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	Chronology of Events - 1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The plane crashes and, though the aviators are unhurt, the aircraft is destroyed.
		September 20 The Aviation Division is re-structured and becomes the Aviation Regiment.
		November 1 K.Irbitis completes the mechanic's course at the aviation school.
	latvianaviation.com /C1926.html (159 words)

	State Role in American Aviation Policy
		Aviation will be on the agenda of the 106th Congress as it closely examines federal aviation policy, grapples with a multi-year reauthorization of FAA and decides how much aviation funding is necessary.
		Government aviation policy is made at the federal, state and local levels and is driven by concerns for safety, transportation efficiency and economic growth.
		The state role in aviation is secondary to that of the federal government, but is nonetheless critical to aviation safety, airport development, planning, and coordination of ground transportation access and other infrastructure.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/transportation/transer9.htm (10306 words)

	Air Power:The Development of Naval Aviation
		Young officers were worried that aviation training would ruin their careers by making them appear "eccentric." King George V had to step in and offer a special daily allowance for flying, thereby erasing the stigma.
		The interservice rivalry continued and because the majority of the officers were from the army, naval aviation was neglected.
		Instead of defining the air power debate as the pilots versus the traditional military, Moffett declared that pilots and their planes were part of the team, which was composed of battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Air_Power/early_navy/AP13.htm (1624 words)

	History of Naval Aviation Ordnance
		An aviation designation for Gunner's Mates who had qualified as aviation armament and munitions technicians, and were attached to an aviation activity, were so identified by appropriate entries in their service records.
		The Aviation Ordnanceman rating was established at all four petty officer grades of Chief, First, Second and Third Class on March 2, 1926 as a rating within the Aviation Branch.
		The Aviation Ordnanceman rating was filled initially from qualified personnel serving primarily with the ratings of Gunner's Mate and Torpedoman (assigned to aviation).
	www.aaoweb.org /AAO/History (2918 words)

	Calvin Coolidge: History: Research: Charles Downs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Aviation had become a moral issue to Coolidge—and this is what it took to spur him to act.
		Aviation looked to Hoover for leadership—he, not quite accurately, called it “the only industry that favors it be regulated by the government.” Hoover’s potential as a savior of aviation was never fully realized, however.
		The committee argued against Federal control of intra-state aviation on the grounds that it was not necessary for the purpose of promoting national and international air commerce, completely ignoring the danger of mixing unregulated aircraft with those that were regulated.
	www.calvin-coolidge.org /pages/history/research/ccmf/downs.htm (5416 words)

	Section II: Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Historic Aviation Properties, National Register of Historic ...
		Aviation in this country, however, progressed slowly from the experimental and demonstration activities of the early twentieth century to civil, commercial, and military operations.
		In 1926 he successfully launched the world’s first liquid-fuel rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, an event known as the "Kitty Hawk" of rocketry, and in 1930, at Roswell, New Mexico, he fired an 11-foot rocket to the height of 2,000 feet at a speed of 500 mph.
		The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 assigned domestic airspace to the new Federal Aviation Agency and thereby reduced tension between civil and military aviation.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/publications/bulletins/aviation/nrb_aviation_II.htm (7835 words)

	2003 AFA National Convention - Honorable Norman Mineta
		Aviation is safe, in part, because of the federal government’s participation.
		Aviation is safe because of painstaking accident investigation to learn from mistakes to make sure they don’t happen again.
		This is a critical time for the US aviation industry, as companies cope with the cost of increased security requirements, a struggling economy and the threat of terrorism.
	www.afa.org /media/scripts/Mineta2k3_conv.asp (1451 words)

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		Given the importance of general aviation to our nation and its economy, it is a pleasure for me to be able to report that the industry is healthier today than it has been in well over a decade.
		In fact, the entire general aviation community believes that the general aviation fuel taxes are the BEST, and should be the ONLY mechanism through which the users of general aviation fund the Federal Aviation Administration.
		The general aviation community is also united in its support for a continuation of the General Fund contribution to help fund the FAA’s safety and regulatory functions.
	www.faa.gov /ncarc/testimony/gama-te.htm (1919 words)

	Edward M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		General aviation aircraft range from small, single-engine planes to mid-size turboprops to the larger turbofans capable of flying non-stop from New York to Tokyo.
		Chairman, as optimistic as we are about the future of general aviation, we are not unaware of the obstacles we face in making our vision a reality.
		Since 1926, the federal government has required aviation manufacturers to have all of their products certified before they are allowed to enter the stream of commerce.
	www.house.gov /transportation/aviation/07-26-01/bolen.html (3449 words)

