Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 57

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHIN AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. private airplane owners is |plane, with a special. cabin built | bringing about a marked |in below for navigation equipment change in the design and and radio installation for sending A baggage com- ! MERICA'S growing legion of | high up in the forward end of the equipment ¢f American-built air- land receiving. craft, it was revealed at the recent | partment is in the extreme nose ! all-American aircraft show in | of the plane. Detroit. Lower prices, greater| Although there has been a pro- economy of operation, increased nounced trend toward the smaller comfort and more attractive de- |cabin type planes during the past sign and appointments are direct year, there are a number of in- results of this new influence. teresting new light planes of the The private pilot in this country jopen cockpit type now on the| is graduating from the open cock- market in this country. Among: t pit plan to the mcre comfortable the most novel of these types is|in accordance with legislation enacted cabin type and is demanding the the Aeromarine Klemm low—wlng‘, iefinements of design and equip- monoplane, developed abroad as! ment to which he has become ac- a sport plane for pilot and one customed as a motorist.. The in-|passenger. The plane originally creasing influence of the automo- |was designed as a glider and, hile on airplane design was one of | without motor, established several the outstanding developments ap- | world records. parent at the Detroit show. The fourth plane of this type Factors of beauty, comfort and |built for the market in this convenience, as was the case with |country recently visited the Na- the automobile, have become more | tional Capital. It was flown here important “selling points.” This /by D. K. Steele of Roanoke, Va., may be regarded as a wholesome |[on his way home from the New sign of progress, marking the Jersey factory. The writer was transition of the airplane industry |a passenger in the unique little from the experimental stage to ship in a flight from Bolling Field that of accepted dependability. to Washington Airport. The plane The fact that the private owner |is powered with a 40-horsepower has come to stress “eye appeal” |Salmson radial air-cooled engine factors seems to indicate a reason- | which sounded like a tea kettle able satisfaction with the more |humming contentedly away. important factors of design which| The low wing produces a pro- have to do with performance and |nounced cushioning effect when safety. gem' the ground, the plane coming & < s |down on a veritable blanket of Care in Interior Finishing. lair in landing. As a result, the Every cabin plane at the show,|plane has an exceptionally low it is said, revealed more care in landing speed—approximating 20 interior finishing than at any pre- | miles per hour, Steele said. vious show. The cabin interiors more closely resembled those of Produces Rovel Effects. closed automobiles, as to height,‘ rangement for visibility. The the ordinary plane,” Steele ex- Verville air coach, for example, |plained. “I stopped at Philade]—\ employs a special fuselage con-|phia on my way down here on|ground. An outline of all flying school struction which permits the in-|one of those hot days we had stallation of windows 40 inches|early in April. One of the pilots long on each side of the cabin,|there—a veteran in the conven- unbroken by parts of the fuselage | tional I.y]fe of plane—asked to fly | maintain such a standard of instruc- construction. Metal side paneling it and I let him take it up. similar to that used in automobile | “Because of the heat there were e “The low wing produces effects | fiying per week for transport students seating comfort and window ar-|which are novel to the pilot of | after their first 50 hours. The schools body construction is used. Cleaner design, brought about by the elimination of projections ! which interfere with the air flow |strong currents of heated air rising from the landing field. My | friend circled and came in to land | as if he were flying an ordinary | torily. as well as improvement of the type of plane. streamline, also was apparent in|to the field but the rising cur- many of the new models. Greater rents, combined with the cushion- attention to detail was indicated.|ing effect of the wing kept him One plane had a built-in tail |from landing. I was standing, light which formed the pointed close by as he swept along and| dual. Graduates of spproved schools rear end of the fuselage beneath | was able to see the expression o!