Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 64

12 'TTTT §I'.\'T)AY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.,~JUNE. 9 -1920—PART 4 LINDBERGH PLANE HAS BABY BROTHER Low-Winged Monoplane With New Features Built by St. Louis Firm. ST. LOUIS, June 8 (®).—A “baby brother” of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's famous Spirit of St. Louis, a low- winged monoplane with several new features, has been built by the Mahoney- Ryan_Aircraft_Corporation, builders of the Spirit of St. Louis The new plane, still .in the experi- mental stage, has a lift wing on the tail in place of the conventional stabi- liz and rudder fin It also has a wide tread landing gear and is sald bv ite builders to have the ability to float almost straight down, make a wheel landing. and stop rolling almost as soon as the tail is dropped. Minimizes Landing Peril. One of the principal purposes of the new landing gear is to minimize the perils of a forced landing under adyer.e ground concitions. The corporation plans to perfect the plane and build it on_a production scale during the year Desig s for a dozen aircraft com- panies hate been busy on the probiem of developing a light. cheap and rela- tively foolproof airplane for sport use by tion enthusiasts. ‘The Chicago Aeron: 1 Show saw more than a half dozen low-wing monoplanes blos- m out for the approval of prospective aviators, most of the planes boasting me new feature to facilitate their n by sportsmen who fly for pleasure Main Plant Recently Moved. its main plant to St. Louis Diego, Calif. The new long- 1§ monoplane was first built in the | San_ Diego plant where the Spirit of | Louis was assembled, but has been | undergoing refinement here. The normal ROMAN AIRPORT HAS | TWO-STORY HANGAR Field Is Also Equipped With Me- chanical Devices for Mov- ing Planes, NEW YORK (#).—The handling of airplanes by mechanical “dollies” and a two-story hangar at the Littorio air- port near Rome were described by Enea Bossi. president of the American Aero- nautical Corporation, on his return from a trip abroad Glectro-motored “dollies.” which run on tracks, are used at the field to shift planes in and out of hangars, eliminat- ing much of the manual labor common at_American airports. The main hangar at the field, known as the “house of wings,” is believed to be the first two-story hangar ever built. The upper story is reached by a 10- | degree incline, 82 feet long. Planes are taken up the incline by mechanical means. Hotel and restaurant accommodations are available at the airport day and night. In addition, there are a travel agency, a post office, telephone and tele- graph facilities, bank and luggage serv- jce. a writing room and facilities for booking on all foreign air lines. PANAMA AIRPORT BUSY. 1,504 Planes Visit Field for Gas in Less Than Two Months. One of the busiest military airports under the United States flag during the past Spring was the naval air sta- tion at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone. | During a period of less than two months 1.504 planes visited the station, drawing gasoline issues of 15,000 galions. Approximately 2,700 man-hours were epent by station personnel outside of working hours in handling planes of the battle fleet during the recent ma- SWE” ing monoplane developed by < demonstrated the pract pirit of S design features during its flight tests. HAS BABY BROTHER the builders of Lind bility of several new The three-quarter view (above) shows the plane has neither rudder fin nor stabilizer, while the front view (below) displays the exceptionally wide landing gear tread. v-ryan comoration == WEATHER BUREAU T(j SUPPLY HOURLY REPORTS FOR FLYER o ey st dineng () Stations to Co-Operate This Summer to Furnish Information to Make Air Travel Safer. By the Associated Press. A great step in offsetting the weather hazard and increasing the safety of travel over airways of the country is to be taken by the United States Weather Bureau this Summer. It will expand | its service to include hourly reports for aviators With 150 weather stations co-ope ating in the commercial airways weath- er service under direction of W. R. Gregg, senior meteorologist of the bureau, 25 to 30 new reporting stations at points each side of the airwass are 10 be added during the Summer. Supplementary Reports. Regular hourly bulletins as to condi- tions along the routes will supplant the present infrequent reports. They will be supplemented by reports every three hours, from points off the airways, as to the movement of storms. This will enable the airport meteorologist to warn pllots in advance of the movement of disturbances toward the airway. At present the pilot is unwarned of the advance of storms, as the off-air- way stations report but twice a day. With