Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 65

=R SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MAY 5 MODEL ARPORTS NEEDS OUTLINED Hotel, Restaurant and Rapid Transit to City Held Basic Necessities. ‘ i } Requirements for the modern_ airport have been defined by a group of 24 ex- perts in practical aeronautics, archi- tecture, engineering and city planning in drawing up specifications for the national Lehigh airports competition which now is being held to produce plans for a model airport suitable for construction in all parts of the country. The committee, which has func- tioned as a fact-finding body, has found that to meet present-day needs the modern airport should have a pas- senger terminal which will bear com- parison with a railway terminal, a hotel, restaurants, parking space for automobiles and airplanes, rapid tran- BOMBER TO MAKE LONG REFUELING FLIGHT Lessons of the world’s record flight of the Army transport plane Question Mark last January will be applied to a The big piane will be refueled in flight from an Army plane which will be sent up -range refueling bomb attack to be made nmext month by an Army L-B-7 bombing plane, of the type shown here, which will fly from Dayton, Ohio, to New York, “bomb” the city and return to Dayton, a distance of more than 1,501 miles, without landing. town, Pa., to meet it on th= outgoing and return trips. from Midd! sit connection with the adjacent city, up-to-date hangars, and an_eflective landing area of at least 3,500 feet in all directions. | Hotel Facilities. | Hotel facflities should provide for | not less than 50 guest rooms and a suitable dining room and lobby space. | There may be shops and stores in con- nection with the building. Since in-| come for the airport must be derived in | part from the thousands of visitors | normally drawn to such fields, the com- mittee reported, unused land (‘onlrollrdi by the airport may be developed with | park spaces, small playgrounds, out-| door restaurants and other similar fea. tures. ruled, provision must be made for fu- ture expansion which will at out requiring the removal or abandon- ment of any of the original elements. “The passenger terminal, with a pas- 2,500 square feet floor area,” the com- mittee stated, office, a small area for handling freight | and mail, office space for the trafic (f manager and for executives of the air transport companies, rooms for pilots | commanding an outlook over the entire fiying area. The first commercial use of the new |bany. | ethylene glycol cooling fluld for avia- In design and arrangement of the tion engines of the water-cooled type various airport units, the committee | poo peen made at Mitchel Field, N. Y., | urtiss Falcon, using the fluid, double the capacity of all units with- | easily outflew a similar plane with the old water system. The Falcon is said |to be the senger concourse and waiting room of |equipped to use the glycol compound. A com-| yse of the new cooling liquid per- | “should have a ticket mitteq a reduction in frontal area of he radiator by four-fifths and reased the speed of the plane, by re- duction of the wind resistance. by 8 L and radio operators, and a control room | ;;’,’v‘,';fg,:"f;‘g: ;a‘,‘,"‘,‘»"““ i o The fluid was developed by Army research workers at the Army Regular Terminal Facilities. | Corps e i 14 provide all | Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio, where it The terminal also shoultt provide all |, CB L o ppiied to military engines. including public tele- | = | space having a minimum gross area for “An important essential in the mod- |airplane storage of 50,000 square feet. The hangar should have small office | space for executives controlling the normal accessories of a railway pas- senger station, phones, telegraph office, newsstands and similar concessions. ern airport is to provide safe access for | NEW COOLING FLUID TESTS SUCCESSFUL o Ethylene Glycol Compound Found |plan extension-of their New York-Al- to Add Speed in Mitchel . Field Trials. least | where a Ci commercial | MONTREAL ON AIR LINE. Seaplane Service, York-to-Albany, Extended. NEW YORK (#).—Ceastal Airways {U. S. RANKS SE IN AIRPLANE Germany Carries More New bany seaplane passenger service to | Lake George and Montreal, beginning May 30. The original schedule, planned for | operation on that day, called for two | | daily trips between New York and Al- | Under the new schedule the| morning flight from New York will be extended to Montreal and the afternoon [ by any other country witl flight to Lake George. tion of Germany, accord in World. P, port Association. The association says t mately 85,000 people wert |SPORTSMAN HAS ANSWER | plane Long Island Man Has Spent $41.84 . xi . that number, The report quotes the for Repairs in Fi ! A B European figures as follow: NEW YORK (#).