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U.S. AIR SERVICES MAGAZINE


'U.S. Air Services' was originally titled 'U.S. Air Service' until January 1924. It was an intelligent magazine that dealt with aviation matters in both the civil and military sectors. The editor was Earl N. Findlay. It was published between February 1919 and December 1956 (Vol.41). By 1942 the publisher was named the Air Service Publishing Company, Washington DC. It typically contained 48 pages in each issue.

YearMonthContentsPrice
1927NovemberUSS Lexington, Wasp Engine, Aspects of Commercial Flying, Wright Field Dedication, Flying Show Hendon, 1927, Splitdorf VA Double Magneto, pgs 13-16 missing$3.00

DecemberFirst Flight, Schneider Cup Race, Wright Brothers, Sir Philip Sassoon, Preventing Airplane Accidents, pgs 43-44 missing$4.00
1928JanuaryLindbergh, Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick, Chance Vought, Spark Plug Engineering, Ruth Law to Ruth Elder, Engine Starters & Generators, Ball & Roller Bearings, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryGreat Ocean Flights, Longest Air Mail Route, Propellers, Corsair & Wasp in Nicaragua, Martin Engineers, complete magazine$6.00

MarchWright Airplane Goes Abroad, Training of Military Pilots, Lindbergh, Bombing Planes, complete magazine$6.00

MayAircraft Show in Detroit, Loening Cabin Amphibian, Ice on Plane, Pilots of Yesterday, complete magazine$6.00

JuneElliot White Springs, Tactical Maneuvers, Army Bomber, Curtiss Chieftain Engine, Curtiss Marine Trophy Race, Panther Bomber, Langley Field, Tri-motor 12 Passenger Planes, pgs. 3/4 missing$5.00

JulyU.S. to Australia, Lt. Albert Hegenberger, Kingsford-Smith, Amelia Earhart, Capt. Ocker, S-64, complete magazine$6.00

AugustRome to Brazil, Maj. Carlo Del Prete, US vs. Europe on Aviation Developments, PN-12, Canadian Hunting with Aircraft, Vought aircraft, Avions to Africa, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberAir Mail - Cleveland, National Air Races, Fourth Annual Air Tour, Lightning or Static, Capt. Emory Land, Curtiss Challenger Engine, Boeing Single Seater, pgs. 41/42 cut$5.00

OctoberAirports Must Improve Service, National Air Races, Art Goebel, Congressional Airport, Boeing Aircraft, complete magazine$6.00
1929JanuaryAbove The Bright Blue Sky, International Civil Aeronautics Conf., Aeronautics from Legal View, Maj. Gen. James Fechet, Wichita Women's Aeronautical Assoc., Linking Rail & Air Transport, Anartcia Flight, Igor Sikorsky, 61-64 missing, 27/8 torn$3.00

FebruaryCharles Lawrance, Maj. Carl Spatz, First Commercial Airplane in China, Passenger Terminal at Miami, Rear Admiral William Moffett, Early Barnstorming, 19-24 missing$3.00

MarchHiram Bingham, Seattle to L.A., Industrial War Planning, Elinor Smith, Aircraft Show in Detroit, Walter Beech, Future of Aviation, Sikorsky S-38, Pioneer Instrument Co., pgs. 25-28 missing$3.00

AprilWall Street & Flying, Chance Vought, Curtiss-Reid Rambler, William Wilson - Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., David Ingalls, Glenn Martin, Boeing 95, Jack Turner, Cirrus Engine, Command-Aire, Anthony Fokker, Seaplane Terminal, Continental Motors, Wasp Series C, pgs. 67/8 missing$4.00

MayRuth Nichols, Lone Eagles, Lt. James Doolittle, C.V. Cessna, Elinor Smith, Curtiss Fledgling, Spartan C-3 Challenger, complete magazine$6.00

JuneCommand-Aire, F. Trubee Davidson, NACA at Langley, Temple Joyce, Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp., Goodyear, pgs. 41-46 missing$3.00

