1929 The American Aviator Magazine Airplanes & Airports Elinor Smith

Description: Poor condition torn cover. Rare magazine. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Flying Fleet" Washing Up the Navy's Seaplanes After the Day's Work; San Diego, Cal., Naval Aviation Training Station CONTENTS ****** "THE DOG FIGHT" WHAT IS "AIR NEWS" - MILITARY AIRCRAFT-1929 MODEL LUBRICATING AIRCRAFT ENGINES AIRING THE EDITORIALS - WOMEN AND THE "AIR SENSE" THE FIRST PURSUIT GROUP - RECENT RECORDS -- WISECRACKS AND CRACK-UPS OFF THE GROUND AND GO! - FAMOUS AVIATION FLIGHTS OF HISTORY CERTAIN ASPECTS OF NAVAL AERONAUTICS - NEWARK'S AIRCRAFT EXHIBIT AERO CLUB NEWS - Cover Design by Lt. Clayton Knight 1 By Walter Whiteley Hubbard 5 By Commander Ralph D. Weyerbacher 7 By Walter W. Hubbard 14 By the Editors 23 By Lady Mary Heath 27 By Lt. Col. Harold Evans Hartney 31 Compiled by Staff Correspondents 34 By The Flying Flea 36 By Lieut. Clayton Knight 37 From the Painting by Campos 40 By Rear Admiral William A. Moffett 42 By R. E. Vandergrift 47 By W..W. H. and D. T. W. 48 -- ----------- 2 ----------- Huge, Tri-motored, All-metal Ford Plane Flying Over Newark, N. J., and the New Airport There ----------- 3 ----------- ELINOR SMITH, youthful aviatrix of Freeport, L. I., N. Y., not yet eighteen years of age, but rated by Lady Mary Heath and others as one of the greatest fliers of her sex. Miss Smith was recently nominated by the New York Exchange Club as the most popular girl in New York State. She is an accomplished pianist, and, outside of flying, makes a hobby of horseback riding. ----------- 4 ----------- I N THE history of the conquest of the Air the page of woman's achievement is a great one. The woman of today is something more than a wife to her husband. She is his friend, his companion, his playmate, and more often than not his business partner. The true develop- ment of the air sense of the nation de- pends just as much on the women of the country as on the men. We cannot ad- vance with a united front into the posi- tion of leadership in this new world that is ours by right, unless our women will support and help our men as they have always done in the past. Since the beginning of aeronautics, women have stood by men not alone in actual flying, but in the general develop- ment. The women of to- day are happily and naturally entering into this new world of sport which has been opened to them. There is noth- ing new in women flying and women wishing to fly. All through the ages the hope and wishes of man have been du- plicated in his sis- ter's heart. One of the most famous women of ancient history had leanings in that direction, for we read in the ancient A writings of Solomon giving the Queen of S yessel to ride upon the air which he made of WOL Lady Mary Heath, Well-know of Her Own Des ----------- 5 ----------- Painted by Lt. Clayton Knight Lieutenant Frank Luke, of the First Pursuit Group, A. E. F., "Balloon Buster," Destroying a German "Sausage"

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