November 1, 1934

November 1, 1934

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Costs

By Alvin P. Adams13 min

The split course problem

Radio

By Rex Martin12 min

Climb and Descent in Cruising Control

By Edmund T. Allen,W. Bailey Oswald11 min

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Costs

RECENT authorization of additional air mail schedules by the Post Office Department, and its announced intentions of making further additions, hold out some promise for improved earnings for various air mail operators who have been suffering losses under the present contracts.

By Alvin P. Adams13 min

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The split course problem

Radio

Work now under way by the Bureau of Air Commerce to improve and to extend radio aids to air navigation is discussed

By Rex Martin12 min

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Climb and Descent in Cruising Control

OPERATION AT DESIRED CRUISING CONDITIONS, PART EIGHT

By Edmund T. Allen,W. Bailey Oswald11 min

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Food

Feeding air passengers, always a problem, is rapidly becoming a major consideration as competition becomes more intense. The author who has studied the matter from both the airline and the research-consumer point of view, believes that free picnic box lunches must give way to piping hot attractive meals served at the passengers’ expense.

By William E. Berchtold9 min

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Ice

The trend toward “on top” flying in bad winter weather has greatly stimulated interest and progress in the campaign to develop complete protection against the hazards of ice accumulation. AVIATION presents here its latest notes on recent experiences and present practices.
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Macrobertson Score Sheet

Post mortem material for a winter’s debating
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Airways of the United States

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The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce

An account of its varied activities in the air transport field
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Aviation People

• DR. HUGO ECKENER, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, recently arrived in the United States to confer with F. W. VON MEISTER, his New York representative, officials of the Navy Department, and PAUL LITCHFIELD, president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation at Akron, on terminal arrangements here for the new Zeppelin LZ 129.
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Side Slips

WE SEE by the papers that one of the competitors in the EnglandAustralia Derby was expected to land at an intermediate point “where fresh fuel will be waiting for him.” Has aviation now reached the point where we are going to have to have “fresh” fuel in order to “eliminate the harsh irritants” from our motors ? Heaven help us if we are going to begin to “look for the date on the can” in order to prevent aeronautical halitosis, pink tooth brush, or B.O.

By Robert R. Osborn5 min

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