January 1, 1931

January 1, 1931

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The Trend of Activities

Transport and Engineering

FLIGHTS, COMPETITIONS, AND RECORDS

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The Trend of Activities

SALES, PRODUCTION AND GENERAL THE Curtiss-Wright Flying Service has announced that its photographic division has completed work on photographing 8,900 sq.mi. for the United States government in connection with the flood control program along the Mississippi River.
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Transport and Engineering

THE organization of the Ludington Line to operate an airplane service every hour on the hour between New York, Philadelphia and Washington, where it is forced to compete with one of the best railroad services in the country in time between terminals, safety, reliability, comfort, and rates, over a route only 200 miles long, is without doubt one of the boldest recent developments in the entire field of transportation.
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FLIGHTS, COMPETITIONS, AND RECORDS

ROBABLY it will be remembered as a climax, this year 1930. Assuredly, the year gave us an ample number of trans-Atlantic and transcontinental flights, refueling flights, competitions, and miscellaneous stuntery. But there was a new note in them.
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WHAT OF THE YEAR TO COME?

THE practice of prophecy is somewhat dangerous for the reputation of the prophet, but it is a necessary risk. No plans for next year can be made without some estimate of next year’s business. Materials cannot be bought without some sort of a forecast of price levels of the future.

By Edward P. Warner15 min

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EDITORIALS

TURN OF THE YEAR TWELVE months ago the aircraft world was at the end of an era, and had not yet admitted it. The great boom had come to an exorable end; deflation was inevitable; but the horrid truth had not, with rare exceptions, been accepted by either manufacturers, operators, or contributors to the glut of capital by which aeronautical enterprises had been beset.
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AIR TRANSPORT PROGRESS

IN SPITE of the fact that practically every air transport operator in the United States operated at a loss during 1930, unless supported by mail contracts, the development of air transportation has made its greatest strides toward stability during the past twelve months.
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TRENDS OF THE INDUSTRY DURING 1930

AS the twenty-eighth year of heavier-than-air development looms up over the horizon the members of the aeronautical industry are asking themsleves two very definite questions. What has happened during the past year? Where do we stand now?

By R. Sidney Bowen Jr.14 min

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1930 AIRPLANE DESIGN

ONE of the most encouraging indications in the airplane design progress of 1930 is the fact that this branch of engineering is becoming more closely identified with economics. This applies particularly to transport machines, where payload and performance are being increased while power remains constant.
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Flying Equipment

THE JUNKERS “JUNIOR” THE last twelve months have witnessed some gratifying results in metal-monocoque construction in this country. Several military planes have utilized such construction with considerable success, while its application to medium size and large cabin planes typified by the Towle and Thaden planes (described on pages 59 and 60), has been one of the truly remarkable features of the year.
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AERONAUTICAL FINANCE IN 1930

THE year 1930 will long be remembered in aeronautical business circles not alone for its sharp contrast with the two years of unrestrained development which preceded it, but for the pitfalls and dangers inherent in a general state of trade for which this industry had but little responsibility.

By R. R. Doane11 min

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