Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 59

+ proximately Model Aircraft BY GEORGE WATERS. model ships to break two District flight records at the District Evmm MEEKS, 15-year-old expert model plane pilot, flew his Model Aircraft League’s model plane tournament held at Bolling Field May 10. Releasing his tiny models into a stiff wind over the flying grounds, gouns Meeks- flew his helicopter model for 1 minute 43.2 seconds efore it settled bird-like to the ground. In the class for hand-launched scientific model, the expert model {hne flyer released his ship for a 15 minutes 21 seconds’ flight above he fleld. The small craft, appearing realistic against the blue sky. | soared high into the air and landed far on the opposite side of the fiying field. Wins In Ace Class. The young model plane pilot's excel- fent flying won for him first place in the ace class. He accumulated 10 points to head the class for aces. Lloyd Barrett kept his tiny plane aloft long enough to take second place in the class for aces. Luther Schmidt took second place with a total of 4 points. Frank Salisbury, another of the Dis- trict’s champ model plane pllots, won first place in Class B of the tourney. Young Salisbury won in the class with s total of 9 points. Accumulating 7 points, Lloyd Busching was a close sec- ond, with Bernard von Bernewits third, having aggregated 6 points. Whittington Is Victor. In class C Aven Whittington cap- tured first place with a total of 9 points | and Wilmer Colwell and George Ship- ley tled for second place with the final score of 5 points. Monroe Brandenburg and Willlam Shrout were third with & total of 4 points each. The class D of the league was won by Miguel Bautista, who aggregated 10 points. Those boys who made outstanding and lengthy flights were cited as aces. They follow: Aven Whittington, Lloy Busching and William Shrout., ' Whi tington’s time was 7 minutes 1.1 sec- onds; Busching's time was 7 minutes B5.4 seconds and Shrout’s time was 5 minutes 56.1 seconds. John H. Williams, instructor in the building and flying of model planes, was in charge of the meet. H. 8. Harbour and H. H. Cleary were timers and re- gorders, Many Planes Lost. s Many of the planes entered by odel plane pilots were lost in the wood- ed sections neighboring the flying fleld. You boys who have not as yet seen the District Model Alrcraft League’s sweater emblem must be on the lookout for John Sullivan at the next meet. John, along with several other champ fiyers, has won a sweater emblem. An’ indoor meet was staged at the @ordon Junior High School by the Dis- trict Model Aircraft League last night. The meet was for hand-launched sci- entific, rise-off-floor fuselage and glid- ars for duration models. A second meet will be held at the Macfarland Junior High School May 24, Hand-launched, scientific, rise-of- ground fuselage and helicopter models will be flown. A model aircraft contest scheduled by the Washington Model Aero Supply Co. will be held at Bolling Pield this afternoon g at 2 o'clock. Prizes will be given. Hand-launched-scientific, rise-off-ground fuselage and baby-rise- off-ground models will be flown at the meet. New York Show Success. American _Youth day at the New York Air Show in Madison Square Garden brought thousands of young- sters from New York and nearby cities who took advantage of the opportunity to emulate their aviation heroes. Climbing in and out of cockpits of eolorful sport planes or sitting in the control cabins of the big air liners, hundreds of boys and girls had an op- rtunity to picture themselves on some antastic flight to world fame. The steady stream of youngsters, many of them accompanied by parent. or teachers, started to pour into Madi son Square Garden when the doors opened in the morning and continued throughout the day. A check showed that between 1,200 and 1,400 boys and girls passed through the giant Fokker EVERETT MEEKS. F-32, the largest air liner in the show, each’ hour during the day. The show management had planned an “aviation field day” for American youth, and the boys and girls who stormed the Garden took the term lit- erally. Running and shouting through the big arena or in the main exposition hall, shrill, happy voices kept the ex- hibitors informed of their success in evidence of the care with which they had inspected every booth. Many Win Trophies, Pifteen boys had trophics under their arms as they started toward home, their reward for months of work during the Winter in preparing airplane models in competition with nearly 1,000 young- sters for the New York Air Show. Per- haps the happiest of all was 16-year- old William Grunstra of Clifton, N. J., whose scale model of the St. Louis Robin was declared the most perfect scale model submitted in the competi- tion. Alexander Dallas and Percival Gyle were young Grunstra's closest rivals. They received sccond and third prizes, respectively. Other winners in the