October 18, 1930

October 18, 1930

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Lighter-than-Air

Exports of Helium May Rise as Result of President’s Stand

By Mitchell Hodges6 min

Airports and Operation Bases

Airport Construction

Meets, Tours, Derbies

Aviation Country Club Holds Meet

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Lighter-than-Air

Exports of Helium May Rise as Result of President’s Stand

Current Restrictions on Shipments Explained; Home Aviation Interests Advocate Freer Policy

By Mitchell Hodges6 min

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Airports and Operation Bases

Airport Construction

New Sites, Enlargements East Plans are reported under way to convert the former Victory shipbuilding plant at Squantum, Mass., into an aviation center. A considerable area of tide land will be filled to provide landing space, a wooden ramp will be built for seaplanes, and a float, adequate for servicing three planes at a time, will be moored off shore.
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Meets, Tours, Derbies

Aviation Country Club Holds Meet

Score of Sportsmen Fly In Group’s Third Program
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Washington; Laws and Regulations

Canadians Seeking Uniform Jurisdiction

Provinces and Government Probably Will Compromise
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FROM THE PRESS

From the Press

To Make Flying Popular THE airplane manufacturers of the country are trying to make it easier for the public to learn to fly. So they have asked the Commerce Department to allow students to take flying instructions without a physical examination and a student’s permit.
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Schools

Art of Parachuting Is Practiced on the Ground By Students at the Boeing School of Aeronautics

THOUGH the records of the Caterpillar Club go to show that it is not essential to make training jumps in preparation for using a parachute in an emergency, the Boeing School of Aeronautics at Oakland Airport nevertheless recognizes the value of instruction along such lines.

By K. E. Chute3 min

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Washington; Laws and Regulations

Congress Aero Library Expanded

Add European Collections; Guggenheim Grant Employed
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Editorial

Editorial

ADMIRAL MOFFETT’S suggestion that there should be free export of helium from the United States to foreign countries for airship work has caught the popular sympathy. Except for the most militaristic of editorial paragraphers, those who have commented have been almost unanimously favorable.
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Foreign

Foreign

An airline connecting Siberia with Alaska, a plan which was furthered by the Russian flight to this country of last year, is to be established within another twelve months according to the most recent announcement of Russian air plans. A recent French Air Ministry decree prohibits night flying over Paris at any altitude.
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Airports and Operation Bases

Wayne County Has Outstanding Airport

$2,000,000 Plant Includes Many Advanced Features
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