September 6, 1926

September 6, 1926

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Many Civilian Planes in National Air Races

Some Problems in the Design of An Air—Cooled Radial Engine

By ROBERT W. A. BREWER10 min

United States Air Forces

By M. B. Scales9 min

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Many Civilian Planes in National Air Races

AFTER SEVERAL months of preparation, everything has now been placed in readiness for the staging of what will, with little doubt, prove one of the greatest air meets the World has ever seen. The staging of the SesquiContennial Exposition renders Philadelphia the most favorable place in the country for the holding of the 1926 National Air Races.
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Some Problems in the Design of An Air—Cooled Radial Engine

WHEN ONE is confronted with a new design or product, the natural tendency is to criticise it from ones own viewpoint at the moment, regardless of what might have been the object of the designer. Thus, frequently a wrong conception arises in the mind of the critic, who may, incidentally, be a prospective purchaser of the product.

By ROBERT W. A. BREWER10 min

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United States Air Forces

Lens, filter and film to be used in attempts at long-range photography to be made by the engineering division of the Army Air Corps from McCook Field at Dayton, O., in September, have been completed and given thorough tests at Rochester by Army photographers and experts of the Eastman Kodak Company.

By M. B. Scales9 min

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A Cow Puncher Reports the Denver Meet

Packing by spurs where they wouldn’t bite me I shook the dust of Cheyenne Frontier Days out of my five gallon Stetson and rambled across the line into Denver for the National Mile High Air Meet, Aug. 1, 2 and 3. Arriving at the Lowry Field corral, I hog tied the mare to a Ford axle and watched the stampede of long and short horned mavericks hop the gate of the corral.

By Jack Flipper8 min

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Guggenheim Fund Endows Universities

Leland Stanford University and California Institute of Technology to Become Centers of Aeronautical Research and Learning.
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Helena Airport News

Bruce Black has disposed of his Hisso Standard to Mr. Brennan of Missoula who had a little tough luck with his faithful K-6 Standard sometime previous. Brennan is doing wonderful work spreading the “Aeronautical Doctrine” in and around the vicinity of Missoula.

By Henry L. Lay6 min

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Navigating the Airplane Reliability Tour

Importance of Navigation Emphasized in Connection with the Winning of the Reliability Tour.

By BRICE H. GOLDSBOROUGH5 min

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Publisher’s News Letter

This winter is to be the critical period for the new air transport companies that have commenced operation in this country. The weather, which has so much to do with regularity of the operation of the air routes, will then have its opportunity to do its worst and the resulting delays will have a decided effect on the traffic that the lines have been able to build up.
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Marking the Airways

Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Progresses with Plan to Mark Airways.

By ALAN JACKSON4 min

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Commander John Rodgers, U.S.N.

It is with the very deepest regret that it becomes necessary to report the death of Comdr. John Rodgers, U.S.N., who was killed while flying from Washington, D. C. to the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pa., on Aug. 27. Commander Rodgers left Washington in a Vought UO-1, with Aviation Machinist Mate Samuel Schultz.
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