Pratt &
Whitney "Beehive"
(Employee
Magazine)
(In
Chronological Order)
"Beehives"
are 8 x 11 inches. Conditions range from Good to Very Good, with
some light soiling and overall wear.
[CS0098] March 1929.
(Vol. III, No. 1) Cover: "Wasp"-Powered Sikorsky and
Colonel Lindbergh". Articles: Lindbergh "Flies the
Mail" to Panama , "Wasp" Sets New Coast-to-Coast
Record, With the "Wasp" in Antarctica, Consolidated
Flying Boat, "Hornets" on the Spanish Main, Mr.
Rentschler Heads Aero Chamber, The Canadian Pratt & Whitney
Co., Ltd., etc. 24 pages. Folds weak. $30.00
[CS0089] October 1929.
(Vol. III, No. 8) Cover: "Commander Karl F. Smith Inspects
"Wasp" Engine After Re-assembly at North Island Naval
Air Station". Articles:"Wasps" and
"Hornets" at Cleveland, Keeping the Navy's 400
"Wasps" and "Hornets" In the Air, Hornets
Power 32-Passenger Fokker, Transcontinental Passenger Record,
etc. 16 pages. Stain to cover and mildewing throughout. $28.00
[CS0090] November 1929.
(Vol. III, No. 9) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeing "Model
100" Sport Plane". Articles:The "Wasp" Goes
South, New Executive Engineer, New "Bee-Hive" Rapidity
Nearing Completion, Our Sikorsky is Delivered, New Aeronautical
Engineer, etc. 16 pages. $30.00
[CS0110] November 1929.
(Vol. III, No. 9) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeing "Model
100" Sport Plane". Articles:The "Wasp" Goes
South, New Executive Engineer, New "Bee-Hive" Rapidity
Nearing Completion, Our Sikorsky is Delivered, New Aeronautical
Engineer, etc. 16 pages. Water stain to top corner and staining
to bottom corner at spine. $20.00
[CS0005] February 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 2) Cover: "Starting Production in the New
Plant". Articles: Moving Into the New "Bee-Hive",
Army Sets New Records with "Wasps", Flying on One
Engine, "Wasp Junior" Passes Tests Successfully,
Cowling Tests, etc. 28 pages. $18.00
[CS0103] March 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 3) Cover: "Record-Breaking Lockheed Vega
(Wasp-Powered)". Articles: "Wasp" Sets Up Six New
World's Records, "Wasps" and "Hornets" Go to
Sea, Wasp-Powered Ford Seaplane Undergoes Tests, East Hartford
Chamber Welcomes New "Bee-Hive", New Fokker Plane is
Hornet-Powered, International Aeronautical Show at St. Louis,
"Wasp Junior" Goes Visiting, etc. 16 pages. $30.00
[CS0006] April 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 4) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeing P- I2's Flying
from Seattle to the Army Maneuvers at San Diego". Articles:
Wasp-Powered Plane Flies from New York to Buenos Aires in Five
Days and Six Hours, Wasps and Hornets on the Boeing System, Big
Hornets in Sikorsky Establish Two World's Records, etc. 16 pages.
$18.00
[CS0007] May 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 5) "Canadian Number". Cover: "Arctic
Operating Conditions Encountered by Wasp-Powered Planes in
Canadian Air Mail Service". Articles: What Wasp-Powered
Airplanes Did on the MacAlpine Search, Flying the Air Mail in
Eastern Canada, Wasp-Powered Boeing Boats Detect Fish Pirates,
Wasp-Powered Flying Boat on Seattle- Victoria Air Mail Route,
etc. 20 pages. $18.00
[CS0008] May 1930
Supplement. Title: "Wasp and Hornets in the Army Air
Maneuvers Over New England - May 24-25-26". 8 pages. $15.00
[CS0009] June 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 6) Cover: "General Fechet Directing Aerial
Maneuvers from the Air". Articles: Operating Wasp-Powered
Pursuits During Air Corps 1930 Field Exercises, Gen. Fechet
Directs Squadron Maneuvers by Radio, Our New Direct Injection
Engine, Lindbergh in Wasp-Powered Plane Breaks Coast to Coast
Speed Record, etc. 20 pages. $18.00
[CS0010] July 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 7) Cover: "Admiral Moffett Congratulates
Lieutenant Soucek on Breaking Altitude Record". Articles:
Soucek Again Breaks Altitude Record, Wasp and Hornet-Powered Navy
Planes Visit New York During Air Show, Pratt & Whitney
Engines at the New York Aircraft Salon, Hornet Operating Periods
Extended on Boeing Lines, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0142 July 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 7) Cover: "Admiral Moffett Congratulates
Lieutenant Soucek on Breaking Altitude Record". Articles:
Soucek Again Breaks Altitude Record, Wasp and Hornet-Powered Navy
Planes Visit New York During Air Show, Pratt & Whitney
Engines at the New York Aircraft Salon, Hornet Operating Periods
Extended on Boeing Lines, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0011] August 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 8) "Anniversary Number". Cover:
"Front View of Our New Plant". Articles: Our Fifth
Anniversary, New Coast-to-Coast Round-Trip Speed Record Set by
Wasp-Powered Plane, Our Heat Treat Department, Flying Most
Extensive Oil Mapping Job with "Wasp", etc. 16 pages.
