AERONAUTICS: In Philadelphia

As was fitting, the costly Sesquicentennial ceremonies at Philadelphia, commemorative of the country's founding fathers, were planned with the inclusion of an aeronautic program—meetings of societies, plane races, demonstrations of commercial craft, etc. Last week this program got fully under way.

Engineers. The aeronautics section of the Society of Automotive Engineers went into session. One speaker was Professor Alexander Klemin, onetime aeronautics editor of TIME, lately head of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University. He spoke of the "foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to...

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