Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 10

MITCHELL DEFEAT HELD SEVERE Doubted if Airman Can Ever Stage Comehack Rout at Con"*mon. By a Staff Corn PHILADI Porter 1i National the ensulng 3 L. Cabot. Despite the f: Col. W last night was exactly 1 minute et of The Star, After PHILADF e Liberty Staff Correspor: I s THE EVENING ARMY FIRST AND SECOND IN AIR RACE, WITHNAVY PLANE THIRD BLUW»Keen Contest Staged at philadelphia for, | Engine Builders’ Trophy/-‘-—Ovvens’ Flying Is Feature. - iilders’ Tropl ¢ annual mili | ettt BY FREDERICK R. NEELY, dent of The Star. Station at Ar place, hif fi onds "behind Lieut. O. L. ng exactly winner. Capt. Horr A s second. Both Ar e new Cu mtu! with i flew 2 rd engine. thiree ‘aivmen and 140.56, respec Owens Providedl Feature. De Havils ere: 142, ively. {gine and put a_ radiator under the i power plant, similar in installation to | the new type “tunnel radiators” in lown creation from the beginning and lymanding the air station and a specta- George T. Owens of the Naval Air 1, was given third 32 sec- Stephens of Mitchel Au- M ; It previously had been agreed betwerr tion planes | gines. Lieut. | nd with a The speed for the 141.83 { ton Roads, which cost him 10 seconds. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. air station, and Lieut. OWens' pas- senger, was the builder of the plane. He took an old service DH that had “cracked up,” rebuiflt it almost en- tirely, flattened out the wings, In- stalled a_Packard 600-horsepower en- the newest planes. It was Mohme's Lieut.» Comdr. Homer €. Wick, com- ‘tor at the race, declared “not 5 per cent of the credit for the ship goes to anybody else.” Licut. Owens started tenth in of 13 planes and at the end of the second lap he was in sixth rosition. e kept creeping up, and, on turning the home pylon, was “fouled” by Lieut. J. D. Cornwall of the aireraft squad- don’'s. scouting fleet, based at Hamp- the two pilots that inasmuch as Lieut. Owens had the fastest ship, Lieut. Cornwalil would “giev way” at a pylon turn in case the two approached it at the same time. Forced Out at Tangent. Just at the critical moment, how- a field | C., FRIDAY. around the mark. This sent Lieut. Owens out at a tangent, threw a scare into the crowd and cost him the 10 seconds, which meant quite a good deal in the final scoring. Mohme rode in the back seat with Owens, huddled down out of the blast of the propeller, as there was no wind- shield to protect him. The ship had been strfpped of every obstacle that did not have a part in the actual fly- ing. The little mechanic was rather downcast at the finish, but was given consolation in the fact that he won a third for the N and kept the others fighting for it. He served as en gineer, aerodynamic expert and what | not in the reconstruction of that old wreck Into one of the speedicst DH's that ever stepped uround an airplane racing course. Engine Trouble Develops. Another “Washington piiot, Lieut. E.W. Litch, flving a standard service Do Haviland with a Liberty engine, was forced out on the fifth lap after | making 117 miles per hour for the | course. His engine began to burn up and the pilot chose to make a landing on the airdrome rather than continue in the race with odds against him gnd have to set down in some out-of-the- way place. He carried Aviation Ma- chinist's Mate L. H. Finney as passen- SEPTEMBER 10, 1926. Douglas observation plane in the race, but he did not do so well. His-aver- age speed was around 126 miles an hour, and as the plane would not go any faster there was nothing more for him to do but sit up there and wait until he had made the 12 laps | around-the 12-mile course for a total of 144 miles. WOMAN BADLY IN;URED. Mrs. L. B. Roane, 74, Was Knocked " Down by Automobile. Mrs. L. B. 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