Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1929, Page 65

Model Aircraft Seven local neighborhoo envy as one of their number, repeats for perhaps the hundre eligible for the National Model Al tober 18 and 19. The seven lucky lads who inte; llams, 3505 Rittenhouse street; d gal street; Robert Swope, 3748 Huntington street; nth street; Everett Mfeks, 224 Thirteen 3349 Tennyson street, and Sam Walker, 421 B streec Twenty-ni) Robert Towles, northeast. The first two boys liste remaining in the junior section. Need $500 Fund. The community center department of public schools continues to appeal for the $500 fund necessary to send the seven eligible boys to the national tour- nament. The appeal is made directly to the public with a view to asking as- sistance from local civic organizations and clubs. Haste is required in securing the money, because the national com- mittee, who announced the boys eligible, Tequires a definite entry acceptance in the next few days. ‘The local committee is working hard to raise the fund. The committee is composed of Maj. Gen. Mason M. Pat- rick, chairman; Joshua Evans, jr., treas- urer; Lieut. Col. C. de F. Chandler, E. Clayton Fish, E. C. Graham, Luke Christopher, Paul Edward Garber, Wal- ter Hinton and Starr Truscott. A large group of fyers who falled to qualify for the national tournament re- mains. These boys have won high hon- ors in the recent local tournament be- cause of their respective aggregate number of points in all events through- out the season and because of their remarkable records in fiying duration. Honors Are Listed. Locally only one boy, the highest in each of the seven classes of entrants, has been cited for honor in duration contests, while the three highest boys in each class are noted as first, second and third place point winners. The final compilation of records for duration winners, with total time, is given as follows: Ace class, Herbert Dorsey, 38 minutes 53 3-5 seconds; class A, Frank Salis- bury, 39 minutes 7 seconds; class B, Clayton Fish, 39 minutes 40 2-5 sec- onds;: class C, Harry McGinnis, 22 min- utes 10 3-5 seconds; class D, Willlam Pizzini, 16 minutes 2 4-5 seconds; class E, Charles Ricker, 7 minutes 19 2-5 sec- onds, and Class F, Bob Wiehle, 9 min- utes 11 1-5 seconds. According to completed and final rec- ords, the point winners are listed as follows: Ace—Herbert Dorsey, John Sullivan, chest thrown out and obviously proud, dth time that he has just been named ngs are undergoing that boyhood reraft finals at Louisville, Ky., Oc- nd to go to Louisville are Otho Wil- Douglas Bruce, 5330 Thirty-ninth John Sullivan, 1412 th street southwest; d will fly in the senior class and the Otho Willlams, A—Frank su(sbury.: Joe Galliher, Ernest Stout, Robert Swope. B—Clayton Fish, Tommy Rob- ins, Billy von Bernewits, C—Sam Walk- Ginniss, D—Willlam Pizzini, James Murray, Monroe Brandenburg. E— Richard Washington, Charles Ricker, Robert Coale, F—Walter Podrog, Bob ‘Wiehle, Forrester Wilkinson, All of these boys will follow with keen interest the events in the national tournament. There will be seven events at Louisville, 3 indoor and 4 outdoor in each class. The indoor events will include hand-launched models, fuselage models, rise-off-ground models and rise- off-water models. Outdoor events in- clude hand-launched, fuselage, rise-off- s:nund and water and dynamic-powered planes. Plans Glider Erection. Everett Meeks writes in to say that he intends to construct a northern German training glider during the Win- ter season. His letter follows: “This Winter I intend to start the construction of a German training glider. The plans for this plane were published in a magazine recently and that is where I got my idea. My grand- father is going to assist me in the build- ing of the plane, which has a 36-foot wing spread and is about 15 feet in length. These gliders fly very slowly at about 20 miles B:r hour, making them very safe to ride in. They weigh in the vicinity of 175 pounds, which ac- counts for their slow sinking speed. ““The pilot sits on a little seat out in the open, as there is no bullt-up, cov- ered fuselage. There is just a triangu- lar bracing straight up and down from the wings. “A top view of the glider shows just one straight spar, which hides all of the others. No long nails or screws are used, as the joints are fitted together with glue and braced with wood.” Tverett hopes to have his glider com- pleted by the beginning of next Sum- mer. —D_IRIGIBLE SERVICE TO START NEXT YEAR New England Company Has Or- dered Goodyear Ship for Com- mercial Purposes. The first American commercial dirigi- ble service is to be established next Spring by a syndicate which will oper- ate under the name of the New Eng- land