Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1930, Page 61

Model Aircraft BY GEORGE W. WATERS. model plane builder and a member of the District of Columbia Model Aircraft League, has been chosen instructor of the Dis- JOHN R. PENDLETON, 16 years old, @f 624 Emerson street, expert trict of Columbia Air Legion’s model plane course. Young Pendleton was selected from more than 10 model build- ers for the task of teaching the young aviators of the future the building and flying of the embryo shig& structor has been flying and building the The newly appointed in- tiny models for more than “three years and is as enthusiastic over his new job as a copy reader < Wwith a freshly sharpened pencil. Works on “Lindy” Model. His admirers may get a glimpse of | Rirn now if they happen past the show window of the Capitol Model Aero Sup- ply House, 1213 I street. Young Pen- dleton is working in the window on his model of the Lindbergh Lockheed Sirius, which he expects to complete in the pext two or three days. And young Pendleton is most human, too. He admits “having a funny feel- ing” during his first ride in a real air- e. Everybody else—well, most everybody—are Lindberghs and Goebels after their first flight. But this scrib- bler's ecriticism must be light. The furthest he’s been off the ground was during a fall from a hayloft some years back. . Wins Many Laurels. The new feacher is outstanding among | the membership of the District Model ft League. In Class B of the Jeague Pendleton has taken first and second honors on many occasions. The youth, when not busied with his job as model designer for the Capitol Model Aero Supply House, works on models in his tiny workshop in the basement of his home. The plane shown in the above picture is a soarer. It is this type of plane that Pendleton will teach his class to build as a first step in his course. A contest for all members of the Air Legion’s junior section will be held with the completion of this model. Then Pendleton will begin a series of courses of nstruction for a new type of planes. A contest will follow the class completion of each new type. Awards will be given out. Pendleton’s class is open to all who wish to join. The course is held every Saturday afternoon from 2 o'clock ntil 4. . Mr. William Ring, whom this scribbler forcibly appoints & model plane cor- respondent for the column, writes in & word or two of good news for model builders. Contests Are Scheduled. Model afreraft builders may be re- warded for their work at the Colony | Theater, Georgia avenue and Farragut street, next Saturday afternoon. Realizing the hold that aircraft mod- eling has taken on the youth of Wash- ington, officials of the Warner Bros. theaters have arranged a model air- craft contest, the judging of which will be held at the Colony Theater at 3:40 o'clock Saturday. Upon the success of the contest de- pends decision of the officials to hold other aircraft meets in other of the ‘Warner theaters throughout the city. The contest is open to all boys and girls, and a dozen awards have been selected as prizes for the winners. Those desirous of entering the contest may file their names, addresses and en- trance model with the management of the theater at any time during ek, i Models to Be Exhibited. ‘Models of early entrants will be ex- hibited in the lobby of the theater throughout the week. Entrants will be received until 3:30 o'clock Saturday. Joseph Bergling, widely known avia- tor of the Capital, has been selected to judge the models entered and make the final awards. The first annual airplane model con- AIR LEGION OBSERVES SECOND ANNIVERSARY Local Flying Organization Having Brief Ceremonies at Hybla Valley Today. ‘The second anniversary of the estab- lishment of the District of Columbia Alr Legion, local fiying club, is being eelebrated today by club’s fiying field, in Hybla Valley, near {Alexandria, Va. There are to be brief ceremonies in honor of officers and | 6 members who have taken leading parts in_the legion’s career. During the past year the legion has graduated 104 members from its ground school, soloed 23 members and won rec- ognition of the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation as the most successful flying club in the United Btates, ‘The legion was organized in March, 1928, by & group of young men and women who desired to learn to fly, but could not afford the cost of attending & recognized aviation school. They felt that by sharing the expenses among themselves they could materially reduce the cost. It was decided that all mem- bers must pass & ground school course before becoming eligible for fiying in- struction. In September, 1928, sufficient mem- bers having’ completed the ground ‘tourse, plans were made for purchasing an airplane, and to raise the money fiying time was sold in advance at the rate of $15 per hour dual and $10 solo. ;‘g‘;:g instruction began November 6, Officers of the legion are Alva Sole, resident; M. G. Dooley, vice president; Miss Mary M. Craig, secretary, and T. ). Waggy, treasurer. Directors are Rob- D. Burbank, C. K. Gladhill, H. 8. pf, J. Elmer Kreis and O. R. Rohr, MA3. WALSH IS ADVANCED O AN IMPORTANT POST Former Attache of Army Air Crops + Elected Vice President of Propeller Corporation. Maj. Raycroft Walsh, formerly of the Army Air Corps, who was fiscal officer of the corps in charge of the prepara- tion of air service estimates, on duty in this city, from 1924 to 1926, has been elected as vice president and di- rector ézl the ‘I‘-Innmtiw;z"sund;:d Pr;- er Corporation of Pittsburgh, & sub- ‘!