	Boeing Frontiers Online
		The courage of one lone aviator, whose epic flight across the Atlantic brought aviation to the forefront of the world's attention, changed that perception in an instant.
		In 1921, the outspoken William "Billy" Mitchell, considered a prophet of air power, proved that the airplane would be the nemesis of the battleship by sinking a captured German battleship with a bomb dropped from an Army bomber.
		One of the biggest of these aviation holding companies was United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, which William Boeing formed along with his friend Fred Rentschler, head of Pratt and Whitney.
	www.boeing.com /news/frontiers/archive/2003/april/i_history.html (599 words)

	LII: Law about... Aviation
		Aviation law governs the operation of aircraft and the maintenance of aviation facilities.
		There have been several federal enactments along these lines: The first was the 1926 Air Commerce Act which provided, among other things, for the certification and registration of aircraft employed in interstate or foreign commerce.
		In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Congress enacted the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, which established a Transportation Security Administration in the Department of Transportation.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/aviation.html (341 words)

	Eastern Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Eastern Air Lines began life on April 19, 1926 as Pitcairn Aviation.
		In 1929 Clement Keys, the owner of North American Aviation, purchased Pitcairn.
		In 1930 he changed the name to Eastern Air Transport, and it would soon be known as Eastern Airlines.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Eastern_Airlines (1319 words)

	1926 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		1923 1924 1925 - 1926 - 1927 1928 1929
		1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
		May 12 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3).
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1926 (1587 words)

	The Nation, 02/24/1926 - Commercial Aviation in Europe by Elhart, Earl W.
		Commercial aviation in Europe today is an industry that violates all accepted principles of profit and loss and yet curiously continues to expand.
		All this is being done in spite of the fact that commercial aviation has never been profitable in the past, is now operating at a loss, and holds no prospect for improvement in the immediate future.
		Commercial aviation in Europe is a state ward, rationed in part from the public treasury through subsidies.
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v122i3164_07.htm (2520 words)

	Enlisted Ratings in U.S. Navy, 1775-1969
		Aviation Electronicsman - Established 1948 from the rating of Aviation Radioman; included in Aviation Electronics Technician 1955.
		Aviation Machinist's Mate - Pay grades C, 1c, and 2c established 1921; pay grade 3c established 1926.
		Aviation Pilot - Established 1924; pay grades C and 1c established 1927; pay grade 2c and 3c established 1942; disestablished 1961.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq78-3.htm (4132 words)

	Aircraft and Airports at Lawdog® Center
		The Federal Aviation Agency was established by the Federal Aviation Act in 1958.
		The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating all civil aviation accidents in the United States, and significant railroad, highway, maritime and pipeline accidents.
		The NTSB Accident/Incident Database is the official repository of aviation accident data and causal factors.
	www.lawdog.com /transport/planes.htm (537 words)

	Aleksandrs Argalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Attended the University of Latvia, graduating in 1926 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
		April 8, 1937 - Argalis is a member of the Aviation Division planning/budgeting committee, established to set material requirements and budgets for the next two years.
		June 7, 1939 - As part of the Aviation Regiment's 20th anniversary, he is awarded the Viesturs Order III Class (with swords).
	latvianaviation.com /BB_Argalis.html (336 words)

	1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		THE Government is today facing the threat of the biggest campaign of industrial action since the 1926 General Strike in a simmering row over pensions.
		She was born January 24, 1926 in Milwaukee, WI, the daughter of the late Russel and Alice Sands.
		He was born in Oakland, Calif., Oct. 2, 1926, to Harvey Williams and Bertha Wademan Williams.
	www.infothis.com /find/1926 (1772 words)

	Welcome to EARLY AVIATION BOOKS store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The text is supplemented with numerous illustrations and photographs from the prehistory of polar aviation, as well as from the preparations and the start of Andree's polar balloon flight.
		The analysis is based on a variety of sources, foremost the archives of the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority as well as the archives of Swedish governmental agencies and public investigations.
		Guenther Sollinger is the author of a number of monographs and articles on Swedish aviation, published in both Sweden and in Russia.
	www.aviabooks.com (1090 words)

	The Government Role in Civil Aviation
		Many aviation leaders in the 1920s believed that federal regulation was necessary to give the public confidence in the safety of air transportation.
		Congress passed the Air Commerce Act of 1926, which assigned to the U.S. Department of Commerce the fundamental tasks needed for civil air safety.
		In 1938, the Civil Aeronautics Act transferred federal responsibilities for non-military aviation from the Bureau of Air Commerce to a new, independent agency, the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Government_Role/POL-OV.htm (2279 words)