JulyAir-Rail Service, Capt. Ugo d'Annunzio, Robbins-Kelly World Record, Destruction of NYC, W.E. Boeing, Cleveland Air Races, Travel Air Travelogue, pgs. 52/3 missing$4.00

AugustT.A.T, National Air Races, Flying by Radio, Maj. Reuben Fleet, Oil for Aircraft, pgs 33-40; 63/4 missing$2.00

SeptemberLunar Code, Hugo Eckener, Cleveland Air Races, United buys Sikorsky, Stearman & Avian, Amboy, Maj. William Hammer, Boeing Hornet Shuttle, Airplane Tires, complete magazine$6.00

DecemberRandolph Field, Harold Pitcairn, Wasp Junior Engine, High Temperature Cooling, Air Mapping in Alaska, Berliner-Joyce Commercial Plane, Electronic Eye, complete magazine$6.00


YearMonthContentsPrice
1930JanuaryCapt. Ira Eaker, Igor Sikorsky, All Metal Transport, Flying Backwards, Fokker Amphibian, St. Louis Aircraft Show, Aircraft Standardization, Balance, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryDornier Do.X, Airlines & Airports of Mexico, St. Louis Aircraft Expo, Cavalier Genet, Aviation Gasolines, complete magazine$6.00

AprilIcy Wings, Blind Flying & Instrument Flying, Parachute, Rigid Airship, Martin Dive Bomber, Dornier DO.X, complete magazine$6.00

MayMather Field, Aerobatics on Paper, Flying from the Lexington& Saratoga, Stout Metal Plane Co., Women Take To The Air, Canadian Aircraft, Packard Radial Air-Cooled Engines, Lycomings 9-Cylinder Engine, complete magazine$6.00

JuneFokker F-12, Glider Business, Curtiss Marine Trophy Race, Shooting Moon Shadows, First Solo, Aeronautic Efficiency, Davis Monoplane, pgs. 15/16 & 49/50 missing; no back cover$4.00

NovemberAircraft Engines, Aviation Publicity, Coast Guard Seaplanes, Daniel Guggenheim, Washington-Hoover Airport, Flying Boats & Large Float Seaplanes, Monomail - Boeing Passenger Cargo High Speed Plane, complete magazine$6.00
1931FebruarySubsidizing Civil Aviation, Flying Fleet Heads South, Airplane in Business, Rome to Rio, Gen. Italo Balboa, Coast Guard Air Service, Airports of Mexico, complete magazine$6.00

MarchTheory of Lift, Air Ambulance, Shattering World Records, Rotating Radio Beacons, Curtiss-Wright Junior, complete magazine$6.00

AprilTraining for Air & Ground Troops, DO-X, Achievements & Aims of Aviation Explained to Hoover, Design & Production of Military Aircraft, complete magazine$6.00

MayDevelopments of Radio Fog Flying, Air Corps Field Exercises, Flight Training, Lambert Municipal Airport, Floatation Gear, Vought Corsair, pgs 17/18 missing$4.00

JulyFlying Across the Continent, War Birds of the Army, Fog Penetration, Altitude Measurement, 1st Provisional Air Division, Airplane Design, complete magazine$6.00

AugustShrinking the Globe, Gatty & Post, National Air Tour, Viewpoint of Aircraft Industry, Elmira Soaring Meet, Lightning Investigation, Propellers, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberAir Navigation, Solo at 62, Air Mail Flying, Wright Flyer goes to Paris, USS Akron, Cleveland National Air Races, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberTheodore Wright - Engineer of Curtiss Wright, 1931 Air Races, D0X, Upper Air Observations, Commercial Aviation's Relation to National Defense, Airmail, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberPower & Speed, American Clipper, Risks in Blind Flying, Gliding, Transatlantic Flights, 1931, Safety at Airports, Breaking Endurance Record for Gliders, Berliner Joyce Observation Plane, complete magazine$6.00
1932JanuaryBuilding Navy, Elsie Janis chartered a plane with Paul Mantz for Pilot, Air to Moscow, When Wings Emerged, Navy Flies at Night, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryMiami Air Races, Ferrying, Tour Formula, Pratt Whitney Fuel Injection, complete magazine$6.00