Airship Co,, according to word re- ceived here. The company has ordered an airship of the Puritan type from the Goodyear ZPPpeHn Corporation for delivery on or before May 1. The airship will be used for special advertising, passenger dights, photo- graphic work and traffie surveys, ac- cording to Arthur G. Wadsworth of Dartmouth, Mass., head of the syndi- cate. Pilots and ground crew experts will be trained for the company by the Goodyear experts. The Puritan type is twin-motored, the engines being mounted on outriggers alongside the cabin. The helium ca- acity is 186,000 cubic feet, the bag be- g 128 feet long and 37 feet in diam- eter. The ship carries a pilot and three passengers, VAN DORSSEN COMPLETES ARMY AIR POSTS’ TOUR Netherlands-India Air Force Off- cial Learns of Aviation Prog- ress in U. 8. Capt. B. de Kruyff van Dorssen of the Netherlands-India Air Force re- cently completed an inspection trip to 8 number of Army Air Corps stations in this country to acquaint himself with progress made in military flying in this country since a two-year tour of duty in this country prior to 1926. The trip was authorized by the War Department at the request of the Netherlands legation. ~ Capt. ~Van Dorssen during his previous tour of duty in this country attended the Air Corps ‘Technical School at Chanute Field, Rantoul, IIl. At the time he was sta- tioned there he gained the distinction of being the largest man to make a practice parachute jump. ?therefiut er, Bernard von Bernewitz, Harry Mc- | Fall. i THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1929—PART 4. . WING THEORY TEST- | [ mawy smo 7o reer mvmns win rifoe~ | MADE BY PIONEER MIAMI AIR SHOW BIDS FOR LATIN AMERICANS Entries From 22 Countries Are Ex- pected for All-American Meet Next January. MIAMI, Fla. (P).—Entries from 32 Latin American countries are e: |at Miami's second All-American air meet January 13-15. Pilots from all ‘wgdflonh America also have been in- PLANE LICENSE RULES QUTLINED Commercial Permits to Au- New Design Incorporates Radical Departures From [ thorize Both Domestic and | International Operation. Present Planes. _ o 18 _ - ' | [T The meet was approved National AemnlullcupAuocp h.f.\:l{. m vill include an aeronautical e: tion. In anticipation of a record breaking | meet, municipal airport authorities are planning improvements which will give | Miami one of the most adequate and beautiful airports in the wver?d‘ LAND SEEDED BY PLANE. 160 Acres Completed in 100 Min- utes, Is Report. All regular commercial airplanes li- censed in the future will be given per- mits not only for domestic, but for in- ternational operation as well and will carry before their license numbers, painted on wings and rudders, the “N" prefix uired for international use, stage, 15 to be built on s theory Lesh | the Der- ent of Commerce has ruled. developed. He calls 1t the * Display of the international symbol similar proportional profil by which | a ¢ 4 will be required on all aircraft operating he means that the wing curve must| “ . ‘ z P out’ of the boundaries of the United govern the shape of the plane. s 4 States and all airplanes licensed in the Leah, & ploneer glider fiyer and air- | future, except those licensed for ex- | The seeding by airplane of 160 acres plane bllot, 18 & member of the Early perimental purposes, will be licensed as | 0f 1and in 100 minutes is described in N [R” types, instead of merely | Associated Press reports from Belling- as in the past. | ham, Wash. The seeding was done The “C" designation is issued only | from a commercial plant traveling at to commercial craft approved as air- | speed of 95 miles per hour at an alti- worthy for the purpose of carrying per- | tude of 500 feet over the ground. sons or property for hire and flown by | The tract, located on Lummi Island, licensed pilots. The “R” designation is | Was seeded with alfalfa, timothy, clover issued to planes not eligible for com- | and orchard grass. The mdm%nhne mercial passenger_carrying, but which | Was piloted by R. C. Graham, who was are found by a Department of Com- | assisted by W. A. Granger, owner of Merce inspector to be airworthy for | the land. The seed was fed in a six- specifically designated purposes, such as | inch stream through a door in the rlch;‘z, crop dusting or aerial photo- 33:5?" and 800 pounds of seed was graphy. In addition to the “C” and “R” = symbols, the international symbol “N" now may be painted on the tail and wings of aircraft licensed for operation | in the United States, it was announced by Edward P. Howard, chief of the air | regulations division of the Department | of Commerce. This will not be required, however, except in the case of planes flown either regularly or temporarily in a foreign country. By the Associated Press, CHICAGO.