Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress: His first important assignment came when President Coolidge appointed him to the Aircraft Inquiry Board...
...most constructive legislation that bears his name is the Air Commerce Act of 1926 which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate...
...same time it might be convenient to allow a percentage of tonnage assigned to different categories to be transferred to other categories. The British Government, however, does not favor a general transfer. It is opposed to transfer in regards to capital ships, aircraft carriers and submarines. In regards to cruisers, it would permit the transfer out of the 8-inch class into the 6-inch class on a percentage which remains to be arranged. The object of this arrangement would be to take into account the special needs of countries which require a large proportion of small cruisers...
...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
...exhibition. The War flyers believed that enough aviation manufacturing and sales groups existed around Manhattan to warrant their enterprise. They were disappointed. They found that many manufacturers begrudged the expense of exhibiting at Manhattan last week and at St. Louis next week, when and where the Chamber-approved International Aircraft Exposition opens...