Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1929, Page 66

10 BATISH DIRGBLE TES ORAVS AR First Flight of Giant Craft Expected to Be Made Next Month. B the Associated Pr BOWDEN, England, June 1-—Some time in July, if shed trials scheduled for the early part of the month satisfy | experts of the British air ministry, the new 100-passenger dirigible R-100 will east off on its fl | Five million feet of hydrogen gas will be e great airship bags when it d. The dir gible then, withot from its immense hangar, will be subjected to | tests of its lifting power and equilib- | Fium. 1 cubi 1o t con ped Is Size of Mauretani size of the Several trial expected bef transatlantic ise to Montreal ) 1 take her to| ¢ Cardington, | ): Bedfordshue, | s ship, the R-101, w;].\‘ ven shed tests | bes‘rjaw?nenu made in Parliament by | Sir Saumel Hoare, secretary of state for air, have been effect the R-100 and the R-101 w on long nee cruises this_ R-100 to Canada and the R-1 dia. Egypt and possi Australia Completion of the two ships comes at than originally ex- | | Fall 01 to In- | | east a year later X Ipecmu, YBut, 8« pointed out by Sir Bamuel, both represent a great step forward in size and embody novel prin- ciples of design which must be worked put with certainty rather than haste. Has Six Motors. ch of the dirigibles is approxi- mamolély 7200 feet long, with an estimated | speed of 66 knots and a cruising speed ©of 53 knots over a range of 4,000 nau- ical miles. s The power plant on the R-100 con- sists of six Rolls-Royce engines capable ©of developing 4,200 horsepower, and the accommodations include a 65-by-35-foot Public room big enough for a dance. Mooring towers in_ England, Egypt. India, Canada, Australia and South Africa are contemplated as part of the organization for empire flights to be undertaken by the new dirigibles and | their successors in British lighter-than- FRANGE T0 5N CRACK FLYER Group Will Participate in Air Races in Honor of the Late Ambassador. In tribute to the memory of the late Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, the French government has been invited to send to this country a formation of its crack military fiyers to participate in the 1929 national air races and aero- nautical exposition ;g Czlevellnd from August 24 to September 2. ’Lg't‘lle invitation, extended by Maj. John D. Marshall of Cleveland, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Clifford Henderson, managing director of the races, was received here by Maj. Georges Thenault, French military attache, and has been forwarded by him to the French government. Cleveland was the home of Ambassa- dor Herrick, who represented this coun- try in France for many years, and it is believed that the French government will send several of that country's most noted pilots. Their participation would lend an international aspect to the races, which in the past have been purely national in character. Though the races are still nearly three months away, more than 100 air- plane manufacturing and accessory companies have applied for space in the exposition, which will be held in Cleve- land’s new $10,000,000 municipal audi- torium. Flying activities will be staged at the municipal airport, which is undergoing _extensive alterations, in- cluding erection of a grandstand for 30,000 spectaters. SIGN 20-YEAR LEASE FOR AIRPORT SITE Curtiss-Caproni Corporation Will Develop 25-Acre Tract at Dundalk, BALTIMORE, June 1.—A 20-year- lease has been signed by the city and the Curtiss-Caproni Corporation, air- plane manufacturers, for 25 acres of the new municipal airport at Dundalk. Terms call for the payment of $15,000 rental annually for 20 years, after which the property will be revalued and terms for a lease for a similar period arranged. The work of erecting buildings for the manufacture of large seaplanes will be started at once, and the plant is ex- pected to be in operation by the first of the year. The company has assets of more than $4.000.000, of which $2,000,000 is in cash in banks. Capt. G. C. Westervelt, who will be in charge of the local plant, which will cost $1.000,000 and employ between 1,500 and 2.000 men, was manager of the ‘naval aviation factory at Philadels | phia from 1919 until last vear. He be- came interested in aviation prior to the World War and was one of the first Navy men to win his wings FOURTH AIR LINE AIM. St. Louis Seeks Direct Connection With ST. LOUIS tion of the Omaha_ai gives St s Eastern Seaboard. June 1 (#).