Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 67

Model Aircraft - BY GEORGE W. WATERS. creations daily are increasing the steadfastness of the position YOUTHE‘UL followers of ships of the skies, whose diminutive of model aircraft in the realm of aeronautics, may well vie with keenest determination for honors in the construction of these tiny craft during the coming months. For awaiting the winner of the greatest number of points in all fmajor model aircraft competition: one of the handsomest trophies e s in the course of the next year is ver donated here as a memento to skillful achievement in the field of miniature airplane development. Edmonds Is Donor, Frank H. Edmonds, optician, of 915 Fifteenth street, who has hitherto been the donor of awards for high attain- ments in model aircraft construction, has made possible the award of this latest prize. It is a handsome silver trophy, depicting the earth resting on four silver columns. A feminine figure holding_aloft an airplane stands atop the globe. It is valued at more than $200. In making this announcement here yesterday, Bruce W. LeGore, president of the Aviation School of America, under whose auspices the award of the | prize will be made, declared that to insure absolute fairness in the de- termination of the winner of so fine a trophy it has been decided to present it to the accumulator of the greatest number of points in all major contests during the year. Award Next Spring. *“This will eliminate the possibility of any unfair award which might result from determining the winner through a single contest,” Mr. LeGore stated. *“We feel that through adhering to this system we can be reasonably assured that the recipient of the award will be & meritorious winner.” Presentation of the trophy will take place at a final contest to be held next Spring under auspices of the Aviation School of America, Mr. LeGore an- nounced. Mr. Edmonds was the donor of a silver cup awarded at a model aircraft contest at Hoover Field April 5. Announce Contest Results. The District of Columbia Model Air- craft League has announced that re tration for 1930 has grown to 130 and is rising rapidly with each contest. At the same time the league announced the winners in the contest held last Sat- urday, April 26, at the Adams School. They follow: Class ace—first, Robert “Towles, 11 points; second, Harty Mc- Ginniss and John Sullivan, 10 points each; third, Lloyd Barrett, 5 points. Class A—first, Billy Street, 10 points. Class B—first, Hugh Kabler, 10 points. Class C—Airst, Denny Williams, 8 ints; second, G. Feelemyer 'and guel Bautista, each 5 points; third, George Shipley. Class D—first, Arthur Davis, 10 points; second, Robert Coals |and Joseph Bakersmith, each 8 points; third, Fred Livingston, 2 points. The winners were awarded orders for model building material. Feature Models in Show. For the first time in the history of first-class aviation shows model air- plane construction and operation will | be a major feature at the New York | air show in Madison Squgre Garden | May 10, it has been announced here. ‘The model airplane meet at the show | will climax a contest which has been in progress for the past month among | school children of Greater New York, in which approximately 50,000 youthful model aviation enthusiasts competed under the banners of seven different organizations. The May 10 session of the show is to be dedicated to youth, “whose faith in |the new and apparently impossible has | been responsible for civilization's great | strides,” " the show committee an- | nounced. As many children as possible will be taken to the show on that day, special rates for children under 13 years of age having been announced. Prominent aviators will speak to the children and exhibitors of aircraft have made plans to allow the youngsters to go through the planes. Among the speakers will be Lewis Yancey, trans- atlantic flyer, and Hawley Bowlus, holder of the American glider record. Bowlus will explain the rudiments -of | gliding to the children and will show them one of his gliders, of the type in which Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- bergh experimented with gliding. Awards in the model airplane con- tests will be made by “Casey” Jones, famous speed flyer and president of the | Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Finals in the contest were staged yesterday on | winning_planes” will be on display all week. The contests consisted of three events for scale and stick models. Among the organizations partici- pating in the model contests are the American Sky Cadets, Associated Avi- ation Clubs, Avio, Graphic Aviation Club, Junior Aviation League of New York, Legion Air Cadets and the New York Boys’ Club. “BLIND" AIRPLANE " LANDING PLANNED Practical Demonstration to Be