{ the rudder. On the Monocoupe a | profound amazement that came new type of gas gauge was coupled | over his face when he found him- | directly with the tanks in the butt self unable to land. The plane end of the wings and located |was acting as a glider, drifting| within the cabin. Another Elane'a]ong with the motor cut off, the is equipped with a two-bank in- rising air off the hot field not | strument board; the flying in- only keeping it from landing but struments on the upper panel and |actually lifting it a little. the control instruments on a| “He turned on the motor and] lower panel eight inches nearer climbed up again, circling the| the pilot. Between the panels is field for a second attempt. This a map shelf, the whole arrange- time he came down at a little | port pilot's license. A transport pilot, ment proving neat, convenient steeper angle and faster. He then and economical of space. |shut off the motor as he had been The Boeing mail plane has a/accustomed to do with Other fitynes of ships other than those used new hinged step-plate folding into | planes and came on in for what the streamlining to accommodate | he expected to be a perfect three the mechanic in servicing the point landing. He reckoned with- ’ type of cabin plane which shall be not plane. Fine coach work, exterioriout his low wing, however, and shall be loaded to normal capacity beading lines to break the fuselage jupon nearing the ground the‘dum" these proscribed fights. In sde into panels for two-tone color | plane flattened out and began He settled down | students 18 hours' total fiyin RATINGS PROVIDED FOR AIR SCHOOLS | Flying Instruction to Be Im- proved by U. S. Regula- i tions for Courses. Flying school regulations providing | for the examination and rating of | civillan flying schools as to suitability and airworthiness of equipment. and competency of instructors, as a means of improving flying instruction through- out the United States, have been draft- ed by the Department of Commerce during the past session of Congress. The regulations, which have been | drafted with the 'co-operation of the flying school section of the Aeronau- tical Chamber of Commerce, call for ( three classifications of schools: * ing schools,” “ground schools” “ground and flying schools.” Approved fiying schools will be rated by the De- partment of Commerce as “private | pilots' flying schools,” “limited ~com- mercial pilots' flying schools” and “transport pilots’ fiying schools.” Under the new regulations all planes | used by approved flying schools must | be licensed by the Department of Com- { merce for that purpose. Approved schools must limit the number of students to not more than 15 per plane. Flying instructors will be limited to ! six hours of dual instruction work per | day and permitted to work not more | than six days a week. The regulations place a time limit on the duration of ! the courses. Time to Finish Courses. | Students must complete their courses | in_three months in the case of private | | pilot schools, six months for commer- | cial and 18 months for transport pilot I schools. This means that an approxi- mate average of two hours' fying and two hours’ ground ingruction per week will be necessary for private and lim- ited commercial school and three hours' must keep a record of each student’s flying time and instruction on the courses must also be submitted to the department for approval. Approved flying schools, under the new regulations, will be called upon to tion that 9 out of 10 graduates who apply for pilot licenses from the de- partment must pass the tests satisfac- A percentage of 5623 of the students accepted for instruction must graduate from the course. Private pilots’ schools must give their g time, 10 hours of which must be dual and eight hours solo. The limited commercial pilot’s classification calls for a total of 50 hours’ flying, of which not less than 15 hours nor more than 25 must be in this classification must have ex- perience on two different types of planes other than those used for primary dual instruction, one of which shall be a cabin type. Pilot School Standards. ‘Transport pilots’ = school . standards call for 200 hours of flying time of which not less than 35 nor more than 50 should be dual and check time and as such be counted toward the solo flying experience required for trans- according to the regulations, must have a minimum of 10 hours’ solo experi- ence in flying each of two distinct for primaty dual instruction. He shall also have 10 hours’ solo on at least one less than a 4-place type and which finishing, and