$18.00
[CS0012] September 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 9) Cover: "Rear Admiral J. M. Reeves,
Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet". Articles:
Navy's Air Squadrons Complete Most Successful Cruise,
Wasp-Powered Planes in Exploration Work of Byrd Antarctic
Expedition, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0013] October 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 10) Cover: "Winner of Thompson Trophy. Laird,
Designer; Holman, Pilot, and Schoenhair of Goodrich Rubber Co.,
Entrant, with the Wasp Junior Powered Laird Racer".
Articles: With the Engines at the National Air Races, Army
Hornet-Powered Bombers Attend National Air Races, Problems of
Operating Over the Desert, etc. 16 pages. $30.00
[CS0014] November 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 11) Cover: "Don L. Brown, Our New
President". Articles: Don L. Brown Chosen as Our New
President, Stout Air Lines Set Up Operating Record with
Wasp-Powered Equipment, Pratt & Whitney Engines Go Through
Air Tour with Perfect Record, Air Traveler from Hartford
Describes Trip in Wasp-Powered Fokker, Catapulting with Wasps,
etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0015] December 1930.
(Vol. IV, No. 12) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeings of Navy's
Fighting Five in "Hot Cake" Formation". Articles:
Set Dive-Bombing and Gunnery Records with Wasp-Engined Planes,
Long Record of Service for Hornets on Boeing Lines, Mr. Brown
Announces Personnel Changes, Pilots Decorated for Achievements
with Wasp-Powered Planes, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0016] January 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 1) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeings of Navy
Fighting Squadron Three". Articles: Fighting Squadron Three
Receives Schiff Memorial Trophy, Wasp-Powered Boeing Pursuits
Take Part in Defense Test at Los Angeles, Wasp- Powered Fords on
N. A.T. All-Air Line, New Cowling Adds Speed and Performance to
Hornet-Powered Fokker, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0111] January 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 1) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Boeings of Navy
Fighting Squadron Three". Articles: Fighting Squadron Three
Receives Schiff Memorial Trophy, Wasp-Powered Boeing Pursuits
Take Part in Defense Test at Los Angeles, Wasp- Powered Fords on
N. A.T. All-Air Line, New Cowling Adds Speed and Performance to
Hornet-Powered Fokker, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0017] February 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 2) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Lockheed Moored to an
Iceberg". Articles: Series B Hornet Passes Rigid 300-Hour
Test, Air Travel from a Woman's Point of View, Alaska Washington
Airways Use Wasps, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0018] March 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 3) Cover: "Prince of Wales Flies Behind
Wasps". Articles: Dutch Air Line Using Wasps, Prince of
Wales as Guest of Pan American Airways Flies in Wasp-Powered
Planes, Beating the Weather, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0019] April 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 4) "Detroit Show Number". Cover:
"Wasp-Powered Boeing Planes Stationed on the U.S.S.
Lexington". Articles: Wasp- and Hornet-Powered Planes Play
New Role in Navy War Maneuvers, Foremen Hear of Engine Activities
in Naval Service, Survey of Year's Operations Shows Plane's
Utility to Newspaper, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0112] April 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 4) "Detroit Show Number". Covers are
missing. Articles: Wasp- and Hornet-Powered Planes Play New
Role in Navy War Maneuvers, Foremen Hear of Engine Activities in
Naval Service, Survey of Year's Operations Shows Plane's Utility
to Newspaper, etc. 12 pages of 16 page issue. $12.00
[CS0020] May 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 5) Cover: "England to Capetown with a
Wasp". Articles: British Airman Flies Wasp-Powered Plane to
England-Capetown Speed Record, Pratt & Whitney Power
Predominates in Planes Exhibited at National Air Show, Boeing
Hornets Show Long Service Record, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0021] July 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 7) Cover: "Pilots of the 95th Pursuit Squadron
Ready for a High Altitude Flight". Articles: Flying Six
Miles High with Wasps, Wasps and Hornets Play Large Part in
American Commercial Air Transport, Northwest Airways Have Novel
System for Checking Time on Their Wasps and Hornets, etc. 12
pages. $18.00
[CS0022] August 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 8) Cover: "Wiley Post and Harold Gatty with the
Wasp Engine Which Carried Them Around the Globe in Eight and a
Half Days". Articles: Wasp Carries Post and Gatty 'Round the
World in Record Time, Globe-Circuiting Wasp Required Little
Service, Endres and Magyar Take Second Wasp Over the Atlantic,
etc. 16 pages. $22.00
[CS0023] October 1931.
(Vol. V, No. 10) Cover: "Bayles's Wasp Junior-Powered
Gee-Bee, Winner of the Thompson Trophy, Rounding the Home Pylon
at the National Air Races". Articles: Wasps and Hornets Make
Excellent Showing at National Air Races, The National Air Races,
A Hornet Does the Continent, etc. 16 pages. $30.00
[CS0113] January 1932 (Vol. VI No.
1) Cover - "Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, Chief the
Army Air Corps". Articles - General Foulois Assumes Duties
of Chief of the Army Air Corps, Direct Fuel Injection Hornet Put
Into Service on United Airlines, Flying the Navy's Wasps at
Night, Our Own Who's Who - Charles William Faas. $18.00
[CS0114] February 1932 (Vol. VI No.