“l!d].lry of United Aircraft & Transport Corporation, it has been announced here. He will make his headquarters in Pittsburgh. In addition to his two years’ service here as fiscal officer, Maj. Walsh had served here earlier for nearly the same length of time as a member of the control board, assistant executive officer of the Air Corps and administrative ex- ecutive and assistant chief of the sup- ply group of the Army Air Corps, this tour of duty expiring about 1924, when Ne became air officer of the Panama Canal Department. Maj. Walsh resigned from the Army 4n 1926 and has been engaged in the manufacturing business since that time. He will have charge of sales for the Hamilton Standard organization, which recently was formed by a merger of the Standard Steel Propeller Corporation of Pittsburgh and the Hamilton Aero Man- ufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, puilders of metal airplane propellers. Plan New Airmail Route. The postmaster general of Canada, Peter Kenoit, recently announced that an airmail service through Fargo, N. D, to Winnipeg, to link up the Canadian mail services with the West coast is | contemplated. He added that he be- lieves in a few years Canada will be one of the world centers of aviation be- cause the dominion is on the shortest #ir zoute to Europe, both | eration Aeronautique JOHN R. PENDLETON. T AIRLINE AVERTS TIE-UP IN TRAFFIC Reserve Planes Are Rushed Into Service as Fire De- stroys Four Craft. Fast work prevented an tmerrupugn or even delay of airmail service on the Eastern Air Transport run through the National Capital when all four mail lanes at the New York end of the ine were destroyed a few days ago in & hangar fire at Hadley Field, N. J. “When the hangar crashed in on the mail planes and completed their de-| struction, not a single ship was left at the northern end of the line to take the mail southward along the Atlantic Seaboard that night,” officials of the line said. Howard A. Elliott, operations man- ager, was in Atlanta, where he had made a brief halt in a flight to Cuba. While the hangar was blazing, Ralph S. Westing, business manager, called Mr. Elliott from the main office ir Brooklyn over the teletype system con- necting each of the airmail fields be- tween New York and Atlanta and r ported the fire. Mr. Eiliott immediately ordered 1e- | serve planes put into service from Phil- mm and Richmond. Transmission of orders was completed before the planes at Hadley Field had burned completely and within a hour, the re- serve planes were ready to leave for Hadley, arriving there in time to take the mail out on schedule. Loss of the four planes will have no effect on the inauguration of double air- mail service over the line on April 1, according to Mr. Westing. There is suf- test, sponsored by-the Aviation School of America, will be held at Hoover Field April 5 at 1 o'clock in the after- noon, Twenty-five prizes will be award- ed, including five silver trophies for the first prizes in the following events: Best_endurance flight, released mod- els. First prize—Edmonds Trophy. Best endurance fllgltl,duke—og model. First prize—Hoover Flel Y. Best_glider flight. Hrl;n);mfi—ldfllh B. H. Merchant Troph; Best scale model. Best mechanical work. First prize— Aviation School of America prize. Schedule Preliminary Meet. A preliminary contest for non-flying models will be held at the Aviation School, 1108 Bixteenth street, Friday, April 4. All models must be on display before noon of the same day. All models must be built by the en- trants, and the contest is open to any one. Model clubs from Baltimore, Freder- ick, Wilmington, Del, and & number of other Eastern cities have beert in- vited to make exhibits. Judges for the contest follow: Lieut. B. H. Merchant, Army Air Corps Re- resident of the Aveh’tdi:ntln.stlitugo: Maj. g{n:lrry Horun:. président o ngress Alrport; Frank Edmonds, Maj. Luke Christopher, chairman of competitions for the Na- tional Aeronautical Association; Capt. Roy Fonke and Bruce Le Gore, president of the Aviation School of America. Frederick Forms Club. About 50 high school students at Frederick have formed the Frederick Model Aerial Club. The boys are stu- dents of the k. School. ‘They have established headquarters a supply shop at 162 West Patrick streef calling it the Scott Key Model A Supply Co. serve; Walter Hinton, 211 NAVAL FLYERS ARE-NOW IN SERVICE Personnel Returns Show. 600 Offi- “oers in Sea Air Forces of members at the | tion warrant officers, all from a total of 15 officers from the Constru tion Corps. Of the 583 ,:ln! 1:rfle¢fl lm ?j Bl: are qualified heavier-than- ots an 24 lighter-than-alr, Thirteen of the 15 Construction Corps officers are heavier- than-air and two lighter-than-air pilots. Of the total heavier-than-air pilots 16 also are qualified for lighter-than-air service. On