several branches of the New York Air Show model con- test are: Senior stick model—C. Gold- berg, first; C. Green, second; Florence Cascaden, third. Junior stick model— J. McLaughlin, first; H. Lohden, second; L. Greenstein, third. Senior commer- cial models—T. Boland, first; N. Tri- margo, second; C. Green, third. Junior commercial models—J. Kovel, first; John Carmen, second; E. Boshar, third. Before prizes were awarded from the platform which famous fliers and avia- tion leaders have used as a speakers’ stand throughout the week, thousands of youngsters jammed the gallery to hear Lewis A. Yancey, famous trans- atlantic fller, and Hawley Bowlus, Americs premier glider pilot, who taught Col. and Mrs. Charles A, Lind- | bergh the motorless fiying art. Both expressed a genuine confidence in the youth of today, who, as the men and ‘women of tomorrow, will be aviation's greatest backers, BEES CAPTURE ARMY PLANE DURING SPRING MANEUVERS The capture of & “Blue” Army attack e at Mather Fleld, Sacramento, if., by a swarm of bees was one of the unexpected features of the recent Bpring maneuvers of the Army Alr Corps, according to a “battle” report which has filtered through devious channels to the War Department. One morning during the exercises Lieut. 8. J. Simonton, 3d Attack Group, went to his plane and found hundreds : bees had settled on a lower wing p, which was black with them. A curtain of the insects hung almost to ghe ground. ‘While officers of the group registered bonsternation and bewilderment, Capt. Lotha A. Smith, commanding the 8th Attack Squadron, taxied his plane directly in front of the beleaguered plane, turned it around and, setting the Wheel brakes, gave the bees the benefit of & 150-mile-an-hour gale, which blew them all over Mather Fleld. Rejoicing over the recovery of his plane, Lieut. Simonton took off with his TUDENT PHOTOGRAPHERS AID GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Air Corps Group Has Mapped 1,000 Bquare Miles of Quadrangles in Illinois. Officers and men of the photography department of the Army Air Corps ‘Technical School, Chanute Field, Ran- ¢oul, I, are saving the United States Geological Survey thousands of dellars and weeks of work by aiding in the mapping of a large portion of Tlinols 83 a part of the photographic student officers’ training work. ‘The student aerial photographers re- cently made tri-lens photographs of ap- 1,000 square miles of quadrangles in Illinols for the Geologi- cal Survey. A total of 2500 square miles will be photographed by June 1 if &00d weather holds. Two students of the school recently made & two-strip mosaic of the Chicago water-front area from the Indiana line ette, & distance of approximate- attempts t were unsuccessful because hich prevalls virtuslly every e mosaic, when d _four al a8 the Army rellef show at Soldier Fleld, Chicago, in June. PLANES OFFER CHEAPER FARE THAN DOG TEAMS Tt is cheaper to travel by airplane in Alaska than by doi team, it is reported by Maj. H. C. Deckard, who represent- ed the Aviation Corporation on the ex- pedition sent to Alaska to aid in the search for the late 1 Ben Eielson and Earl Borland. Maj. Deckard was in charge of the shipping and assem- bling of three Fairchild planes used in the search. Not_only is airplane travel cheaper, t the saving in time amounts in many cases to days and even weeks. ‘The actual flying time between Nome and Fairbanks, where the Alaskan Rail- road ends, Maj. Deckard reported, was four hours and 45 minutes. In Win- ter, after the railroad closes, the only other means of transportation is by dog team, requiring between 20 and 30 3? The dog-team mail scl e for 20 days of travel. squadron _snd was away some three hours. When he landed and taxied back to his parking place the entire Swarm was there to greet its returning “papa.” A few seconds after the plane was in piace the swarm had made its home under the stabilizer. “Lieut. Simonton thought that was earrying & joke a little too fai said the dispatch to the Air Corps News Letter, “s0 he consulted with the authorities and, after a caucus, it was decided to send to Sacramento for a bee expert. Alf Erickson, who knows all the bees in Sacramento County by their first names, volunteered his services. The bees followed him back to Sacramento in a quite docile manner and the queen bee herself blushed with embarrassment at the proper scolding Alf delivered to her. “No harm was done, except that Lieut. Simonton’s name was immediately changed to ‘Honey Boy' by which pseudonym the Army will henceforth know him.” KELLY FIELD CREDITED WITH RECORD IN FLYING Made Highest Total in Time Sched- ule in 1929, Compared With Other Units. ‘The greatest total flying time piled up at any Army Air Corps field since the World War was recorded in 1929 ot Kelly Pleld, San Antonlo, Tex., the War Department has announced. ‘The field records show that 48,448 hours and 20 minutes of aircrfit flying