Add this copy of The Aeronautics Branch Department of Commerce, Its to cart. $100.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1930 by The Brookings Institution.
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Good. x, 147, [7] pages. Footnotes. Tables/charts. Appendix (includes Bibliography). Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Bookplate inside front cover states "Wright Field Reference Library, Dayton, Since 1919" and features a propeller as part of the bookplate design. The author was a noted historian who produced a number of works examining the origin, organization, and work of various governmental bodies. Index has six pages on F. C. Hingsburg, who was the moving spirit in the establishment of the Aviation Lighting Committee, was chief engineer of the Airways Division which was part of the Bureau of Lighthouses of the Department of Commerce. The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce was the unit which dealt with the licensing of commercial aviators and aircraft, the registration and inspection of commercial aircraft, the development of airways, and researches in aeronautical problems. In general its powers and duties in relation to commercial aviation corresponded roughly to those in relation to water craft exercised by the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Lighthouses, and the Bureau of Navigation of the Department of Commerce. Its research work, however, was an activity not carried out by those other three bureaus mentioned. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a purely governmental research organization established for the study of problems connected with the development of the science and art of aeronautics. The Aeronautical Board was a joint board of the Army and the Navy which studied matters which affected both of these services.
