Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 85

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 18 1930. 5 It Lindbergh Hopped the Ocean Today Lindy’s personal plane today, a wing monoplane, embodying many fea- tures not yet devised in the dim, days of 1927. 4 2 s . : ship “Spiri St. Louis™ It Has Been Three e The sellans ship, “Spirt of St Louie™ ] ; ' " befere. Lindbergh had Few Years Since His ' o o 7 before Lindbergh had ever floon her to . 3 : There is, however, more than a strong proba- Non-Stop Flight to . Ga b ek S5 ot i, e o : : aeronautic engineering—the Packard Diesel. Paris, but Airplane - ] s e Dol rret Show oo, y : : thused over ita possibilities. Designs Have | , ' o - - T e e — —— % yet its horsepower rating is higher, and con- Assuming, however, that the Diesel is about equal to Lindbergh’s original motor in weight cally That the Old &= e it g e Spirit of St. Louis , . el tertrence and.the more eeient s 3 sumption ol‘flle fuel carried. Now I‘f Obs018t8° S & result, with the use of & Diesel moter, Lindy would be required to carry 20 per BY ISRAEL KLEIN. g ' cent less fuel by weight, or 30 per cent less Curly-haired boy. Today progress in aviation would give & mew aspect to e o P Lintbagh's foul: Today, for instance, the latest Wright Whirl- the total from New the higher- ship across i (Copyright, 193%0.) I i of the National Advisory Committee of Aero- nautics, by which the speed of the plane is raised by as much as 25 miles an hour. It is s0 designed that the stream of air passing over the motor strikes a minimum of resistance, yet efficiently cools the motor underneath. That cowling undoubtedly would be a feature of Lindy's transatlantic plane, as it is of his present plane. e UNDERN!ATB that cowling would be a much more efficient motor than the one he used three years ago, although that was considered then the very latest in aeronautical engines. Lindy’s motor of 1927 was a Wright Whirl- wind of the J-5 type. It was a nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engine, weighing 500 pounds and developing 220 horsepower when it turned over 2,000 times a minute. That means it over an automobile engine of similar power which weighs as much as 12 pounds to the horsepower. But it is already & clumsy ma- chlnevhencomp-redwnhdnlonmy&- ‘A radial motor of the type that carried Lindbergh to Paris. plane motor of today. A motor of the new Diesel type.