Success of air as transport agency depends primarily on service that it can render in comparison with other means of transportation; lighting and charting airways; radio beacons, mile posts, and two-way telephone; pitch and bank indicator and inclinometer; airplane engines and propellers research; Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics; research to overcome fog; recent feat of Question Mark; no great change in original design of airplane; Transcontinental Air Transport; limitations of airplane. (See also Ry. Club of Pittsburgh -- Official Proc vol. 28, no. 4, Feb. 28, 1929 pp. 60-74 (discussion) p 74-77)


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    Title :

    Aviation as it affects the railroads


    Additional title:

    Railroad Herald


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1929


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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