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No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked with very little toning. There is a chip in one page. Light soiling to the covers. The front cover is almost detached. Some chipping to the upper left corner of the front cover. Some light creases or bends in covers and pages. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Airplane's Twenty-Second Birthday" (Tribute to the Wright Brothers, its inventors--A pleas for governmental recognition of their place in history" by Comdr. John Rodgers; "Anti-Aircraft Gunnery" (An Editorial) by C. deF. Chandler; "The Aerial Torpedo (Illustrated)" with an introduction by Co. William Mitchel by Lawrence Sperry; "The City that Would Fly" by Townsend Godsey; "The Sky of Europe is Alive with Planes (Illustrated)" (Of all civil aviation companies abroad, German Aero-Lloyd appears to be the largest and most successful) by Bettie Larimore; "Society Woman Makes Army Flying Suits (Illustrated)" (Mrs. Norman DeR. Whitehouse of New York has recently received her first contract from Army Air Service) by Howard E. Greene; "Colonial Air Transport Enters Commercial Field"; "Colonel William Mitchell Declared Guilty" by H. F. Ranney; "Flights of Fact and Fancy" (The First World Flight. A Review) by Thomas R. Reed; "New Engines for Light Airplanes to be Made in Quantities by the Wright Company Model Aeronautics (Illustrated)" by Paul Edward Garber; "Sole Damage--One Broken Prop (Illustrated)" by Robert McKnight; "President's Board Advocates Expansion of Civil Aviation" (Three Cabinet Assistants to deal with aeronautical problems, and two more brigadier generals are recommended by Morrow Committee--Air Unity Opposed--Mitchell Plan Rejected. This issue contains Committee's full report.); "Notes from the Air" (Including: Must be no competition between the Government and the industry, says President Calvin Coolidge: Burgess Field of Uniontown, Pa., now open, The Collier Trophy Committee will meet in January, Colonel Bouve addresses D. C. Chapter N.A.A., Schneider Cup Race to Norfolk in 1926, Personals, etc.).