May 31, 1926

May 31, 1926

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On the Control of Airplanes at Low Speeds

By W. LAURENCE LE PAGE13 min

Captain Hill’s Lecture on the Tailless Airplane

The Airship Norge Flies Across the Arctic

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On the Control of Airplanes at Low Speeds

Generalizing on Some of the Methods of Obtaining Adequate Control in Stalled Flight With a Discussion of the Hill Tailless Airplane.

By W. LAURENCE LE PAGE13 min

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Captain Hill’s Lecture on the Tailless Airplane

In his lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society on the tailless airplane, Capt. G. T. R. Hill relates how he held a studentship awarded for the purpose of enabling a close study of research problems and, in the absolute freedom of three years during which he was entirely independent of having to report regular progress on his studies, he turned his attention to the problems of safety in flight, and set himself to design an airplane which would never, through any error on the part of the pilot, get out of control.
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The Airship Norge Flies Across the Arctic

Amundsen-Ellsworth Arctic Expedition Succeeds in Linking Spitzbergen and Alaska by Air.
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The Pratt & Whitney Wasp Engine

The New 400 hp. Air-Cooled Radial Engine Passes Flight Tests With Excellent Results.
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The Sikorsky Transatlantic Plane

Details of the New Sikorsky Three-Engine Plane Now Under Construction.
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Kansas City, Mo.

A crowd of some three thousand persons were thrilled on Sunday, May 9, at Richards Field, when a most unusual accident occurred. It was one of those affairs that causes unknowing persons to talk of the dangers of aviation for weeks to come and yet has no business in the category of those who want to promote the general welfare of the game.

By R. S. Knowlson6 min

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U. S. Air Forces

The Coast Artillery Corps officers who are now flying in Army airplanes to observe and record hits and “constructive hits” on towed targets will not receive the usual 25 per cent additional flying pay until the War Department is authorized to rate them as fliers, according to an announcement by the War Department on May 6.
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“Side Slips”

It certainly is a relief to get this North Pole flying business completed and out of the way,—we have not been able to find anyone who could state definitely just how “Amundsen” and “Norge” should be pronounced and have been very much embarrassed by this ignorance.

By ROBERT R. OSBORN3 min

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Editorial

Value of Polar Flights

THERE ARE a great many people who are asking what is the use of the North Pole flights. There are many answers to this question but perhaps the most definite is the fact that the flights have demonstrated the practicability of the air as a means of travel in regions which are almost inaccessible by any other means.
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Editorial

Air-Cooled Engine Development

ONE OF the outstanding features of the present status of aeronautical development is the very extensive progress which has been made in the perfecting of the radial air-cooled engine. This development is of more than usual interest. In the first place the air-cooled engine possesses certain very distinct inherent advantages over water-cooled types.
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