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1923 AERIAL AGE MAGAZINE. Female Pilots, Dirigibles, Henry Ford, Hot Air Balloons, &c.

1923 AERIAL AGE MAGAZINE. Female Pilots, Dirigibles, Henry Ford, Hot Air Balloons, &c.

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Very scarce six-month monthly run of Aerial Age magazine. First-rate content on airplane innovation, content by Henry Ford, dirigibles, etc. Only a few individual issues 

[Various]. Aerial Age. January through June, 1923. New York City. Aerial Age Company. 1923. 352pp.

Contents include:

*Aviation and the Feminine Touch by Otto Praeger [Miss Jeanette Moffett, female pilots, etc.]

*N.A.C.A. Compressed Air Wind Tunnel

*Captive Helicopters Replace Observation Balloons? Flight with the Karman-Zurovec Machine, etc.

*Women taking their Place in the Aviation Industry

*Maintenance and Operating Equipment of Airplane and Seaplane Stations by Archibald Black

*The Effect of Aspect Ration Variation upon the Slope of Lift Curve of an Aerofoil

*England's Giant Torpedo Plane

*The Stream Tunnel by Dr. Michael Watter

*Germans Plan a Dirigible Line in America

*Navy's Giant Airship Design Approved

*Air Mail an Economic Necessity by Edward F. Taylor

*Present Day Aeronautical Problems by Ralph W. Cram

*The Next Phase of Automotive Engineering by Henry Ford

*A Twentieth Century Cabin Boy by W. Wallace Kellett

*The Rolls-Royce Eagle IX Aero Engine

*Emergency Landings from Low Altitudes

*Sailing the Air with Wind Power by D. W. Starrett

*The Fokker Amphibian

*The 1,000 H.P. Auro-Napier Bomber by Major F. A. de V. Robertson

*The Army's Manless Airplane [Drone]

*St. Louis and the 1923 Air Races

*Commercial Possibilities of Aviation by Charles A. Moffett

*Some Phases of the Army Air Service by Major-General Mason M. Patrick

*Fleet Aviation by Edwin Denby - Secretary of the Navy

*The French Aero Salon by Grover Loening

*Reorganization of Aeronautics in Italy by Lieutenant Colonel A. Guidoni

*Helium in the National Defense by John E. Raker

*Dawn of a New Era in Passanger Transportation by C. P. Burgess [helium airships]

*Wright Brother Patent Set to Expire

*Is the Liberty Engine Obsolescent? by L. D. Seymour

*Air Reactions to Objects Moving at Rates above the Velocity of Sound with Application to the Air Propeller by S. Albert Reed

*An Open Letter to the Members of the Sixty-Eight Congress by Douglas Wardrop

*Wright Brothers Patent Expiration and the Manufacturers Association

*America to Call World Congress on Aeronautics

*Points of Interest in the Wright All-Metal Pursuit Plane

*The Helicopter. A Review of the Latest Book by M. Margoulis, former Director of the Eiffel Laboratory

*The Cycle Theory in Flying

*Aerial Mapping by the Geological Survey by C. H. Birdseye

*The National Balloon Races at Indianapolis

*The Race for Air Supremacy by Admiral W. A. Moffett

*The Martin-Navy All Metal Scout Plane

*Air Travel with Special Reference to the Helicopter by Major F. M. Green

*Why there is a need for Industrial Standardization by Albert W. Whitney

*An Optical Altitude Indicator for Night Landing by John A. E. Warner

*The Costanzi Multimanograph

*Dr. Prandtl Joins Aerial Age Staff

*The New Wind Tunnel at McCook Field by J. C. Branham

*Colonel G. Arthur Crocco becomes a Member of the Editorial Staff of Aerial Age

*Germany's Commercial Airways a Potential War Risk

*Airplane Sky-Rocket not so Good

*Millions Involved in Two Grant Patent Suits

*Cotton Transport by Airplane

*The Smith Retractible Chassis, etc. etc. 

Good + in card boards. Ex library with associated markings. Some minor repairs, but generally very good. 

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