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U.S. Air Services Devoted to the Development of Aeronautics-Civil and Military- in the United States, Birthplace of the Flying Machine, and Throughout the World Copyright, 1931, by Air Service Publishing Co., Inc. VOLUME XVI NOVEMBER, 1931 Number 11 Contents REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM A. MOFFETT-Photograph on Cover PLANTING AERONAUTICAL ACORNS WITH TRADITIONAL RESULTS- An Editorial DOOLITTLE AGAIN-An Editorial POWER AND SPEED-THE INFLUENCE OF THE SCHNEIDER CONTESTS (Illustrated) EDISON ON THE FLYING MACHINE MRS. HOOVER CHRISTENS THE "AMERICAN CLIPPER" (Illustrated) RAMBLING REMINISCENCE AND RIGHT UP TO DATE . EARL STEINHAUER HERNDON AND PANGBORN DID IT NAVY ACCEPTS US.S.S AKRON AND APPROVES CONTRACT FOR SISTER SHIP - Page Photograph COMMENT AND REVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . NEO-AEROBIA SKY GIRL - Verse . . . . . . . . . . CLIFFORD GESSLER "PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT" by E. A. STALKER . . . BRADLEY JONES ICARUS - Verse . . . . . . . . . . . .LEFA MORSE EDDY A PILOT THAT NEVER TRIES AND ITS MAKER, ELMER A. SPERRY (Illustrated) WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED GLIDING (Illustrated) ... HATTIE MEYERS BARNABY TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS, 1931 . . . J. ARTHUR NEWCOMB THE ORDNANCE SHOW - AIR CORPS ASSITIMG . . ROLAND BIRNN BOEING ALL-METAL, LOW-WING BOMBER - Page Photograph SAFTETY AT AIRPORTS . . . . . . . . . . R.B.BARNITZ LIFE INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR THOSE WHO FLY MOYLE AND ALLEN "WELCOMED" HOME BREAKING THE ENDURANCE RECORD FOR GLIDERS (Illustrated) CAPT. FALK HARMEL TRANSPORT FISH BY AIRPLANE . . . . . .JAMES MONTAGNES DOES YOUR WATCH KEEP TIME ABOVE THE CLOUDS? LESSON FROM DEPRESSION - Third Paper . . . S.A.SMITH DID YOU HAPPEN TO HEAR? Entered as Second-Class Matter August 25,1921, at the Post Office at Washington, D.C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. [outlined box at bottom of the page] Published Monthly by the Air Service Publishing Co., Inc., Washington. D.C. Price in the United States and Insular Possessions, 35 cents: $3.00 a year - Canada, $3.80; Foreign, $4.12. EDITORIAL AND EXECITUVE OFFICE: Transportation Building, Washington, D.C. Editor, Earl N. Findley Associate Editor, THOMAS R. REED, San Francisco Associate Editor, BRADLEY JONES Secretary, FLORENCE O. BERGSTROM Special Representative, FRED F. MARSHALL Chicago Representative, F.W. Moran, 307 N. Michigan Ave. Boston Representative, Robt. C. Daly, 368 Congress St. Washington Representative, George A. Gray