May 1, 1934

May 1, 1934

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News of the Month

Performance Testing and Engine Power

By Edmund T Allen,W. Bailey Oswald13 min

Spring Opening

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News of the Month

ON MARCH 30, two days after Postmaster General Farley’s announcement that the air mail service would be returned to private contractors as soon as possible (AVIATION, April, page 118), the Post Office Department issued advertisements for temporary bids for 21 routes, and followed them with a second set of advertisements for four additional routes one week later.
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Performance Testing and Engine Power

The third article of a series on the definition and control of cruising conditions

By Edmund T Allen,W. Bailey Oswald13 min

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Spring Opening

Formal prelude to an air mail shuffle
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Window Displays

The author, who was formerly manager of the transport section of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, has discovered some fundamental principles that should be of interest to those who are charged with the duty of dressing up the ticket office windows.

By William E. Berchtold11 min

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Forgotten Fliers

The fixed-base operator has his day in Congress
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Under the White Eagle

American Airways inaugurates a modern repair and overhaul plant at Chicago

By S. Paul Johnston10 min

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Following the West,—

China becomes one of the World’s great aeronautical frontiers and one of the greatest of markets

By Harrison Forman7 min

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EDITORIALS

Things Are Looking Up

VIEWING WITH ALARM is a distasteful pro cedure, and one which is always a pleasure to stop. Unfortunately we have had a lot of it to do in the last two or three months, and it is with profound relief that we seize on the chance to herald the end of the head-shaking period and the coming resumption of orderly development.

By EDWARD P. WARNER5 min

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New Volumes for the Shelves

A STANDARDIZED annual of this sort must follow very much the same form year after year, and it is hardly possible to find anything to distinguish the current volume in principle from its predecessors Like them it will be accepted as a necessary tool for constant use by every engineer and constructor of aircraft and engines, by all writers on aeronautics or students of aeronautical developments, and by large-scale operators who want to compare their own activities with those of similar enterprises in other countries.
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To See Or Not to See

A question of considerable importance to the airplane pilot
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