124 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1949 
Gur Orn Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Gulfhawk—2 airplane which was flown by 
Maj. Alford Williams for 12 years. It illustrates the last of the Navy’s biplane 
fighters, an F8F (N. A. M. 652). 
HEFFERNAN, Carr. J. B. (See under National Military Establishment, Depart- 
ment of the Navy.) 
Hosprrs, Joun J. (See under Chance Vought Aircraft, Div. of United Aircraft 
Corp.) 
Hussewi, Cuarues H., Cleveland, Ohio: Twelve color prints of current-design 
private aircraft as painted by the donor for the 1949 calendar of Thompson 
Products, Inc. (N. A. M. 642). 
Kansas Crry, Mo., CaHamBer or Commerce: (Through G. R. Challinor) A 
pressed-coal briquette, carried on Berlin Airlift, 1949; part of the one-millionth 
ton. It was mined in the Ruhr; flown from Frankfurt to Berlin and thence to 
Kansas City, Mo., as a feature of a ceremony acclaiming the Airlift (N. A. M. 
645). 
Kartveut, A. (See under Republic Aviation Corp.) 
KoLusMAN INSTRUMENT Diviston, SeuarE D Co., Elmhurst, N. Y.: (Through 
Dr. Milla Alihan) A machmeter; an instrument used to record speed in Mach 
Number, which expresses the speed of the aircraft in relation to the speed of 
sound (N. A. M. 649). 
LAWLER, JOHN A. (See under Aeronca Aircraft Corp.) 
LocxwarpD, Dr. D. G. (See under Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.) 
Menruor, Kenneto ©. (See under Wright Aeronautical Corp.) 
NatrionaL Miiitary EsTaABLISHMENT: 
Department of the Air Force. From Air Force Technical Museum, Wright- 
Patterson A. F. Base, Dayton, Ohio: Five 1: 72-size, black plastic World War 
II aircraft recognition models: a C—47 two-engine transport, a PB2Y four- 
engine fiying boat, a PBM-8 two-engine flying boat, an SB2U single-engine 
Navy dive bomber, and a TBD single-engine torpedo bomber (N. A. M. 638). 
Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C. From Office of the Deputy Chief 
of Naval Operations (Air): (Through Vice Adm. John D. Price) A plaque, 
replica of one installed at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1946, commemorating the first 
trans-Atlantic flight by the NC-4, May 1919 (N. A. M. 646). From Office 
of Public Information, Bureau of Aeronautics: A Navy summer-weight flying 
suit and helmet, World War II type, worn by Col. Marion E. Carl, U.S. M. C., 
when he flew the Douglas D-558 Skystreak to a world’s speed record of 
650 m. p. h. on August 25, 1947 (N. A. M. 637). From Office of Public Rela- 
tions: (Through Capt. J. B. Heffernan, U. S. N., Ret., Curator for Navy 
Department) Scale models of three planes used by the Navy in World War II: 
XPB2Y experimental version of Consolidated ‘‘Coronado”’ used for bombing 
and transport; XPBM experimental version of Martin ‘“‘Mariner’” used for 
patrol-bombing and antisubmarine service; and TBD Douglas ‘Devastator’ 
carrier-based torpedo plane (N. A. M. 635, loan). 
Nevin, Rosert §., Baltimore, Md.: A 1:24-size scale model of the Martin MB-1 
twin-engined Army bomber of 1918, made by lender (N. A. M. 621, loan). 
NortH CaroLInaA GRANITE Corp., Mount Airy, N. C.: (Through John P. 
Frank) Architects’ model of the Wright Brothers Memorial on the summit of 
Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N. C. (N. A. M. 6388). 
Pan AMERICAN-GRACE ArRways, INc., New York, N. Y.: (Through C. §. Collins) 
The Fairchild FC—2 five-passenger cabin monoplane with which the scheduled 
commercial operations of Panagra System in South America were inaugurated 
September 1928 (N. A. M. 650). 
