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"Standard Altimeter Calibration" worked out by Bureau of Standards, and approved by all interested agencies, was approved by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA .

January 24-25: Twenty-five aircraft carried scientists and other observers above clouds in Connecticut to view total eclipse of the sun, while airship Los Angeles carried Naval Observatory scientists over Block Island, R.I.

President Coolidge signed the Kelly bill authorizing contract air transport of mail.

Henry Ford started an air-freight line between Detroit and Chicago, the first such commercial flights on a regular schedule.

Daily flights to an altitude of 10,000 feet to obtain weather data and to test upper-air-sounding equipment begun at NAS Anacostia. In the following February, the schedule was extended by the Navy to include weekends and holidays, with the altitude being Increased to 15,000 feet.

First trial flight of new Wright Cyclone 450-hp air-cooled engine in DT-8 torpedo plane, at Muchio's Field, NJ.

Oleo landing gear tested by Navy on NB-1 at Seattle.

Air Service Technical School at Rautoul, Ill., carried on radio conversations from planes in the air, reaching Chicago 115 miles distant.

Daniel Guggenheim donated $500,000 toward establishment of a School of Aeronautics at New York University.

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