time were credited to pilots and students on duty at the Air Corps advanced flying school, Were a single plane to start out on & non-stop flight to equal the Kelly Pield record for the year, it was pointed out, it would have to fly continuously, day and night, seven days a week, for nearly six years. Six airplanes flying 'nrly minute of the day and night would uqnlre‘wrly & year to amass record, e in mileage, the report m! . re| War Department stated, Kelly Feld airplanes traveled about 4,884,700 miles during the past year, or the equivalent of nearly 200 trips around the world. MOOR OlL_ “BEST OIL IN THE WORLD" Good oil, as you know, is the life-blood of a motor. Poor oil is its death-warrant. Autocrat Motor Oil ranks as “Pennsyl- vania's Best.” By its use you avoid all lu- brication troubles. 1o _the | th THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. C, AIRCRAFT DEFENSE TESTED OUT HERE Maneuvers Reveal Attacking Planes Have Advantage in Combat. Bolling Pield during the past week has had all the appearance of a “front- line” airdrome at the height of a great battle, patrols of bombardment and at- tack planes going out and coming in at all hours of the day and into the night as the various phases were flown of 3 week of problems designed to test to the utmost the latest system of de- fenses agains aircraft raids. ‘The military study of the results of the week of simulated battle opera- tions has not been completed, and there has been no official announcement of conclusions reached. It appears, how- ever, that even the most elaborate de- fense system which can be devised fails to remove the menace from hostile air- craft attacks on even the most closely guarded point. Some of the attacks may be beaten off, either completely or to an extent which will prevent great damage to the protected area, the tests have shown, but a large proportion of the aerial attacks seem almost certain to succeed against even the most unceas- ing vigilance and vigorous opposition. Defenses Elaborate and Complete. The anti-aircraft defenses employed for the protection of Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., during the past week have been most elaborate and complete. They have included pur- suit aircraft, anti-aircraft batteries and an extensive interconnected network of observation posts scattered over hun- dreds of square miles, connected by fleld telephone and radio with each other and with the defense headquar- ters at Aberdeen. Theoretically it would seem nearly impossible for even a single airplane to pass over the network of observation posts without detection, to run a gant- let of sensitive “electric ears” trained to pick up and locate the sounds of aircraft, and then to elude both guard- ing aircraft and aerial barrages. Actu- ally, however, it has been possible for flights of planes to get through unde- tected. ‘The maneuvers have introduced to this part of the country a new element in aerial warfare—the attack plane. Nine planes of this type, composing a half squadron, are participating in the maneuvers, being based at Bolling Field. They were sent here from Fort Crockett, Galveston, Tex., by the 3d Attack Group. The attack plane is & post-war de- velopment. It is designed for ground straffing exclusively, and can bring to bear against enemy troops, machine- gun nests, gun batteries, communica- tions centers, supply trains, ammuni- tion dumps or other nerve centers near the battle front a fire power of terrific intensity. The nine planes here have the fire power of an entire infantry brigade, in- cluding field artillery, during the few seconds of their direct attack on a ground target. The nine planes can bring to bear on & concentrated target the fire of 54 machine guns and a total of 2256 fragmentation bombs of 10 pounds each, or 90 bombs of 25 pounds each. Anti-Aifcraft Fire Futile. ‘The attack is delivered from the low- est possible altitudes, the planes taking advantage of every hill and grove of trees to provide cover behind which they may approach the target without warning. Operating so low, the attack plane is immune from anti-aircraft fire, and, because of its swift and unexpected attack, from all but scattering rifie and machine-gun fire from the ground. The only effective weapon yet devised against the attack plane is the pursuit plane, it has been revealed by maneuvers such as those held in Ohio last year, where Bl'o}ltnd forces were engaged against air- craft. ‘War-time practices have prevailed thmughout in the maneuvers just con- cluded. The anti-aircraft batteries have been distributed around Aberdeen in carefully camoufiaged positions. The | attacking and defending forces have op- erated as they would in case of actual hostilities up to the point of firing of weapons. Every detail has been the result of the most thorough planning, & special board having been at work on arrangements for more than four months prior to the