Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1929, Page 53

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, DY, U Y 21, 1929—_PART 4. MARYLAND OPENS AIR SAFETY DRIVE Elimination of Irresponsible, Pilots and Unsafe Fields Are Objectives. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | BALTIMORE, July 20.—The elimina- | tion of frresponsible pilots and unsafe landing fields from the State and co- cperation in the air development pro- grams of Baltimore and other cities and towns of Marvland are among the objects of the State Aviation Commis- n, as outlined by Dr. Hugh H. Young, man. The commission has been appointed by Gov. Albel . Ritchie pu ant 10 two bills passed by the last Legis- lature. In addition to Dr. Young, the commission consists of Capt. Charles A. Masson, Benjfamin H. Brewster, k ) Comdr. Dewift C. R: ._A and Clarence W. Whealton, Salisbu 3d co-operat aviation progra be sympathetic to the programs of th~ other citles and towns of the State,” Dr. Young safd. Seaplane Future Is Covered. “There is a feeling that, as Mary- land is a State With large waterways, | the seaplane and amphibian will come | into considerable use here in commer- | cial aviation. In view of this we /are fortunate in having Comdr. Ramsey a | member of the commission, as he is experienced in seaplanes and is a Navy export. ““Marylard rapidly is becoming prom- inent in aircraft production and I am confident the commission will want to co-operate and stimulate this produc- tion in every way “I am confident that the commis- sion will co-operate closely with the Federal Department of Commerce and with naval, military and civil aviation. | 50 as to_secure a consolidation of in- | terest. We have also to consider the development of safe landing fields, the | marking of towns in the State and the establishment. of air beacons to guide aviators.” Commission’s Powers. | Under the bill as passed by the Legis- lature, the commission is given power to make regulations. including atr traf- | fic rules, in the State, which are to conform as far as possible to the | United States air commerce act of 1926. The commission will have jurisdiction only within the State. The act provides that no eivil air- craft can be flown unless it has a State or an existing Federal license, and that no pilot can operate unless he has a State or Federal license, The com- mission is authorized to provide for ihe issuance and expiration, suspension and revocation of Jicenses in accord- | ance, as far as possible, with the Fed- eral act. ‘ | i BALTIMORE GIRL FIRST TO GET PLANE LICENSE Broker's Clerk Leads Fair Sex in Flying Test Maryland. Passing in Special Dispetch to The Star BALTIMORE, July 20—To Miss ‘Thelma Elliott, a clerk in a siock broker's office, goes the honor of being the first woman to pass the test in | Maryland and to receive an airplane pilot's license. Miss Elliott went to Salisbury last | week and took her final examination for a pilot’s license. Her test was the | first to be held in Maryland for a woman, though she is not the first of her sex here to receive a license. ‘ Her week ends have been spent at | an Easton flying fleld getting the “feel” | of an airplane. Last week she finished her required eight hours of “solo.” | WORK GOES AHEAD. Baltimore Is Optimistic Over Air- port Construction. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 20 —Prospects for completion of the municipal airport in two years are excellent, it is announced by city officials, who have found prog ress much more rapid than was e pected. Material for filling behind bulkheads will be supplied by the Pennsylvania | Railroad from its new tunnels, on which work is to begin in a few weeks. Two million cubic yards of clay already have been pumped over from dredging operations in the harbor. The bulk- heading already is about one-third completed. Y Plans Ocean Flight ' GEN. ITALO BALBO, Undersecretary of the air ministry of Italy, is reported to be preparing for a flight from Rome to New York. He is to be chief pllot and will be aided by a co-pllot and navigator. They will use a monoplane powered with a 550- horsenower mofor and carrying fuel cnough for 80 hours' continuous fiying. —Associated Press Photo. EXPERT PUBLISHES HUMDITY RESULTS D. B. Brooks Reveals Study of Atmospheric Effects on Plane Engines. The results of a long series of tests made at the Bureau of Standards to demonstrate the effect of atmospheric humidity on the operation of airplane and automobile engines are contained in a technical note prepared by Donald B. Brooks, in charge of the experiments, published by the national advisory com- mittee for acronautics. 'he tests made by Brooks reveal in- creasing loss of motor power as the humidity increases. The tests were made on a six-cylinder, three-port over- head valve engine coupled to an electric dvnamometer and spark accelerometer. They were a continuation of former tosts made by A. W. Gardiner with a one-cylinder engine which revealed scientifically for the first time that at- mospheric humidity has a very appre- ciable effect on some phases of engine performance. The tests show that if the humidity is expressed as per cent of barometric pressure. the loss of power in per cent of the engine will be roughly equal to the humidity. They also show that a decided increase in spark advance is necessary for proper engine perform- ance with increasing humidity. Brooks’ work, according to the report, shows that failure to allow for the affect of differences in atmospheric humidity in conducting engine performance tests may introduce errors as great as would failure to allow for changes in baro- metric pressure, amounting in extreme conditions to nearly 10 per cent of the indicated engine power. Seat Covers Tailored to 5-Pass. Cars $18.00 Closed Car Tops $8.00 to $18.00 Rear 1417-19 P St. OU can ride with the greatest satisfaction if ‘you equip your car with Diamond Tires—the ti re ‘upon which We give you a full year’s unconditional guarantee against ALL road hazards. a a We selected Diamonds fter careful investigation nd comparison — finding them absolutely depend- a ble — because they are built right. BOXBE ki 3Ixb25 ... iieniies 090000 32x6.00.......00000...... 