1388 | ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
PARKER, WILLIAM D., Bartlesville, Okla.: An aircraft altimeter, of the Paulin 
type, with level-flight indicator; used about 1930. (N.A.M. 953.) 
PEASE, WARD, Winnetka, Ill.: A model airplane of the flying-stick, twin-pusher 
rubberband-powered canard-monoplane type, made and flown by the donor in 
1916. A sport competition of the Illinois Model Aero Club was won by this 
model on May 24, 1916, when its longest flight was 4.423 feet. (N.A.M. 972.) 
PFEIFFER, Rev. RoBerT F., Richmond, Ind.: A communion service made from 
aircraft parts by American “GI’s” stationed at the First Strategic Air 
Depot, Honington, England, in 1943. All material used had been in combat. 
The set consists of 200 cups of .50-caliber machinegun shells and silver plated ; 
bread plates made from the tops of B-17 pistons; a cross formed from parts 
of a damaged B-17; and candlesticks made from antiaircraft shells. The 
donor was the Chaplain at that Depot. (N.A.M. 988.) 
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C.: The Air Mail Flyers’ Medal of 
Honor, authorized by Congress February 14, 1931, for presentation by the 
President of the United States to pilots who perform distinguished service in 
connection with airmail operations. Ten pilots have received it. The placing 
of this medal in the National Aeronautical collections was one of the cere- 
monies of the fortieth anniversary of the first continuously scheduled public 
service airmail route, established May 15, 1918, between Washington, Phila- 
delphia, and New York. At the anniversary ceremony, Dr. Leonard Car- 
michael, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, received the medal for 
the Museum from Deputy Postmaster General Edson G. Sessions. (N.A.M. 
991.) 
RICKENBACKER, Capt. Epwarp V., Eastern Air Lines, New York, N.Y.: A Verville- 
Sperry ‘Messenger’ airplane of 1920, designed by Alfred Verville, and manu- 
factured by the Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Co. by order of Brig. Gen. William 
Mitchell who realized that a “motorcycle of the air’ was required for military 
liaison services; and a Pitcairn ‘“Mailwing” of 1928, developed by Pitcairn 
Aviation, Inc., for their use in operating Contract Air Mail Route No. 19 
between New York and Atlanta, later absorbed by Eastern Air Lines. ‘“Mail- 
wings” were used also on other airmail routes of the 1920’s and early 1930’s. 
This example was Eastern Air Lines’ first airplane, and was obtained in later 
years by a group of his employees who presented it to Capt. Rickenbacker as 
amarkofesteem. (N.A.M. 959.) 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D. C. (from Department of Arts and 
Manufactures, U.S.N.M.): A transparent conical nose section as made for 
a Lockheed “Hudson” bomber of 1941, illustrating the use of the acrylic resin 
“Plexiglas,” manufactured by Rohm & Haas Co. of Philadelphia. (N.A.M. 
986.) (From the library): A seale model, 1:12 size, of an aircraft-control 
device originated by James Means of Boston about 1910. (N.A.M. 951.) 
STEPHENSON, GEORGE H. (deceased), Philadelphia, Pa.: A bronze statue of Brig. 
Gen. William Mitchell standing in his World War I uniform; sculptured 14% 
times natural size by Bruce Moore. (N.A.M. 969.) 
Toppine, Inc., Akron, Ohio (through William Topping, president) : Three scale 
models cf guided missiles in current use by U.S. Armed Forces: a Boeing 
“Bomare”’ IM-99 Air Force ground-to-air pilotless interceptor; a Martin 
Lacrosse Army surface-to-surface demolition weapon; and a Martin “Bull 
Pup” Navy air-to-surface weapon, launched by attack planes against major 
ship and ground targets. (N.A.M. 976.) 
Unirep AIRCRAFT CoRP., PRATT & WHiITNEY ArRcraFr Divisron, East Hartford, 
Conn.: A Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp aircraft engine, type CB-16, 
No. X-88, of 18 cylinders, 2-row radial, air cooled, rated 2,400 hp. at takeoff. 
(N.A.M. 971.) 