—William H. Hooker, | 110.000; Austria, 5 Bayside, Long Island, sportsman, has|10.965; Italy, 15 the answer to the cost of operating a | 165: Poland, 659 light sport plane for personal use. Switzerland, 14,283. “Is it the original cost or the upkeep in- Air laboratories at friends until he kept a five-month rec- ord of all expenses to protect himself against future question barrages. I lets them judge for hemselves. approximate 26,000 and G: In five months his light plane con- |24,000.” sumed 393 gallons of gasoline and 5% | gallons of oil. He flew it 79 hours and | 29 minutes during that time and had | Agre; on Joint Op COND TRAVEL Passengers Than Any Other Nation More passengers were transported by air in the United States last year than | h the excep- ing to a re- port made by the American Air Trans- hat approxi- e carried on | the 1 ted i dadil, TO-PLANE UPKEEP COST. |32, Jus= pezicd oo, ueuir suly e |of those making “joy hops” and who chartered planes for special trips would most recent “Germany, 77;_Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, 17.- Sweden, 1928 figures for France and Great Britain were not that constitutes your greatest expense?” | Obtainable, but in 1927 they were 21,000 was the question asked Hooker by his |for Prance and 19,935 for Great Britain. Conceding to France and Great Britain the average increase found in other He | countries, France'’s 1928 figures would 14,948; reat Britain's eration, RPORTS FACTOR - INLISTIN ROUTES ered in Locating Lines for Air Transportation. tance will touch cities having the best ;llrpon facilities, passing by others less Iwell equipped, according to studies of | current developments made by the | American Air Transport Association. There now are so many cities boasting airport facilities that transport lines are able to exercise considerable lati tude in their choice of routes, it wa pointed out. There are now 1,531 airports operat- ing in the United States and less than 10 per cent of them are on the regular - [air mail and passener-toutes, the as- sociation has announced. Substance of Report. The report points out that the large number of airports and landing fields off the regular airways is the best proof possible that air transport in this coun- try is scheduled for enormous growth “Those communities,” says the as: ciation, “which, though not now re ing air mail and air passenger service from the regularly operated lines, are showing a splendid foresightedness in that where airports are located ane f\mctmninf. the air transport operator, { sooner or later, is bound to come. Cities and towns are looking forward to tl day and are urging it along with offers of free facilites for airlines and a swamping the Postoffice Department with requests for air mail service. The Washington authorities have many ap- plications on file and they are backed in most instances by Chambers of Com- merce and other civic bodles who offer to fill the plane cockpits with mail if | the department, will-place them on the | routes. Plea Made by the Dakotas. “North and South Dakota cities, which have no service, are among_the sections most insistent that direct air mail be made available to them. A line from Fargo to Omaha bisecting both | States from north to south has been proposed and has the backing of the | varfous municipal agencies. The postal | authorities have not announced addi- tional routes with the exception of a line between Louisville and Dallas, Tex., for which bids will shortly be asked, Cities along these and other prospective routes, passenger as well as mail, have busy airports today, due to private en- | Best Facilities to Be Consid- | Future air routes of national impor- | 11929—PART & CAPT. HOWARD \WASHINGTON AIRPORT MANAGER | Connected With Air Line in Executive Capacity Since November. Veteran in Lifelong Resident of City. Appointment of Capt. Howard Norris, veteran Army Alr Corps pilot and life- long resident of this city, as manager of Washington Airport was announced last night by Robert E. Funkhouser, resident of the airport and the Wash- ngton-New York Air Line. Capt. Norris has been connected with the air line in_ an executive capacity since last November. He has been acting as alrport manager of the Washington Airport, at the south end of Highway Bridge, for about two weeks, Born in this city, Capt. Norris was educated in the local public_schools, | | Emerson Institute and George Washing- | Air Corps Reserve in 1923, and in June, | ton University, from which he was grad- uated just before the war. He entered the Army Air Service in July, 1917, remaining in the service until 1923. During that period he served as in- Army Service and| NORRIS NAMED| | i | | l | | | CAPT. HOWARD NORRIS. | structor