Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1929, Page 30

ERMANY DEVELOPS ART OF AIR GLIDING Rapid Advance Made in Its Promotion—Schoolboys En- rolled as Students. The crashing of a sail plane, which killed its driver, Ferdinand Schulz, world record holder for a motorless flight. attracts sad but dramatic atten- tion to Germany’s quick advance in the comparatively new art of gliding. A recent communication to the Na- tional Geographic Society by Howard Siepen describes this new chapter in man’s conquest of the air. “In Germany today huwdreds of schoolboys are respondent wr "Three thousand took official instructions in 1928. To under- stand fully the rise and amazing growth of Germanys gliding machines, one must look back—back to the pioneer airplanes. The ~ , apd Lilienthal dashes in glid- v the idea of applying an engine with propeller to drive the glider. New Method Attracts. 1 have motor-driven air- craft become, however, that the world's attention has been largely diverted i from air travel by simple gliders. For nearly two decades only a few enthu . ‘the society cor- | Wright | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 21 1929. | thetrs, Even wind gusts, squalls, and | clouds, which pioneer experimenters with gliders used to dread, are now rec- ognized as useful aids to motorless fly- ing craft. Gliding and “Sail Flying” Compared. | “Between gliding and what they call ‘sail flying’ the Germans make a sharp distinction. During a glide the plane | steadily loses altitude till it lands. | 'sail fiight,” on the contrary, is one in | which the machine, while pointing downward, is lifted by upward air cur- rents, and thus either maintains or in- | | creases its elevation. “For training a beginner in motorless fiying the simple glider is used: but it In build it is more sensitive than a | to vertical air currents. | “Fiying a plane with no motor in it seems less miraculous to the man on the ground when he hears how it is built. The conspicuous feature of the sail | plane is its very long, narrow wings— sometimes as much as 59 feet in length | and less than 5 feet in width. Narrow | the wings must be, for broad ones would | create too many eddies, and long they must be to provide the surface to lift | a man’s weight. hile simple gliders often start mere- sliding or being dragged down a hillside, so light in structure is the sail plane that were it started slowly it | would only tumble about like thistle- down in the wind and get at once out of control. Hence, in launching | elastic rope device is used, which shoots the plane into the air like a stone from a sling. Earth’s Gravity Serves as Engine. “The pilot must maintain this speed | by pressing down the nose of the plane, which decreases the angle of the tilt of the wings. The earth’s gravity will then | draw the plane downward in a gently slanting line of flight. which is called is the sail plane which actually flics. | ¢he study and development of the en- | simple glider and capable of responding | an | accountant. to the next he has to glide against a strong win. Hence there are ‘low-wind’ | and_‘strong-wind’ machines. | “So then, speed, gliding figure and sinking velocity are the three factors in the ideal sail plane. So far the Ger- | mans have found it practically impos- | sible to combine these three factors per- | fectly in any one plane. It is still a | battle between the aero-dynamical best and the technically possible. | ““Germany’s special interest in motor- | | less flying has been attributed, in part, | | to the fact that under the original pro- | visions of the Versailles treaty certain | | restrictions were placed upon’ the na- | tion's aircraft development; so that her air-minded students perforce turned to | gineless flight. “The present world record for a flight with one passenger, made by Ferdinand Schulz, 1s 9 hours and 21 minutes. He flew with Heinz Reichardt like a shut- tlecock between Rossitten and Pillkop- pen, two villiages on the coast of East | Prussia.” | Honor Tilton With Banquet. | Frederic A. Tilton, Third Assistant | fied Public Accountants to be held on the evening of June 24 at the Carlton Hotel. e |, The banquet will be a testimonial in | honor of Mr. Tilton, a certified public A miniature painter in London has made a hit by using real gold dust in some of his works. You can purchase a new D. C. COLLEGE OF MUSIC | WILL AWARD DIPLOMAS | Dr. J. N. Pierce Will Speak at School's 23d Annual Com- | mencement Tonight. The. Washington College of Music will hold its twenty-third annual com- mencement at Central High School at 8:15 o'clock tonight. | Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, will offer the invocation and give a short talk to | the graduates. Weldon Carter, presi- dent of the college, will award the diplomas and degrees. Eight graduate diplomas_in piano and voice will be | given. One teacher's diploma in violin and one degree of bachelor of fi~ arts in music, one bachelor of m in theory and one bachelor of music in voice will be awarded. The college is WE PAY Happy is who, in his wise OR MORE acquire habit. Start as little as and watch on your Savings Happiness By Savings enough to forward to the needs of manhood and start a savings&ccount and e awarding Joseph Barbecot the artist's diploma in voice. 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