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...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...
...Entry R. M. Cunningham 9 LITTLE Floors 2 and 3. E. A. Colpack 24 Floor 4 M. W. Zimmerman 42 MASSACHUSETTS West Entry Bailey Aldrich 6 East Entry G. Cox 20 MATTHEWS 1-15 J. M. Galanis 4 16-30 F. H. Williams, Jr. 24 31-45 J. L. Sweetman 32 46-60 R. H. Clapp 52 MOWER South Entry J. L. Beauchamp 4 North Entry R. T. Dunn 8 PERKINS 1-22 W. C. Waring, Jr. 8 23-44 H. S. Foster, Jr. 28 45-66 A. B. Brown 42 67-88 G. H. Ferguson 58 28 PLYMPTON...