2) Cover - "The U.S.S. Saratoga Off for the Spring
Maneuvers". Articles - Wasps and Hornets Will Be Active in
Aircraft Operations During Navy Maneuvers, Army's New High
Altitude Equipment Tested in Wasp-Powered Boeings, Hornet
Dependability an Aid to Winter Operations on Varney Air Lines,
Our Own Who's Who - Robert Paul Triggs. $22.00
[CS0115] March 1932 (Vol. VI No. 3)
Cover - "King Albert of the Belgians Inspects a Wasp".
Articles - Wasps and Hornets Carry Bulk of Traffic on American
Airways System, Hornets Used for Winter Operations in Northern
Ontario, Research Department Received New Wasp-Powered Boeing
Single Seater. Our Own Who's Who - Lt. Walton W. Smith. Small
stains to covers. $18.00
[CS0116] April 1932 (Vol. VI No. 4)
Cover - "A Wasp-Powered Vought Corsair Being Cata- pulted
From One of the Cruisers During the Navy Maneuvers".
Articles - Pratt & Whitney Engineers Increase Power Output of
Wasp, Hornet and Wasp Junior Engines, Wasps and Hornets See
Extensive Service in Combined Army and Navy Hawaiian Maneuvers,
Transcontinental and Western Air's Wasps and Hornets Serviced at
Kansas City. $18.00
[CS0117] September 1932 (Vol. VI
No. 9) Cover - "Wasp-Powered Boeing Fighters Passing in
Review at North Island". Articles - Hornet Transportation
Builds Industrial Community in New Guinea Jungle, Wasps and
Hornets Power Army and Navy Planes in Great Massed Flight, Pratt
& Whitney and the National Air Races. $20.00
[CS0118] October 1932 (Vol. VI No.
10) Cover - "Doolittle and His Wasp-Powered Gee-Bee Hitting
a New High in Speed to Set World's Record for Land Planes".
Articles - Major Events at National Air Races Taken by Wasp and
Wasp Junior Planes, Feminine Traveler Finds Air Trip Across
Continent a Revelation, Pioneer Air Transport Operators Celebrate
First Anniversary. $30.00
[CS0119] November 1932 (Vol. VI No.
11) Cover - "A Wasp-Powered Boeing Scores a Hit".
Articles - Wasps and Hornets Score in Army's Gunnery and Bombing
Contests, Hornets Used by Scandinavian Air Express on Route Over
the Baltic, Hornet-Powered Junkers Wins Alps Circuit. $22.00
[CS0120] January 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 1) Cover: "The New 700 Horsepower Hornet
Which Weighs 1.20 Pounds Per Horsepower". Articles: Announce
New Low-Weight Hornet Developing 700 Horsepower, Wasp-Powered
Corsair for British Navy, Activities of Wasps and Hornets Furnish
Motifs for Decorations of New Roxy Theatre, Wasps Power Fast New
Transcontinental Air Express Corporation's Planes, etc. 12 pages.
$20.00
[CS0121] February 1933
(Vol. VII No. 2) Cover - "David and Goliath on Friendly
Terms, The Army Air Corps' Latest in Pursuit and Bombardment
Equipment. They are the Wasp-Powered Boeing P-26 and the
Hornet-Powered Boeing B-9 in Flight Near Wright Field".
Articles - Wasps Finish Campaign in Nicaragua with Marines, Pratt
& Whitney Engines Contribute to Recent Achievements of Army
Air Corps, Bowen Air Lines Use Wasps for Fast Service in Cattle
Country. Light water stain to top of pages. $20.00
[CS0035] March 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 3) Cover: "The Carrier Saratoga Setting Sail
for the Navy's Annual War Games with Her Brood of Boeings,
Voughts and Martins, Many of Which are Equipped with Wasps or
Hornets". Articles: Planes a Major Factor in the Navy's
Annual War Games This Year, Hamilton Standard Announces Improved
Type Controllable Pitch Propeller, Aircraft Year Book Discusses
Design Trends in Planes and Engines, etc. 12 pages. $20.00
[CS0036] April 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 4) Cover: "The Two Wasps in the New Boeing
Transport". Articles: Twin Wasp Two-Row Radial Most Powerful
American Production Air-Cooled Engine, Navy's Newest Carrier
"Ranger" Launched at Newport News, Wasp-Powered Twin
Engine Boeing Transport Shows Remarkable Performance in Initial
Tests, etc. 16 pages. $32.00
[CS0122] April 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 4) Cover: "The Two Wasps in the New Boeing
Transport". Articles: Twin Wasp Two-Row Radial Most Powerful
American Production Air-Cooled Engine, Navy's Newest Carrier
"Ranger" Launched at Newport News, Wasp-Powered Twin
Engine Boeing Transport Shows Remarkable Performance in Initial
Tests, etc. 16 pages. Large water stain to top of pages. $28.00
[CS0037] May 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 5) Cover: "A Hornet-Powered Commodore of Pan
American Airways Used on Their East Coast Lines Between Miami and
Buenos Aires Getting Off Smooth Water". Articles: Admiral
Moffett, Modern Air Mariner Tells of Turn Around South America,
Geared Hornets Fight Forest Fires with Ontario Provincial Air
Service, etc. 12 pages. Cover fold is weak. $25.00
[CS0123] May 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 5) Cover: "A Hornet-Powered Commodore of Pan
American Airways Used on Their East Coast Lines Between Miami and
Buenos Aires Getting Off Smooth Water". Articles: Admiral
Moffett, Modern Air Mariner Tells of Turn Around South America,
Geared Hornets Fight Forest Fires with Ontario Provincial Air
Service, etc. 12 pages. Very light water stain to top of pages.
