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or placed in its custody at the disposal of the Coniinittee, may be 

 recommended ; also collective funds bearing the name of a society, 

 organization, or section of the country, whether in the interest of 

 scientific progress or of national defense. 



Temporary Funds. — For the prompt achievement of definite results, 

 funds may well be offered for immediate application, both of principal 

 and interest ; as, for example, for the erection of laboratories or other 

 buildings ; for the purchase of experimental air craft, or apparatus, 

 instruments, etc. 



Most needed is an expansion of the Langley Aerodynamical Labor- 

 atory providing a large and a small wind tunnel, ampler shops, and 

 instrument and model rooms. Adjacent to this, or forming a part of it, 

 may well be the headquarters of the Committee, with the collections 

 of aeronautic publications and exhibits, and with designing rooms 

 where plans for air craft may be matured by fabricators in consultation 

 with the technical staff. This new building, if placed on the Smith- 

 sonian grounds, should be of good architecture and cost not less than 

 $100,000. • 



Of immediate importance is an air-craft field laboratory, adjacent 

 to ample flying space of land and water, and adapted to assembling, 

 adjusting and repairing several full scale land and water aeroplanes ; 

 and subjecting them to indoor tests and measurements, as of stress, 

 strain, factor of safety, center of gravity, moment of inertia, working 

 condition, etc. One such plant suitably located would serve all Gov- 

 ernmental and civilian requirements for the present. A suitable site is 

 the public land in Potomac Park in the vicinity of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. Here might be held air-craft competitions under the 

 auspices of the Government. 



Prises and Aivards. — As a stimulus to the highest aeronautic 

 achievement, or as an honorable recognition thereof, suitable prizes or 

 awards might advantageously be offered. Provision should be made 

 for liberal cash prizes for competitive tests of motors, propellers, etc., 

 in a purely scientific way not trenching upon the province of aero 

 clubs. 



Fellowships. — For the prosecution of special aeronautic investiga- 

 tions in cooperation wath the advisory Committee, educational insti- 

 tutions and scientific or engineering organizations should be provided 

 with research fellowships whose incumbents may have the counsel of 

 the Committee and the advantage of its equipments. 



Until adequate appropriations have been made by the Government, 

 the activities of the organization and Committee will have to be 

 sustained largely by private resources. 



