Stories by Alexander Klemin

Under Vastly Increased Demand, Aircraft Engine Builders Stepped Up Production Squarely in the Face of a Diminishing Supply of Skilled Labor. One Manufacturer's Methods, Which Successfully Accomplished the Impossible, Involved Many Special-Purpose, High-Production Tools

Brilliant Military Successes of Gliders in Transportation and Pilot Training Have Apparently Paved Ihe Way 10 Commercial Glider Trains for Peace Time Operation. But Closer Examination of All The Factors Involved Reveals a Number of Limitations that Must be Taken into Consideration

The Wartime Impetus to the Aviation Industry will Be Reflected in Many Ways Post-War, to the Benefit of American Aviation and of Other Peace-Time Industries as Well. The Philosophy of Instrument Research. Should Research be Kept Separate from Production? If Not, Where Should the Emphasis Fall?

Civil Aviation Should Advance Rapidly After the War. Some Six Thousand Airports will he Needed and the Initiative, also Most of the Development. Should the Local Whether for Large Cities. Medium Cities, or Villages. How May the Interested Reader Go About that Initiative for his City?

In the Science of Biomechanics, Combining the Knowledge of Surgeons and Engineers, is to be Found at Least a Part of the Answer to Fatal Aircraft Accidents. An Understanding of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Human Body can Aid Aircraft Designers in Building Safer Ships

In the Sperry Gyroscope Company's New High-Altitude Laboratory Conditions of Low Pressure, Extreme Cold, and Oxygen Lack are Duplicated by Means of Vacuum and Other Equipment, Affording a Peculiar Kind of Research that Combines Aeronautical Engineering, Physics, and Physiology

What Effect will the Wartime Advances in Technology and Plant Facilities that are Giving Remarkable Fuels to Aviation have on Post-War Uses Air and Automotive? Will You Fly with l00-Octane Gas and More Immediately Interesting to the Average Reader. Will You Drive With it?

Aircraft Production, Materials, Tools, Transportation, Airports, Safety, and Design, as Viewed by an Observer at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. Why and How the United States Has Achieved Military Supremacy in the Air

The New Jet-Propelled Plane Flies Fast and is Safe. An Analysis Reveals its Superiorities and Inferiorities and Points Out its Possible Future. The Struggle of its Oft-Frustrated Inventor and His Final Success Affords a Romantic Story of a Young Man's Determination

Highly Reliable Power-Plants have been Developed for Military Aircraft. These Will Have Direct Influence on Not Only the Future of Private and Commercial Flying, but on Engines for Automobiles. The Helicopter Poses Power-Plant Problems of its Own

Civil Aviation of Tomorrow Will Inherit a Rich Legacy of Important Advances from the Forced-Draught Military Researches of Today. Giant Planes with New Landing Gears, Flying Wings and Tail-First Planes, Crew-less Gliders, and Rocket Planes are Conservative Possibilities

Views of Men Outstanding in the Aviation Industry Serve to Present a Picture of What is Being Done Today and of the Effects of these Efforts On the Post-War Transportation World. Air Cargo, Safely, Gliders. Local Air Service. Airports and Airways. All are a Part of the Whole

Magnesium is Moving Ahead Rapidly and Now Challenges Aluminum in Many Industrial Applications. Spurred by the Demands of War and Particularly by the Needs of Aviation, American Technologists Have Developed Magnesium Alloys and Fabricating Methods of First-Line Importance

The Aviation Industry is Basing Plans for the Future Largely on Pre-War Models, Plus Knowledge cleaned from War-Time Production and Operation. Will The Post-War Private Plane Follow Conventional Lines or Will it be a Radical Departure From Present Forms?

There Are Many Reasons Why There Will be Great! Increases in Airline Activities After the War. A Preview is Given Here of the Plane Types Which, it Now Appears, Will Carry Passengers and Cargo in Large Volumes and in Safely and Comfort at High Speeds

Reported Many Years Ago in these Pages, the Armstrong Seadrome is Row Assuming Added Importance in the Scheme of Things to Come in Aviation. Based on Sound Engineering Principles, the Seadrome Will Make Possible Over Ocean Air Transportation with Land Type Planes

Economy of Both Time and Money are Achieved With Trainer that Gives Complete Illusion of Flight

Present Orders and Future Possibilities Point Toward a Fertile Field for Rotating Wing Aircraft

Is a Two-Seater with Enclosed Cockpit; Will Assist In Allied Convoy Protection Against Subs

Aeronautical Experts Contract a Sort of Mental Indigestion that is Good for the Whole Country

Circular Pressurized Cabin is Feature of New Airliner Designed For High-Altitude Civil or Military Operation

New American Aircraft Excels in Every Respect Any Other Dive-Bomber Ever Built

Future Cargo-Carriers of the Air May Supplement, But are Unlikely to Supplant Surface Transportation

Why This Fine Plane is Rightly Called the Fastest and Most Powerful High-Altitude Fighter of the Day