Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 78

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T, NOVEMBER 3%, 1928—PART % —_ EGIN REBUILDING OF HOOVER FIELD International Airways Plans Construction of Model Airport. ‘The work of rebuilding Hoover Field | s a model airport, in accordance with | the plans of the International Airways, which purchased the site early in the | week. has been begun, it is announced by John S. Wynne, field manager. Foundations have been constructed 80-foot hangars, and structural steel for the buildings has been ordered. Erection of the hangars, which will house 12 planes each, is to be expedited, so that the planes now in for two 60 by use at the field may be taken in out of the weather before Winter sets in. The hangars are to be located at the left of the field near the water front, and a concrete ramp extending down into the river will be constructed from one of the hangars so that seaplanes may be drawn into the buildings. Plans for Field. ‘Work is to begin soon on a restaurant, gasoline station and enlargement of the present office building and waiting room. Al of this work is to be com- pleted before March 1, when the re- modeled field is to be ready for the opening of seaplane passenger service to Norfolk and air transport service to New York. Concrete runways will be laid, a large “apron” or loading plat- form for passengers will be constructed, and concrete aprons will be laid in front of the hangars and along the left of the field, forming a “line” where the planes may be kept out of the dust and mud while the motors are warming up. The entrance to the fleld will be greatly improved. An entrance road- way will be built for automobiles and the area sodded and landscaped to fit in with the proposed parkway develop- ment along the Virginia shore of the! Potomac. Internationa! Airways, of which Carleton E. Moran, president of C. E. Moran & Co., investment bankers, is president, and former Senator Dial of South Carolina is a vice president, has taken over the personnel and equip- ment of the Potomac Flying Service, which has been the operating company at Hoover Field. The Fairchild and Eaglerock planes, now in service at the fleld, will be used as at present for sightseeing purposes, and new planes, including four Fairchild cabin mono- planes and a Ford tri-motored trans- port plane, have been ordered for ex- pansion of the service next Spring. Personnel of Flyers. Mr. Wynne, manager of the field, is & son of former Pastmaster General Wynne, who served under President Roosevelt, and is a first lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps, having served with a combat division in France. ‘The pilot personnel includes Lieut. Douglass Powell, former Navy officer, who is chief pilot; Lieut. Roy S. O'Neal, Army reserve pilot, who was a combat pilot during the World War, with sev- eral German planes to his credit; Lieut. J. Hall McKenney, Air Corps Reserve, and S. E. Steinhauser, formerly of the Curtiss Flying Co., maintenance officex. Hoover Field has been in operation as a commercial flying field for two years, and during the past 18 months more than 50,000 passengers have been flown there. LOS ANGELES TO TEST RADIO FOR DIRIGIBLES Series of Experiments to Determine Best Type of Equipment for New Airships. The Navy dirigible Los Angeles is to be used by Navy radio engineers for a series of experiments to determine the best type of radio equipment for the new 6,500,000-cublc-foot dirigibles, for con- struction of which contracts have just been awarded to the Goodyear Zeppe- lin Co. The Los Angeles will be used as an aerial radio laboratory, and its present radio installation is to be completely replaced by advanced types of appara- tus. Both the intermediate frequency and high frequency sets will be replaced and the present wind-driven power gen- erators will be removed and generators driven from the motors will be installed. ‘The present radio compass in the Los Angeles will be allowed to remain intact, as it has given very satisfactory serv- ice, on one occasion permitting the helmsman to bring the big ship directly over the landing field at_the naval air station at Lakehurst, N. J., on the “ra- dio beam” from Hadley Field, N. J., de- spite fog, heavy clouds, rain and falling darkness. Though the radio compass itself is not to be disturbed, the receiv- ing equipment for the compass may be ;ep}uced by apparatus of more modern esign. The Navy Department hopes to be able to equip the new dirigibles, which are to be the largest in the world, with radio apparatus which will permit them to continue direct communication with their base of operations throughout their full cruising range of 8,000 miles or more. Experimental equipment will be built and subjected to gruelling serv- ice tests on the Los Angeles before con- struction is begun of the sets to be in- stalled in the new dirigibles ZR-4 and ZR-5. ‘The two new airships are to be pow- ered with eight engines instead of five, as in the case of the Los Angeles and the big German commercial dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, and @# ignition sys- tems of these engines t"ill be shielded to prevent electrical Wterference with the radio reception on board. FATAL AIR ACCIDENTS DUE TO CARELESSNESS, LINDBERGH DECLARES (Continued from Ninth Page) The public merely gets an impression of the danger of flying, and aviation i held up by just that much. Need of Uniform Regulations. Pilots without sufficient experience cannot be licensed to carry passengers for hire on interstate flights, but there is no law to prevent an inexpert pilot Who has just bought an old plane from giving his friends joy rides as long as he stays within his State, unless that State has adopted Federal flying regu- lations. A fatal crash where licensed planes are flown by licensed pilots is rare; the “crashes” which get into the newspapers are mostly on stunting A Federally licensed pilot is forbid- den to carry paying passengers on stunt flights. However, crashes and fatali- ties due to stunt flying