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August 15, 1938 3 The Sportsman Pilot CONTENTS FOR AUGUST PAGE AERIAL OBSERVATIONS.......................................5 ANALYZING AIR MASS ANALYSIS, by Charles H. Pierce.........8 PATROL, by William F. Hausman............................10 THE SPORTSMAN TEST PILOT, FRANKLIN T. KURT FLIES THE CONTINENTAL 50-POWERED AERONCA...........................12 A NAVY PILOT LOOKS AT SOARING, by Robert M. Stanley......14 FLYING, AS IT WAS-THE OLD EXHIBITION DAYS, by Ruth Law...16 SHORT WAVES ARE COMING, by R. H. Wilde...................18 THEY MAKE THEIR BOW......................................20 MANY WINGS IN THE AIR....................................22 RANDOM TAKE-OFFS......................................24-25 THE ANNUAL INVITATION SEAPLANE CRUISE AND THE ANNUAL SUMMER CRUISE OF THE SPA........................................26 WE THREE, by N. O. Brantly...............................42 PILOTING TIPS, by William W. Moss, Jr....................43 NEW BOOKS................................................48 FORECAST.................................................48 THE SPORTSMAN PILOT PERSONALITIES Charles H. Pierce (Analysing Air Mass Analysis) is a meteorologist in the air mass analysis section of the U.S. Weather Bureau at Washington. He first studied meteorology at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., under Dr. Charles F. Brooks, now head of Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory in Milton, Mass. Mr. Pierce, therefore, went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for further weather training and has been with the Weather Bureau since last fall. Robert M. Stanley (A Navy Pilot Looks at Soaring) entered the experimental department of Douglas Aircraft Company following a year and a half of engineering study at California Institute of Technology. After two years with Douglas he returned to Cal. Tech. but continued working at Douglas on a part time basis. Upon graduation in 1935 he applied for appointment as a naval aviation cadet, took a month's training at the Long Beach Naval Reserve Air Base and then went to Pensacola, finishing up there in November, 1936. Because he had done considerable experimental work on the Douglas torpedo plane, he requested duty with a torpedo squadron. At present he is flying TBD-1's. In the meantime he became interested in soaring, as outlined in the story, and was one of the outstanding pilots at the 1938 national contest at Elmira. THE SPORTSMAN PILOT PHOTOGRAPHS The front cover photograph of the Wasp Jr. Beechcraft owned by Al Buchanan, of San Antonio, and piloted by Bill Cason, was taken by P.H. Hebert. The plane is about 10,000 feet above the city. Other photographs came from the following sources: Page 5, Bud Caward. Page 6, Hans Groenhoff. Page 7, Wide World. Pages 8-9, Hans Groenhoff. Pages 10-11, U.S. Navy Official Photograph. Pages 12-13, Hans Groenhoff. Pages 14-15, Hans Groenhoff. Pages 16-17, Ruth Law. Pages 18-19, Hans Groenhoff. Page 20, Factory. Page 21, Hans Groenhoff. Page 22, Harris & Ewing and Hans Groenhoff. Page 25, Jean Adams, Lewis R. Berlepsch, William B. Ryan and Hans Groenhoff. Page 26, Hans Groenhoff and miscellaneous. CHARLES HANSON GALE, Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Franklin T. Kurt Lewin B. Barringer Beirne Lay, Jr. THE SPORTSMAN PILOT is published monthly by the Sportsman Pilot, Inc., 515 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. Yearly subscription $3.00 payable in advance; single copy 35 cents. Canadian and foreign postage 41.00 a year additional ADVERTISING OFFICES NEW YORK, 515 Madison Avenue LOS ANGELES, 1129 Mohawk St. DETROIT, Thomas J. Orlando, Curtis Building BUFFALO, G.W. Campbell, 3146 Main St. Copyright, 1938, by The Sportsman Pilot, Inc. FRANK A. TICHENOR, Publisher J. H. GERHARDT, President and Treasurer K. F. Healy, Secretary ROBERT MARTIN, Advertising Manager Volume XX 35e Copy No.2