Given New Radio Inven- tion, Says Expert. Practical demonstrations of the radio “plind” landing system developed by the Bureau of Standards and Department of Commerce areonautics branch to guide airplane pilots to safe Jandings through fog are planned for the near future, Harry Diamond, scientist. in the radio section of the bureau, told mem- bers of the Standards Flying Club a few the successful applica- tion of the radio range beacon to the national airways, Mr. Diamond sald, the Bureau of Standards is well along 1n its work of conducting experiments, the purpose of which is to make possi- ble normal three-point landings in fogs so thick the pilot cannot see the ground. ‘The radio (o:-]lndh}%:ynew eil;pl.ox da . rs‘.‘nresult of mark out the proper runway to be used in landing into the wind. The course 1aid out by this localizer or runway bea- con is so sharp, Mr. Diamond said, that a pilot can locate the axis of the runway at the farthest end of the long- est, flelds to within 100 feet. As all run- ways are greater than 200 feet in width, Thost, of them running up to 600 feet of more, this makes certain a landing within the runway. “Marker” Beacons Required. In addition to the localizer beacon, suitably placed “marker” beacons are required to define the beginning of the cleared approach to the field and the limits of the field. This arrangement, combined with suitable absolute alti- tude indication, Mr. Diamond said, gives promise of safe landings during condi- tions of low visibility. Another radio beam, inclined at the normal gliding angle, is used to mark out the proper gliding angle to be fol- lowed by the pilot in coming down to a landing, being so delicate as to mark out the gradual curve as the ground is approached required for proper “level- ’l:x‘x off” to insure a good three-point ding. The “gliding beam” experimental work has been successful, Mr. Diamond said. High frequencies are employed, making the necessary equipment on the ground and in the plane very simple. No adjustment whatever is required by the pilot. Mr, Diamond described the general research work on radio aids for use on the civil airways the United States now carried on by the Bureau of Standards, which acts as the research division of the aeronautics branch of the Department of Coramerce. The ob- dect of this research work is to develop ® system of air navigational aids which will make it possible for a pilot to take off from an airport, fly along a given course and land at the desired desti- nation under any conditions of fog or Jow visibility. VISITING BLIMP BUSY Hoover Field has been host during the past week to an airship, the Good- year Vigilant, smallest of the line of non-rigid airships produced by this pioneer American airship company. The Vigilant has been engaged in pas- senger flights over the National Capital. A landing crew of only eight men has been required to handle the little blimp on the ground, four men taking each of the handling lines dropped from the nose. The craft has been moored each night at Aberdeen proving grounds, Aberdeen, Md., “commuting” back and forth. Although I have owned cars in the price class of Viking for many have never driven a car years, 1 to compare with it in economy of operation, easy riding, speed, and S ‘marvelous | the opening day of the show, and the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C., MAY 4, 1930—PART FOUR. GAPTAL CLDRR ACTITY GRONS Four or More Motorless Craft} to Be in Qperation Here This Month. Glider activity in the National Cap- |ital has gotten away to a good start during the past week and this month should see four or more of the motor- | less craft in operation in this vicinity. The Washington Glider Club, organ- | ized last Fall in the Thomson School, | has put its first glider, 2 primary training type, into the air and now has more than a score of flights to its credit. A secondary type, suitable for | more advanced work, is nearing com- | pletion and will be ready as soon as | sufficient members have worked up on the primary glider. The Standards Flying Club, composed of employes of the Bureau of Standards and other Government bureaus, has ordered an Eaglerock glider, manufac- | tured in Denver, Colo., and expacts de- livery any day. Gliding operations will begin as soon as the glider is set up and rigged. Demonstration This Morning. Paul Charles of Richmond, Va,, is to demonstrgte one of the Eaglerock glid- ers this morning, weather permitting, at Hoover Field, where several flights prob- ably will be made. Members of the Washington Glider Club are to resume gliding this morning on the estate of Louis H. Crook, near the Congressional Country Club, where all thelr flying has been done. The Standards Club expects to do its gliding on the Mount Vernon Airways flying field