April 30, 1928

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A Designer’s Impressions of the Detroit Show

THE ALL-AMERICAN Aircraft Show held this month in Detroit, Mich., was the first aircraft exhibition since 1920, when a similar show was held in New York. To those remembering the 1920 Show, the comparison of the two gives very instructive ideas of the development which has taken place during these eight years, and also of the process of development continuing at present.

By B. V. KORVIN-KROUKOVSKY21 min

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker flew here from Hartford recently to address a meeting of automobile executives on aviation. He came up in a Fairchild plane piloted by Kitty Barrows of the New England Aircraft Co. of Hartford, agent for the Fairchild cabin plane.

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The All-American Aircraft Show in Retrospect

IF IT is possible to select any one great outstanding feature of the All-American Aircraft Show held this month in Convention Hall, Detroit, Mich., it is the fact that the array of airplane, engine and accessory exhibits surpassed in attractiveness and interest the predictions of even the most optimistic.

By R. SIDNEY BOWEN9 min

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FOREIGN NEWS

Fairchild Airport in Canada Always Open Fairchild Aviation Limited of Grand ’Mere, Quebec, Canadian subsidiary of the Fairchild Aviation Corp. of America, reports that its airport situated on Lac a la Tortue, two and one-half miles east of the city, is always open to visitors.

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EDITORIALS

Counting the Cost THE GREAT success of the aeronautical show at Detroit will undoubtedly make a large number of cities want to stage similar affairs. Chambers of commerce, boards of trade and professional organizers of exhibitions will undoubtedly see a new and profitable outlet for their energies.

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Detroit Show Side Lights

The Kinner 100 hp., five cylinder radial engine, manufactured by the Kinner Airplane and Motor Corp., Glendale, Calif., is the third engine to be approved by the Department of Commerce. The first was the 135 hp. Fairchild-Caminez and the second the 100 hp. Warner Scarab.

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Wilkins and Eilson Fly Vega Plane Across Polar Seas to Spitzbergen

A FLIGHT across the world’s top, the reverse of that of Amundsen’s 1926 journey in the dirigible Norge, was accomplished April 15-16 when Capt. George H. Wilkins, explorer, and Lieut. Carl B. Eilson, pioneer Alaskan flier, flew a Whirlwind powered Lockheed Vega monoplane from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Dead Man’s Island, lying 25 mi. north of Green Harbor, Spitzbergen.

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