March 1 there were 22 officers undergoing elimination training and 136 enlisted men undergoing or awaiting elimination training and San Diego. At the same time there were 417 aviation officers enrolled in the Naval Reserve, 22 of these being on duty in connection with aviation instruction and training of Reserves at Pensacola and Naval Reserve aviation bases, and 64 on training duty with aircraft squad- rons. at Hampton Roads INTERNATIONAL AIR BODY FOUNDER DUE Count Hendi de la Vaulx Tours North and South Americas. Count Henri de la Vaulx, founder and president of the Federation Aero- nautique Internationale, international aviation regullmr% body, which is rep- resented in the United States by National Aeronautic Associstion, ‘will visit the National Capital early in April on an earial four of North and South Americs. He has completed part of his South American tour and arrived at the Pan- ama Canal Zone du the ‘week, flying northward over the Pan Ameri- can Airways lines through Central America and Mexico to Brownsville, Texas. He is to go to California an then come east on his tour of this country. Prom the National Capital he will go to Florida about April 15 and will return to South America over the Pan Ameri- can line through the West Indies and the Windward and Leeward Islands to Trinided and the Guianas. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, president of the National Aero- nautic Association, has been in c! of arranging the count’s travels in the Americas, Count de Ia Vaulx has not been to the United States since 1904, The Fed- Internationale, which he founded and now heads, is the world-recognized aviation record- kee) and regulating body. Afr records become official only after ex- amination and declaration by this or- ganization, It issues pilot's licenses for sport and competitive purposes. Plan Student Flying Club. EAST LANSING, Mich. () —Permis- %x:tm:%&lgfl.m’:um- sought by & group of students, Curtiss Trophy, | any airmail line in the country; four rtiss Maj. | planes a day between this city and At- g\l:raen %S;hfi)fif'cfizmzm Co. r:.nh, & night service through Florida ficlent_equipment to carry the services through without new planes, including the movement of six mail planes daily between the National Capital and New York. Delivery of flew planes to re- place those burned is to be made before April 1, however, it was stated. They will be Pitcairn Super-Mailwings, of a later type than those destroyed. ‘The new schedules call for six planes dally between here and New York, the most frequent service, it is said, over end the addition of Charlotte, N. C., as an airmail stop. ‘The Coolidge Dam on the Gila River, | Arizons, will irrigate one million acres | of land. GLIDER CLUB OPENS MEMBERSHIP ROLL Government Employes Eligi- ble to Join Newly Formed Organization. Organization of a glider club by the Standards Flying Club now is in prog- ress following a preliminary meeting | |and address by Lieut. Ralph S. Bar- Army Air Corps Boeing P-12 pursuit planes, equipped for high altitude combat flying, are shown in formation over the snow-capped tops of the Olympic Mountains en route from Seattle, W: will use them for combat training at five miles above the earth’s surface. engines, can take off, climb to 10,000 feet and land again in four and one-half minutes and have reached a maximum altitude of nearly six miles with full military load. CHARGED CABLES DIRECT AVIATORS IN LANDINGS | Give Off Signals to Pilots to Guide Planes Into Air- ports After a year of tests charged cables, laid efther on top of the ground, car- ried on poles or buried in the earth, have been developed experimentally for guiding aircraft through fogs or dark- | ness to airports. ‘The system, based on the principle of electro-magnetic induction, consists of two cables running from each of the four sides of the airport in a V shape. ‘These energized cables give off a signal code which registers in the pilot’s head- phones. One cable gi off a serles of dots and the other a series of dashes, show- ing the pilot whether he is to the right or left of the proper landing direction. Remote control permits the current | to be turned on only in those cables running with the prevailing wind into which the pilot must land. As the plane approaches the edge of the fleld the sound given off increases. in intensity until the edge of the field is reached, where another series of cables flashes ;os in a vertical band marking the er, Swiss Lines Resume April 1. Swiss commercial aviation lines, suspended during the Winter, with one exception, are to resume operations April 1. The one line which his con- tinued through the Winter is that from Basel to Geneva, Marseille and Bar- celona. ']Zzls’ trend fo EIGHTS s a trend to The wide, new interest in 8-cylinder cars is another tribute to Hudson leadership. For it sweeps aside the barrier of high premium on eight-cylinder quality. It establishes in this field a new scale of low ownership costs—in price, in operation and in main- Tt Ibalkifs o uingaiishili. That is why yow find ¢housands-of former “Six” owners enjoying its distinction and brillient pes- formance with better economy than they ever knew. It