$25.00
[CS0038] June 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 6) Cover: "Rear Admiral E. J. King, the
Navy's New Air Chief". Articles: Rear Admiral King New Chief
of Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Service Man Leaves Happy Home
and Joins the Navy for Its Annual Cruise, Controllable Pitch
Propellers Step Up Performance of New Wasp-Powered Boeing, etc.
12 pages. $22.00
[CS0124] June 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 6) Cover: "Rear Admiral E. J. King, the
Navy's New Air Chief". Articles: Rear Admiral King New Chief
of Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Service Man Leaves Happy Home
and Joins the Navy for Its Annual Cruise, Controllable Pitch
Propellers Step Up Performance of New Wasp-Powered Boeing, etc.
12 pages. $22.00
[CS0125] June 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 6) Cover: "Rear Admiral E. J. King, the
Navy's New Air Chief". Articles: Rear Admiral King New Chief
of Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, Service Man Leaves Happy Home
and Joins the Navy for Its Annual Cruise, Controllable Pitch
Propellers Step Up Performance of New Wasp-Powered Boeing, etc.
12 pages. Tear to back cover. $22.00
[CS0039] July 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 7) Cover: "The TC-13, the Army's Largest
Non-Rigid Airship Which Was Recently Delivered to Its Base at
Langley Field". Articles: Pratt & Whitney Entries
Groomed for National Air Races at Los Angeles, Camera in
Wasp-Powered Plane Maps Massachusetts in Twenty-Four Flying
Hours, Stearman Builds Many Purpose Plane for Domestic and Export
Market, Wasp-Powered Transports on New United Schedules Equal
Past Flight Records, Engine Instruction School Organized for
Employees, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0126] July 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 7) Cover: "The TC-13, the Army's Largest
Non-Rigid Airship Which Was Recently Delivered to Its Base at
Langley Field". Articles: Pratt & Whitney Entries
Groomed for National Air Races at Los Angeles, Camera in
Wasp-Powered Plane Maps Massachusetts in Twenty-Four Flying
Hours, Stearman Builds Many Purpose Plane for Domestic and Export
Market, Wasp-Powered Transports on New United Schedules Equal
Past Flight Records, Engine Instruction School Organized for
Employees, etc. 12 pages. Light water stain to top corner. $18.00
[CS0040] August 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 8) Cover: "Balbo Flies to Washington Behind
Wasps". Articles: Philip G. Johnson Elected President of
United Aircraft, Pratt & Whitney Engines Again Feature
National Air Races, Vought Produces Thousandth Airplane, New
Vought Hornet-Powered Fighter, etc. 12 pages. $21.00
[CS0127] August 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 8) Cover: "Balbo Flies to Washington Behind
Wasps". Articles: Philip G. Johnson Elected President of
United Aircraft, Pratt & Whitney Engines Again Feature
National Air Races, Vought Produces Thousandth Airplane, New
Vought Hornet-Powered Fighter, etc. 12 pages. $21.00
[CS0041] September 1933.
(Vol. VII No. 9) Cover: "Twice Around the Globe - Post and
the Wasp". Articles: Wiley Post with Wasp Engine Sets Second
Globe-Girdling Record, The History of Post's Wasp 3088, etc. 12
pages. $30.00
[CS0042] October 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 10) Cover: "The Wasp Engine Did the
Trick" - Roscoe Turner. Articles: Turner Sets New
West-to-East Record, Eugene Vidal New Director of Aeronautics,
Notables Fly Behind Wasps, Wasp Engines Feature Chicago Air
Races, etc. 12 pages. $25.00
[CS0043] November 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 11) Cover: "New Hornet-Powered Northrup
Transport 'Delta' ". Articles: Western Air Express Sets
Safety Record with Wasp Engines, New Assistant Directors of
Aeronautics, Wasp-Powered Planes Play Large Part in Coast Guard
Rescues, Odyssey of a Service Man, Harmon Trophy Awarded Roscoe
Turner for High Speed Flying, etc. 12 pages. $21.00
[CS0128] November 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 11) Cover: "New Hornet-Powered Northrup
Transport 'Delta' ". Articles: Western Air Express Sets
Safety Record with Wasp Engines, New Assistant Directors of
Aeronautics, Wasp-Powered Planes Play Large Part in Coast Guard
Rescues, Odyssey of a Service Man, Harmon Trophy Awarded Roscoe
Turner for High Speed Flying, etc. 12 pages. Water stain to top
of pages. $18.00
[CS0044] December 1933.
(Vol. VII, No. 12) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Vought Seaplane
Being Hoisted Aboard a Cruiser After a Dawn Patrol".
Articles: Northwest Airways Completes Seven Years of Operations,
Wasp-Powered Fairchild Maps Labrador, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0129] September 1934.
(Vol. VIII, No. 9) Cover: "Four Hornets Taking Off the
38,000-Pound S-42 in Its Flight for Eight World Records".
