September 12, 1927

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Work in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel of the N.A.C.A.

By EASTMAN N. JACOBS12 min

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Fairchild Caminez Engine Now in Production

FOR SOME time it has been evident that there was a strong demand for a simple, reliable, low priced, modern aircraft engine to replace the war time OX-5 engines that to date have dominated the commercial aircraft field. When in April of 1926 the Fairchild Caminez Engine Corp. first publicly flight tested its new aircraft engine, the aviation public naturally expected that at last they had a suitable light weight, air-cooled commercial engine.

By D. B. CAMINEZ13 min

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Work in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel of the N.A.C.A.

IT HAS now been about four years since the first preliminary tests were conducted in the Variable Density Wind Tunnel of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. A summary of the work which has been carried out since that time will be of interest to many who have not been in close touch with the activities at the Committee’s laboratory at Langley Field, Va.

By EASTMAN N. JACOBS12 min

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Fairchild Methods in Airplane Production

WITH THE increasing market for airplanes and the ever expanding field of their usage, the type of organization behind the manufacture is becoming more and more important. Not only are purchasers requiring airplanes of proper design, construction and performance, but airplanes manufactured under certain methods and distributed under certain conditions.

By SHERMAN M. FAIRCHILD11 min

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UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

Major John F. Curry, Air Corps, acting executive of the Material Division, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, has left for his new post at Langley Field, Va., where he will join the next class to pursue the course of instruction at the Tactical School.

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The Fairchild Organization

FOR THE past seven years, many classes of aviation proaucts have been offered for sale bearing the name Fairchild. These have been made by various companies, all incorporating the name Fairchild. The aviation public has wondered what relation these corporations had to each other and just how they were held together.