March 21, 1927

March 21, 1927

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The Fliers’ Aspects of Aerography

The Fliers’ Aspects of Aerography

By PROF. ALEXANDER McADIE8 min

NEWS ARTICLES AND ITEMS

Curtiss Company Issues Annual Financial Statement

Important Decision on Air Mail Bids

Important Decision on Air Mail Bids

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The Fliers’ Aspects of Aerography

The Fliers’ Aspects of Aerography

Electric Storms Present Certain Hazards. Few Cases of Planes Being Struck. One on Record Proved Inconsequential.

By PROF. ALEXANDER McADIE8 min

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NEWS ARTICLES AND ITEMS

Curtiss Company Issues Annual Financial Statement

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., Inc. Issues Favorable Statement, Showing Progress in all Branches of the Organization
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Important Decision on Air Mail Bids

Important Decision on Air Mail Bids

Comptroller General Defines Scope of Postmaster General’s Authority in the Award of Contracts.
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Air-Cooled Fighters or Water-Cooled?

Air-Cooled Fighters Or Water-Cooled?

Navy Tests Show Air-and Water-Cooled Planes to Have Equivalent Speed Characteristics. Water-Cooled Plane Steadier in Combat. Air-Cooled Plane Better Climber.

By F. W. WEAD7 min

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Navy Awards Contracts for Aircraft in Several Classes

Training Planes and Single-Seat Fighters to Equip Carriers Purchased as Part of Procurement Program
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A Typical State Air Bill

A Typical State Air Bill

Pennsylvania Joins Other States in Planning to Hamper the Development of Civil Aeronautics
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PUBLISHER’S NEWS LETTER

Publisher’s News Letter

In three of the four Departments of the Government having aviation as a part of their activities, a great change will take place in 1927. Of course, in the Department of Commerce where a new experiment is being made in encouraging commercial aviation, the work will be entirely along new and untried paths and experience and past failures cannot serve as guides for the future.

By L.D.G.4 min

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UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

United States Air Forces

Efforts on the part of pilots of the 120 Observation Squadron, Colorado National Guard, which persisted for two days, and which had as their object the reaching of the snowbound population of Silvertown and Eureka, mining towns in the southwestern part of the state, met with success on March 8, when Lieut.
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The Demonstration of the Sea Hawk

The new Curtiss Sea Hawk, F7C-1, Navy Shipboard fighter (Wasp engine), designed by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co. for the forthcoming Navy competition for machines in this class, in which will be entered two other designs, one by Boeing and one by Eberhart, was given a public demonstration test at Mitchel Field, L. I., on the afternoon of March 11.
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Huff Daland Dusters Go to Peru

According to a cable received recently by Edgar N. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp. at Bristol, Pa., from the Peruvian Chamber of Commerce at Lima, Peru, the first airplane cotton dusting with poison for leaf worm and plant lice as well as for the boll weevil has been started and the entire cotton crops of the Canete and Chincha valleys are now being covered.
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