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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. "Trade Winds - Whirlwinds and Cyclones" was the monthly in-house magazine for the aircraft industry of the Wright Aeronautical Company in Paterson, New Jersey. This issue is Volume 3, Number 10, September - October 1937. Here we can see the state of the industry during Pre - Second World War times, as various airplanes, events and products are discussed. Lots of good photographs of both planes and people. CONTENTS ** The GHQ Air Force Salutes the Legion ** 82 Wright Aircraft Engines Participate in Air Corps Sky Parade over New York City ** Cyclone - Powered Vultee Attack Bombers Popular in Export Field (Good detail photos) ** New four Story Factory Wing Occupied as Wright Extension Program Nears Completion ** Wright Around the World : Center spread photographs of cyclone- powered aircraft, including Sikorsky S-43 Amphibian (around which vehicle are rumors about Howard Hughes) ** New Wright Cruising Power Calculators simplify Engine Operation for Airline Pilots ** Two pages of photographs of Wright Aeronautical personnel ** Exhaust fumes (Humor - back cover) TITLE : Trade Winds (Whirlwinds and Cyclones) ISSUE :Vol. 3, No. 10 DATE : September - October 1937 EDITOR: Ronald S. Gall IMPRINT : Wright Aeronautical Corporation PLACE : Paterson, New Jersey STATUS : OP DETAILS : Bi-Monthly trade periodical; Contains black-and-white half-tone photographs; 16 pages (pagination includes covers); approximately 8 " x 11 ", photo-pictorial wraps, stapled (illustrated paper covers) the front cover has a photograph of Boeing Flying Fortresses in flight. No advertising. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- Previously owned. Clean and presentable with the following imperfections: Mild weathering to front cover (slight foxing or spotting). Two small puncture (pinprick size) holes - near the top edge and at the bottom fore-edge corner - extend from the front cover through the entire issue (not unsightly - as if a pin was stuck through) . The binding is solid and the interior is clean and unmarked.