near Alexandria, VA, ‘The Glider Club of the Aviation School of America is completing the | construction of two gliders in its shops in the old Simmon's aircraft factory, near the Benning race track. Flights will be made probably at Congressional Arport, on the Rockville pike near Halpine, Md. Members of the Washington Glider Club expect to use the secondary glider now nearing completion for short soar~ ing flights. Advanced members of the club have arranged to fly the craft along the dunes at Cape Henry, and also in the mountains above Fred- erick, Md., during the Summer, Praiseworthy Achievement. Construction of a successful glider to designs of their own drafting js regard- ed by aeronautical people here as a praiseworthy achievement for members of the club, in view of the fact that glider construction involves the most advanced type of aeronautical construc- tion. Lightness is a paramount factor for success in a glider and the most accurate calculation of stresses on ribs, spars and other structural members is essential. Much of the work of designing and superintending the construction of the glider was done by Jack T. Gray and Gaylord N. Newton of the engineering section, aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce; L. J. Marhoeffer, aero- nautical engineer, and Paul E. Garber, secretary of the club and curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian Insti- tution. " Yes, / the Viking is a great ffom everystandpoint. And that’s one very substantial reason for the enthusiasm of Viking owners. / “Balanced engineering,” expert would say. Whichin every- day language means that no one GLIDER EXPERT AIDS LOCAL INAUGURATION Lieut. Ralph S. Barnaby, only Navy glider pilot and first licensed soarer pilot in the United States, made two hops in the primary glider of the Washington Glider Club a few days ago when the club inaugurated gliding In this vicinity on the estate of Louis H. Crook, near the Congressional Country Club. Barnaby is shown seated at the controls of the glider, which was designed and built by members of the local club. —H. B. Henrickson Photo. |AIRCRAFT LEADERS TO MEET MAY 13 Fifth Annual Research Conference Will Be Held at Langley Laboratories. The fifth annual aireraft engineering research conference of executives and engineers: of the aircraft industry with representatives of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautic. at the Langley Memorial Laboratories, Langley Fleld, Va., May 13. This meeting is held each year to permit the working out of a program o! aeronautical research at the Federal laboratories, with a view to the solution of the most pressing problems of the avtiation industry. Representatives of the industry will be given an opportunity at the meeting | to present their views on problems in- volving the improvement in the design and construction of gircraft and air- craft engines and 0 advance sugges- tions as to desired research problems for incorporation in the committee’s re- search program for the coming year, Delegates to the meeting are to make the trip to Langley Field from the Na- tional Capital aboard s Norfolk and ‘Washington steamboat leaving this city at 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 12. The re- turn trip will be made immediately fol- lowing the meeting, the steamer arriving In this city at 7 am. Wednesday, May 14, T s Organize for Air Thrills. LOS ANGELES (#).—An aeronautical company has been organized here solely for exploits in the form of spectacular flying and record flight attempts. The first ship of Aeronautical Exploitation, Limited, will be similar to Col. Lind- bergh's low-winged Lockheed-Sirius monoplane. car the il be held | ¥ AMBULANCES IN AIR Military and Private Service Oper- ated in Sahara Desert. Aerial military and civil ambulance service, employing eight airplanes, is in operation through the Sahara Des- ert, according to a report received here by the Department of Commerce from Consul Oscar 8. Heiser at Algiers. ‘Though the service is omrlud by military authorities, it may used by the civil population at a cost of approx- imately 25 cents per mile. The doctor in charge ‘'of the patient who must be moved may make arrangements for use of the aerial ambulance through a hos- ntal jacent to any of the aviation centers, FLYING CLUB PLANS RESEARCH SECTION Problems to Be Studied by Organized Employes of Standards Bureau. | Aeronautical Creation of a research section of the Standards Flying Club, composed of employes of the Bureau of Stan- dards, to undertake a study of various aeronautical problems, dealing chiefly with the influx of amateurs into avia- tion, has been announced by Victor Lowe, secretary of the club. ‘The section is headed by Dr. H. C. Dickinson, chief of the heat and power division of the bureau, who