Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 61

CLAORKLEA * FORTIHE N AR Army Flyer Stays Aloft 776 . Hours—Heads List of Aviators. By virtue of his having spent more than one-twelfth of the past year in the air, First Lieut. J. R. Glascock, Army Air Corps, stationed at March Field, Riverside, Calif., stands at the head of a list of 12 Army flyers who during 1928 piled up flying time total- ing more than 525 hours each. Lieut. Glascock spent 776 hours in the air during the ycar. This is the | equivalent of more than 32 days of 24, hours each or 96 working days of 8 hours each spent in flying. Lieut. Glascock’s record for the year is but 3 hours and 20 minutes short of the record mark established in 1926 by Lieut. Howard M. Fey. Two officers on duty at Bolling Fleld are included among the first 12 officers of the Air Corps in point of flying time. ‘They are Capt. Ira C. Eaker and Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada, both of whom | were members of the crew of the Question Mark on its world’s record endurance flight of 150 hours last January. | .. The 11 officers ranking next behind Lieut. Glascock, in the order of their | fiying time, are Lieut. G. J. Eppright, Kelly Field, Tex., 689 hours 35 min- utes; Lieut. J. W. Andrew, Kelly Field, 681 hours 40 minutes; Lieut. Richard D. Reeve, Brooks Field, Tex., 672 hours 35 minutes; Lieut. E. E. Partridge, Kelly Field, 665 hours 35 minutes; Lieut. H. E. Engler, Brooks Field, 616 hours 10 minutes; Lieut. C. W. Davies, | March Field, 595 hours 28 minutes; Lieut. A. L. Harvey, Brooks Field, 561 hours 44 minutes; Lieut. L. H. Rodieck, Brooks Field, 559 hours 50 minutes; Capt. Ira C. Eaker, Bolling Field, 556 hours 49 minutes; Lieut. C. W. Cous- land, Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla. 555 hours 38 minutes, and Lieut. Elwood R. Quesada, Bolling Field, 549 hours, SUNDAY AIR MAILS - T0 SOUTH PLANNED Heavy Increase in Patronage _Brings New Schedule, Ef- fective May 5. As a result of increases in the amount of airmail posted along the Atlantic Coast, regular Sunday trips to supple- ment the daily schedule on the airmail line between New York and Atlanta, passing through this city, will go into effect Sunday, May 5, it has been an- nounced by Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., | operators of the route. The increased schedule will .take care of the ad- dition only temporarily, and further ex- tensions will have to be made before long, it is anticipated. Since the New York-Atlanta airmail run was inaugurated in May, 1928, | there has been a 200 per cent increase in airmail poundage. During the first month of operation, 8,622 pounds were carried, while the unofficial figure for March of this year was 25,297. Last month 15,225 pounds were borne over the new Pitcairn airmail route be- tween Atlanta, Tampa and Miami, Fla. The Pitcairn lines connect at Miami Airways, Inc.,, to Cuba, Haiti, the Do- minican Republic, Porto Rico, Bahama Islands, Mexico, Central America and ' South America. — TRADE EXTENSIO FLIGHT IN PROSPECT | Thirty-four Central and South American Countries Included in 27,000-Mile Aviation Tour. ‘Thirty-four Central and South Amer- ican countries are to be visited in a 27,000-mile trade extension flight which is to start next Fall from Miami, Fla., according to word received here by the Department of Commerce. The flight will be sponsored by the American Manufacturers’ Export Association and financed by 40 civic and commercial organizations in various parts of the country. ‘The flight will be undertaken to dem- onstrate the practicability of passenger and freight air services between North and South American cities and to strengthen this country’s trade position in its sister republics to the South. A twin-motored amphibian plane is to be used for the trip, which will re- quire six months. Lieut. Donald C. | Beatty will be the pilot, and will be | accompanied by Leslie A. Walker, for- mer Navy pilot; Robb C. Oertel, a mem- ber of Comdr. Richard E. Byrd’s Polar expedition; Orlin S. Welch, photog- rapher, and W. O. Browne, executive director of the Southern division of the United States Air Force Association. ' AUSTRALIA'S INITIAL AIRPLANE TO BE TRIED Lasceter Type Machine First De- signed and Built There—Will Carry 3 Passengers. MELBOURNE, Australla (#).—The first Australian-designed and Aus- tralian-built commercial airplane, con- | structed here by the Larkin Alrcraft Co., is ready for its test flights. ‘The result of eight years’ study by its designers, the new monoplane will be put on & one-per-month production basis s soon as the flight tests are completed. s It was designed by W. S. Shackleton, who designed many high-wing mono- planes in England before starting his work in_ Australia. It will be known as the Lasceter type and will carry three passengers and a pilot. Its cruising range is estimated at 600 miles and speed at 100 miles an hour. PLAN GORGE AIRWAY. Pacific Northwest, Residents to In- vade Columbia River Area. Residents and business men of the Pacific Northwest are working toward the establishment of a Columbia’River Gorge airway to connect Pasco, Wash., and Portland, Oreg. / Such a route would connect with the Pasco_Salt Lake City airway, which in transcontinental Department has been petitioned to establish the new airway. Largest Air Marker. Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. 8t Ah'rs;. Ohio, has erected the largest tablished on the roof air marker yet es el 4 otoneotmpm:lhcm. In to the name of 3" points toward the n = A of 500-watt lamps reflectors has been used to {lluminate the markings for night o l Air Line Official P. J. RABBITT 0f this city has been appointed manager of all activities of the Washington- New York Air Line at the New York terminal, Newark airport, it was an- nounced last night by United States Air Transport of this city, which operates the line, ACOSTA ASKS AID FORARTRANSPORT {Suggests Award of Annual Trophy to Help ngelop- ment of Carriers. Establishment of an aerial transporta- tion trophy for yearly competition as a means of improving air transport work throughout the country has been suggested by Bert Acosta, winner of the Pulitzer Trophy in 1921, and of the world’s endurance record in 1927, who now is engaged in the airplane manufacturing business. Afrplane speed, altitude and endur- ance records are all very well in their place, Acosta believes, but the time has come when other qualities should be recognized as well, ‘Transportation Development. “The American people want to fly and they want to make their air voy- ages with speed, precision and safety,” Acosta said. “Furthermore, the de- mand for air freight is growing daily and so far this is being very poorly taken care of. All this stresses the fact that now we must develop air transportation to the point- wihtere it con be used by all the people. “The air industry is going- through the same phase as the automoblle in- dustry did 20 years ago. People bought cars that had won important races and the make of car that won the Vanderbilt Cup race was the one that was most popular for the follow- ing year. The same will be true of the airplane industry. The planes which make the best records for air transportation work are the ones that are going to have the call on the market and they will be the ones that the air passengers will patronize. “Understanding this, it seems to me that it is time for a transportation with routes flown by Pan-American | (TOPhY 10 be offered for yearly compe- tition. The organization able to show the best year's record for the various elements that comprise successful air transportation would win the trophy. Many Qualifications Needed. “A number of qualifications would enter into the contest and the judges would have to take them all into con- sideration, the planes making the best combined showing being the winners. The various factors to be considered would inciude the number of passen- gers carried, the number of miles flown, the adherence to time schedule, the economy of operation, the speed of transit and the safety of the operations. “Some one with the welfare of the American air industry at heart ought to offer this transportation trophy just as the Pulitzer Trophy was offered years ago for speed. There are thousands of Americans who wish to see our country lead the world in the air and this is an opportunity for these public-spirited citizens.” BETTER ARPLANE CONPASS DEVIED Declared Simpler, Lighter and More Accurate Than Any Previously Produced. ' Development of & new type of ‘air- plane magneto compass, said to be sim- -pler, more accurate and lighter than any yet produced, was announced by F. P. Wills of the marine and aircraft department, General Electric Co., at the aeronautical meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers this week. & ‘This compass is said to weigh only one-fifth to one-sixth as much as the earth inductor, this decrease in weight adding at least one-half horsepower to the useful work of the engine. Development of the compass was un- dertaken in the research laboratory of the General Electric Co. at the re- quest of officers at the Army Afr Cot laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, as a means of overcoming some of the disadvantages of the earth inductor. Among the disadvantages of the earth inductor type, as listed by Army ex- perts and which, it is claimed, have been overcome by the mew compass, are the requirement of & universal Joint, the small amount of current ‘which could be generated, commutation difficulties, complicated and costly con- struction and the fact the device is Subject to all the acceleration errors of an ordinary magnetic compass. * The“magneto compass, perfected by Dr. J. D. Tear, has emerged from the aboratory and test bench stages and being tried out in the air, Mr. Wills said. So far; he stated, it has not de- veloped any faults of a fundamental naturey x > ’ Horse’s “Docility” Worth $75, Plane Operators Told One of the leading Western airmail operators recently received a bill from a farmer for $75. His Thorse’s “docility was ¥ to that extent, the farmer com- lained, when a mail t, seek- g ‘way under clouds, fln'vw ver t.het stock S . “We've enol WOITY about,” the ;‘:fiot. “without having to look out for the ‘docil- g.;u' of the horfi over. They to automobiles THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., APRIL 2 32 FLYING FIELDS LISTED IN VIREINIA| Three Completely Equipped inl Accordance With Commerce