Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1929, Page 57

THE SUNDAY STAR; WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 26; 1929—PART 4 FUANS ONPLETED FOR GARDNER RACE Twenty Fh_(ers to Compete in St. Louis Contest Tues- day and Thursday. ST. LOUIS, May 25.—Detailed plans for the Gardner trophy race for com- mercial airplanes to be held here Tues- day and Thursday were announced yes- terday by Russell E, Gardner, jr., motor | manufacturer. Twenty fiyers have | signed up for the race. Parks Airport s to be the scene of the big air event, which is actively sponsored by the air board of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, Gardner and his brother, Fred W. Gardner, automobile manu- acturers, have given cash prizes of | $10,000 in addition to donating a huge / silver cup for the event. 3 { The race is to be divided into two phases, the first being a five-fold elim- ination contest from which the con- testants will be selected for the second phase. Strictly a speed event, with no limitation on design of contesting planes, the race has only one restric- (tlon for contenders. That is, that no ‘contesting engine shall be of more than 800 cubic inches displacement. a rule which allows entry of motors up to and including the size of the famous Wright ‘Whirlwind engine. Will Start on May 28. The first phase of the contest con- #ists of five separate and distinct races from the following starting or control points: Buffalo N.. Y. Jacksonville, ¥la.; San Antonio, Tex.; Denver, Colo., and Fargo, N. Dak. Contestants may elect to race to St. Louis from any of the points which are chosen so that pilots may have a starting point as close as possible to their home airport. ‘The contenders will be started from each of these control points at 5 am., St. Louis time, on May 28. The first to arrive at Parks Airport will be declared the winner of his division. Each of the five preliminary races carries a first prize of $750 and & second prize of $250. $5,000 for Fastest Time. The second phase of the race is open to the winners of the first and second places in_the preliminary races. a total of ten planes. On May 30 they will take off from Parks Airport. race to Indianapolis, turn a pylon there over the Speedway during the Memorial day race, and swing back toward St. Louis. The fiyer who makes the round trip in the fastest time wins the $5,000 put up for the final race. A special Memorial day program has been planned to entertain the crowd durjng the period, probably between three and four hours, in which the con- testants will be on the race route be- tween St. Louis and Indianapolis. The Gardner trophy race has been officlally sanctioned by the National sAeronautic Association, and is one of the major seronautical events on the national program for 1929. e RAILROAD SCHEDULE SPEEDED BY PLANES Chicago & Northwestern Line Adds Sky Ships to Service to Quicken Travel. CHICAGO (#).— The Chicago & North Western Railway is the first of the great Western lines to link the air- plane with its service. Six hours are cut from the schedule from Midwestern cities to the Black Hills h a rail-air tie-up with the Rapid Air-lines of Huron, S. Dak. From Huron a 385-mile hop is made to Rapid City in the Dakota mountain land. Five other towns, Watertown, Plerre, Deadwood, Lead and Belle Fourche, are included in the service from Huron, and more cities may be added with the opening of the tourist seaso! Except the Santa Fe, which is 10 be linked into the Pennsylvania- Transcontinental Air Transport Line acrass the country, other Western roads have been silent on their air plans. ‘The Union Pacific and the Burlington repeatedly have been mentioned as contemplating air connections, but all rumors have been denied. ‘The Stout Air Service here has an- mnounced a hookup with the North Shore Electric Line, which operates between Chicago and Milwaukee, for a joint air- rail route from Milwaukee to Detroit. ‘The 385-mile trip is to be made in five and a half hours. This is the first elec- tric railway-air combination to be announced. ' 17,024 POUNDS OF MAIL FLOWN DAILY IN APRIL Planes Travel More Than 1,000,000 | Miles in Month, 500,000 at Night. Air mail planes in April carried a daily average of 17,024 pounds of letters, and during the month flew more than a million miles, half of it at night, according to figures compiled by the American Air Transport Association. The daily average is the greatest ever obtained by the air mail service, with the exception of December, 1928, | which had the benefit of large | Christmas mallings. The total of : 523414 pounds marks the third time that planes have carried more than half a million pounds during one month. Nearly 50 per cent, or 249,667 pounds, was flown over the 2,680-mile trans- | ' continental airway, which recently re- vised its schedules to give 32-hour | ; office-to-office mail delivery between | the coasts. In its report the associa- tion points out that during the two weeks the Transcontinental has been | flying twice instead of once a day, poundage has greatly increased; due to | the completion of lighting between Salt Lake City and San Francisco, permit- «ting planes to fly over the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas at night. Elected Aircraft Director. Election of C. L. Offenstein, former | chief of the engineering section of the | aeronautics branch of the Department | of Commerce, to the board of directors | of the Gates Aircraft Corporation of New York, has been announced here. Mr. Offenstein at one time was acm-‘ nautical engineer at the Philadelphia | Naval Aircraft Factory. He will serve | with the New York corporation as a consulting engineer. Air Races to Be in August. CLEVELAND, O. (#)—Cleveland has | formed a corporation to finance and ‘migyihge the 1929 national air races in Which 10 types of