other similar re- merrily gliding along the billows finements were features of other of hot air 10 feet over the field. | flying. p: | “The same thing happened & third time and on his fourth pass, in desperation, he came flying models. Features Standardized. fective. landing area in aiF directions, {. i D U T S e mm{:wuh Clear approaches, or it shal have mounting, fuselage construction, half way open and got jusf design and placing of landln,{‘enough of the cushioning effect| Gfc™% T RA ™ \anding in at least ear and other major structural to bring him down easily for a fmum have become somewhat |comfortable land\nf‘ He certainly st,andud;zed in l,fllanes ofd the Was one amazed pilot.” various classes. This standardiza- | i tion of engines mountings is held | Sale L by many engineers to be one of | Steele explained that the low| the important necessities. Im-|landing speed made it groper types of mountings, they |land safely in small fields. On old, may lead to excessive vibra- |his way from Baltimore to Wash- tion and structural weakening |ington, he said, his compass belngI landing strips to be at least 500 feet which will lead to serious trouble. |[out of order, he decided to pick | wide and not less than 3,000 feet in The Society of Automotive En- ‘(lmltl a fiood btl;loadhhighw.fi' tanfl]!flective length and not to cross or gineers, among others, is working | follow it, on the theory that all} the dimensions of the effective motor roads would lead to the Nancna]_l’m'n' ates and the effective lengths for the mounting. Improved types of shock ab- standardized | Capital. After 45 minutes of fly. ing, however, he saw nothing o ible $0| GiFection 'of the prevailing winds, per- dition to this a transport pilot shall bave 10 hours’ solo experience in night The minimum sized field &s outlined in the regulations for approved schools is one having at least: 2,000 feet B ef- ding strips not less than 500 feet eight directions at all times, the landing strips not to cross or converge at angles less than 40 degrees nor any one of the 1anding strips to be less than 2,000 feet in effective length with clear ap- proaches; or it shall have two land- | ing strips, one aligned with the general mitting at least four-way landings at all times and having clear approaches, the converge at an angle of less than 60 de- f the landing strips shall be increased t altitudes above 1,000 feet in accord- nce with accepted practice.” GTON. . C. APRIL 2. 1920 PART 4. Buy on a Sound Basis! We stand behind every Used Car bearing the Red Tag with an OK that counts’ Jor Economical Transporte. Here are a few examples to be found in today’s classified col- F YOU are in the market for a used car—come in umns advertised “with an OK that counts” 1927 CHEVROLET COUPE.|JCHEVROLET LANDAU, 1928, clean as new inside and out, slip covers, complete equipment, y excellent tires, mechanically per- WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS|fect and guaranteed. T o4 -~ | balance 12 months. COACH. This|\WITH AN OK TI Thoroughly reconditioned)/ throughout. Mechanically perfect. Good tires. Only $325. 1927 CHEVROL. is a real ‘good buy for someone. Fine condition and looks good. | CHEVROLE i 5 splendid Beautiful green good balloon _tires. advantage of this low price of S Good tires. $325. WITH AN OK 1928 Chevrolet ber one condition throughout. “Good paint, good tires, miechani- \\v]':j-;{ AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET, 1928 COUP cally OK. $425. 5 WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 2 = $ 1922 CHEVROLET COUPE. & and learn how completely we protect your pur- chase when you buy a used car from us! Our used car department is operated under the $175 cash, IAT CO! S UPE, 1926 throughout. Duco finish, 5 Better take condition Paint, tires and mechani- -| cally excellent. One of the best Good paint, good tires and me-|coupes we have had for some chanically OK.. Only $425. WITH AN OK THAT COUN 1928, CHEVRO, (Late). ped,”” bumpers, and. WITH AN OK THAT CO — CHEVROLET, 1926 ROADSTER, Here is an unusually fine p (Rumble | roadster. Very low mileage, com-|and mechanical condition equal to 1928 CHEVROLET CABRIOLET. | ¢375. Red, donvertible top Seat), pletely equipped, including dash- type motometer, clock, etc. We believe this car to be one of the most: desirable used cars we have ever had. Priced extremely low. ° WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1927 CHEVRQLET DAN. Original blue Duco finish like new, | mos. very good mechanically, has good tires and fully equipped. Spe- cial at $395 time, WITH AN OK THAT COUM k | CHEVROLT: . Looks like a new