November 23, 1929

November 23, 1929

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A Statistical Picture of the Air Mail

What of the 1930 National Air Tour?

By JOHN T. NEVILL15 min

Standardization of Small Engine Parts

By JOHN F. HARDECKER14 min

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A Statistical Picture of the Air Mail

An Analysis of Recent Operations in the United States
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What of the 1930 National Air Tour?

Some Opinions and Suggestions of the 1929 Competitors Regarding the Problems Confronting the 1930 Commercial Air Classic

By JOHN T. NEVILL15 min

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Standardization of Small Engine Parts

MODERN industry holds no parallel more striking than that between aeronautical achievement and the development of the aircraft power plant, as exemplified primarily by the aircraft engine. As goes the engine, so goes the plane, and all the tremendous contingent organization representing a great industry.

By JOHN F. HARDECKER14 min

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Making the Airport Pay for Itself

The Second of Two Articles on Affecting Airport Airport Economics and Conditions Design in the Future

By J. E. BULLARD,AVERY E. LORD14 min

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What Our Readers Say

It’s high time that a very sharp line of demarcation be drawn between an airport and an airfield. An airport is a flying field adapted to and used by air transportation, and practically confined to air transportation. An airfield is a flying field from which miscellaneous flying can take place.
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GENERAL NEWS

Aero Branch Report Issued

Air Travel Aids Business Says Young in His Review
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Soundproofing of Airplane Cabins

FROM the standpoint of passenger comfort one of the greatest needs of the present airplane is that the propeller and engine should be made less noisy or that the cabin should be treated in some manner so that the noise shall not be annoyingly loud inside the cabin.

By V. L. CHRISLER6 min

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New Volumes for the Shelves

Similar to the annual reports of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in that, while administrative, it is concerned mainly with abstracts and progress reports of research projects, the Annual Report of the British Aeronautical Research Committee offers a brief résumé of the additions to aeronautical knowledge completed and pending under the committee’s direction.
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A Review of Aviation Accomplishments

The President of the Guggenheim Fund Surveys Three Years of Progress

By FRANK L. CURTIS6 min

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AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES

Airport Construction Projects

East PROGRESS is reported in the construction of the first building at the New York Seaplane Airport, being developed by the American Aeronautical Corporation on Manhasset Isle at Port Washington, L. I. Much steel work has gone up, and the main assembly building and hangar have been bricked in.
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