September 20, 1930

September 20, 1930

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Meets, Tours, Derbies

Russell Leads as National Tour Reaches Moose Jaw

By John T. Nevill13 min

Meetings and Conferences

Air Code Changes to Be Considered

AERONAUTICAL FINANCE

Factual Foe in Aviation Finance

By R. R. DOANE4 min

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Meets, Tours, Derbies

Russell Leads as National Tour Reaches Moose Jaw

Flies Ford to 933-Point Advantage Over Davis; Schneider in Cessna Bids for Great Fakes Trophy

By John T. Nevill13 min

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Meetings and Conferences

Air Code Changes to Be Considered

Will Discuss Alterations In Washington on Sept. 26
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AERONAUTICAL FINANCE

Factual Foe in Aviation Finance

OF THE FORTY aeronautical corporations whose position and activities have been of importance enough to warrant a wide and more or less active trading in their securities on the part of the geneVal public, only eleven have to date issued reports covering the first half of this year.

By R. R. DOANE4 min

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THE DAILY PRESS

The Daily Press

Making civil aviation pay is a problem that perplexes the nations engaged in it. In Europe the transport companies could not operate without government subsidies. In the United States aid in the form of mail contracts is essential. The English shy at the word subsidy.
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Airports and Operation Rases

Airport Construction

New Sites, Enlargements East An additional $1,000,000 has been appropriated for the development of the Allegheny County Airport, Pittsburgh. Hangars, runways, and other improvements will be provided. A plan for the development of the entire portion of the New Haven Municipal Airport on the New Haven side of Thompson Avenue is being worked on by the airport commission.
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Gliders and Gliding

Soaring Contest Attracts More Entries ; List Events

DETROIT—Five more entries are announced for the National Soaring Contest, to take place at Elmira (N. Y.), September 21-October 5. The event is being handled by the National Glider Association, this city. The new participants are a Mr. Schempp of Syracuse, who will pilot a German STG; Wolf Hirth in a German soarer, who will enter competitions open to foreign contestants ; a Mr. Ed Allen, affiliation and glider unannounced ; and a glider of the Goodrich Glider Club, pilot unnamed.
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Flights and Records

Costes and Bellonte Off on Good-Will Tour

NEW YORK—The Paris-New York fliers, Maj. Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Maurice Bellonte, have embarked on a good-will tour of this country which will take them over 40 states and to 31 cities, ending here on October 10, according to their schedule.
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Meets, Tours, Derbies

Italians Place First and Second in Tour

Miss Spooner is Fourth In 4-day Circuit of Italy
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Editorial

Editorial

4THE 1930 National Air Tour is now under way. Let us hope that when it returns to Detroit it will have served its purpose 100 per cent . . . that of giving thousands of people the opportunity to make first hand inspections of the latest designs in American aircraft. The Tour was never needed more than it is right now.
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WATCHING THE NEWS GO BY

Watching the News Go By

Possibly one reason why there haven't been such large crowds at previous races as there were at Chicago is that we have placed a too high rating on the intelligence of the average air race attender. From various sections of Chicago one had merely to follow the red, blue, green, yellow or pink lines to get to the field.

By ROBERT R. OSBORN3 min

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