expansion of the service, if in flight, e may receive the reports by radio and turn back or land Communication for the weather serv- ice is provided by the Department of Commerce, which has installed tele- | type, telegraph and radio facilities along the commercial airways. Since inauguration of the airways weather service three years ago it has expended rapidly, until now 75 per cent |of the Weather Bureau* stations co- | operate in supplying information ‘pilots. So rapid has been the expan- sion that a shortage of trained meteor- | ologists is threatened. Work Is Expanded. Studies of the upper air currents have been added to the work of the Weather Bureau in the aid of aviators. At pres- ent about 50 weather stations, with the aid of toy balloons, determine the ve- Jocity and direction of the wind at vari- orologists to ascortain the direction and speed of the wind. But the surface conditions along the airways are the most important to fiyers. Celling, visibility and movement of storms determine whether a flight can_be made. When the clouds hang low and the visibility is poor, it is bad flying weather. Then, too, there are condi- tions which cause the formation of ice on wings and the formation of fog. Al of these must be known by the aviator to insure safety The airways weather service now is costing the Government $750.000 a year. Mr. Gregg estimates the cost will be $850,000 next year. SHENANDOAH HERO SEES BLIMP AS SAFE Faith in Future of Dirigibles Is Professed by Survivor of Crash. PITTSBURGH (#).—Faith in the in- | creasing safety of dirigibles is professed by a survivor and hero of one of the worst dirigible disasters in history. Lieut. Charles E. Bauch, U. 8. N., who successfully maneuvered to safety | one section of the ill-faded Shenandoah when it broke up over Ohio. recently expressed his confidence in the safety of dirigible travel. Lieut Bauch, the official Navy repre- sentative on the return trip of the Gral Zeppelin to Germany last year, sald: “We encountered worse squalls in the Graf Zeppelin than the one which broke up_the Shenandoah. ““Just as automobiles have been made safer by improvements in manufacture, so have dirigebles. For instance, the | | control cabin on the Shenandoah was FLYING PULLMAN NEARS COMPLETION [Test Flights of 32-Passenger Craft Are Expected With- in Two Months. By the Associated Press | 8—The first | liners, capable of carrying 32 passengers Pullman -type completion in the Fokker Aircraft Corporation’s plant. The “flying Pullman.” designed for use on a transcontinental day and night air line, is scheduled for its first flight | tests within two months. Tts | believe it will make possible overnight | Thomas, noted Singers. This of a fleet of giant air singers there, Mrs. Freund, uilders | travel between New York and Chicago, ! and 36-hour service from coast to coast Has Four Engines. Designed by Anthony H. G. Fokker senger plane now in production, but will be much larger. four engines arranged in | tandem pairs under the wings on each side of the fuselage of each pair drives a tractor propeller. navigation rear engine drives a pusher The passenger cabin is divided into four compartments, each six feet long cquipped with eight comfortable chairs Wright Cyclones, the air liner is de- | concert signed to have a high speed of 145 miles and two folding tables or four Pullman- ‘The plane is expected to climb type sleeping berths 42 inches wide. equipped fo the plane will car a crew of four be carried when the plane is prepared for night fiying only. With such a load flight. the tri-motored 12-pa: three engines, the new two-way paratus. Powered by Whitney an hour daytime operation 1.400 feet from Sixteen passengers will of 18,000 feet | Have Faith,” a patriotic song by Bertha | | Curtis Johnson of Washington, which | v | g resented at the Sylvan Theater in the Caruso Fellowships Offered. [Bresented at the Sylvan Theater ng of ington to siay until October 1. August Mr. Freund will again be guest baritone soloist at _the New York Ave- nue Presbyterian Church ihis song In the Winter Mr. Freund is di- a dead rector of music at the little church, | France Bethesda-by-the-Sea, in Palm Beach. Armistice was signed. He also is assistant to John Charl = | recting ‘the group organized by Mr | Thomas last Winter as the Romany many distinguished_soloists who Win- HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J., June ter in Palm Beach, and also other R has had such decided WOrks success in its first season that a tour luxuriously furnished cabins and is being arranged for next Fall. Mr sleeping compartments, Freund will be director in charge until December 1, when Mr. Thomas will again assume the leadership. ganist and choir director of Holy Trin- ity Church, in West Palm Beach. Herman Fakler's singing of “Ye That the_average non-stop range is estimated at 780 miles in a six and one-half hour | [PDWIN HUGHES, who Two lavatory compartments, each who has built more than 11,000 air- u 3 h planes since 1911, the plane will have ‘f;'ll‘”““ ‘:":"?rm;i"v wash basin and run the same general ‘appearance and con- DINE water, B8 webl, as & Kener trie cooking installation are provided. 