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Aircraft Co.’s brochures on the Verville Air Coach and Verville Sports Training 
Plane. Drawings of HS2L and JN4D aircraft. Drawings of US-D4, Army 
Curtiss Racer, 1922, Navy Curtiss Seaplane Racer R2C-2, and PW-1. 
NELSON, CHARLES P., Lynn, Mass.: Typed copy of story of cruise of the ZR-1 
Shenandoah from Lakehurst, N.J., to St. Louis, Mo., and return. 
PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS SystEM, New York, N.Y.: Photostats of Lind- 
bergh’s survey report (Lockheed Sirius), background information on survey 
for Pan American. Photographs of Lindbergh’s arrival at Belem. 
PUTNAM’s, G. P., Sons, New York, N.Y.: Book entitled “Fighting Planes That 
Made History,” by David Cooke. 
RoyaL CANADIAN AtR Force, S/L R. Woop, Trenton, Ontario, Canada: Plans of 
aircraft (3 sets of 8 plans) of RCAF types Fairchild 71, A. W. Atlas, DeHavil- 
land-60, Vickers Bedette, Curtiss Canuck, Curtiss HS2L, Avro 504K, and A. W. 
Siskin. 
ScHWEIZER AtrorArr Corp., Elmira, N.Y.: A collection of photographs and 3-view 
drawings of Schweizer 2—22C, 1-23G, and 1-30 experimental light plane. 
Srkorsky ArrcoraFt Co., Stratford, Conn.: A collection of photographs and speci- 
fications on Sikorsky S-38, S-39, S-40, S-51, S-52, S-55, S-56, S-58, S-62, and 
H-18. Drawings and photographs of PS-3 (S-38). Photographs of Sikorsky 
HSS-2 Amphibious Helicopter. 
SUBMARINE Liprary, Groton, Conn.: A collection of drawings and photographs of 
Loening amphibians. 
TuHomMpsoN, Mrs. R., Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.: Photographs and magazine 
article, “Cross Country Flight of ‘Yankee Doodle,’” by Harry J. Tucker, and 
“Wings for Our Business.” Two 8- by 10-inch photographs of Lockheed Vega 
Yankee Doodle. 
THOMPSON Propucts, INc., Cleveland, Ohio: Lithographs of Hubbell paintings. 
Various sets representing events or periods in aviation history. 
Victoria and ALBERT Museum, South Kensington, London, England: January 
1959 issue of Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 
Weaver, Capt. T. C., Fairborn, Ohio: A collection of photographs of racing 
aircraft. 
ACCESSIONS 
Additions to the National aeronautical collections received and re- 
corded during the fiscal year 1959 totaled 341 specimens in 56 separate 
accessions from 38 sources. 
Those from Government departments are entered as transfers; 
others were received as gifts except as noted. 
AiR Forcrk, DEPARTMENT OF THE, Washington, D.C.: The “Pioneer-I’” exhibit 
consisting of a scale model of a Douglas Thor ballistic missile and related 
electrical and mechanical display units, illustrating the first attempts made 
in August and October 1958 to place a man-made object in an orbit around 
the moon. Although not successful, useful information was obtained about 
the radiation belt surrounding the earth. (NAM 1023.) The ‘“Data-Sphere,” 
an instrumented capsule containing a tape recorder and other apparatus for 
receiving and preserving data during the launching, climb, and descent of 
a Thor ballistic missile. This one is the first of the series to be recovered. 
(NAM 1043.) Arm Forct Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: 
A German Nagler-Rolz helicopter, type NR-54 V2. An early example of a 
one-man helicopter, it was developed during World War II. On each of its 
two rotor blades an 8-hp. Argus engine with a 23-inch wooden propeller is 
mounted, about midway, to revolve the rotor. (NAM 1019.) <A group of 11 
