Lindbergh Mail Problems 1927
COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH’S chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzhugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier’s mail.
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The Beginning of Commercial Aviation 1926
The indications are that the time has almost arrived when a beginning of commercial aviation will be successfully made in the United States. Postmaster-General Harry S. New has declared that the Government-operated air mail routes should very shortly become carriers of passengers and express parcels. The air mail, he says, can never be put on [...]
Graf Zeppelin Visit 1929
The visit of Graf Zeppelin to the U.S. invites comparison with ocean liners and despite successful aspects of the flight it is predicted that Zeppelins are no immediate threat to existing transport systems.
Diesel Engined Plane
Diesel-engined airplane
QUITE A FLURRY appears to have been caused at Langley Field, Virginia, at a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics when a Diesel-engined airplane owned by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit descended after a 650 mile flight. The Diesel engine is not a new development—hundreds of merchant ships, even ocean liners, [...]
Air Rivalry
THE FORD-GENERAL MOTORS rivalry has gone abroad. It has even ascended into the clouds. Let General Motors announce that its new automobile plant near Antwerp, Belgium, is nearly completed; Ford buys a site at Edgewater, N. J., at which to assemble Ford parts and load ships for the export trade, and his son Edsel bends [...]
Aircraft Traffic Rules 1927
TRAFFIC RULES FOR AIRCRAFT
LIKE THE RULES FOR AUTO DRIVERS are the traffic rules for aircraft just issued for the first time by the Aeronautics Branch of the U. S. Department of Commerce, reports H. C. Davis in The Popular Science Monthly (New York). Reading them, he says, it is easy to imagine the day when [...]
Plane Repaired in the Air 1929
Repairs on the Fly
BOARDING a flying plane by a sixty-five-foot rope ladder and leaving via parachute was the unusual performance of Dale Dryer, airplane mechanic, when an endurance plane over Buffalo, N. Y., sent a call for repairs.
Heavy weather had damaged the stabilizer of the airplane, which had been aloft more than 190 hours. First [...]
Radical Aircraft Design 1929
Tailless “Flivver” Plane
V-SHAPED wings and the absence of any tail whatever are novelties combined in the latest German plane tested recently at Berlin. It demonstrates, as did the “windmill” autogiro plane, that radical ideas may still have a place in airplane design.
The tailless machine is shaped like an arrow, with the pilot’s cockpit in a [...]
Airborne Bacteria Survey 1929
Planes Hunt Bacteria
AN AIRPLANE hunt for bacteria was a recent novelty at Cambridge, England. Its object was to determine how plant and crop diseases are spread in upper air currents.
Several kinds of germ traps were used by the airplane that made the tests. Glass slides smeared with petrolatum, and test tubes and glass dishes filled [...]
Dornier Monster Seaplane 1929
Seaplane Up with 170 Passengers
WITH 169 persons numbered in the official list of passengers and crew, the Dornier monster seaplane DO-X recently made a flight of nearly an hour over Lake Constance, Switzerland. A four-year-old boy not counted in the records brought the total to 170 persons, by far the largest number ever taken aloft [...]
