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display of early aircraft radio installations ; Naval research engineers 

 requested the loan of a scale model of the Grumman F6F for use in 

 ordnance studies and were particularly i^leased to be shown in the 

 Museum a piece of early equipment which embodies elements applica- 

 ble to important current studies. Both the Air Force and Navy were 

 helped in planning their Armed Forces Day exhibits. The General 

 Services Administration Archives Division was aided in identifying a 

 number of old aeronautical photographs; the Civil Aeronautics Ad- 

 ministration was given illustrations for a text on the Wright brothers ; 

 and the U. S, Office of Education was provided with a monograph on 

 the Wrights which they copied and distributed to the many delegates 

 at the educational meeting held in Atlantic City. 



For the fiftieth anniversary celebration held at Kitty Hawk, N. C, 

 December 14—17, and as a permanent addition to the Wright brothers' 

 memorial there, the Department of the Interior reconstructed the two 

 buildings erected north of Kill Devil Hill by Wilbur and Orville 

 Wright to house their aircraft and themselves during their experi- 

 ments of 1902-3, and upon their later return. This reconstruction was 

 in line with a suggestion proposed several years ago by this Museum, 

 and the staif was pleased to assist with additional ideas and informa- 

 tion. Investigators of the Department of Justice continued to call 

 upon the Museum for examples of equipment and related facts under 

 discussion in current claim suits, and the Weather Bureau received 

 assistance in preparing displays on aircraft meteorology. The Re- 

 public of Guatemala was furnished with photographs and information 

 for a historical aviation display honoring the Wright brothers. 



Many aeronautical organizations, airlines, and manufacturers were 

 assisted by the Museum. The National Aeronautic Association hon- 

 ored the head curator by appointing him as one of its directors. Early 

 Patent Office models of aeronautical inventions were lent to the Johns 

 Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for use in an exliibit intended 

 to encourage local inventors, and the Schebler Carburetor Company 

 received aid in tracing some of their early types used on aircraft en- 

 gines. Both Trans- World Airlines and United Airlines were lent 

 scale models of aircraft associated with their history, American Air- 

 lines was given facts about early engines, and Pan American World 

 Airways was assisted in conducting a model airplane contest. A 

 historian from Chance Vought Aircraft of Dallas, Tex., was helped 

 in preparing a company history, and that company has reciprocated 

 by preparing models and photographs of its types for the Museum 

 series. The Early Birds, an organization composed of pioneer fliers, 

 was lent an authentic Wright propeller to serve as a pattern for a 

 bronze casting which is to be incorporated in a memorial to those who 

 flew at Governors Island, N. Y., before the first world war. The Air- 

 craft Industries Association was aided in preparing a historical article 



