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Vol. 2

POPULAR

AVIATION

Published Monthly

A magazine for everyone interested

in aviation progress and development

JUNE, 1928

CONTENTS

Wilkins' Arctic Flight

The East to West Flight

Forced Landings

Sweden Turns to Aviation

Mercy Takes Wings

Where Are the Light Plane Clubs

Flying Radio

Adolphe Pegoud

Plane versus Auto

To Follow Lindbergh's Trail

Floyd Bennett

N. A. T. Again Expands

The National Air Races

Pioneers of Sail Flying

Aero Club News

What's Doing at Washington

New Air Regulations

All-American Aircraft Show

Among the Dealers

Northwest Aircraft Show

Model Department

Directory

Advertisers' Index

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N April 21, 1928, two Ameri-

can flyers, startled the civil-

ized world by sending this

brief message from the remote island,

Spitzbergen: "We have reached

Spitzbergen after twenty and one-

half hours flying. We made one stop

for five days on account of bad

weather."

When one stops to think of the

dangers with which that journey was

fraught, the flight takes its place as

one of the greatest of all time. Men-

tion can be made of the cold-40 de-

gress below zero-with a whistling

wind and whirling snow-flying over

a desolate region, with nothing but

ice as far as the eye can see where

even a hint of trouble meant landing,

with no possible means of rescue, in

an unexplored region with a walk of

hundreds of miles before coming to

inhabited places. Wilkins, and his

co-pilot Eielson, certainly realized

these dangers, but their spirit of con-

quest brushed aside all thoughts of

personal hardship.

The navigation alone is worthy of

notice. They took off from Poin

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F you are at Malmö, Sweden,

and want to go to London there

are two courses open to you.

One is by boat and rail but it will

take you 48 hours. You will, of

course, take the other course the

aeroplane and you will be in Lon-

don ten hours after leaving Malmö.

Or suppose you are in the capital

of Sweden, Stockholm, and you want

to go to Helsingfors. This trip on

boat requires 23 hours and you will

go by plane which covers the dis-

tance between the two cities in three

hours.

It was in May of 1924 that Cap-

tain Carl Florman, founded the

A. B. Aerotransport, the only ai

service enterprise in Sweden.

The

initial capital was 356,000 krone

which has been increased until it i

now 996,000 kroner. Captain Flor

man is the managing director of th

service.

The first lines which were ope

ated by this company were Stock

holm, Helsingfors (Finland), ar

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Stranded on the lone tree, to the

left, was a woman who was res-

cued by an airplane look-out.

3. We need nothing-Y.

4. End of message-XX.

5. We need (here follows either

of the letter signals which follow)-

A-Outer clothing..

AA-Adrenalin.

AE-Aloin Compound.

AF-Ammonium Chloride.

AH-Ammonia, Aromatic

Spirits of.

AI-Asperin.

AK-Acid, Carbolic.

AL-Alcohol, Ethyl.

AN-Chloroform.

AT-Ether.

AU-Castor Oil.

AV-Boric Acid.

AX-Dover's Powders.

AY-Digitalis, Tincture.

E-Underclothing.

EA-Bismuth, Subnitrate.

F-Boots and Shoes.

FH-Zinc Oxide.

FI-Petrolatum.

FK-Gauze, rolls.

FL-Gauze, Bandages.

FN-Cotton, Absorbent.

FT-Crenolin, Bandages.

FU-Plaster, Adhesive.

FV-Plaster of Paris.

FX-Serum, Diphtheria Anti-

toxin.

FY-Serum, Scarlet Fever

Antitoxin.

H-Yeast.

HA-Vaccine, Typhoid.

HE-Vaccine, Smallpox.

EE-Argyrol.

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0

HE great innovator in the

T gentle art of navigating the air

He

was Adolphe Pegoud.

blazed the way for the test pilots and

stunt flyers of today. He revolu-

tionized the art of mechanical flight.

And he might be recognized as the

patron saint of the Caterpillar Club,

that exclusive organization of which

Colonel Lindbergh is a manifold

member; for Pegoud, be it known,

was the first pilot to abandon his

plane in the air by the parachute

When he rose from the

Juvisy aerodrome on the 1st of

September, 1913, a new era in fly-

ing arrived; and before the wheels

of his plane again touched the

ground he had perpetuated his name

in the annals of the air.

route.

Pegoud was born on the 13th day

of June, 1889; the fourth son of a

small landowner of Montferrat, a

village in Southern France. At four-

teen he was apprenticed to the local

butcher at Virieu. There he re-

mained until shortly after his eigh-

teenth birthday. On August 8th,

1907, he enlisted in the Fifth Regi-

ment Chasseurs de Afrique, then

stationed at Mustapha, Morocco, and

engaged in a campaign against the

Riffian tribesmen. Pegoud saw his

share of the fighting. On one

occasion his company was ambushed,

and in the battle that followed he

won