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Such albums, containing drawings, photographs, and descriptive texts have proved to be a valuable aid to research workers, historians, and modelmakers. They have been prepared for a number of our full-sized airplanes. It is the custom to lend them for periods of 60 days. Mr. G. Kohn borrowed the Album on the Douglas World Flyer, "Chicago." Mr. Christy Battlas used the one on the NC-4. Mr. George Simkaitis borrowed those on the JN4-D and the SPAD-13; and the "Spirit of St. Louis Album" was used by Mr. William A. Lindsay III.

Several authors were assisted in the preparation of historic stories on aeronautics. James Strebig of the Associated Press procured facts and photographs for an article on helicopters. Mr. Charles Ellis of the [[underlined]] Saturday Evening Post [[/underlined]] staff obtained data on the First Transcontinental Flight, 1911. Mr. Sinks spent two days examining our material on kites for use in an article intended for [[underlined]] Colliers [[/underlined]. A student at Cornell, Mr. C. S. Brown, prepared a thesis on helicopters. He was loaned the label-texts which this division had written for its pictorial story on the subject. Colonel Schirmer who was interested in aircraft insignia decided to visit the collection in the division following our response by mail to his inquiries.
 
A number of veterans studying aeronautics in local colleges have used the aircraft collections. Their personal inquiries in the office have been concerned primarily with flying wings, reciprocating and jet engines and parachutes. The Menihan Brothers of Rochester, New York, contractors for the building of parachutes during the recent war were interested in our collection of these life-saving devices and have promised to donate an example of the type which they manufacture.