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{AERO DIGEST - MAY 1954}

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The "Packing Package" No Hydraulic Fluid Can Attack

Chem-o-green TEFLON Back-up Rings

Chemiseal Synthetic Rubber "O" Rings

--made of duPont chemically impervious TEFLON--answer the "O" Ring extrusion problem. Three types--solid rings, split rings and the popular spiral rings for quick, easy installation.
- Eliminate chemical inspection.
- Zero swelling in hydrocarbons and newer synthetic fluids.
- Service temperature range from minus 110oF to 500oF.
- Waterproof, non-flammable.
- Requires no water-soak for installation.
- Unsurpassed anti-friction properties.

--a complete line of homogeneous synthetic rubber packings made in both AN and commercial compounds.
Both a "packing package", made in all standard sizes for "O" Ring gasket, packing and universal tube fitting services.
Take advantage of one source and one responsibility for this important "packing package". Write for Bulletin OB-1152.

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CAMDEN 1 - NEW JERSEY
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written rules - also decided to label a document "unclassified." As defined by these officers, meaning that here is a juicy tidbit of military information which you can pass along to your friends in a saloon or a ball park - but which definitely must not be published.
At hearings on the last Defense Department budget before a subcommittee of the House Appro-

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I Remember...
FIRST FLIGHT
By BLANCHE STUART SCOTT
[[italics]]Woman's Program Director, Hornell (N.Y.) Broadcasting Station. Member, Early Birds.[[/italics]]
On Sept. 4, 1910, I sat in an aeroplane for the first time. This was at Hammondsport, N.Y., and Glen H. Curtiss was my instructor. It was customary in those days to have the student "cut grass" for many days, to become thoroughly familiar with the controls. As the plan was a one seater, no instructor would go along to teach the student. There was a governor on the engine to hold the power down and keep the plane on the ground. My fourth trip down the field "grass cutting" caught a side wind and the plane soared about ten feet in the air. It felt like a hundred feet. Curtiss was alarmed, because at that stage in aviation an injured or killed woman would have been the worst publicity. However, and perhaps because I didn't know enough to be afraid, I landed safely. Two days later, I asked Curtiss to take the governor off the engine, and he finally agreed. I stepped into the little old 35 hp ship, waved a flippant good-bye and took right off, flew around the field and made a good landing. I have never found that any woman antedated that flight.

priations Committee, Representative Errett (cq.) P. Scrivner (R-Kans.) questioned Andrew H. Berding, then the Defense Department's director of public information. Berding said his staff received more than 1500 queries a day.
Scrivner, sympathetic, still had a sad state of affairs to report: "We sit here [in Congress] many times

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