Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1931, Page 27

OFFICE PILOTS LOG h wnmr On the European end, consid- eration has been given the Loire V-lley -l as being well away from the Wi « U gales of the English Chagnel and the Shortest Theoretical Zeppelin i is <5 provide for the esta and deVer American transport services overseas, to encour- | | age construction in the United States ||} by American capital of American air- ships and other aircraft for use in for eign commerce and for other purposes.” Trip. to Europe on Ships’ Data Takes 40\Hours. Special Dispatch to The Star. charts, blue prints and weather *maps high up in a New Yorz office building compiling data to prove the 1ensihlllly el b | NAME OF “HIGHER UP”| N BLAST HIDDEN | year period, selected as most typical of | Two Held on Charge of Dynamit- Irom this county to Europe. During this time they made 522 “flights” between Washington and Paris—261 in either direction—on th2 basis of a take-off from cach terminal | every Saturday night throughout a five- conditions encountered over the North Atlantic since th> United States Weath- er Bureau first began assembling such information 40 years ago. Hunsaker Heads Studies, ‘This_scientific y and the hy] thetical airship crossings that resuited from it we direction | Navy and now pre national Zeppelin Tra tion, which plans a Zeppel! nd'mal line betwe:n the Unite and Europe. He of the finding made by himself and his associates in the engrossing chess game they played | the half-million dollar structure. The against the weather with imaginary air- | court upheld the prosecutor's objection st ane Weather with imaginary air- | Ui ‘question on the grounds that ships for pawns: The studies show that a schedule of | State investigation would be hampered | ff two and a half days could be safely set '1“ rtt:'enélnw u\‘ce name or the motive | |f up for flights from Washington to Paris | for. the dynamiting. I o & i Brown and Carl Bell, of Ida. La.|| for the more difficult westward passage | Were held after the hearing. Bonds | [i from Paris to Washington. More ex- | Were set at $10,000 each. and of three to three and a half days actly, with a 58-hour schedule in the Summer and 64 hours in Winter for the | were placed under $500 bonds as wit- | | ecastward voyage, and a 70 to 80 hour | nesses. schedule returning, we could land our ships on time, or ahead of time, on 80 | $1,000 each for setting off the blast. per cent of the journeys. They should | Bell denied participation, stating he never be as much as a day late, and |was in Cofpus Christi, Tex. the day only twice in the five-year study were | the center span of the bridge was our hyphothetical ships as much as 12 | hurled into Red River. hours late. Ship Log Data Used. Information by which the game of airships was played came from the so: called pilot charts prepared by the ‘Weather Bureau with the help of data from the logs of thousands of vessels and containing such statistics as wind direction and forces, temperatures, per- ceritage of gales, fog and ice; from an the granting of airmail contracts to Zeppelin_operators at a rate nol NEW YORK, January 31 (NAN.A). |cxtced $20 & mile for ships capable of ~—Anticipating the past week’s hsarings carrying no less than 10,000 pounds of before the Commerce Committee of the [mail. Commercial adaptations of the House on the McNary-Parker merchant | glant 6,500,000-cubic-foot Navy dirigible ‘airship bill, a little group of acronauti- | ZRS-4, otherwise known as the Akron cal engincers and airship pilots for [and now nearing completion in that s clty, would be used on the line. e oy b Jabored N AN | Coprisht, 1031, by North American News- By the Associated Pres Bay of Biscay. !!Ill Asks Mail Contracts. rpose of- the McNary-Pa opment of Specifically, the bill would authorize paper Allian ing Bridge After One Says - He Participated. TEXARKANA, Ark, January 31— utors today of the alleged nary hearings for two men, confessed _placing was to pay him. $1,000 for destroying Two -other men were dismissed but Brown said he and Bell were to get The Cambria-Majestic 1324 Euclid St. N. Four Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Reasonable Rentals exhaustive scientific study Ind.nnalysisl of North Atlartic weather compiled 25 | years ago by the German meteorologist Van Bebber and from 1,825 daily weather maps covering the specific pe- | riod with which the Zeppelin experts were concerned. By this method it was possible to determine not only the most | 1avorab'e rcute across the ocean for any rticular time of the year, but actually | compute the progress anmhhlp noula have made on any given day. All calculations were based on an airship haying a cruising speed of 175 | miles an hour and flying at an altitude of 1500 feet, although Comdr. Hun- | saker pointed out that in actual prac- | tice the skipper cf a Zeppelin probably ‘would use full spe: f 83 miles an hour | to get from unfavcrable to fn\orlblei areas of weather or/vould Ay higher to take advantage of tail winds or lower | 1o lessen the opposition of head winds. | But the make-believe airships were not | permitted these privileges. The game was complicated enough, even with them sticking to their appolrt'd speeds and levels of navigation. | Shortest “'l'rip 40 Hours. * No two of the 522 flights followed | §dentical courses, but it was found they | grouped themseives along three general | Toutes—the great circle course, roughly following the steamship lanes, 3,300 | sautical miles; a Southern course. swinging below the Azores—in somc cases as far south as Cape Finniste: 315 E St, S. E., “z!hmg(on “She 4.200 miles in length, and an intermé- diate course, rtome 200 miles nerth oi of the year, and 4. The return Comdr. Hunsaker year the Washinguor < ~aade in less than 48 hours cn 25 of our trips. “Qur fastest crossing of 40 hours was made in December and required seven hours more than Lindberg! New York-Paris flight. During Febru- ary every westward crossing was made in 48 hours or less. The great circle course was followed on on> occasion, the intermediate rout= on the others The longest trip in the whole period was 75 hours and came in December. uring the five years the ships broke 70 hours only six times. 1 44 Hours Flying West. “On the westward flight from Paris to Washington the shortest voyage was 44 hours and was made in January. There were six occasions on which the trip was made in 48 h and two when it was lowered to 47. The aver- age flying time from Paris to Wash- ington for the whole five years was 64 | hours; from Washington to Paris 54 Three flights ran over 90 hours.” | Comdr. Hunsaker emphasized the fact that terminals have not yet been! 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