—Inaugura- | St. Louis-Kansas Cil d passenger route its third air line and links the city to the Pacific Coast. Now a fourth line giving direct connections with the Eastern seaboard is sought. The new service, operating daily, con- { nects with the transcontinental line at Qmaha, placing St. Louis 23 hours by air from the West Co Another line extends into the Southwest and the third operates to Chicago “Pusher” Monoplane Holds Six. An interesting reversion to type in the | airplane fleld 15 a new English six- seater monoplane of the “pusher” type, built by Lieut. Col. G. L. P. Henderson to sell at a reasonable price. In this machine the occupants &it in front of the motor and out of the “slipstream” or propeller blast. | Mass Production Gains. Some conception of the mass produc- | tion factor which has now entered the aircraft industry may be gained from the fact that one American concern alone is now making more than 4,000 aircraft engine magnetos per month, in the morning, BRITISH DIRIGIBLE TRIALS NEAR When the new British n the upper drawing. The craft is | shed, shows a portion of the interior of the hull. AERIAL COMMUTER COVERS WIDE AREA Ruxton Man Makes Regular Trips Between Baltimore and New Freedom in Plane, BALTIMORE, Hudekoper, president June Pa., and who lives at Ruxton, Baltimore’s first aerial commuter. ‘Huidekoper has purchased an “aerial chauffeur” and commutes regularly between Baiti- more and New Freedom, using a field recently perfected. The device, which Mr. airplane, hired an near his home as his airdrome. Recent!; Before You Buy in the $ COMPARE! OMPARE FEATURES! See the high-priced motor car features which the Nash “400” offers as shown on the left and right. IMPORTANT «4100” FEATURES High-compression motor High turbulence Lovejoy shock absorbers (exclusive Nash mounting) Salon Bodies Bohnalite al pistons (Invar Struts) Double drop frame Torsional vibration damper World's easiest steering HAWKINS 1529 1.—Prescott of a company that has a factory in New Freedom,| YHE SUNDAY STAR, ‘WASHINGTON. D. ©; JUXF % CHAMBER SEEKING | Legislation Governing Time Payments for Planes Is Sponsored. \ Drafting of uniform legislation ap- plying to the time-payment financing of airplane sales has been undertaken by a committee of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce as & result of |a conference here recently between | representatives of the various finance | | companies and William P. MacCracken, | jr, Assistant Secretary of Commerce | | for Acronautics, on the new licensing ystem soon to be put into effect. “The projected production of from | | 6.000 to 10,000 plapes in the United | States this year,” the Aeronautical | Chamber of Commerce stated, “pre- | sents problems of marketing which the aircraft industry and financing com- panies hope to solve through sound methods of financing.” Hildebrandt Chairman, | The committee in charge is composed | | of representatives of the financing com- | panies who are members of the cham- | ber, with T. T. Hildsbrandt as chair-| man. The body is working in co-op- | eration with the Department of Com- | merce. | Under the new regulations being ble R-100 takes the air for its first trial flight, probably next month, it will appear as The view below, made in the construction as large as the steamship Mauretania. |drawn up the finance companies will be recorded as the owner of a plane bought on the time-payment plan, but | will not be held subject to fines im- | posed by the Department of Commerce | fall, and back in Baltimore that night It seems rather hopeless, but it had | to be done. He called one of the air-| | plane companies here and ordered an | airplane to his home. Twenty minutes later, he landed in | New Freedom. Business was conducted | | there and he took off for Newark where he arrived 1 hour and 25 minutes afterward. When the business in that city had been cared for, he| took off for Bridgeport, arriving there | after a 41-minute flight. With business | completed, he left for Baltimore, ar- riving before dark. | is Buzzer to Warn Pilots. | Warning to the pilot that his plane is approaching the dreaded ‘stalling | point” is conveyed by a new device | warns the pilot that the plane has lost he had to be in Baltimore | the speed necessary to maintain flight, | t his factory by noon, in Newark. N. J, shortly afterward | helmet and actuated by an air-pressure and in Bridgeport, Conn., before night- | device on the wing. | is an electric buzzer, worn under the "X. 200,000 Cubic Feet of Non-Combus- for stunting or other violations of air | regulations. | The name of the finance company will_become a portion of the Depart- ment of Commerce records to prevent the influx of private capital through | dummy companies set up for gaining | control by other than domestic con- cerns. The records will distinguish clearly between the owner for financal | purposes and the actual purchaser. Work With Department. ' €. W. Mitchell of the Aviation Credit) Corporation and Paul H. Brattain, man- | ager of the Washington office of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, | have been appointed to work out a co- | operative agreement for Department of Commerce officials through which the | Government_would notify the finance companies of applications for the re- licensing of planes on which liens exist. The Langley Field shipment was made | This will enable the finance com- in one of the specially built tank cars panies to “ground” planes through re- owned by the Army Air Corps. The gas possession because of violation of con- was compressed into the three huge| tract, contending that the attempted cylinders under pressure of 2,000 pounds | resale jeopardizes its interests in the per square inch. | plane. | NEW HELIUM PLANT tible Gas Is Sent to Lang- ley Field. AMARILLO, Tex. U®.