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 - (discussion) p 74-77; Railroad Herald, vol. 33, no. 6, May 1929, pp. 25-29)


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    Title :

    Aviation as it affects the railroads


    Additional title:

    Ry. Club Pittsburgh -- Official Proc


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1929


    Size :

    15 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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