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.
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Mauretania vs Bremen
Mauretania’s record crossing of the Atlantic in 1929 following a refit 22 years after being launched.
Rotor Powered Ship Design 1925
WE SHOULD HAVE INVENTED THE ROTOR POWERED SHIP
WE SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED the rotor ship to be an American invention, says Dr. Edwin E. Slosson in Science Service’s Daily Science News Bulletin (Washington) ; first, because the principle involved is the same as our pitchers employ in putting the curve on a baseball; and, second, because [...]
The Return of the Toll Bridge 1927
THE RETURN OF THE TOLL BRIDGE
A FEW years ago the toll bridge was thought to be on the verge of obsolescense, but the automobile is rapidly bringing it back. New and expensive toll bridges are being erected all over the country to handle automobile traffic and to be paid for by that traffic. So it [...]
European Touring Roads 1927
A NEW FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF MOTOR-TOURIST ROAD BUILDING
SHALL France or Germany capture the bulk of the American and English automobile traffic that sweeps southward each year for those tourist paradises, Switzerland and Italy? That question became a vital one when the French awoke recently to the significance of Germany’s newly hatched plans for great [...]
Steel Wheels for Cars 1925
Steel Wheel Advertisement from 1925Â
Source: Motor Magazine, January 1925
THOUSANDS of tests have proven the artillery type spoke wheel the most practical and durable of popular type wheels. A careful study of “wheel-ology” will show that spoke wheels withstand the greatest shocks without damage to axles, bearings, or the car itself.
Steel Wheels – Where Strength Is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Advances in Aviation 1929
AERONAUTIC ADVANCES
by ALEXANDER KLEMIN, Sc.M.
Professor of Aeronautics,
New York University
ONE of the most striking developments of the year in aeronautics has been the use of ethylene glycol in the cooling of aircraft engines. Since water boils at 212 degrees F., operating temperatures must be kept down to 180 degrees. With ethylene glycol an operating temperature of [...]
