Abstract :
Although civil aviation study shows progress, President Coolidge´s Aerial Survey Board gives further testimony to the importance and timeliness of the study of aviation now being conducted jointly by a Committee of the American Enginering Council and the Department of Commerce. Of the nine men who met with the President on Thursday, October 18th, two engineers were outstanding in prominence — Doctor William F. Durand of Stanford University, president of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, member of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and American Engineering Council´s Committee on Civil Aviation; and Howard E. Coffin, of Detroit, consulting engineer and expert in Aeronautics. These men were asked, with others, to the White House for the purpose of making detailed study of the best ways and means of developing and applying aircraft. Doctor Durand, at the first meeting, was chosen Secretary of the Board and Dwight W. Morrow the chairman, with Arthur O. Dennison acting as vice-chairman.