is why longtime eight-cylinder buyers are tarning in great number to the advantages of Hudson's exclusive new type. It is why this trend, which you see, toward “Eights”, wetenever SO-Appatent. is really the public acclaim of Hudson's Great-8. This car stands at the pinnacle of Hudson’s record of value-giving. Any comparison you choose to make must emphasize that impression. Its advan- Besutifid, hexntiousendpowerfit—ao-cardsfister inget-eway—none so smooth and vibrationless in every performance — none more lastingly fine in ash., to San Diego, Calif., where the Army These planes, with Wasp supercharged —Boeing Photo. AIR MILE COST 7.8 CENTS. Passenger Fare Rates Approximate 5 Cents, Survey Shows. ‘The average cost of air travel in the United States today is 7.8 cents per mile, it is revealed by a survey con- ducted by the American Air Transport Association. The passenger fare rates of several of the large air transport gx‘linpsnlu approximate 5 cents per e. All the 2: l:lh’ transport companies Now engage: passenger transporta- tion have reduced their rates over the 19,861 miles of airways which they now fly. Since the reduction in fares, most of which have gone into effect since January 1, there has been a 200 per cent increase in the number of pas- ngers flown, the association reported. Four 3<way sheck absorbers; vadiator shutters; Come see, and ride in the most modern and ad- vanced of Eights. From whatever viewpoint you naby, first Navy glider pilot and one of the 10 licensed American glider pilots, during the past week. Membership will be open not only to employes of the Bureau of Standards, but to those of other Government de- partments and bureaus and to certain accredited representatives of national aviation organizations which work in co-operation with the Federal aviation bodies. ~Fifteen signatures have been received and an invitation has been is- sued for applications for membership, which should be addressed to Victor Lowe, secretary of the Standards Fly- ing Club, at the Bureau of Standards. Plan to Buy Glider. Lieut. Barnaby has agreed to act as chief adviser and sponsor of the club, which is planning to purchase a pri- mary training glider, which will be flown at the Mount Vernon Airways Field, near Alexandria, Va. In his address to the club Lieut. Bar- naby stressed the fascination of gliding as a sport and its value as training for those who expect to fly powered planes. He recounted his experiences in the glider school at Cape Cod and in his descent in a glider from the Navy dirigible Los Angeles. ‘Will Address Club. Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, chief of the aerodynamics section of the Bureau of Standards, will deliver the third of a series of five lectures on aerodynamics before the Standards Flying Club at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the east building of the bureau. The public is invited. Dr. Dryden’s subject will be “The Properties of airfoil sections, including the ef- fects of. shapes of section, aspect ratio, m‘:x’ophne and biplane arrangements, ete. ‘The two final lectures of the series, to be given April 1 and 8, will be de- voted to problems of control and sta- bility and the airplane propeller. France will entertain nearly 1,500,000 foreign visitors this year, according to estimates. KT N ‘§ [ P i 3 o e e oy Wheelbase—8-pass. !:g#n-s Phacton, $1500; 7-pass. 2630, AIMS TO PROMOTE PRIVATE FLYING Conference at Wright Fjeld to Consider the Building of Cheaper Planes. Efforts to increase the popularity of private flying by producing ch aire planes will be considered at a confer= ence to be held at Wright Field, Day= ton, Ohio, May 19 to 22. a= a part &2 the national technical aeronautic meet- ing of the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers, “The aeronautic industry,” it was stated by the society in announcing the conference, “has realized for some time the need of perfecting production meth= ods so as to reduce the cost of airplanes, If there is to be any greatly increased use of airplanes, it is essential that this important problem be solved.” Dayton Meeting One of Series, ‘The Dayton tonference is to be one of a series to be held for discussion of the lowering of airplane costs to the private pilot and owner. The first will be held May 6 in New York in con- nection with the New York Airplane Show, but will be confined more to the reduction of maintenance costs than to the lowering of the first cost. Lowering of prices and increasing of safety, so that the layman may learn to fly as a private pilot without putting in months of training time and hun- dreds of doNars for instruction, are re- garded by many in the industry as essential if avigtion is to make real progress. ‘The airplane must make the same sort of appeal to the private owner as the' automobile, it has been pointed out by a prominent aeronautical official here. It should meet the requirements of the man who cannot give his full time, or even a large part of his time, to flying, but who can use only his unday or Saturday afternoons and jundays for aerial traveling, with possi= bly a two-week trip in the Summer. 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