Articles: Hornets in Big Sikorsky Set Eight World Records - Now
Hold Ten Marks, Reorganization of United Aircraft & Transport
Corporation Soon Effective, Hamilton Standard Grants Licenses for
Controllables in Three Countries, etc. 12 pages. $29.00
[CS0130] October 1934
(Vol. VIII, No. 10) Cover - "Wasp-Powered Boeing Fighters of
VF-9M Part of the Marine Corps Contingent at the National Air
Races". Articles - New Wasp Announced, Pratt & Whitney
Powerplants Excel in National Air Races, New Officers of United
Aircraft Corporation Subsidiaries Elected. Light water stain to
top of pages. $18.00
[CS0131] November 1934
(Vol. VIII No. 11) Cover - "Pangborn and Turner and Their
Wasp-Powered Boeing, the American Team Which Finished with the
Leaders in the MacRobertson Race". Articles - Wasp-Powered
Boeing Transport with Leaders in MacRobertson Races, World's
Highest Altitude Aerial Freight Line Uses Wasps, New Waco Model
Powered with Wasp Junior Engine, 100th Double Row Engine
Completed. Light water stain to top corner of pages. $20.00
[CS0096] December 1934.
(Vol. VIII, No. 12) Cover: "Kingsford-Smith's Wasp-Powered
Lockheed Comes In For a Landing at San Francisco After a
7,350-Mile Flight From Australia". Articles: New Export
Organization Formed, Kingsford-Smith and Taylor Hop Pacific in
Wasp-Powered Lockheed, Constant Speed Controllable Pitch
Propeller Announced, What Kingsford-Smith Thinks of the Wasp,etc.
12 pages. Some pages soiled, pages weak along folds. $25.00
[CS0052] January 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 1) Cover: "Woe to the Enemy Who Gets This View
of a Wasp-Powered P.26A. An Unusual Photograph of One of the
Army's Latest Pursuit Planes". Articles: New Hornet Engine
Delivers 750 Horsepower, Hartford Commemorates Flight of Wright
Brothers, Officers of United Aircraft Corporation, New Sikorsky
to Have Hornets with Constant Speed Propellers, etc. 12 pages.
$20.00
[CS0132] January 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 1) Cover: "Woe to the Enemy Who Gets This View
of a Wasp-Powered P.26A. An Unusual Photograph of One of the
Army's Latest Pursuit Planes". Articles: New Hornet Engine
Delivers 750 Horsepower, Hartford Commemorates Flight of Wright
Brothers, Officers of United Aircraft Corporation, New Sikorsky
to Have Hornets with Constant Speed Propellers, etc. 12 pages.
Water stain to top of pages. $18.00
[CS0053] February 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 2) Cover: "Major General Frank M. Andrews,
Chosen to Command the New General Headquarters Air Force of the
Army Air Corps". Articles: Air Corps Reorganized, New Type
Voughts for Navy, Amelia Earhart First to Fly Pacific Alone,
Royal Dutch Air Lines Fly Wasp-Powered Fokker Across South
Atlantic, Wasp-Powered Boeing Goes to Chinese Marshal, etc. 12
pages. $24.00
[CS0054] March 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 3) Cover: "The 700 Horsepower Twin Wasp
Junior". Articles: College Men Barnstorm Globe in
Wasp-Powered Bellanca, Detroit News Latest Plane Equipped with
Wasp and Controllable Propellers, New Corsair Junior Light
Military Airplane Announced, etc. 12 pages. Cover split along
fold for about 3 inches. $18.00
[CS0097] April 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 4) Cover: "The Navy's Far-Seeing Eyes.
Wasp-Powered Vought Scouts Attached to the U.S.S. Saratoga Above
the Pacific". Articles: Pratt & Whitney's Development of
the Two-Row Radial Engine, Wasps and Hornets Provide Essential
Services in the Canadian North Country, United Air Lines
Controllable Propellers Average 2,100 Hours Each, Wasp-Powered
Monoplane Fighter for Export Market, etc. 12 pages. $24.00
[CS0055] May I935.
(Vol. IX, No. 5) Cover: "To Hawaii - The Giant
Hornet-Powered Pan American Sikorsky Heads to Sea Above the New
Golden Gate Bridge Towers". Articles: Hornet-Powered
Sikorsky Blazes Transpacific Trail to Hawaii, Planes of Third
Wing Stage Initial Review at Barksdale Field, Geared Wasps and
Controllables Make Boeing Transport Faster, Wasps and Hornets
Provide Essential Services in the Canadian North Country, etc. 12
pages. $30.00
[CS0056] June 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 6) Cover: "Hornets - Africa Bound".
Articles: Navy Engages in Vast Pacific Maneuvers, New Junkers
Transport Equipped with Hornets, Pratt & Whitney Develops
Automatic Power and Mixture Control, "The Faithful
Wasp" Again Performs 'As Expected' for Amelia Earhart, etc.
(Note: The article which describes the Hornets on the Junkers
JU-52 was written in error. The JU-52 aircraft delivered to South
Africa were actually equipped with Wasps.) 12 pages. $45.00
[CS0057] July 1935.