MarchJuan de la Cierva, England Gateway to India, Diesels Take to Air, John Moisant, Flight Instruments, complete magazine$6.00

AprilFlying Boat Design, National Aircraft Show - Detroit, Casey Jones talks about Airports, Aviation on International Relations, Col. Thurman Bane, Airship Building Industry, Naval Aviation, complete magazine$6.00

May3-Way Radio, William McAdoo, Airspace, Air Speed Indicator, Twin Wasp Junior Engine, pgs 21/2 & 35/6 missing$3.00

JuneAmelia, Civilian Pilot Training, Col. Edgar Gorrell, Radio on Airways, Engineering Industry, Autogiro, Coast Guard Flying Boat, complete magazine$6.00

AugustNational Air Races, Floyd Bennett, Pounds vrs Horsepower, Flight Cruising, Douglas Aircraft, Weather Service, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberBlind Flying in Trimotored Transport, International Air Regulation, Speeds for Flying Boats, Engineering from Flyer's Standpoint, Prestone-cooled Conqueror Engine, Cleveland Air Show, Economics of Air Transport, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberWorld Records at National Air Races, Flying at Cape Cod, Wright Cyclone R-1820-F Engine, Forecasting Winds, Autogiro, Solar Eclipse, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberBefore Parachute Opens, Air-Rail Transport, Red Cross Aided by Air Service, pg 15/16 & 41/42 missing$3.00

DecemberCoast Guard Aviation, German Air Show, Ratings for Airports, Wright Memorial Dedicated, Engineering from Flyer's Standpoint - Continued, Airships, Transcontinental Air Service, complete magazine$6.00
1933JanuaryClipper Ships, M-130, S-42, RAF buys American Airplane, Picard, Sky Chief, Air Express, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryPossibilities of Air, 700 HP Two-Row Radial, Picard christens Cabin Autogiro, NYC to LA, Lockheed's 1933 Models, Paris Air Show,complete magazine$6.00

MarchGen. James Allen: Father of Army Aviation, Pegasus, Martin Bombardment Monoplane, Controllable Pitch, complete magazine$6.00

AprilMacon Christening, Boeing Commercial Transports, Condor Transport, Snowbirds - Selfridge Field, Pratt & Whitney Two-Row Engine, complete magazine$6.00

MayAir Warfare Doctrine, Air Navigation, Fifty Million Miles Flown, First World War Appropriation, Mt. Everest conquered by British Flyers, Akron Disaster, complete magazine$6.00

JuneHigh Speed Prop, Ambulances Take To Air, Italy's Achievements, Bunny Davis: Airport Hostess, Anti-Vibration Mounting, complete magazine$6.00

JulyAir Speed Limit, Collier Trophy, New Planes Authorized for Navy, Sea-going Airplane Ambulance, Radio's Job, Single Seater Vought Corsair, Francesco Agello, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberAirliners Transport Passengers, Air Speeds Increased, Airships, Slots & Flaps, Chicago Airplane & Balloon Races, pg 23/24 missing$3.50

OctoberUniversal Empire, Pursuit Development, Norfolk-Coco Solo Nonstop Flight, Poland wins International Balloon Race, Transcontinental & Western Air, pgs. 27/8 missing$4.00

NovemberLexington, Boeing 247, Flying Machines, Railroads, Admiral Byrd, Air Line to Bermuda, complete magazine$6.00

DecemberAir Power, Yankee Clippers for Airways, Boston Reserve Station, complete magazine$6.00
1934FebruaryTo Honolulu, Why Attack Aviation?, Speed Race, Railplane, Gen. Lym, Miami Air Races, complete magazine$6.00

AprilBlind Flying, Engineering News, Battleships & Aircraft, Cost of Air Mail, Maj. William Hammer, complete magazine$6.00

MayGlen Martin Forecasts Overnight Flights to Europe, S-42, Pursuit vs Bombardment, Aerial Surveys in Forests, Postmaster, complete magazine$6.00

JuneCruising in the Flying Fleet, Langley Field, James Comly McCoy, complete magazine$6.00