designed and built the “high altitude chamber” |at the bureau for testing of aircraft | engines under conditions to be found at_various altitudes. The section, it was announced, is now at work on methods of accustom- ing students to the physical and psycho- logical problems of flight. Improve- 'I have never driven a car that compares with the Viking* There is real riding comfore. —evmonuron;hm.,m V’ikingilg:ncmhliu... ment of the methods of launching gliders also is to be sought by the sec- tion as a part of its initial program. The regular course of aeronautical lectures held by the club during the past Winter was interrupted during the week to permit the showing of three motion picture films dealing with avia- tion. Among these was a film made by the famous Italian aviator, De Pinedo, showing views of Mount Stromboli, Italy, taken from the air. It was the first showing of this picture in the United States. Erin Has Lone Airport. DUBLIN (®)—Ireland has a single official landing field, a customs airport at Baldennel, near here. GLIDER PREPARES | MEN FOR PLANES Michigan Student to Demon- strate Flying Ability With- out Dual Instruction. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 3.—In order to prove that the logical step in the training of aviators is from the glider to the powered craft and to demonstrate that this can be done without the hours of dual instruction required to teach a student the principles of fiying, a Uni+ versity of Michigan student, who is proficient in the art of gliding, but who | never has flown a powered plane, will |climb into a motorized craft at Roose- | velt Field tomorrow afternoon and take ‘?111 without ever having dual instruc- | tion. The pilot, who is studying aeronau- tical engineering at Ann Arbor, and who has had hours of instruction in all types of gliders, is Myron L. Foster, 19 years old, who lives with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Foster, in Jackson Heights, Long Island. Thousands to See Test. ‘The experimental flight will be made before thousands of persons who will gather at Roosevelt Field to witness the exhibition by the youth, who never has flown a powered craft. Mr. Foster is confident that he will be able to take the plane off the ground and after making a tour of the field, bring it down to a graceful landing at approxi- mately the same place from which he took off, The craft he will use is one of the new types of light airplanes which are being built, and which Col. Clarence M. Young heralds as a needed one in the training of pilots and the building up of air-mindedness throughout the Nation. It is the Aeronca, a high-wing mono- 9 CONDUCT TRIAL FLIGHTS Trial flights on the Brussels-London night air mall route now are being made by the Sabena Co. and operations over the route, one of the first Euro- pean night mall lines, is to begin soon, according to word received by the De- partment of Commerce, Tri-motored Fokkers will be used and 17 such planes are to be in use by July for night and day service: Lighting of the route includes re- volving beacons at every 15 kilometers and projectors of 3,000,000 candlepower each at three points on the line. Along the coast, from Ostend to Dunkerque, the present lighthouses will be. used as aerial beacons. plane, powered with a two-cylinder en- gine The craft has been dubbed by fiyers the “flivver” plane and also has been erroneously called a powered glider. 1t is very light and soars like a glider. The controls, with the exception of the engine levers, are virtually the same as those on & glider, so the youthful uni- versity student anticipates no trouble when he takes off in a solo flight with- out any instruction in the flying of an airplane. Young Foster already has applied to the Department of Commerce for a stu- dent fiyer's permit, and he expects by late Sunday afternoon to have con- vinced the department inspectors at Roosevelt Field sufficiently of his abil- ity to fly an airplane to get a student pilot's license. Considerable interest surrounds this attempt to step from a glider into a powered craft, for if it is found prac- tical, aeronautical leaders contend that the glider will open up the field for the instruction of pilots with a minimum amount of cost instead of the costly way of giving dual instruction in vogue at the present time, Aviation leaders contend that this method of teaching flyers will open up a new market for aircraft and it the small “fiivver” plane which will be used as the stepping stone from the glider to the airplane, will in the end give way to larger craft. After a pilot becomes proficient in the handling of the “flivver” craft he can step into a larger plane and so on up until he is able to handle the biggest of planes. 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