(Vol. IX, No. 7) Cover: "Wasps Over Sweden". Articles:
Announcing United Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation, Lone Motor
Lifts Giant Amphibian, News of the Month, Four-Engined Fokker
Transport for European Air Lines, Braniff Named Parts &
Service Dealers in Southwest, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0133] September 1935
(Vol. IX No. 9) Cover - "Clean as a Whistle". Articles
- March Field One of Air Corps' Finest, Hail and Farewell
(Tribute to Will Rogers and Wiley Post), Fast New Vought Airplane
Tested for Navy, News of the Month; United Outing. $20.00
[CS0134] July 1936
(Vol. X No. 7) Cover - "Lair of the Corsair". Articles
- Crossing the Line, News of the Month, New Shortcuts in
Bombardment Training. $20.00
[CS0095] October 1936.
(Vol. X, No. 10) Cover: "Wasp-Powered Vought Corsairs of the
Marine Corps Enroute to the National Air Races". Articles:
Germans Make Pathfinding Atlantic Flight - Passengers to Fly
Pacific This Month, Hamilton Elected President of United Aircraft
Exports Corporation, Women Divide Honors With Foreign and
Military Pilots at Air Races, etc. 12 pages. $24.00
[CS0094] November 1936.
(Vol. X, No. 11) Cover: "Symbolic of the Importance of
Aircraft to Modern Navies is This Navy Day Photo of the Aircraft
Carrier Lexington". Articles: World Travelers Set New
Records as Pacific Passenger Service Begins, Twin Wasp Powers
Frank Hawks' Speedy Monoplane, etc. 12 pages. $30.00
[CS0067] December 1936.
(Vol. X, No. 12) Cover: "Bird of Passage - A Sikorsky S-43
of Inter-Island Airways". Articles: United Aircraft
Corporation Announces Wage Increase, K.L.M. Expanding Operations
in Dutch West Indies, Pratt & Whitney Guards Future Quality
by Apprentice Training System, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0068] January 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 1) Cover: "A Wasp-Powered Boeing of
Pennsylvania- Central Airlines Unloading at Pittsburgh".
Articles: Westward to Old Cathay, News of the Month, Rival
Transport Operators Join to Form Pennsylvania-Central Airlines,
etc. 12 pages. $24.00
[CS0135] January 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 1) Cover: "A Wasp-Powered Boeing of
Pennsylvania- Central Airlines Unloading at Pittsburgh".
Articles: Westward to Old Cathay, News of the Month, Rival
Transport Operators Join to Form Pennsylvania-Central Airlines,
etc. 12 pages. Light water stain to top 1/3 of pages. $18.00
[CS0069] February 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 2) Cover: "Mainliner - Luxurious New Twin
Wasp-Powered Transport of United Air Lines". Articles: Naval
Aviation and the Aircraft Industry, De Luxe Air Transportation
Arrives, News of the Month, The Story of Sikorsky Aircraft, etc.
16 pages. $27.00
[CS0136] February 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 2) Cover: "Mainliner - Luxurious New Twin
Wasp-Powered Transport of United Air Lines". Articles: Naval
Aviation and the Aircraft Industry, De Luxe Air Transportation
Arrives, News of the Month, The Story of Sikorsky Aircraft, etc.
16 pages. Light water stain to top of pages. $22.00
[CS0137] February 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 2) Cover: "Mainliner - Luxurious New Twin
Wasp-Powered Transport of United Air Lines". Articles: Naval
Aviation and the Aircraft Industry, De Luxe Air Transportation
Arrives, News of the Month, The Story of Sikorsky Aircraft, etc.
16 pages. Water stain to top 1/4 of pages. $20.00
[CS0106] March 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 3) Cover: "Apostles of Speed - The Luxurious
Mainliner and Howard Hughes' Sleek Record-Breaker".
Articles: Navy Conquers Pacific in Mass Flight with Twin Wasps,
Twin Wasp Junior Carries Hughes to New Transcontinental Record,
Over the Andes With Panagra's "Bolivariano", The Story
of Hamilton Standard Propellers, etc. 16 pages. Fold is weak.
$18.00
[CS0070] April 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 4) Cover: "Sisters Under the Skin - The Huge
Hornet-Powered Sikorsky S-43 Transport and the Tiny Vought V-143
Fighter, Powered with a Twin Wasp Junior". Articles: The Air
Corps and National Defense, News of the Month, Jungle Pilot, etc.
12 pages. $20.00
[CS0071] June 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 6) Cover: "Merrill-y We Roll Along - O'er the
Deep Blue Sea" Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie Enroute to
London in Their Wasp-Powered Lockheed". Articles: Across the
Atlantic - And Back!, News of the Month, North Island - The
Navy's Largest Airbase, etc. 12 pages. $20.00
[CS0072] July 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 7) Cover: "Twin Wasps for the South Seas. The
Consol- idated Flying Boat in Which Richard Archbold Will Make a
Scientific Expedition to the South Seas". Articles: To the
Islands of the Bermudas, Twin Hornets to Power New Douglas DC-4
Transport, News of the Month, The 1937 GHQ Air Force Maneuvers,
Pratt & Whitney Promotions, Long Flights 'Routine' for
Consolidated PBY-1 Boat, etc. 16 pages. $18.00
[CS0073] August 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 8) Cover: "Where the River Shannon Flows. The
Hornet-Powered Sikorsky 'Pan American Clipper III' in Ireland
After Crossing the Atlantic". Articles: Last Gap in Air
Transport Bridged as Sikorsky Spans Atlantic, Army Selects Twin
Wasps to Power Biggest Pursuit Order, News of the Month, Navy
Gets New Vought Scout-Bomber for Use on Aircraft Carriers, etc.
