October 17 1927 | Aviation Week

Official World and American Air Records

Established under the Rules and Regulations of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale Translated and Compiled by the Contest Committee, National Aeronautic Association, Washington, D. C.

940

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics

A SHORT TIME ago the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was formally opened at its new building at New York University, University Heights, New York. This new building is a two story structure, 120 ft. by 85 ft. with a one story projection housing two wind tunnels, one four feet in diameter attaining an air speed of 50 m.p.h. and the other nine feet in diameter with an air speed exceeding 100 m.p.h.

942

The Cost of Successful National Distribution

UNTIL THE last few months airplane manufacturers have been concerned more with the refining of their products and stabilizing and lowering costs of production, than with the problem of national distribution. Failure to consider the cost of distribution is said by some to be the real cause of many small manufacturers going to the wall; the retail selling price was based more upon manufacturing costs than upon selling costs.

By WILLIS PARKER8 min

936

Design Reactions from the Spokane Pursuit Races

FROM THE standpoint of the Naval and Military Services, three events of the Spokane National Air Races are of consuming interest. These are: Event VII, Race for Pursuit Type Army Airplanes; Event XIII, Alexander Pantages Trophy Race for Navy Pursuit Type Planes, and Event XII, Spokane Spokesman-Review Trophy Free For All Military Pursuit Ship Race.

By COMDR. E. E. WILSON7 min

962

AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Los Angeles, Calif.

The fact that Los Angeles was the fiftieth city visited by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on his tour of the country, did not dim the enthusiasm of his reception by the people of Los Angeles. Following Colonel Lindbergh’s own wishes, original plans to have him land at Clover Field were altered in order that he might honor Western Air Express, air mail contractors for the Los Angeles-Salt Lake City route, and land at the home port of that organization, Vail Field.

946

Design Your Own Airfoils

MOST OF the successful airplanes in the United States use airfoils designed by Colonel Clark. Among the most commonly used of his airfoils are the U.S.A. 27 and the Clark V and Clark Y series. These have been used on Colonel Lindbergh’s Ryan monoplane and many others of the more successful commercial strut-braced monoplanes; the Vought “Corsair”, the Navy PN-10, and the Wright “Apache”, all holding world’s records; the Glenn Martin Navy T3M, the National Air Transport Mail and Express Planes, the Douglas “Round-the-World” cruisers, the Curtiss Pursuit and the Curtiss Observation, the Consolidated Army and Navy training planes, the Consolidated “Courier”, the Douglas Mail Planes and the Douglas Observation and Transport planes, and on many other successful Military, Naval and commercial planes.

By COL. V. E. CLARK5 min

956

FOREIGN AERONAUTICAL NEWS NOTES

By Special Arrangement with the Automotive and Transportation Divisions, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

934

Air Traffic in Italy During 1926

THE ITALIAN AIR MINISTRY has just published a statistical report concerning 1926 air traffic on the five Italian air lines: Turin-Trieste; Venice-Trieste-Zara; Geneva-Palermo; Brindisi-Athen-Constantinople; and Venice-Vienna.

952

Aircraft Patents

Copies of patents may be obtained by writing the Patent Office, Washington, D. C., giving the patent number and the name of the inventor. Cost 10c each. Patent No. 1,633,006—AUXILIARY LIFTING ARRANGEMENT FOR AEROPLANES. James W. Dundas, Detroit, Mich. 4 Claims.

966

UNITED STATES AIR FORCES

The Navy’s new all-metal Ford transport plane, equipped with dusting apparatus and carrying 500 lb. of paris green combined with powdered soapstone, staged a successful demonstration of swamp dusting by airplane recently at Bam6burg, S. C.

October 17, 1927

October 17, 1927

Official World and American Air Records

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics