oe WANT A JOB IN AVIATION? THEY STAY UP ETT eh tame its ge RANK TINSLEY. ~ BY-LT..W. M. WOOD NEW GAS MODWORLD FAMOUS EXPLORER, ENGINEER 1 AND EXECUTIVE JOINS SCHOOL STAFF California Flyers Announce the Appointment of Lieut. , Commander G.O. Noville, f D.F.C.,as Director of Training PICTURE PROOF THAT NO MAN HAS HAD S| A MORE PRACTICAL AVIATION. EXPERIENCE ‘Executive eer for Admiral Byrd on the Artic: lind dntarte eeitos sro the ving of Same or tue foe eens. F ‘sebcralgr EaesntiveVicePreien!, Nera E, Shera Dir ef Taming, a Commander G0. evils “dnc Ofer ot Sere deat PRACTICAL TRAINING UNDER PRACTICAL AVIATION AUTHORITIES Bie the werd ; Another reason why California Flyers career fraining puts si : i graduates into aviation faster and takes them further. 1 = uo Knows oaly the answers ro proven cagipeeing formulas and eab- J its, the man who can answer the unangwered problems who ean fi. Commander G. O. Novile. Training under tis : of fying, ogincering and mechanics will Bud bea or in prod a alton {inary ra offers the greatest texang opportunities of this genera ae tn concn mesic pe loth the abion 10 Tok s pew problems. Teele of it faseuction and instructors, Califoraia Hyer offers Johnny Jones, California Flyers the opportunity of lesening aviation and all its bra ‘gradvate, who recently broke the faces of 3 coandar dng conceive Hes the rnomtop Light plane record from elas DCC the Lockheed ids of eee ay, ind Locked of yest sec Angeles has led the world ia flying, engineering and manufac Both anacenen a tang ak roo your schoo cobsider all ofthe outstanding advances Ma = = 5 ey eer cat pgcinctnn wo Ty apgete ece School here inthe nadon's aviation capital offern S-aLEARN ABOUT THIS COMPLETE RANGE® cea of a Bl OF PRACTICAL CAREER COURSES Tnglia sviiton ening when you read. 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As you ing, and though the demand for can be, they were prepared for suc- Parks graduates often exceeds the cess, given their invaluable founda- supply, Parks Air College will tion of opportunity, by Parks never compromice with thorough- training. ‘Parks has always een m No matterin which field of avin- ied afi 8 nour tion you are interested, let Parks rovide the solid backsround train- its policy has not changed in eleven fen essential to pout future cues year and. never will for Parke cess, Malthe coupon taay for unded on the solid basis of complete information on each of ing a college education in the four courses offered by Parke, J vig for every student, thors Catalog and bullet il he ent uciterapts! iierhering e f charger gat ‘cial aviation, this is the cod Parka Coicchonineem eee Hr catag vil ce Soeeeined Pan a oO ae eer WC eee ee eto eT eAieieie aeRO en CC aR aa TT Siae ceteraMARCH, 1939 rome Cre VOLUME XI, NO. 6 EDITOR: €, B. Colby ART EDITOR: J. 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FLIGHT DURAL TIMER NEW! “AUTOMATIC MODEL PILOT” THE OH NEW 1939 onty $4-50 | BERKELEY pee ae SUPPLIES “FIRST IN GAS MODELS" 230 Steuben St. Dept. T-8 Brooklyn, N. Y. ~~ROBABLY no other industry in the world has been industry. Ev ble that teclnical development will continue at the -yone wito ils the papers or listens Exomplety of ore of the many phases of aviation sured by Moreover, as the art advances, the cost of tech= improvement and development is mounting very rapidly. ‘The manufacturer who would retain a position of prominence in the aircraft industry mast maintain a tHoroughly competent and progressive creative staff, and ‘must gamble an ineveasing proportion of his manufactur snd experimental works is a fundamental policy of the emient of ‘ed Aircraft Corporation, and we beliove it is a most important reason why the four manufscturing divisions of the corporation have continued to maintain their ing income on development Th leadership in this highly competitive field. When Pra & Whitney Aircraft was organized in engine was one of four hundred horse- power, the most powerful ever developed in the United United Aircraft Corp. is this Pratt & Whitney engine fost mountStates up to that time. From that auspicious beginning Pratt & Whitney has pioneered in the de- velopment of single-row aud dou Blerow types of engines, and within the last year has announced the production of the Twin Hornet ‘engine, rated at one thousand four hndsed horsepower! It is an ‘open secret that other and stil larger types are umder develop- iuent, although our policy is tot to discuss these until they have passed the experimental stage, It should hhe noted hiere too that the develop nent has not been only along the lines of increased power, but that seshiarkable progress has been made it improved’ fuel economy, lower weight per horsepower, increased seliability, and all of the other factors which affect the efficiency of an airplane engine. Incidentally, as an indication both of the progress in engine design to be expected in the very near fuinre and of the rapidly mounting costs of such development, Pratt & Whitney has just completed an engine testing Iabo- Fatory, costing a quarter of a million dollars and eapable of testing engines developing up to three thousand horse- ower cach, The Hamilton Standard Propellers division occupies 4 ubiique position in the aeronautical world, and has heen responsible for more important coutributions to the art than any other propeller manufacturing organization, Hamilton Standard produced the first successful con trollable-pitch propeller, end followed this with the ime proved constant-speed type. Both of these developments made such important contributions to the improvesient of airplane design that today Hamilton Standard propellers re unquestionably the most widely used items of svation equipment in the entire world. Recently Hamilton Stindard announced another important achievement— the perfection of the Hydromatie quick-feathering propele les, which, ie might be added, has been under engineering development for the past three years. This new propeller Cffers stil further inyprovemenis in both performance and operating safety, and is already finding wide favor among major air fines and important military forces, The achievements of the airpline divisions of United L. Brow, Alreralt have been equally noteworthy. Sikorsky Air= exalt xt Bridgeport has been a pionccr in the dexigh and anulaetire of large flying hoats and amplibiany, Tt seas only four short years ago that Sikorsky developed the twenty-ton Clipper which revolutionized previous couceptions of limiting sizes of aireraft, and whicll| has become world-famous as the trail blazer of the ocean Airerait Corporation, otttes across the Pacific and the Atlantic, Recently, Sikorsky Air- craft was called in by Pan Ameri can Airways to discuss proposals for future transoceanie aircraft, and has submitted tentative designs for a one-hundred-passenger flying oat. Tn addition Sikorsky has ‘made an important eontrilmtion to national defense by designing: and building for the United States nay the largest patrol-bomber flying boat ever constructed. The achievements of Chance Vought Aircraft have been more or less screened! from the public eye because of the military secrecy that necessarily surrounds the per= formance of naval aircraft. W Gciailed description of Vought de- signs cannot be disclosed, it is significant that their technical development has kept pace for the past twenty years with the rapid inerease in per- formance and efficiency of the naval aviation service. ‘The newest Vought seout-hombers now being: delivered to the fleet are vastly superior in speed, in load-carrying ability, in maneuverability and in every other respect ex: cept reliability to those that were the pride of the naval air serviee only a few years ago. Tennorrows de Which are on the Vought drafting boards today, will eon tinue io show this technieal improvement in order that the navy's program of national defense will be adequate for its task. MEET DONALD L. BROWN As Introduced by Tracy Richardson Donald Lamont Browit, president of the United Air- craft Corporation, is one of the fortunate persons who i his vocation, He goes ws golf but his unswerving devotion is to igs aviation. He is one of the pioneers of the indus- try, laving been engaged in it since 1913 when the flying business was a very small cub, Today President Brown heals one of the largest and most important aviation manufacturing groups in. the World. Combined under his direction are Pratt & Whit aft, Hamilton Standard Propellers, Sikorsky raft and Chance Vought Aircraft. Each division of this