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700-hp aircraft engine having 18 cylinders arranged in three banks of six, tested at Engineering Division, McCook Field.

Committee on Law of Aviation, American Bar. Association, filed initial report on the necessity of aerial law. On August 25, the ABA recommended Federal aerial legislation.

Post Office Department operated regular daily airmail routes over a distance of 3,460 miles.

First transcontinental flight within 24 hours, made by Lt. W. D. Coney in a DH-4B from San Diego, Calif., to Jacksonville, Fla., in 22 hours and 27 minutes. School for Flight Surgeons at Mitchell Field recognized as a Special Service School in War Department General Order No. 7.

U.S. Public Health Service initiated aerial survey of the Mississippi Valley watershed.

Parachute Jump from 23,700 feet made by Lt. A. G. Hamilton (USA) at Chanute Field, Ill.

President Harding directed National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA to organize an inter-departmental subcommittee to recommend Federal regulation of air navigation. After a series Of meetings this committee's report was approved by the Executive Committee of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA on April 9, and transmitted to the President.

President Harding recommended establishment of a Bureau of Aviation within the Department of Commerce, in his address to Congress.

John J. Ide appointed as technical assistant in charge of the Paris office of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA , a post he held until 1940 and resumed after the end of World War II.

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