exercises, . ALL-AIR SERVICE TO PACIFIC COAST Project ’Beeomel Actuality With New Schedules and Re- duced Rates. The first all-air passenger service between the National Capital and the Pacific Coast became an actuality dur- ing the past week as a result of new schedules, accompanied by a reduction of rates, on the Washington-Cleveland line of Pennsylvania Afrlines, f ly operated by Clifford Ball of Pittsburgh, ;:: becomes president of the merged, y. e Washington-Cleveland line has been operated since last August by the Ball organization, six-passenger Ir- child cabin monoplanes having been used for the run over the Alleghenies. One of the results of the merger has been the addition of a trimotored Ford transport plane to the equipment. The line operates out of this city from Hoover Field. In addition to the former stops at Pittsburgh and Cleve- land, stops now are being made, on call, at Baltimore, Md.; Greensburg and New Castle, Pa, and Youngstown nd Akron, Ohlo, which are classed as "fllE Stops. west-bound plane leaves Wash- ington at noon, instead of 12:30, as in the past, arriving at Baltimore at 12:20; Greensburg, 1:40; Pittsburgh, 2; New Castle, 2:45; Youngstown, 3; Akron, 3:30, and Cleveland, 3:50. A | 15-minute stop is made at Pittsburgh. Eastbound the plane leaves Cleveland at 12:30 pm, arriving here at 4:15 pm. Flyers Exempt From Gas Tax. By the Assocly Press. Commereial aviators in 32 States and e District of Oolumbia are either exempt from rylnl g2 taxes or receive refunds. It is estimated that the ex- emptions save the aviation industry $500,000 annually. Nothing is more important than thorough lubrication. AUTOCRAT—THE OIL THAT 18 DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS Beware of Substitutes Try Autocrat the next time you need oil, and judge its advantages for yourself. At the Better Dealers 30 & '0_51- BAYERSON OIL WORKS, COLUMBIA 5228 MAY EDGERTON RECALLS HAZARDS OF PIONEER AIRMAIL FLYING Awarding of Contracts, Following Pas- ‘The past week has marked'the twelfth anniversary of the inauguration of the first airmail line in the United States, established May 15, 1918, by the Army Air Bervice between the National Capi- tal and New York. occurs during a month of happenings of vital importance to the entire future of the airmail service in the United States. Enactment of the McNary-Watres bill reorganizing the contract airmail sys- tem this month has been followed by the awarding of five contracts and the extension of two contract lines, which it is estimated will effect an annual sav- ing to the Government of $1,500,000 & year. Twenty other contracts are to be Degotiated soon. This months also marks the second anniversary of the establishment of the resent contract airmail line between glumngton, New York and points south, Airmail Pilots Honored. The first celebration in honor of air- mail pilots, particularly the pioneers in the airmail service, was held in New York a few days ago as a part of the New York Air Show. The celebration served to disclose facts never before disclosed regarding the history of the first_months of the airmail service in i the National Capital. The early history of the line was told in an address by James C. Edgerton, now a resident of the National Capital, who was the first pilot to complete a scheduled airmail fiight over the line and in the world, and, who later became first chief of fying operations of the Post Office Department Airmail Service. Only by “gradually and quietly” ig- noring orders of the War Department not to fly through storms, then regarded as fatal to the aviator, did Lieut. Edger- ton and other pioneer pilots on the New York-Washiington line make pos- sible the establishment of airmail on a practical basis, he revealed. The early airmall, he declared, “stag- gered along by divine grace and bull- headedness.” ‘The fate of the first air- mail service hung by a threrad several times before even the first flight was made, he declared. On May 14, 1918, the day before the scheduled inauguration of the first air- mail service, Edgerton declared, the planes which were to be used were de- | livered after many delays. They had to be uncrated, assembled, serviced, fiight tested and flown from Hazelhurst Field, N. Y., where delivery was made, to Philadelphia and Washington. The first two were not ready for flight testiing until 3 pm, when they were flown by Edgerton and Capt. Paul Culver. No other planes were ready, so, after a council of war, it was decided to send the two on down the line, though only an hour and a half of daylight remained and the clouds were closing down. The pllots were ordered to Bustleton Field, Philadelphia, though they knew nothing of its condition or location, except that it lay 12 miles north of the city. Culver and Edgerton went through the clouds and landed there at dusk, but Maj. Reuben H, Fleet, commander of the first mail force, who had started in an older