planes are entered, | and a nonstop race from the Pacific | Coast to the Cleveland airport will be a feature of the competition. The races are scheduled for August 24 to Septem- ber 2. S Phoenix Airport Lighted. The Scenic Airways, Inc., has com- pleted plans to light its airport at Phoenix, Ariz. Standard equipment . will be utilized for the beacon, boun- dary, flood and obstruction lights. Two Average Distance For Letters 'Sent By Air 1,400 Miles The average airmail letter travels a distance of 1,400 miles and is flown by three different pilots during its journey, accord- ing to & survey recently com- pleted by the American Air Trans- port Association. ‘The association, whose mem- bers fly more than 90 per cent of the country’s commercial air mileage, reports that there is a generally observed rule that no pilot in mail passenger work shall fly more than 500 miles in a sin- gle trip, relinquishing his controls at the end of this time to another pilot, who takes it on the next 500-mile leg. Each pilot spends less than five hours in the air at a time and seldom leaves his regular route. Constant flying of one airway makes him thoroughly familiar with every landmark and pos- sible emergency landing field and raises the safety factor to the highest possible point. 'AKRON ZEP FACTORY STRANGE STRUCTURE Ends Peel Like an Orange—Walls and Roof Form Para- bolic Arch. AKRON, Ohio (#).—One of the world's largest and strangest bujldings, with ends that peel like an orange, is being erected at the Akron airport to house two titans of the air, dirigibles greater than any in existence. The building is the Goodyear-Z-p- pelin airship factory and dock where the glant sky liners will be built for the United States Na The Woolworth Building and the Washington Monument both could be placed inside it, end to end, with room to spare. It is about a city block wide. From the top it looks like half of the gas bag of one of the Zeppelins to be built in it. The ends are rounded, and walls and roof form a parabolic arch. The unusual form was adopted to offer the least resistance to air currents and eliminate wind eddies at ends, perilous to dirigibles. Built entirely of steel, the entire structure is on rollers, which allow it to expand and contract freely with changing temperatures. Doors at either end for entrance of the airships are quarters of a globe. Known as the “orange peel” type, they are mounted on wheels which run on tracks with a radius of 200 feet. Four 125-horsepower engines move the four great doors. each weighing 600 tons. The building has only one floor, eight and a half acres in area. The hanger will be 205 feet high, 325 feet wide and 1,175 feet long. The building, rev- olutionary in hanger design, was plan- ned under supervision of Dr. Karl N. Arnstein, vice president and chief engineer of the Goodyear Corporation. BEACON LIGHTS REQUIRED. Air Transport Association Reports Confusions Due to Failure. Business concerns and individuals who have erected airway beacons as guides to night air mail pilots must now keep such aids to aerial naviga- tion lighted from dusk to dawn every ht. n’g‘he American Air Transport Asso- ciation reported that much confusion on the airways has resulted, due to some private aeronautical lights hav- ing been operated only a few hours each evening. 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Forty-three technical papers to be read by aviation leaders will touch every phase of aeronautical develop- ment and research from flight instruc- | tion to aircraft structural analysis and the application of radio to aircraft operation, Well known authorities of both Europe and America will attend, and | the meeting has been characterized by | Victor J, Azbe, general chairman, as “the most comprehensive in the history | of aviation.” | Among those who will be heard are | Vilhjalmur Steffanson, famous Arctic explorer; Prof. Hugo Junkers, German manufacturer; Willlam P. MacCracken, Aeronautics Secretary of the Depart- ment of Commerce; Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl of the Lakehurst (N. J.) Naval Air Station; Jimmy Doolittle, Army fiyer and holder of many records, and numerous other American and for- eign experts. Guggenheim a Guest. Daniel Guggenheim of the Daniel | Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics will be a guest and will be presented the first “Spirit of St Louis” gold medal, by which the so- clety in the future will reward out- standing service in the promotion of aviation. ‘The convention committee is con- ducting a nation-wide poll to deter- mine the identity of 12 now obscure but meritorious contributors to the progress of aviation, who will be pre- sented with gifts of recognition. A list of 85 flyers has been prepared, and their ranking will be determined by balloting. Miss Amelia Earhart, the woman transatlantic flyer; Miss Herta Junkers, daughter of the German manufacturer; Miss Thea Rascha, the German avia- trix, and Lady Mary Heath of England have been invited to speak. In connection with the meeting will be a commercial aircraft exhibit for American manufacturers. Another event will be the $10.000 Gardner trophy races of May 28 and 30. Air Passengers Insured. Insurance of airplane passengers has been_introduced on_the Czechoslovak Air Navigation Co. lines, according to advices to the Department of Com- merce, the price of the premium being included in the fare. In order to es- tablish & uniform rate a special com- any was organized in which soveral urance companies participatc, Indianapolis on Air Line. Stout Field, Indianapolis’ municipal airport, has been definitely selected by Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., &s a stop and operating base on its trans- continental route. Recent developments have made the airport adequate for large transport plane operations, Fur- ther improvements are planned. —_— Manufactured gas is still mainly. de- pended upon in Paris for: fiifia. 