1919. General View, Madison Square Garden, New York, where Manufacturers Aircraft Association held its first exposition, March 1-15, General View, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, during the Manufacturers Aircraft Association's First Exposition, 1919. first aeronautical exposition to be held after the cessation of hostilities in the World War. The following is a summary of the principal exhibits: MANUFACTURERS' EXHIBITS AIRPLANES AND SEAPLANES AEROMARINE PLANE & MOTOR COMPANY, Keyport, New Jersey. GIO. ANSALDO & Co., Genoa, Italy. Exhibit S. V. A. Biplane. Pursuit machine. BOEING AIRPLANE Co., Seattle, Washington. Model C-L-4-S Seaplane. Two-seater Naval Training Machine. CANTILEVER AERO COMPANY, New York. 66 Christmas Bullet." One-seater monoplane. CURTISS AEROPLANE & MOTOR CORPORATION, New York. Model 18-B. Two-seater combat machine built for United States Navy. Model H.A. Two-seater combat seaplane built for United States Navy. DAYTON-WRIGHT AIRPLANE COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio. DH-K. ("Honeymoon Express.") Three-seater sport machine. GALLAUDET AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Martin Bomber. Four-seater night bombing machine. Model 1-A. Two-seater sport machine. STANDARD AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Elizabeth, New Jersey. THOMAS-MORSE AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Ithaca, New York. Model S-4 C. Single-seater pursuit training machine. UNITED AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORPORATION, New York. Canadian Curtiss. Two-seater training machine of Royal Flying Corps. WRIGHT-MARTIN AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Loening Monoplane. Two-seater combat machine. Model V E-7 Vought ("Bluebird.") Two-seater advanced training machine. AEROSTATS BURGESS COMPANY, Marblehead, Massachusetts. Car of Navy C-Class airship.. CONNECTICUT AIRCRAFT COMPANY, New Haven, Connecticut. Free Balloon, solo type. GOODYEAR TIRE & Rubber ComPANY, Akron, Ohio. Caquot model R kite balloon. THE B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY, Akron, Ohio. B-Class Naval Airship. AIRCRAFT ENGINES AEROMARINE PLANE & MOTOR COMPANY, Keyport, New Jersey. CURTISS AEROPLANE & MOTOR CORP., New York. Type K-12, 12 cylinder, 375 horse-power. Type K-6, 6 cylinder, 150 horse-power. Type OX-5, 8 cylinder, 90-100 horse-power. DUESENBERG MOTOR CORPORATION, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Type Duesenberg H., 16 cylinder, 800 horse-power. HALL-SCOTT MOTOR CAR COMPANY, San Francisco, California. LAWRENCE AERO ENGINE CORPORATION, New York. Type L-1-60, 3 cylinder, 80 horse-power. LAWRENCE SPERRY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Farmingdale, Long Island. Type W. B. B. Engine, 4 cylinders, 38 horse-power. PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit, Michigan. Type I-A-744, 8 cylinder, 160 horse-power. Type I-A-1116, 12 cylinder, 240 horse-power. Type I-A-2025, 12 cylinder, 440 horse-power. B. F. STURTEVANT COMPANY, Boston, Massachusetts. Sturtevant 5-A-42, 8 cylinder, 210 horse power. THOMAS-MORSE AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Ithaca, New York. TIPS AERO ENGINE COMPANY, New York City. 18 cylinder rotary type. WRIGHT-MARTIN AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, New Brunswick, New Jersey. MISCELLANEOUS Photographic exhibit. Gunnery, bombs, etc. NAVY EXHIBITS F-5-L Flying Boat. Navy patrol seaplane. This was a special display craft, onehalf of which was exposed to show detail construction. Loening M-2 seaplane (Loening "Kitten") ship-plane. The Aeronautical Exposition provided the answer to the query previously asked. From March 15th on, the Manufacturers Aircraft Association has been actively engaged in the education of the American people to the truth of aeronautical possibilities. May 2nd to 15th, there was held in Macon, Georgia, the Southeastern Aeronautical Congress, in which members of the Manufacturers Aircraft Association participated. This congress greatly accelerated the movement among American municipalities to establish landing fields and thus make cross-country flying possible. The Army, Navy and Post Office Air Services were represented. The most notable act of the Congress was the adoption of a set of resolutions which urged the formulation by the United States Government of a fixed aeronautical policy, the sending of aviation missions to Central and South America, recognition of the international features of aerial navigation and the principle of federal control within the United States, and the establishment throughout the nation of municipal landing fields. On August 22nd, members of the Association, including the Glenn L. Martin Company, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, and the Dayton Wright Airplane Company, participated in the culminating event aerial mail day of Cleveland aviation week, held under the auspices of the Cleveland Aviation Club and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. At a luncheon on aerial mail day, following a speech by Otto Praeger, Second Assistant Postmaster General, resolutions were adopted urging the extension of the aerial mail throughout the United States as rapidly as possible. As this book goes to press, preparations are under way for an aeronautical exposition to be held January 8th to 15th, in the Coliseum in Chicago, March 6th to 13th, 1920, at the 71st Regiment Armory, New York City, and probably for a show in San Francisco. The detailed story of aeronautical achievement since the signing of the Armistice is best told by the individual industrial accounts which follow: |