—A “flying " incor- porating radical departures from the conventional airplane has been de- signed by Laurence J. Lesh, Chicago, who expects to test a full size plane t.hhl ‘The plane, now only in the model Birds and one of 14 men whose re- search work was fathered by Octave Chanute. Lesh first flew in a glider in 1906. During the war he developed the windmill generator used on airplanes to generate power for radio operation. Rear Tip Hinged. His plane design results in a wing shaped like the two-stick Kite. e rear tip is hinged to provide a horizon- tal control surface. ‘The plane, Lesh says, will develop maximum lift efficiency, have great |::¥,‘cturll strength and be automatically Ll e. In extensive tests with both gliding and powered models thé plane out- strip) the usual models, he asserts. Its gliding ratio is about 20 to 1, com- pared with 10 to 1 for the ordinary model. It cannot be made to spin, and | mored with steel to crush its adver- models have made 100-foot dives to the |saries. Because of its great structural ground unharmed. With a full ship strength, stabil! ipeed and efficiency, A new theory in ais T:ne design has been advanced by Laurence J. Lesh, lower left, of Chicago, a pioneer fiyer and in- ventor, who is experl enting with “flying wing” models of the type shown. He plans to test a full size plane this Falil | Lesh says, it could fight by diving on | wing tips, which have a gyroscopi~ and disabling other planes. ‘| function. He discovered this while test- ‘The tests he expects to make this Fall will be with a low-powered plnn:[ to demonstrate the efficiency of his de- | TR T sign. It will have a wing spread of 26| Air male lines of the United States feet and a surface area of 300 square are now transporting 10 tons of air | feet. The will have four canti- mail, or 800,000 letters, every 24 hours, lever beams and 24 ribs, practically a 300 per cent increase over ‘The plane, Lesh says, derives its sta- | the loads carried for the same months bility chiefly from vortices set up at the of last year. Lesh believes it would be possible to make a vertical power dive without damaging it. Unarmed Fighter. In fact, one model he has designed is intended as an unarmed fighter. The leading edge of the wing would be ar- Have Your Lockheed Hydraulic Brakes Overhauled, Relined or Adjusted MILLER-DUDLEY CO. 1716 14th St. N.W. NORTH 1883-4 ing models in smoke, WOMEN ARE CALLED KEENEST AIR FANS More at Ease "When Flying Than Are Men, Pilots’ Association Leader Says. SALT LAKE CITY.—Women are even keener aviation fans than men, and unquestionably are more at ease than man passengers on their first trip. Authority for this is Harry Huking, president of the Pilots’ Association of America and a veteran pilot of the Boeing System, with 6,000 flying hours to his credit. Huking is at the controls of Boeing tri-motored transports and for months has been flying men and women in his big plane over the Sierra Nevada Moun= tains between Oakland and Salt Lake City, a 640-mile night trip. “Most _passengers have a desire to get up front and look around,” said Huking. “The courtesy of permittin, &uumers to go forward and stan: the entrance of the pilot'’s compart- ment, with its many controls, has Ml‘ extended to many passengers. Almosi invariably man passengers will ask & few questions, look around a bit, and return to the passengers' cabin. How- ever, with woman passengers it is dif ferent. Often it is necessary to & gest they return to the cabin when they are still inquiring about features of the plane’s construction and operation,” The president of the Pilots’ Associa- tion wound up the interview by saying, “And the questions they do askl” AIR LINE TO OPEN. Far Northwest to Be Berved by Plane Route. Canadian air mail service between Fort McMurray and Aklavik, North- west Territory, will be inaugurated in November, according to a memorandum sent to postmasters by W. Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster General, in charge of air mail. ‘The new line will serve the Far Northwest country in the provinces of Alberta and Northwest Territory by way of Fort Chipewayan, Fort Fitz- gerald, Fort Smith, Fort Resolution, Hay River, Fort Providence, Fort Simp- son, Wrigley, Fort Norman, Fort Geod Hgflpe. Arctic Red River and Fort Mc- rson, CHRIS-CRAFTS WIN AGAIN” Chris-Crafis again prove to be the fastest stock boats by winning everything in the stock runabout class of the President’s Cup Regatta last Friday and Saturday. Chris-Crafts have won agQin this, season all oyer the country. These winning Chris-Crafts are now for sale, brand-new boats just unloaded one hour before the race. 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