	Marinens Flygväsende - Navy Aviation
		The politicians were not very generous to the naval aviation, and it had during the pioneer years to rely on further donations.
		In 1913, a special Aviation Corps ”Marinens Flygväsende (MFV) was founded in Stockholm.
		The Navy aviation became an important part in the neutrality guard.
	www.avrosys.nu /aircraft/MFV/IndexMFV.htm (282 words)

	List of All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Story of Chance Vought, a man who was introduced to aviation in 1910 at the age of 22 and his struggles to build a business.
		Vought's designs went on to great fame, breaking in to the highly specialized field of naval aviation.
		In 1926 Vought called their latest biplane Corsair and a name and heritage began.
	www.aviation-heritage.com /en-us/p_821.html (147 words)

	LIST OF YEARS IN AVIATION
		1926 in aviation: A merge of the two leading German airlines results in the creation of Lufthansa.
		1999 in aviation: Fear of the Y2K computer virus and possible in-flight consequences for those planes flying during the night of December 31, 1999 and the early morning of January 1, 2000, spreads around the airline industry.
		2001 in aviation: 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/LIST+OF+YEARS+IN+AVIATION (929 words)

	International Civil Aviation
		The Havana Convention on Civil Aviation was drawn up in 1928, and ratified in February 1931, by the U.S. Senate.
		Agreed to by 21 Western Hemisphere countries, the convention guaranteed the right of innocent passage of aircraft and formulated the rules for international air navigation between the contracting states relating to aircraft identification, landing facilities, and standards for pilots.
		The delegates also drafted an International Air Transport Agreement, which the United States rejected because it disagreed with the wording on “cabotage” relating to the transport of passengers and cargo between two points within a country by airlines of other countries.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Government_Role/Intl_Civil/POL19.htm (1613 words)

	ORD Early History
		Soon after Municipal Airport's opening on May 8, 1926, aviation enthusiasts and local journalists, recognizing that the airport was too small to accommodate Chicago's anticipated traffic growth began to call for the acquisition of more land and the construction of new buildings.
		At the time many aviation experts considered Municipal's size sufficient for modern aircraft and stated in an American Society of Planning Officials article that the Airport was adequate to handle the "safe operation of the largest aircraft in operation now or proposed for the immediate future."2
		Until the war, the federal government's response to submissions from Illinois for new airfields or defense plants was always the same as exemplified by this response by Major General George H. Brett of the Army Air Corps to a request by Illinois Senator C. Wayland Brooks.
	ohare.bensenville.lib.il.us /orchard.htm (1969 words)

	Aviationboom - Pioneers Italo Balbo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In 1926, despite knowing nothing about aviation, he was appointed Secretary of State for Air.
		Pioneering aviator, flshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s.
		As Minister of Aviation from 1926 to 1933, he led two internationally heralded mass trans-Atlantic flights.
	www.aviationboom.com /pioneers/italo_balbo.shtml (319 words)

	Lockheed Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		This company was renamed the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company and located in Santa Barbara, California.
		In 1926, following the failure of Loughead, Allan Loughead formed the Lockheed Aircraft Company (phonetically spelled to avoid confusion) in Hollywood, California.
		When Detroit Aircraft went bankrupt during the Great Depression, a group of investors headed by brothers Robert and Courtland Gross bought the company out of receivership in 1932.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lockheed (881 words)

	Billy Mitchell - Aviation Pioneer
		Mitchell's public criticism of government policies, in defiance of Army regulations, resulted in his court martial for "conduct prejudicial of good order and military discipline" and insubordination in Oct-Dec 1925.
		He continued to promote aviation and decry government inefficiencies until his death.
		Billy Mitchell being admired by many and highly criicized by some is the subject of a number of outstanding articles on the Internet.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/mitchell.htm (386 words)

	1926 in aviation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		This is a list of (The aggregation of a country's military aircraft) aviation-related events from 1926:
		May 9 - (Click link for more info and facts about Richard Byrd) Richard Byrd and (United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928)) Floyd Bennett make the first flight over the (The northernmost point of the Earth's axis) North Pole in a Fokker VIIa-3m.
		May 11 - 14 – (Norwegian explorer who was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage and in 1911 the first to reach the South Pole (1872-1928)) Roald Amundsen makes the first (A steerable self-propelled airship) airship flight over the North Pole.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1926_in_aviation.htm (836 words)

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