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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 262-JUNE 30, 1941 AIR CORPS Post, pp. 670, 812. AIR CORPS, ARMY Instruction, etc., For creating, maintaining, and operating at established flying expenses. schools and balloon schools courses of instruction for officers, students, and enlisted men, including cost of equipment and supplies necessary for instruction, purchase of tools, equipment, materials, machines, textbooks, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, instruments, and materials for theoretical and practical instruction; eAircraft operation, for maintenance, repair, storage, and operation of airships, war . balloons, and other aerial machines, including instruments, materials, gas plants, hangars, and repair shops, and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction, or equip- ment of all types of aircraft, and all necessary spare parts and equip- ment connected therewith and the establishment of landing and take- Photographic sup off runways; for purchase of supplies for securing, developing, print- ing, and reproducing photographs in connection with aerial photog- Helium gas. raphy; improvement, equipment, maintenance, and operation of plants for testing and experimental work, and procuring and introducing water, electric light and power, gas, and sewerage, including mainte- nance, operation, and repair of such utilities at such plants, for the procurement of helium gas; for travel of officers and enlisted men of the Air Corps by air m connection with the administration of this appropriation, including travel by air or rail required in connection with the transportation of new aircraft from factory to first destina- vilian employees tion; salaries and wages of civilian employees as may be necessary; transportation of materials in connection with consolidation of Air Developmnttofnew Corps activities; experimental investigations and purchase and devel- opment of new types of airplanes, autogiros, and balloons, accessories thereto, and aviation engines, including plans, drawings, and speci- Purchase, construc- fications thereof; for the purchase, manufacture, and construction of airplanes and balloons, including instruments and appliances of every sort and description necessary for the operation, construction (air- planes and balloons), or equipment of all types of aircraft, and all Marking of military necessary spare parts and equipment connected therewith; or the marking of military airways where the purchase of land is not involved; for the purchase, manufacture, and issue of special clothing, wearing apparel, and similar equipment for aviation purposes; for all necessary expenses connected with the sale or disposal of surplus or obsolete aeronautical equipment, and the rental of buildings, and other facilities for the handling or storage of such equipment; for the rental of office space and other facilities in connection with Air Consulting engi- Corps procurement activities; for the services of not more than four consulting engineers at experimental stations of the Air Corps as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $50 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with Printing plants. special scientific medical research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publica- tions, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, including the Settlementofclaims. salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for settlement of claims (not exceed- ing $250 each) for damage to persons and private property resulting from the operation of aircraft at home and abroad when each claim is substantiated by a survey report of a board of officers appointed by the commanding officer of the nearest aviation post and approved by L55 STAT.

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