31805 33x6:15. Other sizes at eq s s 32005 ually low prices Open a Charge Account and Charge ' Your Diamonds ‘House & Herrmann Seventh and Eye Streets | president of the assoclation. | at Cleveland the morning of August 27. GLDERBULDERS | TOVIEFOR HONORS First Contest Sanctioned hy| National Association to Be | Held at Cleveland. | The first glider contests in the United States to be sanctioned by the National Glider Association will be held in Cleve- land during the national air races and aeronautical exposition, August 24 to September 2, according to information received here from Edward 8. Evans, The contests will follow the second national glider conference, to be held Among the speakers at the conference will be Anthony H. G. Fokker, famous airplane designer and builder, who will describe the value of gliding as an ald to aviation, and Miss Amelia Earhart, who will deal with gliding as a sport for | women. The glider contests will be divided into eight phases, as follows: Distancs, | shock-cord launching method; dur; tion, shock-cord launching method distance, auto-towing launching method: duration, auto-towing launching metho landing on a mark, auto-towing launc! ing method; a contest for famous pllots of motored planes, both for dura- tion in gliders and for landing to a mark; a contest for the best handling | of a glider by glider pilots only, and a contest for the best handling of a glider by any pilot. The contests will be flown each morning of the national air races after August 25. A number of trophids and prizes will be offered. Judges of the duration and distance contests will be Dr. Wolfgang Klemp- erer, chairman of the National Glider Association technical committec; Franz Gross, designer of the Darmstadt soarer; Prof. Peter Altman of the Uni- versity of Detroit, and Prof. R. E Franklin of the University of Michigan. | Dally glider lectures will be given, illustrated by motion pictures. ~The | glider contests will be open to all com- ers. Information regarding the events may be obtained from L. F. Ross of the | Cleveland Glider Club, in care of the | Cleveland News. FTER all, what is a motor car? Is it merely so much wood and metal . . . AMED TO BOARD OF SURVEY n All Will Make Comprehensive Study of Nation's Flying Schools. Nine 1 Appointment of seven members of a committee of nine pilots who will study | flying school problems in the United | States on behalf of the aircraft in- dustry has been announced by Fred-| erick B. Rentschler, president of thc Aecronautical Chamber of Commerce. | The seven men are Tex Rankin, ; C. S. “Casey” Jones, | New York Cily; John Bowers, Los| Angeles; Cloyd Clevenger, Tulsa, OKla.; W. D. Haviland, St. Louis, Mo.; Oliver| L. Parks, St. Louls, and Chan C. Mason. | Buffalo, N. Y. The two vacancies will be filled later. | The committee will meet in Cleveland | August 29, during the national air races and aeronautical exposition, to elect a chairman and formulate a program cf investigation of flying school needs. | The committee will work in co-operation with the aeronautics branch of the Department of Commerce, Wwhich is rating all flying schools under a rzcent amendment to the air ccmmerce act. Code Perfected. “The first flying school committee ap- pointed by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,” Mr. Rentschler said, “perfected a code for rating all flying schools upon a basis of their equip- ment and excellence of instruction, which later was adopted by the De- partment of Commerce. The first 25| schools to be rated under this new p! will be announced within two wi The committee re d in April after y chool problems and raise the standards of all schools.” | Through the work of the Aeronautical | Chamber of Commerce, in co-operation | appointed to further study with the Department of Commerce, the | been set aside for the air race construc- | States, each having been won three Los Angeies terminals. “barnyard flying school” and the “one- | struction program and the remainder | consecutive times. man school” are considered a relic of the pas FI rapidly with increased public confidence SEVEN WELL KNOWN PILOTS and support, officials of the Aeronauti- cal Trade Association say. Limitations Set, A bulletin, ready for distribution to members of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce flying school section, dis- clcs2s the action of the Department of Commerce in eliminating the “one-man Aying school.” “Transport pilots filing applications for an instructor's license, either fly- ing or ground work,” it is stated in the bulletin, “will not be ap- proved by the Department of Com- | merce unless they are actually em-| ployed by an approved flying school. | The Department of Commerce is now | receiving a large number of requests | from transport pilots for a flying ine| structor’s license. The reason for this| is, first. the transport pilot wants to| show his flying instructor's permit or, | second, he thinks that such a license is necessary for individual instruction. “The Department of Commerce wishes to announce that transport | pilot’s licenses are good for individual instruction. That is, a transport pilot may instruct as many as he desires in- dividually, with full approval of the Department of Commerce and without restriction, but there will be no “one- man flying schools. Licensed flying in-| structors must actually be on the pay roll of an approved flying school.” | | $450,000 Cleveland Airport Fund. Approximately $450,000 is being spent on the Cleveland airport to prepare it for the 1929 national air races to be held in that ciiy from August 24 to September 2. Of that sum $50,000 has for general improvements, including landing fleld. | near Jefferson Barracks. BENNETT AIR RAGE T0START OCTOBER 1 South American Nations Are Asked to Challenge U. S. Balloon Supremacy. 