at Seltridge Field, Mich., and | Lake Charles, La. | He was commissioned a captain in the | 1927, was called back to active duty as an instructor at Hazlehurst and Mitchel Fields and as adjutant at Mitchel Field. | He resigned last November to join the | Washington-New York Air Lines. +'MIDGET FLYERS ARE “REQUIRED -FOR NEW HIGH-SPEED PLANES| By the Associated Press. Speed planes of the futare, zooming through the air at an anticipated rate of 400 to 600 miles an hour, may have to be piloted by “jockeys.” These super-speed planes must pre- sent as little surface for air resistance as possible. ‘Their engines will be %o small in frontal area and the stream- lining so perfect that the cockpit will be too small for any one with much physical structure. Consequently, the pilots may be little fellows who fast and sweat off weight just as jockeys who keep a leg up on the Nation's best horses must do. Rumors, which are always more per- terprise which has started air taxi, crop dusting, aerial photography and short- hop passenger businesses, all of which are augmented by the activities of pri- ;s(,e flyers whose numbers grows larger aily.” | sistent than they are dangerous, have it| that England and Italy—two of thel strongest_contenders for Schneider cup honors this year—will choose pilots of “low_frontal area” for their special speed jobs this year. America’s only possible entry in the Schnelder cup event, Lieut. Al Williams of the Navy, does not have the jockey- like characteristics of future speed pi- |Tots, but many enthusiasts believe his | extraordinary ability as a speed-plane pilot will go a long way toward bring- ing the record to America if he can develop a capable plane. Lieut. Wil- [liams weighs 190 pounds without flying;, | togs. Seaplane hangars and servicing facil- ities have been provided on the Dela- ware River at Essington, Pa., the Navy Hydrographic Office has announced. The base has runways, hangars and a machine shop. CHEAP FLYNG DUE- N FANLY PLAN Gasoline Promised—Car- ries 4 Passengers. COLORADO SPRINGS (#).—A ca monoplane, designed to meet the n of The average American family by fl ing 20 miles on a gallon of gasoline 110 miles an hour, is ready for proy «duction here on a “plane a day" basig It accommodates four persons and ¢ log, which its builders have found to by *he size of the average American familyt Equipped with a 100-horsepower enging the plane has flown 130 miles an houwy at full throttle and cruises at 111 mileg an hour. J. Don Alexander, president of thy worporation producing the plane. says it§ ‘market is limited only by the numberg of fathers and sons who are capablq Pilots. It is estimated that the numb; of private plane pilots will be increass by more than 1,000 in 1929. Air Resistance Cut. Named the Eaglerock Bullet, i designers have employed several recentl developed features designed to cut down planes’ resistance to the air and increase their performance, _ The cabin has been designed to give it a bullet-like streamlining. while the landing gear folds into streamlined f vockets beneath the fuselage while the plane is in flight. It employs a low cantilever monos plane wing, which its designers say increases safety in case of a bad land< ing or mishap. and adds to the plane’s easy flying ability. Has Two Fuel Tanks. ‘Two fuel tanks holding 40 gallons of gasoline are in the wings. They are said to be sufficient for a flight of from 600 to 800 miles, depending upon wind conditions. Shatter-proof glass windows permit five-direction visibility from the pilot’s seat. A large window over the pilof head makes possible a split-second paras chute exit in case of an emerency. The landing gear is visible to the pilot whether it is drawn up or ready for use. A double safety lock keeps it in its landing position. It is drawn up by a hand wheel, and when the pilog wishes to land he releases it by a trige ger. The gear locks itself in position automatically. passengers, protected from the weather; fo loading points for transport air-|storage and maintenance of planes, for | the engine running on the ground 24 lanes, and separate egress, with simi- |a tool room end a locker room. There| hours and 17 minutes. For miscella- ar protection from arriving plancs to | should also be facilities for housing fire | neous repairs and materials incident to ‘The cities of Gallipolis, Ohio, and Mount Pleasant, W. Va., have reached an agreement to jointly operate the the incoming portion of the waiting apparatus, one ambulance, and the per- | upkeep, Hooker spent $41,84. Flying at | present Gallipolis airport, which will | emergency | 90 miles an hour he estimates his dis- itance flown at 7,165 miles. be known in the future as the “Twin the ! 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