JulyMartin Bombers Fly to Alaska, Aerial Observations, Saratoga, High Speed Transport Airplanes, complete magazine$6.00

AugustTen Martin Bombers, Birth of the Balloon, Cleveland National Races, Charles Hamilton, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberTWA, Martin Bombers Alaskan Flight, Sikorsky Flying Boat, Soaring, Douglas Dolphin, Arctic Ice Tower, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberEngland to Australia MacRobertson Race, War in Air 1917-1918, Red Cross Disaster Relief, Lt. Tomas White, Cleveland Air Races, Nautical vs. Aeronautical, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberAir Warfare, Race from London to Melbourne, Wilbur Wright's Last Flight, Ypsilanti, complete magazine$6.00

DecemberFlight Leader of Pursuit, England Australia Race won by Roscoe Turner & Clyde Pangborn, Soaring at Shenandoah, Rickenbacker Makes New Records, Automatic Propeller, Airship Men, Seaplane Cant Z-501, cover foxed, complete magazine$6.00
1935JanuaryWrong Time to Clip Eagle's Wings, New E. Hornet Engine, Mail Contractors, Martin Ocean Transport Flies over Chesapeake Bay, Moisture Exposure, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryFAA aids Air Transport, Aircraft Engines, Amelia, Weather Bureau, Hernando Cortez, Jimmie Doolittle, complete magazine$6.00

MarchMemories of Wilbur Wright, LA to NY Addict, Navy's Glider Experiment, Corsair Jr. Light Military Airplane, Loss of Macon, Sir Macpherson Roberstson complete magazine$6.00

AprilBlind Landing & Al Hegenberger, Airships, Lindbergh & the Press, Private Owner Airplane, Transpacific Fling, Wiley Post in the Stratosphere, complete magazine$6.00

MayGeneral Headquarters for Air Force, Pan American Flights across Pacific, Latin American Air Express, Naval Aviator Shortage, William Hammer Scientific Collection, Accidents Caused by Weather Decrease, complete magazine$6.00

JuneNaval Aviation in 1935, Model Airplane Hobby, Grover Loening, Airmail in Fairbanks, Power & Mixture Control, complete magazine$6.00

JulyArmy Air Defense, Highway Rights-of-Way, "Balloon" Bryan C.S.A., NACA, Aircraft Show Detroit, U.K. Speeds Up Aircraft Production, S-43, Wright Series F-50 Cyclone, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberBendix Trophy Races, Glenn Martin Co., Air Revolution, Roadable Autogiro, Air-Based Facilities, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberRecording Needle, Fighting Aircraft for Air Corps, Airships as Cruisers, Flying Flea, Jimmie Collins, Lee Gehlbach, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberSpirits of St. Louis, XP3Y-1 Consolidated Patrol, Saving Lives, Edwin Musick, Curtiss-Wright Coupe, James V. Martin,complete magazine$6.00


YearMonthContentsPrice
1936FebruaryPan Am Clipper to Hawaii, Weather, Aviation Causes World to Shrink, Texas Aviation, Jack Frye, complete magazine$6.00

September125 Ton Aerial Streamliners, Elliott White Springs on the Hindenburg, Hamilton Standard Propeller, Medical Notes in the Tropics, Vought Monoplane, Aviation Cadets, Flying Sportsmen, no front cover$3.00

DecemberFirst Air Battle Feb. 5, 1918, Metal Workers, DC-3s, Hindenburg, complete magazine$6.00
1937JanuaryJuan de la Cierva, Aviation's Responsibility, Fishermen use Aviation, High Powered Engines, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryHigh Altitude Flying, Military Aviation Abroad, Modern Defense, Development of Rotating Wing, Railway Express, complete magazine$6.00

MarchWinter Tests at Selfridge Field, TWA Contracts, Oriole Odyssey, Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, complete magazine$6.00

MayLindbergh, PAA - Transatlantic, 20 Ton Boeing Bomber, Parachute Daredevils, Douglas DC-4, Albert Lodwick, complete magazine$6.00

