Inquiry Into Operations of the United States Air Services, Volumes 4-6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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Admiral FISKE Admiral JONES Admiral SIMs aerodynamic Aeronautics Aeroplane ailerons air force Air mail air power Air Service Aircraft Association Aircraft Corporation airfoil airplane airplane carrier Airplane_ Airships angle of attack Antiaircraft Army aviation battleship bomber bombs Brigadier General MITCHELL built Bureau Bureau of Aeronautics ceiling cent circular contract Curtiss defense drag efficiency engine factor feet fleet flight flying fuselage Graph guns horsepower J. V. Martin KERBER landing gear Lieutenant Commander GRAY Lieutenant OFSTIE Lieutenant STREET load machine Manufacturers MARTIN MO-1 McCook Field miles per hour motor naval Navy Department O'SULLIVAN officers operations patent performance PERKINS pilot pitching moment PN-7 seaplane pounds PRALL propeller pursuit plane question rate of climb REID retractable chassis ROCHE rudder Secretary WEEKS ship speed stability submarines thing tion torpedo training planes United War Department WARNER weight wind tunnel wind tunnel tests wing
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Page 3159 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance of such a claim,...
Page 3173 - Stat. 704, 705, amended the act of 1910 to readThat whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States...
Page 3173 - ... shall hereafter be used by the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use the same, such owner may recover reasonable compensation for such use by suit in the Court of Claims.
Page 3173 - Whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States is used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, the owner's remedy shall be by action against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture.
Page 3154 - Committee (1) to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution...
Page 3376 - Wash. The disturbance in the air produced by the passage of an airfoil. (Also called the "wake," in the general case for any solid body.) Washin.
Page 3159 - Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer ; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the transfer, assignment, or warrant of attorney to the person acknowledging the same.
Page 3061 - The right of persons employed in the civil service of the United States, either individually or collectively, to petition Congress, or any Member thereof, or to furnish information to either House of Congress, or to any committee or member thereof, shall not be denied or interfered with.
Page 3182 - ... has not paid, or promised or agreed to pay, to any third person? in consideration of such procurement, or in compensation for services in connection therewith, any brokerage, commission, or percentage upon the amount receivable by...
Page 3172 - Claims shall not entertain a suit or award compensation under the provisions of this Act where the claim for compensation is based on the use or manufacture by or for the United States of any article owned, leased, used by, or in the possession of the United States prior to June 25, 1910 : Provided further.