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Many pipemakers are familiar with Rick Newcombe's writing and suggestions that pipes with an open air flow smoke better. Though he is not the progenitor of the idea, he was certainly its most public advocate duly credited with its popularization.  Newcombe's concept of "opening" was originally conceived with respect to the after-market modification of production engineering.  Pipemakers, Americans in particular, have employed elements of Newcombe's recommendations, generally using airways ranging from 9/64 to 11/64.  One additional aspect of contemporary American pipe engineering that was pioneered by Jim Cooke and further improved by Trever Talber, Jody Davis and Todd Johnson, is the use of a constant airway volume.  This is in contradistinction to traditional pipe engineering utilizing different sized airways for the shank and stem.  Ken Campbell has written an article for The Pipe Collector called [[Airflow: The Key to Smoking Pleasure]] which further explores the subject.