type Army plane, failed to get through. He finally telephoned that he had made a forced landing, with minor damage, on a golf course about 3 miles away. After heroic efforts, the plane was repaired and flown after dark to Bustleton, landing by the lights from automobile headlights. An “Embarrassing Moment.” “Early the next morning, May 18, Edgerton sald, “Maj. Fleet ferried to Washington, leaving Culver and me with our own ships in readiness for the inauguration. Fleet reached the polo fleld in Washington in time for the re- turn flight, only to find no gas. Under the watchful eyes of President Wilson and many dignitaries, the starting hour, 11 o'clock, came and went to the ac- companiment of a wild scramble for aviation gas. What a theme for ‘Em- barrassing Moments ‘The first northbound plane out of Washington failed to get through be- cause of the inexpereince of the pilot, who lost his way. This mail was brought back to the Capital and flown north on schedule the second day, how- ever. On the southbound, Capt. Tor-.| rey Webb flew the mail from New York to Philadelphia, where it was picked up by Edgerton, who flew on to Wash- ington, completing the first regular flight of airmail. He also flew the first northbound out of Washington on the following morning, and owing to the fallure of the motor of the southbound plane that day, he flew back to Wash- ington, landing in the polo fleld long after dark ?g the light of automobile headlights, thus completing the second southbound and starting the first north- ‘bound, Great Psychological Handicaps, “One of the greatest handicaps ex- perienced by the infant airmail was, strangely enol psychological,” Ed- gerton said. “Some of you will recall that weather conditions were treated with the greatest deference during the early war days. For example, the poor and unwary pilot who permitted him- self to be eaught in the sir by a thun- derstorm was courting sudden and dire ‘There supposed to be ysterious and terrifylng down eur m! rrifying dot - rents which would deposit a pilot on the d amidst a mass of wreckage, ‘whether he would or no. “This small group of airmail pilots was therefore structed by the War Department to sit down on the closest field at the approach of bad weather. 1 am glad to be able to record the fact that these instructions were gradually and quietly ignored, so that before the new service was more than w month old these supposedly terrible weather con- ditiocns had been met and largely con- quered. If it had not been so, the Post Office authorities would have given up the experiment as impracticable. Who can now measure the paralyzing results of such a a setback? “There were other handicaps. One of these was the Washington terminus of the airmail line, ‘The contrast is laugh- able in comparison with the present successtul agitation for huge sirports. Our fleld in 1918_was the Polo Field in East Potomac Park, an area about 1,000 feet long and 400 wide, oval in shape and entirely surrounded by 60- foot trees. make the situation more enjoyable, & covered bandstand stood i : e Spark Plugs every 10,000 Miles Worn-out spark plugs cause hard_starting, slow pick-up, pooridling, loss of power. [VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVYN » » » » » E » E 13 The anniversary | sage of McNary-Watres Bill, Marks Twelfth Anniversary of Service. out about 150 feet from the southeast end, the hangar occupying the opposite end. On one approach was a city of barracks and the other side of our two- way -fleld led directly to the War and Navy buildings. On each side the field was sandwiched in by water. Mechanics Had to Do “Bulldogging.” “We pulled real sideslips in those days. I think we also invented ‘fish- |talling." We also had several mechanics, expert at the western game of ‘bulldog- ging.” The manner in which they could waylay a fiitting wing tip and dig in as the hub of a ground loop was an eplc. High art came into play through having the opposite wing tip just graze the tree trunks which formed a semi- circular _audience about these gyra- tions. ‘Further, the day was hardly complete unless we could bring a spray of leaves waving gracefully from our spreader bars. Garlands of victory, so to speak. “Also, T must pay my compliments to the bandstand. The post office people, with a naive interest, were determined to find out by a process of trial and error, just how much poundage those magnificent airmail planes would carry. ‘Their trial and our error. These loads reached & maximum along with the Summer heat. The air thgped in that box of a fleld was soft as down. Con- sequently, our play was to just about Toll the wheels of our creaking, groan- ing planes on the sloping roof of the bandstand. If the mechanics held on tight enough to let the pilot ‘rev’ up the motor full, as the ship nestled in the trees at the opposite end of the fleld and a zoom was pulled at the proper moment, the take-off was