150 | Mr. Hughes. who is a native Wash- ingtonian, Leschetizky. with whom he spent three Cabin for Equipment. | Under the pilot's cockpit, which is placed high up at the forward end of The front engine the ship, a special cabin is provided for equipment and radio Hornet 30 passengers and - minute and attain a maximum altitude | i | Bobbed hair, The wing span of the ship is 100 feet | underwear and its overall length is 65 feet. 1 L |is still in manuscript, was particularly | ‘ uslgrap S| | well received at | | that number (Continued From Fourth Page.) dition. Since then Mr. Fakler has sung | grams, During | address. concert singer, in di- recital chorus, made up of Mozart Arias, in the Winter, is or- known well as a kitchen and communication — ap as_soloist the ground in the first ! Circle. DA W on five additional pro- Pl last of which was given | CO-OPerating with the National Music|p,ujic Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital. Memorial day in Arlington Amphithea- Edward A. Mueller, ter, just preceding President Hoover's com . that time the United | be held in New York City during the |raiorio and numberless musical scores | for both indoor and outdoor spectacles Candidates for the Caruso memorial |and plays, has composed the special was found on the body of operatic fellowship must be citizens of ‘music for “Sherwood.” as arranged by States Marine Band gave the accom- paniment Greenhalgh group of students of the piano in & | experience. her studio yesterday, when | com Marceil Ruth Harris. Heller, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, MacDowell and Debussy. Those participating included Tsabel Frances Dicus, Paul Drur Adelaide Leitner, Ma Mundell, Matheson, Bill Strong and Ruth Harris. Couzens, Eilen Gudger, Katherine Margaret Edwin Hug}\es Announces. among his pupils some of the best before the public. will conduct a Sum- mer master class for pianists and teach- ers in New York from July 1 to August | assistant he became. complete | years in Europe, making his home in Munich, and appearing in recital and with famous orchestras in either four Pratt & | principal music centers engines or four | turn to America his activities as a editor have made him a well known | factor in American musical life, have invaded the Arctic|wood” when this famous tale of the i 'frst. public. ren- | Al the prize offered by the Caruso American Memorial Foundation, Inc. League, to the singer who will success- fully pass the competitive auditions to month of June. poem which inspired | June 20 by the Community Drama YEAR of operatic study in Italy 18\, 00 o i Cton, with the co-oper- |ation of the Community Center De partment of the city and the Office of composer of on the battlefield in the United States, not over 30 years|J. Milnor Dorey, which is to be preseni- few days before the of age, must be able to sing complete led here under Mr. Dorey's direction and must have had sufficient preliminary | z{; The students holder of the fellowship must devote choir of the Benoist. Lili Blakle; e itner, Mar | spend approximately one vear in Italy Mirlam = Strong, | musical authorities. = ber, 1929. tional Music League, numbers | enth street, New York City. concert pianists now The Caruso American Foundation was established shortly | a pupil of ‘Theodore After the death of Enrico Caruso to aid | tion; Otto H. 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Soloists Shelia Broderick, Dorothy Cates, Betty gyage study, as well as to traveling and | will gwg several beautiful songs, com- living expenses, and is expected to posed by Mr. Mueller for this version Feiry dances and court dances of th under the supervision of competent poriod of King Richard Coeur de Lion The funds for the also will be features of fellowship will be available in Septem- They have been created for this pres- entation by Caroline McKinley, who Application blanks will be furnished | will direct this part of the production upon request at the offices of the Na- Dancers to take part in_the play in- 113 West Fifty- |clude: Sandy Alexander, Virginia Alex All | ander, Virginia Burnett, Elizabeth Jen- applications must be in by June 10, [kins, Pauline Oak, Florence Wingai. 1929. Preliminary auditions will begin | Ruth Critchfield, Martha Fisher, Rut June 10, and the final auditions will be | Shoemaker. 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