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The airplane now is in_general use of the court, and officials of the district attorney’s office and the United States I/s éeam‘% a TRIUMPH of modern IGN ITS ACTION A TRIUMPH OF SLEEVE-VALVE ENCY HEN you sce the new style Willys- Knight ¢70-B,” ciate that its designers are artists of long cxperience in the custom car field. For only men with such knowledge and mastery could have made this low-priced so outstanding a style you readily appre- Aside from being the most beautiful, the new “70-B” is also the largest and most powerful Willys-Knight ever offered at Its motor, of course, is the patented double sleeve-valve engine—the simplest and most efficient of power plants, notable for rugged stamina, high uniform compression and The sturdy, seven-bearing crankshaft of the “70-B” effects smooth performance, frame construction The first official trip was made by | It was the | STYLE marshal's office make frequent trips to remote sections to bring in prisoners and witnesses. 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ULDING larendon, V Associate Dealers MOTOR CO, & NATIONAL AIR TOUR GRANTED SANCTIOR Fifth Annual Event Backed by Edsel Ford to Start | October 5. The Aeronautical Chamber of Com- | | merce has amounced the grant of a | sanction for the fifth annual national | | alr tour, sponsored by Edsel B. Ford. | The tentative route for the tour, | | scheduled to start October 5, at the | | Ford alrport, Detroit, and terminate | there October 21, includes 28 cities in 20 States and two Canadian provinces. | Hawks to Referee. | Capt. Ray Collins of Detroit will be manager of the 1929 tour, with Capt. | Prank M. Hawks, holder of West-to- East non-stop transcontinental airplane record, as referee. Capt. Hawkes com- | peted in two of the reliability tours and | last year placed second as pilot of a | tri-motored plane. | The Aeronautical Chamber of Com- | merce granted a sanction for the 1929 tour through its show committee at the | request of William B. Mayo, chief en- | gineer of the Ford Motor Co., who is | chairman of the tour. Itinerary Listed. ‘The 1929 tour will cover approxi- | mately 4,400 miles, according to Capt. Collins' present plans, with stops in the following cities: Windsor, Toronto, Ot tawa, Montreal, Portland, Me.; Boston, Mass.; New Yory City, Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore, Md.; Richmond, Va.; Charlotte, N. C.; Greenville, Savannah, Gi Jacksonville, L3 Macon, Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn,; Louisville, K. Kansas City, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; Wausau, waukee, Moline, Iil.; Chicago, | Kalamazoo, Mich. and’ Detroit. | Capt. Collins says that entries in this | year’s tours will be limited to bona fide aircraft manufacturers to the ex- clusion of companies seeking to ad- vertise their products with “flying bill- boards.” An official observer of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce will accompany the flyers on the tour. PLANES DUST COTTON. Curtiss Flying Service Inaugurates System of Six Planes. HOUSTON, Tex.—Extensive airplane | dusting of cotton crops in Texas and the Southwest has been begun by the Cur- | tiss Flying Service with the operation of the first of a fleet of six new dusting planes. The first ship, a Command-aire bi- plane, equipped with a Curtiss Chal- lenger 170-horsepower radial air-cooled engine, has been operated by Eddie Bond, pilot. The five remaining planes are now en route to Texas, where they will be equipped with dusting hoppers. 4,346 AIRPLANES MADE IN UNITED STATES IN 1928 Tctal Output of American Factories for Year Is Estimated at $43,812,318. Aircraft factories of the United Gtates turned out 4,346 land, sea and amphibian planes last year, valued at $43,812,318, according to figures com- piled by the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce from reports of aircraft manufacturers representing 95 per cent of the industry. At the same time 164 aircraft, valued !at $507,670, were rebuilt or reassem- bled. No figures were available for com- parison with former years except those of ihe Census Bureau, which placed production for 1927 at 1,888 land planes, valued at $12,224979, and 107 sea- planes, valued at $2,280,020. \FLORIDA EAST COAST MAY GET NEW ROUTE Night Air Mail Service to North Is Predicted by Capt. W. S. Kenyon. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (#)—Capt. | William Seth Kenyon, airways extension superintendent of the United States De- partment of Commerce Bureau of Light~ houses, told the Florida state commeree chamber recently that east cosst Florida cities will be linked in a night airmail service to northem points within a year. Mail time in the night service will be requced 12 or 13 hours between Miami and New York, Captain Kenyon explained. He was making a survey of the east coast preparatory to the in- stallation of beacon lights at 10-mile intervals along the route, and said that order for his survey indicated the Post Office Department already had request- ed night service along the route. He estimated that nine cities be- | tween Jacksonville and Miami would become intermediate ports on the night service route. | NEW YORK (#).—Formal acquisition of the Aircraft Control Corporation of Philadelphia by the Consolidated Instru- ment Co. of America, Inc., marks the third merger engineered by Consolidated interests in the last three months in the airplane navigation and meteorological field and Molded Insulation Co., Mount Vernon, N. Y., has been acquired. = e Oregon Airport Authorized. Salem, Oreg., voters have authorized the expenditure of $50,000 for a mu- nicipal airport program. 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