Rare magazine in Very Good Condition.
Vol. 3
POPULAR
AVIATION
Published Monthly
A magazine for everyone interested.
in aviation progress and development
JULY, 1928
CONTENTS
Skyland Mountains
Mapping Hispaniola from the Air
The Curtiss Marine Trophy Race
Germany in the Air s.
Dodo Days-Life at Brooks Field
The New Croydon Airport
Current Comment
Radio Progress
Pioneer Air Pilots-John B. Moisant
Releasing 'Chutes
Some Motorless Planes
Model Builders' Department
Art in Aerial Photographs
What's Doing at Washington
Aero Club News
Transcontinental Airways
Directory
What Shall I Read?
Index to Advertisers
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Sular Aviation
Index to Advertisers
Ace Aeroplane & Model
Supply Co.
Acme Airways
Advance Aircraft Co,
Aero Kite Co.
Aero Model Co...
Aeronautical
Airport Engineering Serv-
ice
Airsled Co., The.
Air Transport Equipment,
78
Inc,
Alexander Aircraft Co.
American Eagle Aircraft
Corporation
American School of Avia-
tion
American Society for Pro-
motion of Aviation, The
Aviation Institute of U.
S. A.
Ancient Art Metal Co... 77
Aviation Engineering
School
Aviation Service and
Transport, Inc.
Beck Distributing Corpor-
ation
98
Bennett Eaglerock Sales
Co
Black, Henry
Brownback Motor Labor-
atories, Inc.
8
Clark, Jack
Clinton Toy Co...
Commercial Aviation Co.,
Inc.
Mid-Western Academy of
Aeronautics
Cessna Aircraft Co..
Chicago Aviation Co. 39
Chicago Salvage Stock
Store
Fleischmann Transporta-
tion Co.
Consolidated Instrument
Company of America....... 69
Crowdus, Walter ................ 75
Dallas Aviation School....... 74
90, 92
Dowae Toys
Eagle Airport School of
Aviation
Fairchild Aviation Cor
poration
Flash Sales Corp.
Flug-Woche
75
Galt Joint High School... 80
Gotha Glider Co.
July, 1928
Heath Airplane Co...
Henley Publishing Co.,
Norman W.
ion when writing to advertisers
55
Hotel Eastgate
Hotel Hamilton
Ideal Aeroplane & Supply
Co.
Irwin Aircraft Co...
Johnson Co.
Johnston, Lt. H. W...
Lancaster & Allwine.
Ludington Philadelphia
Flying Service
Mahoney Aircraft Corp.,
The
Mann & Benton...
Marshall Flying School...
Meyer, Inc., N. S.
Meyrowitz, Inc., E. B.
Mid-Plane Sales & Transit
Co.
Model Aircraft Co...
Mohawk Aircraft Corp..
National Aero Club....
National Aero Corp...
New Era Optical Co.
New York Aircraft Dis-
tributors, Inc.
Northrop Airplane Co.
Ohio Aero School...
Parks Air College.
Peru Model Airplane
Shop
Plaza Optical Exchange..... 70
90
Polachek, Z. H.
Posey & Co., J. V. G. 75
Potomac Flying Service..... 74
Rankin School of Flying...
60, 61
Revelation Aircraft Co....... 75
Robertson Flying Serv-
ices, Inc.
51
Ronald Press Co., The 91
Roth Downs Airways, Inc: 57
Simplex Air Model Co......... 90
Strauss & Buegeleisen... 69
Swallow Airplane Co... 41
Travel Air Mfg. Co. 49
United Air Transport Co. 74
Universal Air Service........... 74
U.S. Model Aircraft Co... 69
U. S. Volunteer Air Serv-
ice
79
100
Viking Aircraft Co...
Wiley & Sons, Inc., John... 86
Yancey, Captain Lewis A. 87
Yoho & Hooker Lumber
Co.
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50
Some
Motorless
Planes
By John H. D. Blanke
I
N the May and June issues of
POPULAR AVIATION appeared a
story of the pioneers in gliding
and sail flying, in the March issue a
description of five recently built out-
standing German gliders and in the
February issue an account of the
Fourth German Seashore Sail Fly-
ing Contest held at Rossitten. The
activities of the German sportsmen
in the field of gliding and sail flying
are now supervised and furthered
by the Rhoen-Rossitten-Gesellschaft
E. V., which protects also the types
of gliders designed, built or used by
its members, against manufacturing
infringements.
years of its existence it has brought
During the few
this great flying sport to a state of
development where it is drawing the
attention of the entire world.
As a result, a representative of the
American Motorless Aviation Club
or Amac, which was organized re-
cently, has requested the Rhoen-
Rossitten-Gesellschaft E. V. to
assist them in popularizing the
gliding sport on the North
can Conting
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The pioneer pilot, Moisant, standing n
O
N Saturday, October 8th, to
1910, the La Savoie, a crack the
French liner, steamed slowly Fr
past the Statue of Liberty on the ho
way to its pier. A prophet of a new
era walked her decks, and spoke con-
vincingly of all-metal airplanes fly- c
ing at speeds of two hundred miles O
an hour or better and trans-Atlantic S
flights.
The man who spoke so matter-of-
factly of those improbabilities, if not
impossibilities, of 1910 had soared
into the limelight several months
previously by flying from Paris to
London with a passenger-two pas-
sengers if a kitten is to be counted-
thus opening a way for the tourists
of today who desire to evade that
bane of the Channel crossing-sea-
sickness. He was returning to the
United States to take part in the
coming International Aviation Meet
at Belmont Park. To the reporters
who used the French idiom in pro-
nouncing his name he protested good-
naturedly.
"My name is Moisant! John B.
Moisant, of Chicago. I don't want
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A view of the signalling tower si
N
EARLY four hundred acres
are covered by the recon-
structed Croydon
Aero-
drome, near London, England. This
great airport of England's capital
has recently been completed and was
dedicated by Sir Samuel Hoare, the
British Air Secretary. More than
a million dollars were spent in re-
construction and improvement with
the intention of making it one of the
most complete airports in the world.
Besides housing the administra-
tive offices of the Air Ministry-for
Great Britain has a separate air
ministry-the Croydon Aerodrome
provides all the facilities required by
the British and foreign air trans-
port companies that make use of the
port. These facilities include all of
those normally provided by any pas-
senger terminal but include special
ones that are worthy of notice and
consideration by transport agencie:
in this country.
For example, a hotel of 50 rooms
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Lieutenant Grow in the Loening Ar
A
GAIN the Marines have the
situation
well in hand-this
time the racing situation.
Over the top with flying colors went
Major Charles A. Lutz of the U. S.
Marine Corps to capture the glory
and honor that went with attaining
157.60 miles per hour in the Curtiss
seaplane races recently held at the
Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C.
Incidentally, the gray-haired veteran,
three years this side of the half-cen-
tury mark, emerged from compara-
tive obscurity when, as an eleventh-
hour entry in America's seaplane rac-
ing classic, he flashed his skill as a
pilot of high-speed single-seater
fighting planes above the Potomac
River for 30 minutes and romped
away with the coveted trophy.
In addition to capturing the sea-
plane classic of America, which hap-
pens to be the only major aircraft
racing competition of any kind
scheduled in the East for 1928, this
dark horse-who learned to fly five
years ago at the age of 42-walke