corporation is a monument to the industry in itself, and their products cover most of the aviation world, Donald Lamont Brown was born in Terlin, Wisconsin, November 17, 1890. After grade and high school he attended Northwestern University School of Contmerce, In addition to his studies at the university, Me. Brown was employed hy the Tllinois Steel Com= (Zurn fo aged?) provident of has combined his avocation wi IshiA new contender for the Bermudian, true looms over the Sperry horizon, fn the form of the New York and Bere ‘mnidian Air Line, with offies in Hobo- ken, N. J. This new aspirant to Lratfie Jeadership to the little island proposes o use new Sikorsky $-4-B twenty-four ‘amphibians on four round: operating between New joe's Point, Bermuda, Good luck and C. A.V. Ut x ke Did somebody in the buck row ask what C. A, V. U. means? Simply Ceil- ing And Visbility Unlimited, x term now tictually used, It's to be the new head- ‘ng of this department, and those of you who enjoyed Air Progress will continue to find under C. A, V. U, formation outside of the sources, both high and wide. x ee The British Burnell, built by Cunliife- Owen Aireraft at Southampton, Eug- lund, was being readied for tests when this was written, It will be remem ered that it was for the testing of this ship that our old friend Clyde Pang Thom sront to Europe, The structure of the ship has heen completely redesigned. Fngines are two nine-humdred-horse- power sleeve-valve Bristol Perseus x ee New orilers to Douglas brings 'T. W. AJs Hist of equipment up to thisty-six ships, all of which are either Douglas Sky-Clibs, Sky-Sleepers, or Sky=Linets Tncidentally, the rumor that Tindbereh's ‘name has been removed from T. W. A. ships is a sonsation-ccexing falsehood. xe Sensalion of the recent Paris Air Show was the Fokker D-23, twinengined fighter. The basic design is suggestive ‘of the Reaper bomber fighter with hich Fokker scooped this saine show two years ago, ‘The D-23 has armor-sheathed toekpit and a tricycle chassis. Arma mont includes four Browning machine gins tivo 30 cali ber and two 0 calibers fi ing explosive ammunition For general disposition of the ship. see plans on Pages 62 and 63. awk ‘The Par Air Show is aot the kind of show Americans are faniliar with, Mare ‘vas te chief exhibition there. Whether Tor meze purpones of sales or as part of the cuzent’ Ruropean game of iinil= inan's buff is hard to say, Military planes of a sensational nature ruled the Too, for it's 4 matter of pride with m- tions aba to how down on the & Hibition floor the gauntlet of their re- scant, kk x ‘As we are about to rush upstairs sith. this copy we ave informed by a reliable ‘source that. the Seversky organization Inns been taken under the wing of the Kkellett operation systems +k A new Hispano engine, developed for transatlantic flying, delivers two thou- ssund horsepower, ‘There are twenty-four cylinders arsanged in Hi shape, two franikshatts, and twelve carhntetors, Horsepower per weight ratio is excellent, the engiue weighing two thousand two. hundred pounds ae x According to reports, August. 9th of Ist summer yas «secret redcletter day for Bellanea, for at that time a teuta- Live contract] was entered into, between Bellanes and/ Generalissimo Chiang Kix shek for tivo, hundeed: bombing planes folaling nearly eight and a half million ifollas. ‘The individual planes, known 93 Bellaner Model 25-008 multipurpose fighter-bomber land plea, will cost ape proximately thietvnine thousand five ‘humdzed dollars each, exclusive of addi al expenses For machine gums, ammti sition aud bombs. his is one of the largest orders placed by the Chinese government to date, wn shows once more the confidence the for- ign powers have in the ability of Ameri ‘ean planes und equipment, a8 well as ome iaility 40 fill orders on time. ‘These planes are expected to be ready for ship- ment within eight months, with a deliv ery rate of no les than twenty-five or sore than ‘iy armonth, Bellanea was Thusinessman enough to insist upon fifty pereent of the fotal price upom signing of the contract, and the rest ready: wher final delivery hus been made, A nice litle order and payment aarangement in any language, including the Chines eee ‘The first De Havilland Albatross a livered to Tinperial Airways