car,|Qriginal paint like new, tires ex- mechanicafly perfect, fully equip-| cetfent, spare tire. | ;" 1o Priced right, mileage under 5000, | WiTH necessary, WITH 1922 COACH. very cleaninterjor. See N OK THAT COUNTS Paint, tires, upholstery OK THAT COLH\T:S COACH, 1928 See this car any new or used car; $145 down, balance 12 Free driving lessons if N OK_THAT COUNTS SEDAN, 192. ROLE WITH ] INTS | Fully equipped ; used by very care- 1927 CH ACH, Has | ful driver; new Duco finish; $260. famous Red O.K. Tag system—developed by the Chevrolet Motor Company to protect the used car buyer. Under this plan, we attach to the radiator cap of every reconditioned car the famous Cheve rolet Red O.K. Tag—showing exactly what vital units of the car have been checked, or recondi- tioned by our expert mechanics. We believe that no fairer system of used car mer- chandising has ever been worked out—for it assures the customer honest value, as well as a dependable, satisfactory car. Due to the great popularity of the new Chevrolet Six, we have on hand at this time a wide selection of “O.K.d” used cars taken in trade on new cars, Come in and look them over. You are sure to find exactly the car you want at a price that will amaze you. And our terms are exceptionally easy. Turn to the classified section of this paper=see the many Used Car sorbers for the landing gear, ball- bearing tail wheel posts to make the planes responsive slightest turn while taxying, bronze oilless bearings throughout the control system, standardized instruments and instrument| panels and other details making| for comfort and convenience were noticeable. | One of the most interesting ex- | hibits at"the show was the por-| tion of the fuselage containing the passenger compartments and control section of the new 32-pas- senger four-motored Fokker transport plane now under con- this city and -brought the littl plane down beside a farmer, who was plowing his field. The startled to the | ier of the soil told him he had | house all airplanes used for instruction picked the road to Frederick, Md. With two more stops in farm lots for further directions, Steele Hangar and shop facilities call for sufficient hangar space to sufficiently | purposes and sufficlent equipment and | personnel to maintaif such’ planes in | an airworthy condition as required by | the air commerce regulations. The had the best of care. 5 good|Very easy terms, 5 balloon tires, bumpers. slip coy-| WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS ers and other extras. Finish fike BRIOLET, 1927. new. Mechanimlly ~excellent. : looks and’ runs $£335. H 50; terms. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS|WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS Values advertised “with an OK that counts” by the following X Chevrolet Dealers finally arrived here without fur-| total number of planes engaged in ac- ther incident. All three fields, he | tual instruction from a given field shall ?nld, were unsuitable {;)rlthe not exceed ‘}u planes pfi:fllo:h.?fr: aster conventional type of ane, | at any one time., Opera! though he had had no difficulty | limited solely to instruction during in- inhtting or ‘getting0f with ‘his | Strustlon petiods ‘where TunWAYS o0y i | are_a % liitle ship. [ *“Ine certificate of approval to be Another slightly larger and|issyed by the Department of Commerce more powerful type of open-cock- | will last for one year unless suspended pit low-wing monoplane, which is | or revoked for violation of the regula- being used to some extent for tions. It will be renewed upon satis- struction as the fore-runner of gtudent training, is being pro- a fleet of the huge planes to be dyced as an addition to the Fair- used in .transcontinental pas- child line of cabin planes. senger §erwlce, : Ay e fuselage is arranged w 1 in Ei s]eeglng accommodations similar E;‘;fop',},m?m&zr?”olted s‘co‘l:l!:iel tot lose ofba Pgllmanhcax;{ Uprper highly efficient types. and lower berths, each three feet i 1 e “are " eculnped ¢ with. these, the Avro-Avian, now is springs and mattresses. Berths training, cross country and gen: are provided for 16 passengers. As | era] utility work. The De Havi a day-liner the plane will carry 1a3nd Moth, another outstanding factory evidence that the school is in active operation and an inspection | satisfactory to an authorized represen- tative of the Department of Commerce The popularity of the light air- | ghouing that the school is maintaining the required standards. J. 8. Mariot will be in charge of the One of | fiying school regulation division for the Department of Commerce. G. G. full heing built in this country