JulyRussian Transpolar Flight, Air Bermuda, Air Depots, Twin Hornet Engine, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberNational Air Races, Earhart-Noonan Flight, Flying to Bermuda, Air Transport Expansion, Pan American, Harry Bruno, Severy-Sky Convoy Fighter, complete magazine$6.00
1938JuneLast War in the Air, First American Ace - Maj. Raoul Lufbery, DC-4, Joseph Tracy Hartson, complete magazine$6.00

JulyBoeing 74 Passenger Ocean Liner, Art of Clayton Knight, Modern Warfare, Oakland Air Races, Hamilton Hydromatic Quick-Feathering Propeller, Imperial Airways, complete magazine $6.00

AugustMaj. Gen. Mason Patrick, Record Flight of Hughes & Crew, Corrigan, Paul Baer, National Air Races, Cyril Thompson, Consolidated 100 Passenger Flying Boat, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberLook at India, Corrigan in Washington, Coast Guard Flyers, Fly to Bermuda, Minister of Mercy in a Disaster, Robert L. Earle, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberColombian Flight by Army Air Corps, Navy Flies, Training of Modern Air Pilots, Boeing 314, Cleveland Air Races, Wind Tunnel Value, Thomas Hardin, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberNorth Carolina, Hap Arnold, 19th BG, Air Line Performance, Al Williams Studies Foreign Air, Robots, New Propeller Tests, Maj. Carl Cover, complete magazine$6.00

DecemberAAF, Aviation in Holy Land, Curtiss-Wright Transport, Sikorsky Large Flying Boat, Weather Soundings, complete magazine$6.00
1939JanuaryFrank Baylies, Italian Air Ministry, World's Fair, Administering Oxygen, Edward J. Noble, Technical Developments, 20th Anniversary of U.S. Air Services, complete magazine$6.00

FebruaryHemisphere Defense, Transport Services between US & France, Robert E. Gross, complete magazine$6.00

MarchPotomac, Rudyard Kippling on Aeronautics, International Date Line, Fog, 30 Passenger Substratophere Plane, Looking for 20,000 Pilots, Synchronizing Aircraft Engine Speeds, Capt. John Hamilton Jouett, Flying Fortress, complete magazine$6.00

AprilJoseph Doeflinger, Training of Aviation Mechanics, 1,000,000 Plane Owners by 1950, Lt. Col. Ira Eaker, Winning Army Wings, complete magazine$6.00

MayKitty Hawk, Wings Over Atlantic, New York World's Fair, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, National Guard Autogiros, complete magazine$6.00

JuneOrganized Research, Bad Decisions on Plane Purchases, Learning to Fly, Transocean Flying, Eddie Rickenbacker, complete magazine$6.00

JulyTraveling to Europe, Boeing Stratoliner, DC-4, complete magazine$6.00

SeptemberCivil aeronautics Authority, Lives of Naval Flyers, Antarctic Sucker Trip, Wright Field, complete magazine$6.00

OctoberWilbur Wright Visits Grant's Tomb, Lindbergh Urges US to Stay Out of War, McCook Army Field, Education Challenge, National Air Races, Brig. Gen. Jacob Fickel, complete magazine$6.00

NovemberYounger Generation Views, Television, Teaching Methods Change, John Eams, Repeal Arms Embargo, John Leland Atwood, complete magazine$6.00

DecemberDiversified Aviation Export Market, Maj. Gen. Delos Emmons, Transports & Engines, Air Feeder Program, Crate to Clipper with Capt. Musick, Edmund Allen, no back cover$5.00
1940JanuaryAviation Cadets, Preparedness for Peace, Miami Air Meet, XPBY-5A for Testing, John Wynne - Legal Specialist, pgs. 21/2 missing; no back cover$4.00

FebruaryAerial Defense, Aerial Operations in Japan & China, Aircraft Engine & War, Bolling Field, Monoplanes vs Biplanes, pgs 19/20 missing$4.00

MarchParachute Training, La Guardia Airport, Capt. Bob Dawson, Miami's Master Airport, Tribute to Col. Horace Hickam, Curtiss Wright 36-Passenger Substratophere Transport, complete magazine$6.00



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