SECRETARY'S REPORT 89 



Navy, Department of the, Washington, D. C. : Blueprints showing construction 

 details of the German Me-163 rocket interceptor airplane, and of miscel- 

 laneous equipment including guided missiles made in Germany during 

 World War II. 



Ninety-Nines, Inc., San Francisco, Calif, (through Ruth N. liueckert) : The 24- 

 volume scrapbook-history of this renowned organization of licensed women 

 fliers, dating from 1929. 



POLiTis, Jacques N., Paris, France : 16 photographs illustrating flights by Wilbur 

 Wright in France in 1908 and 1909. 



Rehdek, Habald, Washington, D. C. : 36 illustrations of aircraft collected at the 

 Rheims, France, Aviation Meet in 1909. 



Wright, Theodoke P., Ithaca, N. Y. : An album of Curtiss aircraft photographs. 



ACCESSIONS 



This year the Museum received 360 specimens from 48 sources, 

 comprising 55 separate accessions. Those from Government depart- 

 ments are recorded as transfers, others were received as gifts, except 

 as noted. Eacli has been entered in the permanent records of the 

 Musemn and formally acknowledged. 



Air Force, Department of, Washington, D. C. : Douglas XB-43, America's first 

 jet-propelled bomber, an experimental project of the U. S. Air Force (N.A.M. 

 796). Fuselage of the Douglas XB-42 "Mixmaster" experimental attack 

 bomber, 1944 (N.A.M. 789) . German rotary-wing autogiro kite FA-3uO, piloted, 

 for use with submarines in World War II (N.A.M. 794). Prewitt 

 Rotorchute, used for dropping equipment under extreme conditions of speed 

 and stress beyond the limits of conventional canopy-type parachutes (N.A.M. 

 790). 



All W^oman Transcontinental Air Race, Inc., San Diego, Calif. : Trophy 

 awarded annually since 1947 to first-place winner of the Transcontinental Air 

 Race, sponsored by the Ninety-Nines, Inc., and the National Aeronautic As- 

 sociation. (N.A.M. 814). 



Aston, Arthur C, Chevy Chase, Md. : Scale model, about 1 : 12 size, of a 12- 

 cylinder Liberty engine of the World War I period (N.A.M. 799) . 



Atlas Supply Co., Newark, N. J., with cooperation of the Douglas Aircraft Co., 

 Inc., through Mrs. Margaret Bedford and Col. E. E. Aldrin : Scale model, 1 : 16, 

 of the Douglas DC-4 airplane named the "Atlas Sky Merchant" which operated 

 throughout the world, 1946-1953, as a "flying show case" (N.A.M. 801). 



Bendix Aviation Corporation, Eclipse-Pioneer Division, Teterboro, N. J., through 

 E. O. Cooper : The engine-driven supercharger produced by this company for 

 the Pratt and Whitney engine of the airplane Winnie Mae, and used during 

 the high-altitude performance and pioneering substratosphere flights by Wiley 

 Post in 1935 (N.A.M. 800, loan) . 



Bushey, Frank B., Hartford, Conn. : A panel of original rubberized fabric from 

 a Curtiss pusher-type biplane flown by M. Bonnetti, about 1909 (N.A.M. 809, 

 loan). 



Byrd, Mrs. Thomas, Boyce, Va. : Uniforms, flight equipment, and flags of Brig. 

 Gen. William Mitchell (N.A.M. 811). 



Chilean Air Force, through Col. Enrique Flores, air attach^ to the Chilean 

 Embassy, Washington, D. C. : Scale exhibition model, 1 : 16, of the Bristol 

 Monoplane Type M.IC in which Capt. Dagoberto Godoy of the Chilean Air 

 Force, on December 12. 1918, made the first flight from Santiago, Chile, to 

 Mendoza, Argentina, over the high Andes (N.A.M. 824). 