andl christ- cued Frobisher proved its worth by: tly- ing with seventeen psssengers and mail from London to Paris in fifty-three mb tutes! Remember Bleriot? tke Major AL Williams, in a recent article cempliasized the fact that the German Heinkel fighter, having set the record tUiree Hnmdred and ninety-four miles per hhour on an oval course, did four hundred sand thinty-five miles per hour straight- ‘away, Ibis the major's contention that America is handicapped by the lack of ‘adequate liquid-cooled engines. ie cited the Heinkel as an example of the pos ies of the combination of horsepower and proper plane “contours.” kee ‘The Liorw 45 proves that the French fare coming buck with a surge. The 45 is a bomber, of conse, and typical of recent French bomber designs, isu bea Tt is doubtful if any: similar ships in Ue world eon match its per formance, If powered with the Guom Thone P-14s of twelve hundred horse- power, top speed will be three lnundred and twenty miles per hour! Most une tistal is its rear gun, a flexible shell xm, aay A new Freach fighter which holds great promise is the C. A. O, 200, said to do three hundred and forty miles per hour with # nine hundred horsepower Hispano 12-Y, Climb to nineteen thous sand six hundred feet takes only: se and half minutes. See “The Paris Show Presents," Germany’ ing Pe shen powered by the Ds ‘verted, liquid-cooled engi {three Inunclred and ten range, otie thousand five hundred and filty miles; esling, twenty-nine thousand five Inundeed feet; maximum Toad, six thousend six hundred pounds. ake Ain Trails recently received a tele signed. by representatives. of recognized’ and approved schools requesting our support to the fend that established and approved awin= tion schools be atilized by the powers that be ax part of the National Defense "Tramming, Program, } Needless to sayy Air (Turn toe 96) omNEWS OF THE ABRONAUTICAL \ = i. Bete f y CE a f Uae: ws : “eesWORLD PRESENTED IN PICTURES‘An epparen speed of 3 Extremely 1 Fourengines| ch Bloch 162 BS tim catling 29,500. ag the PARIS ao AIR SHOW presents the latest styles in aerial destruction!ne of the most interesting modols et the show was To add to the confusion, thie unusual ship has 9 Hey ¢ 0.23 tandem-engined, ater Fighter with four guns nding gear. The engines sre Walter Sagi sted Veet. Spoed is 330 mphe Another unusual typo was the Polish P. Z 20mm. shell gun and the win machine gu Fighter armed with nore cannon and twin machine guns. Tho cannon ly 50 caliber. There are also {wo machine guns inthe sear, cocky apparel As Interesting night: model features en nj bY ere at Olivier of France. This Britain presonta a now model of the famous Hawker Hurtleane Hing over tail ight-gun fighter with « new throe-bladed vara“WRAP IT UP” 1 How they get them back together after a jump! Fist arrange the pack, harness, and harness lift yobs long the pecking able, "Note weight on the 'F wb le straighten out the folds, of the Half of the chute js now arranged smacthly and evenly. Note shroud lines in center and bog weights en panels. 4 ff chute has been smoothed as first joward the middle, reducing pack 3 iy at exireme end of tablo top. ‘Arrange the ponels of the ‘chute evenly, smothing out Griinles ond ‘olde, ‘Keep the shroud lines siraighened. G Wihteph ante steerer flded tocar ner tre used fo hold down.” Note the pilet "chute 7 htt artes creme tasted ne [sane th the boffom of the pack to prevent fouling.As the shroud liner are hooked inie loops the chute moved noarer. Now is folded on top of hacked lines 1 [Link] ‘chute ts now folded down upon Jap of shoud Hines inthe bottom of pack: Nove pile ‘chute fo left 1 ih 0. Thatys tides ef the pack are now brought up over the folded ‘chute and held by temporary pins through pege The pilot ‘chute is now collapsed by folding spring ribs together and pulling plat efute shroud lines with hand 1 4 5 od pilot ‘chute is inserted belwoon the mai femporarly fastened tider of the “chu With matn ‘chute, pilot ‘chute, and sides of the pac Place, wo are naw ready to close tho ends of the eas The ond of the pack beating the ripesrd carrying tube Js brought up end tinged fap ploced over necro pug. Point of ripcord is inserted tn peg. The ether end is hold by second ripeord tip. Snap prctecling Nap, Dane! 15