February 8, 1930

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The Guggenheim Safety Competition Tests and the Curtiss "Tanager"

THE Daniel Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition, which culminated in the award of the first prize of $100,000 to the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, was announced on April 20, 1927, for the avowed purpose of achieving “a real advance in the aerodynamic characteristics of heavier-than-air craft without sacrificing the good practical qualities of present day aircraft.”

By WILLIAM G. BROWN18 min

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The "Tanger" and the Dub Pilot

IN THE RULES for the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition there was one serious defect. It was inevitable, but it was none the less unfortunate. Here was a contest planned to produce an airplane which would require a minimum of skill and special training, an airplane which, in fact, anyone could fly.

By EDWARD P. WARNER12 min

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Sales Policies and the Private Plane Prospect

BACK IN 1922 at an air meet in one of our larger cities a man then in the automobile business, was looking over the few “commercial” airplanes located about the airport, and, naturally enough, asking questions relative to their purchase price, performance, usefulness, et cetera.

By ROBERT E. LEES9 min

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AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES

Airport Construction Projects

A BEACON LIGHT will be installed immediately atop the administration building of the S. A. T. airport in New Orleans, officials of the Gulf Coast Airways have announced. Also, plans are going forward rapidly for installing a battery of eight floodlights at the airport.

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New Volumes FOR THE SHELVES

Legal Problems of the Air

AIR LAW REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1930. Edited by Alison Reppy; published quarterly by the Board of Air Law Review of New York University School of Law. Price, $5.00 per Annum, $1.50 per issue. Editorial Offices, Washington Square East, New York, N. Y.

EDITORIALS

Three Thousand Miles From the Facts

FOR a number of years we have been reading with continuous delight the writings of our confrere C. G. Grey, editor, publisher, and general main-spring of The Aeroplane of London. Mr. Grey is always entertaining, always ingenious, always stimulating,—but unfortunately he is not always accurate.

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SIDE SLIPS

Side Slips

MR. M.B.N. of Oneida, N. Y., sends in an interesting newspaper clipping from the Syracuse Herald, describing an accident in which Robert Black and Ray Rothman "escape death in a 1,000-mile glide to Roosevelt Field, L. I." We suppose the death they escaped would have been caused by starvation.

By Robert R. Osborn4 min

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The Curtiss "Tanger" and Some of Its History

By ROBERT R. OSBORN25 min