chalked up as & successful trial, but if the pilot guessed wrong it was an error. Lauds Heroic Ploneers. “Joking aside, the airmail staggere along by Divine grace and bullheaded- ness. Its pathway is marked by blood. Fine fellows, who many of us called friends, paid the eternal price. The Post Office Department is still the custo- dian of the torch of lrrofleu in aviation. Alr-minded eyes still look for the path- way bl by the airmail. They look for inspiration to such names as Alli- son, Boonstra, Ellis, Huking, Knight, Levisee, Lewis, Lange, Marshall, Mouton, Murray, Wesley Smith, Vance and others. E. Hamilton Lee must be given a sepa- rate place. He is the living example of the safety of aviation. Jack Knight is almost as deserving. There is also a fellow called ‘Slim’ who_belongs to our rank (Col. Charles A. Lindbergh), al-|in though he is a youngster compared to these. Let us not forget the men who have died that these paths of the skies might be made better and safer. “This background of human sacrifice means two things to us of this day. One 18, 1930—PAR'L is that a development so dearly bought has a mighty future. The other is that FOUR. PROBLEMS OF AIR 10 BE DISCUSSED Experts Will Review All Phases of Aviation at Wright Field. The most pressing problems of mod- ern aeronautics, including the design, construction d operation of lighter and heavier than aircraft, will be dis- | cussed by leaders in every branch of the aviation fleld at the fourth annual | meeting of the aeronautic division of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers at Wright Field, the Army Alr Corps’ material division base, Dayton, Ohio, this week. There will be 30 papers, five con- tributed from abroad, on all subjects of interest to flying experts and sirplane manufacturers and to the airplane pas- senger and general public. Orville Wright will be a guest of honor. Among the speakers will be Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, chief of the aerodynamics section of the Bureau of Standards, who will discuss the problem of reducing noise in airplane cabins; Lieut. Carl B. Harper, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, ex- pert on wing slots and other forms of controlling planes at low speeds; Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, Army Air Corps; Lieut. Clements McMullen, who recently completed a record flight through South America; Elmer A. Sperry, jr.; Lieut. Albert F. Hegen- berger, who navigated the first plane to cross the Pacific, and Sir Hubert ‘Wilkins, noted polar explorer. Discussion on Dirigibles. ‘The opening discussion is to be de- voted to the dirigible and its prospec- tive future in air transportation. Carl B. Pritsche, president of the Airship Development Corporation of Detroit, builder of the ZMC-2, first all-metal airship, for the United States Navy, will discuss the economic aspects of this type of aircraft. Comdr. Jerome C. Hunsacker, vice president of the Good- d year Zeppelin Corporation, now building the world’s two largest airships for the Navy, and representative in this country of Dr. Hugo Eckener, will open a gen- eral discussion on the subject, in which Lieut. T. G. W. Settle and Lieut. G. V. ‘Whittle, Navy lighter-than-aircraft ex- perts, will participate. An afrplane production symposium is the hand of death clearly points a way to those who now lead this industry. It means that those who laid down their lives in the service of humanity expect us to carry on. “Those that follow this path are not aviation to serve themselves alone. ‘We are building transportation, the life. blood of civilization. Here is work th is not work, a task to fire the imagina- tion, to make us know that in earning our bread and butter we are tangibly and gloriously being of service. This s m'onument more enduring than granite.” Pr.ovinq its _ SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE on A mericas hardest hills Ever since Its Introduction, the new Oakland Eight has been attracting widespread atten- tion because of its remarkable pick-up and speed—qualit s which depend on high power in relation to weight. And now Oak- land's power supremacy is further confirmed by a series of dramatic exhibitions on some of America's hardest hills— —the first car to climb famed Quaker Hill near Baltimore in high gear with five pas- sengers. —the first car to climb past Artist Point in the Yosemite Valley in high gear. —the first car to master Altoona's famous ¢climb from 20th Ave. and 11th 8t. In high THE NEW to be held covering the design, manu- facture and sales of commercial and military aircraft; the design of air- planes from the point of view of cheap production; the advantages and dis- advantages of mass production methods in airplane manufacture, and the im- portance of interchangeable parts. Capt. Albert W. Stevens, Army Air Corps, who recently photographed & mountain peak 270 miles away, the greatest