Department Regulations. There are 32 municipal, military, air- mail and commercial flying fields in Virginia and 24 additional flelds are under construction, according to a sur- vey made by the Virginia State Cham- ber of Commerce. During the next 18 months there will be approximately 50 aviation fields in operation, accord- ing to the survey. ‘Three of the fields in Virginia are completely equipped for all types of flying in’ accordance with regulations of the Department of Commerce. These are the Richard E. Byrd Municipal Fleld, Richmond; the Nayal Air Station, Hampton Roads, and Langley Field, Hampton, Va., operated jointly by the Army Air Corps and the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics. There are elght intermediate flelds along the New York-Atlanta airway through Virginia which are operated as emergency fields. They are at Amelia, South Boston, Quantico, Ontario, Mil- ton, Milford, Keysville and Crewe. Municipal fields in the State are in operation at Richmond, Winchester, Fort Richmond, West Point and Bris- tol. Among the commercial fields are Hoover Field and Washington Airport, in * Arlington County; ~Waynesboro, Lynchburg and Richmond. Other completed airports _include Lyle Field and Fort Deflance Field, at Staunton, and fields at Martinsville, Leesburg, Lee Hall, Irvington, Dahl- gren, Cobham and Virginia Beach. Fields are under construction or ready for construction at Richmond, Staun- ton, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Newport News, New- market, Mount Jackson, Luray, Manas- sas, Lexington, Hampton, Franklin, Danville, Farmville, Front Royal, Char- lottesville, Brookneal, Abingdon, Ap- pomattox and Blacksburg. RESEARCH WORKERS FORM FLYING CLUB Aero Men at Bureau of Standards Expect to Be Pilots Before End of Summer, Aeronautical Tesearch workers at the Bureau of Standards have organized their own fllying club and expect to emerge from ground and flying -schools as full fledged pllots before the end of the Summer. The oragnization is known as the Bureau of Standards Flying Club and the members are re- ceiving their flying instruction at_ the airport of Mount Vernon Airways, Inc., just south of Alexandria, Va. The club now has 12 members but hopes to increase its enroliment to approximately 25 within the next few weeks. Present members of the club are C. 8. Bruce, president; J. L. Endi- cott, vice president; Victor L. Lowe, secretary-treasurer; ~ Miss Johanna Busse, S, Small, M. H. Mills, R. G. Kennedy, C. Falck, H. C. Morris, C. G. Wahler, C. D. Shepard and W. C. Smith. The students expect to go through a rigorous ground course at the bureau, where experts in virtually every phase of aeronautics are .on duty. The course they have mapped out will be fo more complete than any ground school course customarily given to pilots. ISLANDERS TO SEE FIRST PLANE SOON Trader Will Travel About South Sea in Machine, Flying It Himself. By the Associated Press. O, , Calif., April 20.—Certain South Sea Islanders are to get their first glimpse of an airplane when Franklin W. Wakefield, world traveler who has been in charge of an American trading station in the Southern Pacifio for 15 years, arrives in French Oceania with his new American plane. Wakefleld says he bought the plane to commute between his 50 outlying island posts in the South Sea. A Cali- fornia pilot whom Wakefield has taken with him, will fly the trader between his stations until he learns to pilot the plane himself. Flying conditions in the islands are ideal most of the year, Wakefleld says, and the island beaches are natural air- ports. His longest jump will be 100 miles to Papeete, the largest isle in the group, which has a population of 35,000. He expects his initlal flight over French Oceania, which is a lonely chain of coral atolls stretching 1,000 miles across the southern Pacific, to be a real sensation to the natives. VETERAN QUITS AIR AFTER 500 JUMPS Twenty Years’ Experience With Parachutes Recalled by Army Corps Master Sergeant. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (#).—Nearly 500 successful parachute jumps are enough for one liftime. ‘That's the opinion of Master Sergt. R. W. Bottriell of the Army Air who has quit leaping from airplanes and balloons after 20 years of it. Bottriell made his it jumps from balloons before the World War, when the parachute had not been considered part of an airplane’s safety equipment. He entered Army aviation in 1916, and made most of his jumps during the post-war period. A parachute instructor at Kelly Fleld now, Bottriell plans to confine his work on the ground. He is 43 years old. NOTED TEST PILOT IN U. S. Passaleva, Holder of 17 Records, to Join Aero Corporation. Alessandro Passaleva, noted Italian test pilot and holder of 17 world rec- ords for seaplanes, came to the United States last week to join the American Aeronautical Coporation, New York, Among l’aunlevnt’:s :ecord: is tha‘: for carrying the grea -pay load an altitude of 2,000 meters or 6,561 feet. He flew a load of 6,614 pounds to this height in _a - double-hulled Savoia- Marchetti boat. Passaleva made the official tests of planes used by De Pinedo, Ferrarin, Maddalena and De Barros in their notable flights. 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