12 pages. $25.00
[CS0074] September 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 9) Cover: "Flying Dreadnought. The New Twin
Wasp-Powered Sikorsky Patrol-Bomber for the U.S. Navy".
Articles: Sikorsky Builds Biggest Patrol Bomber for U.S. Navy,
German Seaplane Crosses Atlantic - Three Nations Making Ocean
Surveys, News of the Month, Pratt & Whitney Sweeps Five
Places in Bendix Race, etc. 12 pages. $25.00
[CS0075] October 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 10) Cover: "Vought Scouts on the Wing. A
Formation of Pratt & Whitney-Powered SBU-1 Scout Bombers of
the United States Navy". Articles: Army Pilots Stage
Impressive Demonstration of Air Corps Strength, Northwest
Airlines Inaugurates New Sky Zephyr Service, News of the Month,
Australia to Manufacture Wasp Engines, Jacqueline Cochran Sets
Speed Record with Twin Wasp, etc. 12 pages. $21.00
[CS0138] October 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 10) Cover: "Vought Scouts on the Wing. A
Formation of Pratt & Whitney-Powered SBU-1 Scout Bombers of
the United States Navy". Articles: Army Pilots Stage
Impressive Demonstration of Air Corps Strength, Northwest
Airlines Inaugurates New Sky Zephyr Service, News of the Month,
Australia to Manufacture Wasp Engines, Jacqueline Cochran Sets
Speed Record with Twin Wasp, etc. 12 pages. Water stain at top of
pages. $18.00
[CS0076] November 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 11) Cover: "Power Palace. The New Pratt &
Whitney Engine Testhouse, With Four Chambers Each Capable of
Testing Engines Up to 3000 Horsepower". Articles: Sikorsky
Over the Sahara, News of the Month, New Pratt & Whitney Test
House Latest Word in Modern Construction, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0102] December 1937.
(Vol. XI, No. 12) Cover: "The S-43 Joins the Army".
Articles: A Brief Review of 1937, Records Shattered at Miami
Meet, United Aircraft Promotions, etc. 8 pages. Note:
1" Tear through all pages on spine side of sheets. $25.00
[CS0077] January 1938.
(Vol. XII, No. 1) Cover: "George Seay Wheat 1886-1937".
Articles: Death Takes George S. Wheat, Vice-President, Director
of United Aircraft. 8 pages. $15.00
[CS0078] February-March
1938. (Vol. XII, Nos. 2 & 3) Cover: "Wasp-Powered
Vought Corsairs Ready for Delivery to Mexico". Articles:
Twenty Years of "Knight" Flying, News of the Month,
Navy Patrol Planes in Greatest Mass Flight, Corsairs for Mexico,
Engineering Course for Aircraft Apprentices, etc. 12 pages.
$21.00
[CS0139] February-March
1938. (Vol. XII, Nos. 2 & 3) Cover: "Wasp-Powered
Vought Corsairs Ready for Delivery to Mexico". Articles:
Twenty Years of "Knight" Flying, News of the Month,
Navy Patrol Planes in Greatest Mass Flight, Corsairs for Mexico,
Engineering Course for Aircraft Apprentices, etc. 12 pages. Small
section cut from last page (jokes) $18.00
[CS0079] April 1938.
(Vol. XII No. 4) Cover: "A Wasp-Powered Lockheed Electra of
Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion at Havana". Articles:
Search of Archives Reveals Interesting Engine Histories, News of
the Month, Pratt & Whitney Engineers Win Manly Medal for
Development of Torque Indicator, etc. 12 pages. $30.00
[CS0080] May-June 1938.
(Vol. XII, Nos. 5 & 6) Cover: "Bird of a 'feather'. A
United Air Lines Mainliner, Equipped with Hydromatic
Quick-Feathering Propellers, Flying Over New York with One
Propeller Feathered". Articles: The Hamilton Standard
Hydromatic Propeller, Polish Airmen Complete Flight Covering Four
Continents, News of the Month, Air Corps Stages Greatest
Maneuvers, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0081] July-August 1938.
(Vol. XIII, Nos. 7 & 8) Cover: "Three of the Sleek
Chance Vought Scout-Bombers Recently Delivered to the United
States Navy. They are Powered with Twin Wasp Junior
Engines". Articles: Hamilton Standard Propellers Help Hughes
Around World; Corrigan Across Atlantic, By Air to Africa, News of
the Month, etc. 16 pages. $20.00
[CS0082] January 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. I) Cover: "With Its Four Twin Hornet Engines
Roaring, the Huge Douglas DC-4 Completes Its Flight Tests Over
Santa Monica, California". Articles: New Era for Pacific
Travel to Open With San Francisco Fair, Pratt & Whitney
Engines Win New York-Miami Race, News of the Month, United
Aircraft Names Ward and Horner to New Posts, United Aircraft
Exhibit Attracts Wide Attention at Paris Show, etc. 12 pages.