— Production now is under way in the Government's new helium gas plant near here, and the first shipment of 200,000 cubic feet of the non-combustible gas has been sent to Langley Field, Va., for use in the Army's lighter-than-air craft. i | navigator for Lieut. 1929--PART 4. \'TESTS TO BE MADE OF EARTH'S MAGNETISM TO GUIDE FLYERS AIR BRED” RUI.ESlLieut- Hegenberger Named for Experiments at Wright Field. Plane Device Harnessed to Induction Compass Is Goal. DAYTON. Ohio (#)—The hands of t hold transoceanic airplanes future to their courses. Within a few vears the human ele- ment in the navigation of planes—with untiring of earth’s magnetism are to | the | its susceptibility to fatigue—is to be re- | placed by devices harnessed to earth induction compa: & The Army has assigned Lieut F. Hegenberger of Hawaiian flight fame to experiments along that line at Wright Pield. Hegenberger was the Lester J. Maitland on the first flight between California and Hawail ‘The navigation of that 2.400-mile flight, to a small group of islands—mere dots in the Pacific—astounded the avi- ation world almost as much as did Col. Charles Lindbergh's remarkable trip from New York to Paris. To aid him Hegenberger has at his disposal the instrument boards from the Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh's lane and from the C-2, the ship Mait- and and Hegenberger flew to Hawali “It will be many years”" said Albert | LIEUT. A. F. HEGENBERGER. | Hegenberger, “before transoceanic | planes will ‘be equipped with devices harnessed to the earth induction com- | pass, which will keep the plane directly | on its course at all times. It merely | | will be necessary for the navigator to | read his maps, set his compass to a cer- tain position and fly for hundreds of | miles before again changing the com- pass’ position for another change in di- rection.” | Lieut. Hegenberger regards the trans- | pacific flight of Capt. Charles Kings- | ford-Smith and his two American com- | | panions from California to Australia in | | the Southern Cross as the ‘“greatest flight of them all,” from the standpoint | of navigation. i MAIL PILOT'S WIFE IN WOMEN’S AIR DERBY Hopes to Win Long-Distance Race From Pacific Coast to Cleveland. CLEVELAND (#)—Mrs. Dewey L. Noyes of Cleveland, wife of the chief mail pilot on the Cleveland-Pittsburgh route, hopes to win the women's long ' distance race from the Pacific Coast to Cleveland during the national air races in August. Mrs. Noyes learned to fly after she was married to her pilot-husband. She was the first woman to make a student solo fiight from the Cleveland munici- pal airport. When Mrs. Noyes obtained her pilot's license Noyes gave her a | small biplane. Before the race, the couple will fiy to the Pacific Coast, where Mrs. Noyes will obtain another plane to participate in the women's national air derby. NEW GEAR TO GET TESTS. Permits Lau‘nc;ing oTPlanex From Dirigibles. Flight tests of a new gear to permit | the launching of airplanes from diri- | gibles and their return to the “mother” ship will be made soon at the Naval Alr Station, Lakehurst, N. J., with the Navy dirigible, Los Angeles. | | The tests are preliminary to the con- | struction of two giant Navy dirigibles | for which contracts have been awarded | 1o the Goodyear Zeppelin Co., Akron Ohio. Both dirigibles will be equipped to oarry six fast, fighting airplanes. Buffalo Plans Wltér Airport. Buffalo, N. Y., is considering the es- tablishment of an airport for seaplanes in the outer harbor just south of the Buffalo River. One of the large com- panies operating lake steamers is plan- ning to open a seaplane service between Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland, provid- | ing the cities concerned provide suit- | | able terminals. NASH 400 Leads the Worild in Moter Car Valne motor, the luminum alloy Compare PERFORMANCE! 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GEANTI ARPORT PLANNEDBY ARMY Nation’s Most Extensive Air- port Will Be Built Near San Antonio. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 1.—A gi- gantic Army airpost surrounded by the Nation's most extensive airport is to rise on the outskirts of San Antonio. The new Randolph field, when com- ed under present plans of the war department, will be large enough to allow 250 airplanes to land or take off It will at least simultaneously. cost | $14,000,000, and $50,000,000 may be in- vested eventually. 800 Buildings Planned Eight hundred buildings, many con- structed in the Spanish mission type of architecture—an innovation in Army circles—will house officers, 2.200 enlisted men, their families, and departmental headquarters. of a wheel, ered in the center of the post. Construction on the first unit, in- cluding an administration building to cost $250,000 is expected to begin in June. Under present plans it will take several years to complete the entire post. 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