8T. LOUIS (#).—Every South Amer- | ican country visited by President-elact | Hoover on his Latin American good- | will four has been extended a special | invitation to challenge the balloon su- premacy of the United States in the James Gordon Bennett race to start this year from St. Louis. ‘Two other international balloon races have started in St. Louis. This year's event is scheduled for October 1. ‘The St. Louis air board already has sent 20 invitations, many to countries that have not before been represented in the aeronautical classic. ‘The board's technical committee, | headed by Maj. Albert Bond Lambert | and Capt. H. E. Honeywell, veteran balloonists, has arranged to handle 20 bags. A supply of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas is to be made available within eight hours. | ‘The 1920 race will start from an old base ball park on South_ Broadway, | It will ac-| commodate 200,000 persons. ‘The race, in returning to St. Louis, comes back to the city where the first | of these races in the United States was held. That was in 1907, and a German, Osker Eberslob, who flew to Asbury Park, N. J.. won. At a race held here in 1910 A. R.| Hawley. representing the Unitea States, | won. He landed in Canada and, with his aide, was lost in a forest seven days. ‘When foun they were nearly ex- hausted. Hawley set a record of 1,172 miles., Four national elimination contests have been held here. The third Bennett trophy will be put into competition this year. The two previous cups went to the United A from Scott Field, 111, piloted by Capt. W. E. Kep- ing schools are growing | ieveling, surfacing and drainage of the ner and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, won |speed, including time lost on the ground, the second cup last yea { 9 |NEW ENGLAND AVIATION | INDUSTRY GAINS GROUND —_— Manufacturers of Planes Increase From One to Ten in Year, Survey Reveals. BOSTON (#).—Aviation is an indus try of growing significance to New England, according to a survey by the New England Council. In one year the number of manufac- | turers who are making or have an- nounced plans to build complete air- planes has increased from one to ten. Parts supplied for accessories are being produced by 175 manufacturers for the | aeronautical trades. New England has a total of 79 land- ing fields and airports, and in addition 85 more are propesed. Besides air mai! and passenger lines between Boston | and New York, there are in operation | 16 service operators, providing taxi, sightseeing and delivery service. Feminine Mechanics Needed. | __If the aviatrices in the Santa Monica- Cleveland air derby want mechanics | to accompany them on their dash across PRI 10 States, those persons must be of the fair sex, according to rules laid down More than half the air mail earried for the Cleveland national air races, in the United States today travels over August 24 to September 2. at least a portion of the transcon- tinental route from New York to San | Prancisco, according to a survey com- | lmportant Meua‘e pleted by the American Air Transport | You Should .Know Association. i “Business is finding,” the assoclation b .;Iulud. "mnlme T Slz-hour‘ll:rvict‘ Concerning Your Car. elps it greatly in its dealings with cus- | - : tomers and branch offices, as the re- | _The lubricant in the transmission cently established night transcontinen- | and rear axles should be kept up tal line carries letters from San Fran- | to the proper level. cisco to New York with the loss of bUt | This insures easy gear shifting and prevents wear to parts. one business day, a ga!n.of 12 hours over previous operating schedules.” 5 All Ebonite Dealers drain out the old lubricant and make no charge Cities off the main transcontinental airway are receiving direct benefits from ' for this service. Then refill with fresh the speeding up of the schedules, the survey shows. The association, which now is testing the speed and reliability (Combination of Pure Oil) 20 Cents a Shot of the transfer of letters by air on all routes, has reported that a letter mailed At Filling Stations and Garages. BAYERSON OIL WORKS in Pittsburgh was delivered in Glendale, Columbia 5228 Kansas Cattlemen Protest Low Flying Over Cow Pastures KANSAS CITY, (#)—Aviation may be to blame if Kansas cattle are lean and haggard this year. Cattlemen have complained’ to the Kansas City Livestock Ex- change that planes fly so low over cow pastures that the animals are kept in a constantly nervous condition preventing them from making normal gains in weight. In one instance a herd ran a mile after a plane passed over | | them,” an objector wrote. U. S. BUSINESS FINDS VALUE OF AIR MAIL More Than Half of Cargoes Travels Over Some Part of Transconti- nental Route, Survey Shows. Calif., in 28 hours and 30 minutes, in- cluding time spent in handling at the Cleveland. Chicago, 8alt Lake City and The letter was flown in five planes, which covered a distance of 2,360 miles. The average was 80 miles per hour. 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