distance ever photogral the earth's surface, will describe the accomplishments and possibilities of aerial photography, which is beginning to have an increasingly important place in _every-day public affairs. Two noted Gefman engineers, Prof. Herbert Wagner and Richard Mock, will discuss German methods of metal air- plane construction and wing trussing at a session devoted to airplane design. Ralph R. Graichen, aeronautical engi- neer, of this city will preside at this session. Other sessions will be devoted to fuel and lubricants, superchargers and aero- dynamics. In the latter session Capt. Holden C. Richardson, former assistant chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronau- tics, will open the discussion; Prof. En- rico Pistolesi of Pisa, Italy, participat- ing. The general problem of fire hazard in aircraft will be discussed by Lieut. Comdr. C. G. McCord of the Phila- delphia Naval Aircraft Factory. In a discussion of materials used in aircraft construction, Dr. H. W. Gillett, former chemist of the United States Bu- reau of Mines and chief of the division of metallurgy of the Bureau of Stand- ards, will describe the various light al- loys now used. Lieut. A. J. Lyon, Army Air Corps, will describe alloys used in aviation engines. To Discuss Blind Flying. One of the important sessions is to be devoted to the air transport indus- try, including discussions of the need for instruments for blind flying, by Mr. Sperry; the economics of airplane transportation, by Capt. Erich Offerman of Berlin, with a discussion by William Stout, designer of the Ford plane, and Maj. G. Lanphier, former com- mander of the 1st Pursuit Group, Army Air Corps; the design and develop- ment of transoceanic seaplanes, by Dr. Rumpler of Berlin, designer and builder of the Rumpler airplanes, and princi- ples and development of air law, by Prof. Andre Henry-Courannier, direc- tor of air law of the Societe Anonyme d’Editions, Paris. A session on aircraft engines will fea- ture papers by Harold Caminez on the trends in aircraft engine development; Prof. F. L. Prescott, senior engineer of the Army Air Corps power plant branch at Wright Field, on the vibration char- acteristics aircraft engine crank- shafts; P. B. Taylor of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation on the instal- lation of radial air-cooled engines, and Capt. T. E. Tillinghast of the Pratt & ‘Whitney Aircraft Co. ‘The Army Air Corps will give a dem- onstration of various types of military planes and apparatus, including types of parachutes developed for drops from low altitudes. Inspection trips through the laboratories of the Air Corps ma- terial division, among the largest in the world, will be part of the program. st Hawaii Has Lone Aviatrix. HONOLULU (#). — Marguerite P. Drew, a school teacher, is Hawalil's first land only woman pilot. g successive grades of and 22%. AR LAW INSTITUTE- PLANNED IN AUGUST Legal Code for Third Dimen-: sion to Be Mapped at Sessions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Wizards of the air and of the law will meet in August at Northwestern University to take some measurements of the rights of man in the third dimension. = At the Air Law Institute, a featurs of the Northwestern Law College Sum- mer session, they will strive to do for- the law of the air what was done in other new flelds for centuries past by the more difficult medium of experie’ ence, according to Dean Emeritus John H. Wigmore and Dean Leon Green. “While man was content to move and live on a plane surface,” Dean Green said, “the problems of the law present- ed only two dimensions. With his ad- vent into the air the law must be extended into the third.” Europeans to Lecture. Experiences of European air experts will be brought to the institute by lec- .. turers on British, French, German and Italian air law—Dr. A. D. McNair, Cam- bridge University, England; Capt. Albert Roper, secretary-general of the Com- mission Internationale de Navigation Aerienne of France; Dr. Hans Oppik- ofer, director of the Institut fur Luf trecht, Albertus Universitat, Konigs- berg, Prussia, and M. Antonio Ambse. sini, director of the Italian Instituto a1 Diritto Aeronautico. George B. Logan, chairman of the legislative committee of the St. Louis Air Board and member of the advisory board of the Air Law Institute, and . Prof. Carl Zollman, air law lecturer of Marquette University, will represent American law methods. Rights to Be Considered. Prominent among American air and law experts will be Maj. Willlam P. McCracken, former Assistant Secret: of Commerce for Aeronautics; Ma) Reed Landis, air ace during the war; Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant United States Attorney Gen- eral and member of the committee on aeronautics of the American Bar Asso- clation, and Howard Wickoff, general counsel of the American Air Transport Association. 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