Technology
Instrumentation, Measurement, and Control
Papers Presented at the First National Instrument Conference Set the Pace for Profitable Research by All Industry
Stories by Alexander Klemin
Technology
Must Flying be a "Racket"?
Aviation, Now Finding Itself a Noisy and Unwanted Neighbor in Many Communities, is Starting a Search for Ways and Means to Silence the Roar and Clamor That, Continued, Might Cost the Industry Heavily...
Technology
Ideas in the Air
Although Many Authorities State that Private Aviation is Progressing Nicely, Others Submit that the Pace is Plodding. The Latter Maintain the Path is Blocked by Designer-Manufacturer Reluctance to Move Out with...
Technology
Cabins Can be Quieter
Airline and Private Plane Manufacturers—More "Customer-Conscious" Than Ever Before—Are Striving Vigorously to Improve Cabin Comfort
The Sciences
Pressed-Out Planes
Sounding a New Note in The Aviation Industry--Where High Costs are Legend--Is the Republic Seabee Amphibian. Capable of Carrying a Family-Sized Load in Automobile Comfort, This Land-or-Water Airplane Offers Much Utility and Good Performance at a Reasonable Cost...
The Sciences
Plane Sense and Safety
Analyzed in Terms of Accident Causes, Private Flying's Safety Record Clearly Shows the High Price of Recklessness. Sane Flight, However, is Relatively Safe. In a Determined Effort to Cut the Toll, Government and Industry Now Combine in an All-Out, Safe-Flying Campaign...
The Sciences
Flying's Easier, Now
Private Aviation has Shed its Aura of Glamor, Now Aims at Sounder Business Based on Comfort, Safety, and Satisfied Customers. Better Training Methods Help; So do Easy-To-Fly Planes, and Lightening of Government Rules...
The Sciences
Private Plane Prospects
With Many Design, Marketing, and Usage Questions Yet Unsettled, the Personal-Airplane Picture is Nevertheless Beginning to Clear. Industrial Users--Now Counted as the Best Market--Will Find a Wide Selection of Planes Adaptable to Nearly All Business Needs...
Technology
Aviation Engineering Emerges
Boosting Cooling-Air Flow with the Energy of Hot Exhaust Gases; Means of Making True Automatic Flight Commercially Possible; and Many Other New Ideas were Food for Discussion at a Recent Aeronautical Engineer's Meeting...
The Sciences
Research For Power
Aircraft Engines, Turbines, and Jets do not "Just Grow." Painstaking Research must Precede even Minor Advances, and Tomorrow's Supersonic Speeds Require Experimental Laboratories Undreamed of Yesterday...
Technology
Air Transport Progress
Passenger Comfort, Cargo Handling, Navigation and Traffic Control, All Involve Problems Basic to Full Realization of Air Transport's Potential Value. Specialists from Other Fields-Biomechanics, lighting, and Even Air-Conditioning-are Enlisted to Add Comfort and Safety...
Technology
Helicopters in Civil Aviation
Will the Helicopter Find Immediate Application in Civil Aviation and Industry; or Will Engineering Limitations, Landing Area Problems, and the High Degree of Pilot Skill Required Restrict its Utility?...
Technology
Motorless Flight
Towed Gliders, Proved in Military Uses, Are Now the Subject of Intensive Study for Future Commercial Uses. Special Jet Motors can Help to Get Them off the Ground. But the Greatest Competitor of the Cargo Glider is the Developing Type of Cargo Plane Itself...
Environment
Flying Aids
Aviation Gas Stations--Complete With Fuel, Oil, and Information Service--Offer Increased Safety and Convenience to the Pilot. A Number of Combination Automobile and Aircraft Stations Have Their Own Flight Strips...
The Sciences
To Europe by Air
With the Post-War Era Now Upon Us, Americans Will Want to Go to See What is Left of Europe. To Many the Ocean Steamer is Too Slow But the Plans of the Big Transatlantic Airplane Companies Will Enable Anyone to Take a Vacation in Europe at a Surprisingly Small Cost...
Technology
Gas Turbine PossibiIities
Will Airplanes of Tomorrow be Powered by Reciprocating Engines, by Turbo-Jets, by Turbines Driving Propellers, or by Some Combination of these Systems? Analysis of Present Technology Indicates that Each System Will Find its Place in Meeting the Varied Requirements of Flight...
Technology
Highways of the Air
Feeder Lines, Serving the Trunk Airlines But Also Providing Short-Haul Aerial Transportation, Have Great Possibilities If Costs are Reduced to Meet Competition of Other Forms of Transportation and if Adequate Facilities are Made Available for Handling Traffic...
Technology
Control in the Air
Electronics Has Brought to Aviation a Versatile Means of Controlling Many of the Airplane's Essential Mechanical Components. Increased Engine Efficiency, Reduced Pilot Fatigue, and Greater Safety are Some of the Worthwhile Results that Have so Far Been Obtained...
The Sciences
Since Man Took Wings
To Fly has been the Persistent Dream of Man Down through the Ages, and in the Present Epoch that Dream has been Completely Fulfilled, but with Greater Consequences of Destruction than of Good...
Technology
Aide to Aviation
One Chemical Plant Alone Produces 80 Chemicals Used in the B-29. This Fact Brings Home the Close Relationship between Chemical Industry and the Mass Manufacture of Airplanes; Both Those Used Today for War and Those that Will Fill the Skies in tire Coming Days of Peace...