for | Budwig chief of the inspection division, asserted that flying school inspectors ould be ready to inspect schools ap- | plying for approved certificates by May 15. H-B CHEVROLET SALES, INC. 1209 Wisconsin Ave. N.W. WOLFE MOTOR CO. Silver Spring, Md. OURISMAN CHEVROLET SALES CO. COALE SANSBURY CHEVROLET SALES Upper Marlboro, Md. CAMP SPRINGS GARAGE Camp Springs, Md. OWENS MOTOR CO. MONTGOMERY COUNTY MOTOR CO., INC. Rockville, Md. BOYER MOTOR SALES Capitol Heights, Md. AERO AUTO CO. 32 passengers and a crew of four. pritish light plane, also is being | A 610 H St. N.E. ‘Will Be Monoplanes. produced in the United States. With hundreds of American fly- These airliners, the largest ever ing schools turning out classes of built in this country, will be licensed pilots and the manufact- | monoplanes, similar in general urers bringing the prices of planes | appearance to the present Fokkers down to a parity with the medium except that the motors will be in priced automobile, this country! 'AIR CORPS IS SHORT COMMISSIONED MEN, tandem under the wings and there may expect to see increasingly | Expansion Program, Now in Second will be no engine in the nose of |large numbers of private planes the fuselage. The passenger cabin flying the airways and making | will be 34 feet long. nine feet wide juse of the many hundreds of Year, Provides for 1,650 Per- and more than eight feet high The pilot's cockpit is placed STUDENTS OVERRUN | municipal airports which dot the Nation from coast to coast. 'NAVAL FLYING BOAT manent Officers. i T | With the second year of the operation of the Air Corps’ five-year expansion program in progress, there still remains a shortage in the commissioned comple- CHICAGO AIRPORT PREPARED FOR TESTS 7't i i G"he sveyear progmam CHICAGO (#)—A busy commercial airport is no campus for undergraduate £yers, according to Walter W. Wright, director of the department superintend- ing the municipa! Janding field here Student pil e da gesting the thirds of all aircraft parting from the fi Ma re student training planes. 2,324 student flights, while mail planes made 360 stops routes use the field, plain that the studen hovering over the fleld often force their ships to fiy about over the airport for for landing. the old mail field at Maywood for stu- cent planes and translents, Following reconstruction of the tail section and fin of the big Navy consoli dated flying boat, XPY-1, at the Ana costla Naval Alr Station, final flying tests of the big plane, which is said to be the largest flying boat in the United States. will be made. Guns and other ordnance equipment are being installed | for these tests. The XPY-1 was built in accordance | cqdets. There were With the winning design in the Navy's | Corps and detailed to the Air Corps, 84 e Air Crops should have, according {to law, a total of 1,650 permanent offi- cers, 550 Reserve officers on active duty, 14,500 enlisted men and 500 flying adets. At the time when the Air Corps’ xpansion program was epacted into {low there were slightly more than 900 | officers in the fiying arm of the Regular Army. | As of Pebruary 28, 1928, there were |in the Air Corps a fotal of 10,991 ‘en- {listed men, which included 399 flying Of the 1,111 officers in the Air 1928 flying boat competition. Extensive | were students who were taking fying tests have been conducted by Navy |training. Actually, however, there were Commercial planes fiying scheduled Dilots at Anacostia, resulting in the|on that date 1,027 commissiofied offi- of the stabilizer and fin. Dying scheduled order for strengthening of the tail sec- | ory 1 the Alr Corps, of mhich 18 wer 1t *hipe circling and tion of the hull and more rigid bracing | hon-flyers. ps, of which 16 were Seventy:seven members of the 1928 Radlo tests have been completed on | Military Academy class indicated a half an hour before runways are clear | the XPS-2 at the Anacostia station, | preference to enter the aviation branch |and the plane also was tested for sta- |of the Army, and it is expected that as A plan 15 under way to rehabilitate bility, after which it was flown to the |representative a group will express a Philadelphia naval aircraft factory for ' similar desire to enter aviation from the tn ansfer to thie ayplane carrier Lapgley. . ciass that will graduate this June, 13th St. & Good Hope Rd. S.E. Anacostia, D. C. BARRY-PATE MOTOR CO. 1218 Connecticut Ave. 2525 Sherman Ave. with an 6323 Georgia Avenue R. L. TAYLOR MOTOR CO. 14th and T Sts. N.W. BETHESDA MOTOR CO. Bethesda, Md. 1101 King St., Alexandria, Va. Wilson Blvd. and Holly St. Clarendon, Va. LUSTINE-NICHOLSON MOTOR CO. Hyattsville, Md.