with passengers will continue as long as the individual States do not adopt Federal flying regu- lations which will bring all pilots under Federal supervision. We do not desire individual State legislation, but we are in great need of the uniform and experienced control which will be brought about by the State’s adoption of the Department of Commerce Federal regulations. (Copyright, 1928.) | An erticle by Col. Lindbergh on the pres- ent and future of aviation will appear each Seek. exclusively in Washingtor in The Bunday Star. FARMS ARLINGTON EXPERIMENTAL | boundary lights and large ¢ COLUMBIA Is LAND HOOVER FIELD CONCRETE PLATFORM AMUSEMENT PARK ‘This drawing, prepared under the direction of Carleton E. Moran, president of International Airways, Inc., newly organized million-dollar local aviation company, shows plans for development of a model airport at Hoover Field. hangars, 2 restaurant, gas station, boathouse, seaplane railway, concrete runways, beacon light, floodlights, field crete loading platform are to be installed as shown in the plan. | landscaped to fit in with the Arlington Memorial Bridge and Potomac Parkway plans. Two The field will be Is Latest Come tance A race between the budding air trans- portation giants of the country for the establishment of the first regular air passenger service on the transconti- nental route is impending. Three big companies already are in the field, one for the entire route and two for por- tions of the transcontinental system. The latest comer in the long-distance transport field is the New York, Chi- cago & Pacific Airways Co., which has established headquarters in Chicago and announced the early opening of nger service between Chicago and ew York by way of Toledo and Cleve- land. The company will have an au- thorized capital of 85,000,000, consis! ing of 100,000 shares of no par value common stock. Wide Extension Planned. The company is organized primarily to establish air passenger service be- tween New York and Chicago, but is planning eventually to extend air pas- genger lines into many other cities. Service on the New York-Chicago sec- tion is to stert as soon as planes can be delivered. An 8-hour schedule will be followed, although the planes nor- mally can make the flight in less than 7 hours. An hour is being allowed in case of storms or head winds. The trip by railroad takes 20 hours. The use of Ford-Stout all-metal tri- motored cabin monoplanes carrying 14 R:sungm each is planned, this plane ving been decided upon as the safest and most dependable type now lVH.\l- able, the company declaring that “its three motors preclude forced landing dangers, since one motor will keep the ship flyitg and two will enable it to fly its route without the aid of the third motor. The plane will have Wasp mo- tors, giving a combined horsepower of 275. Sleeper planes are to be installed for night service as soon as the airways section of the Department of Com- merce completes its radio beacon equip- ment along the route. ‘The company is headed by M. V. Lit- tle, formerly assistant traffic manager of National Air Transport, as president and general manager. The roster of officers and executives includes men of wide experience in air transport work. Emergency Passengers Only. “There is now no regular air pas- senger line in operation between Chi- cago and New York,” the company an- nounced, “although there is more ordinary travel between the two cities than on any other transportation route in the country. National Al Transport formerly carried emergency passengers | only in the mail planes, but some time ago abolished even that limited passen- ger service. Even then an emergency passenger had no assurance that he would be carried until he was actually in the plane, for if the mail cargo was large, the passenger was left behind. Often the passenger was so cramped !in the mail compartment that his trip was_very uncomfortable. “The "assurance of ample passenger travel by air over this Eastern route is solidated Air Transport ticket office in the Palmer House, which reports that | it receives more requests for air pas- sage to New York than to all other cities combined. During one week the actual count showed 64 requests for |air transportation to New York, all of which were refussd because there was no such service bstween the two cities.” The passenger cabins of the Ford planes to be used on the new line will be ventilated and heated for Winter | service and will be soundproofed against motor noises. Radio receiving anpara- tus will be installed and each pas: n- ger provided with a_sef of headphones. "Won’t You Follow The Automotive Engineer's Advice? 8 Out of Ten Advise The Use of EBONITE You will find Ebonite the correct gear lubrication, for the Transmis- sion and “rear axles” gears. This tion of Automotive Engineers ad- vise its use. Among several hundreds of Auto- motive Engineers recently inter- viewed on this important question, seven out of ten condemned the continued use of greases, and com- pounds, because they channel, and do not lubricate these important gears. 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One of them is the National Air Transport, which for several years has carried air mail over a network of lines from New York across the Nation and into the Southwest. This company is planning to add passenger facilities to its mail lines as rapidly as equipment can be obtained. DELEGATES 10 0 INPLANES T0 SHOW Transport Craft to Carry Foreign Representatives to Chicago. A concentration of all available Army, Navy and Department of Com- merce transport planes, together with all the civilian planes of this type which can be borrowed for the purpose, will be made during the first week in De- cember to carry foreign delegates to the first International Civil Aeronautics Conference to the great Chicago aero- nautical show ana from Chicago to this city for formal sessions of the conference December 12, 13 and 14. The aerial transport committee, of which Lieut. Comdr. De Witt C. 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