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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,

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

Bennett Eaglerock Sales

Black, Henry

Brownback Motor Labor-

atories, Inc.

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

Galt Joint High School... 80

Gotha Glider Co.

July, 1928

Heath Airplane Co...

Henley Publishing Co.,

Norman W.

ion when writing to advertisers

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

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.

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

100

Viking Aircraft Co...

Wiley & Sons, Inc., John... 86

Yancey, Captain Lewis A. 87

Yoho & Hooker Lumber

Co.

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Some

Motorless

Planes

By John H. D. Blanke

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

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

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

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