T. glider is very simple to construct. It consists of four longerons with Warren trussed sides braced together with trussing top and bottom. Torsional bracing is provided by diagonals across the fuselage cross section at the panel points.

By Edmund T. Allen7 min

724725

Civil Aviation in Canada

Canadian Report on Civil Aviation Shows that Aircraft Are Used Very Extensively
718719

The Second Miller Field Meet

The New York National Guard Squadron Holds a Very Successful Air Meet at Miller Field
720721

MacMillan—Navy Expedition Sails

Donald R. MacMillan Starts on his Ninth Arctic Voyage with three Naval Loening Amphibian Airplanes
722723

Amundsen Flies Back to Spitzbergen

One of the two Dornier Planes Returns with all Six of the Party Aboard after Twenty-Eight Days Absence
724725

Chinese Aviation

732733

PUBLISHER’S NEWS LETTER

Those who have overlooked the issuing of the later volumes of the Lampert Committee Report are depriving themselves of the best source of aeronautical information that has yet appeared. The testimony taken at the hearings now fills four printed volumes of 3261 pages.

By L.D.G.4 min

728729
AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Detroit, Mich.

By Virgil Simmons4 min

June 221925 July 61925