$20.00
[CS0083] February-March
1939. (Vol. XIV, Nos. 2 & 3) Cover: "Biggest Bomber
on Mercy Flight. Four Twin Wasp Engines Speed the Army's Boeing
B-15 Bomber on a 4900-Mile Flight Carrying Emergency Supplies to
Chilean Earthquake Victims". Articles: United Aircraft
Corporation Announces Building Program, Hamilton Standard
Perfects Device for Synchronizing Aircraft Engine Speeds, News of
the Month, Arnold Heads All Air Corps Activities; Emmons to
Command G.H.Q. Air Force, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0084] June 1939.
(Vol. XIV, Nos. 4, 5, & 6) Cover: "Flying the Mail to
Europe. Equipped With Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Propellers,
the 'Yankee Clipper' Completes the First Scheduled Air Mail
Flight to Europe". Articles: Towers Heads Bureau of
Aeronautics, New Vought-Sikorsky Airplane for U.S. Navy, News of
the Month, Rentschler Reviews United Aircraft History, etc. 12
pages. $20.00
[CS0140] June 1939.
(Vol. XIV, Nos. 4, 5, & 6) Cover: "Flying the Mail to
Europe. Equipped With Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Propellers,
the 'Yankee Clipper' Completes the First Scheduled Air Mail
Flight to Europe". Articles: Towers Heads Bureau of
Aeronautics, New Vought-Sikorsky Airplane for U.S. Navy, News of
the Month, Rentschler Reviews United Aircraft History, etc. 12
pages. Light water stains to top 1/4 of pages. $15.00
[CS0085] July 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 7) Cover: "The 42-Passenger Douglas DC-4,
Equipped With Four Twin Hornet Engines and Hamilton Standard
Hydromatic Propellers, Landing at Floyd Bennett Airport on Its
Coast-to-Coast Tour". Articles: A Review of the Hydromatic
Propeller, News of the Month, Air Corps Inaugurates Expanded
Training Program, Resignation of Mead Announced, United and
Penn-Central Win Recognition, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0091] August 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 8) Cover: "The New 18-Cylinder Pratt &
Whitney Engine, Most Powerful to Ever Pass 150-Hour Type Test,
Makes Its First Flight Test at Rentschler Field". Articles:
Most Powerful Pratt & Whitney Engine Passes Tests, United
Aircraft Equipment Helps Air Corps to Break Six International
Aviation Records, Guba Ends Year in New Guinea with Archbold
Aerial Expedition, etc. 12 pages. Note: 2-1/2" x
4-1/2" piece missing from top right corner of cover. $20.00
[CS0086] September 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 9) Cover: "Power at High Altitude. Delivering
More Power at High Altitudes Than Any Engine Now in Service, the
New Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp Engine is Rated at 1600
Horsepower at Altitudes Above 20,000 Feet". Articles: U.S.
Navy Exhibits the World's Most Powerful High Altitude Engine,
News of the Month, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0141] September 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 9) Cover: "Power at High Altitude. Delivering
More Power at High Altitudes Than Any Engine Now in Service, the
New Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp Engine is Rated at 1600
Horsepower at Altitudes Above 20,000 Feet". Articles: U.S.
Navy Exhibits the World's Most Powerful High Altitude Engine,
News of the Month, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0087] October 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 10) Cover: "30,000 Horses. Lined Up As They
Came Off of the Production Line at the Pratt & Whitney Plant
is This Group of Twin Wasp Engines, Representing a Grand Total of
More Than 30,000 Horsepower". Articles: Pan American Will
Invest $6,000,000 In Expansion of Its 62,000 Mile Service, Fuller
"Two-Times" Bendix Race; Turner Triples Thompson, News
of the Month, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0105] November 1939.
(Vol.. XIV, No. 11) Cover: "Following In the Footsteps of
the Larger 50-Spline Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Quick
Feathering Propeller, the 40-Spline Version Shown Above Makes
Available to the Aircraft Industry the Well-Proven Advantages of
Its Famous Predecessor". Articles: American Export Airlines
Plans to Use Vought-Sikorsky Flying Boats, Pratt & Whitney
Adds New Experimental Test House to Research Facilities, etc. 12
pages. $18.00
[CS0088] December 1939.
(Vol. XIV, No. 12) Cover: "Bigger Bee-Hive. This View of the
Pratt & Whitney and Hamilton Standard Propellers Divisions of
United Aircraft Corporation Shows, On the Extreme Left, the New
Addition to the Pratt & Whitney Engine Factory Which is
Rapidly Nearing Completion". Articles: All Aboard for
Central America, News of the Month, etc. 12 pages. $18.00
[CS0109] February 1942.
(Vol. XVII, No. 2) Cover: "The Pursuit Airplane Pictured
Above is a Republic P-43 'Lancer' - a Type Which is now Being
Produced in Large Quantities for the U.S. Army Air Forces by
Republic Aviation Corporation". Articles: War Sends Pacific
Clipper on History-Making Flight, News of the Month, etc. 24
pages. Light crinkling from dampness. $7.50
[CS0303] August 1945. (No Volume number mentioned.)
Cover: Color photo of P&W main administration building.
"Special Issue Commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division." 20 pages. $10.00
[CS0351] July 26, 1950. (Vol. 25, Special Edition)
Cover: "F. B. Rentschler with one-sixth scale model of the
first Wasp engine presented to him by long-time associates in
United Aircraft Corporation". Articles: Twenty-Five Years of
Power, Willgoos Laboratory Dedicated, List of Visitors, etc. 28
pages. $10.00
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