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1937 POPULAR AVIATION Aeronautical ailerons Aircar aircraft airline airplane airport altitude aluminum American attack plane balsa Bechereau biplane Bleriot Boeing Boeing company bombers bombs Borden Island built cabin carried Chinese climb Clipper Clyde Pangborn cockpit complete construction course cover crew Curtiss dope engine equipped fabric feet field fighter figured find fine finish fire first fit fitted fittings five flaps flat flew flight floor flown flyers Flying flying boat Fokker fuselage Glenn Curtiss glider ground Gwinn hangar Hispano-Suiza Island Kotelniki learned to fly load Lockheed longerons machine mechanic ment metal miles monoplane motor mounted National Air Races Navy NORTHROP A-17 operation passengers Pike’s Peak pilot propeller race radio ribs sheet ship Spad Span spars struts super-bomber tion top speed trailing edge transport weather wheels wing Wright Whirlwind