Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1931, Page 51

AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. Alr long-range reconnoissance, the other for 1 Dd"tl!; groun: ice, think that the that it represents forward. much afraid, however, the plane is adopted for and-then international lecting air armament is ‘They fear that because the differences at nearly every 3 ‘The fuselage is different throughout. ‘The control compartment is farther forward and much higher, to give the pilots the better visibility necessary for use. The radio compartment is located beneath the pilots’ seats. Be- hind the pilots, at the leading edge of he wing, is a gunner's cockpit. Back of the wing is another cockpit and in the bottom is the bomb-bay opening and machine gun opening. Be- cause of the interference raised by the “d h:hu gunner and ttl;elr wea- been necessary to enlarge E’ tall surfaces and controls. Planes Not Interchangeable. Supercharged Wasp motors ‘which ployed, power only at ali of 12,000 feet over, far above the normal flying wnfimn{mmmpom. The Tesult is a plane wholly unlike the Ford transport, the divergence being S0 great as to destroy any hope of con- one into the other, according to mfln;fl. k Ford and Arm week Fore y and mechanics have been swarming over the big silver bomber m«n final touches, and the serious of ht testing, which will determine the fate of Ford's entrance into the field aviation, is within a few days. . Ford’s ling rivals in the pro- duction of air rt the lot | pilots. this | pursuf ng. is represented by two one designed for are to deliver full | rin light bombardment, especially in coast defense operations. Both are twin mo- tored monoplanes, using geared Con- querors streamlined into the wings, and both have retractable landing gear, the wheels folding up into the engine nacelles. The crew in each plane is three men. Flight testing of the recon- noissance ship has been in progress for some months and work has just gotten well under way on the bomber. Guard Wins Giory. National Guard pilots, taking part in their first big maneuvers, have been winning deserved credit for themselves and their squadrons. The Guard planes | wege ‘concentrated at Dayton from all parts cf the United States, five planes coming from each of the 19 corps areas. Every squadron came through in splen- did pe, though the concentration en- tailed miles of hard flying over moun- tains, deserts and broken, forested ter- rain for many of them. Though the Guard pilots have had no opportunity to fly together in large units prior to beginning the maneuvers, they have fitted into the program ex- ceptionally well, flying excellent forma- tion as on observation wing, under command of Maj. Ralph Royce, Alr Corps. So excellent has been their work that F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, announced at| Dayton that it will be the policy of the War Department in the future, as fest as funds become available, to replace the observation and training planes now used by the Guard with standard mili- tary types up to two-thirds of the total number of planes in the squadrons. Capital Lacks Squadron. The National Capital has no National Guard aviation unit, the Capital dis- trict being represented by the Maryland National Guard .squadron, stationed at ufm Field, Baltimore. t has been a le the have given. The letters under th go over, representing States many hundreds of miles apart, all welded into a single great unit. You can see roaring overhead in a five-plane V the khaki two-seaters of the Colorado Guard, safe in from under the shadows of snow-clad peaks after miles of flying over prairies and the fertile Middle . Close behind them are five trim | POC ships from Connecticut, on the shores of Long Island Sound, after the perilous crossing of the Alle- ghenies. Then you may see a formation from Washington, which has left be- hind it the Pacific slope, the great ranges of the Western mountains, the bad lands and the great Northern wheat fields to come to the rallying point of its sister squadrons. Bronzed Texans may be seen flying in tight formation with equally bronzed Guardsmen from . Vermont is likely to be ying beside Louisiana. One tion, indeed, to escape as the ;;:nm‘d squadrons —a_stirring spec- air strength of the Cadets See Field Duty. Another of the distinctive features of the Alr maneuvers in prog- ress is the employment for first time of flying cadets from the' Advanced g Schbohl; Kelly Field, Tex., as ac- ditions of the service they are in train- ing to enter. ‘The maneuvers are a great thrill for the embryo Army pilots, who are sharing the responsibilities in full of Army's most capable and veteran The cadets have been drawn i? &lemclem m{n}xn to form the [3 personnel for a provisional it wing, & provisional observation ing, an attack squadron and a bom- bardment squadron. The cadets, distinctive in their gray upon bulk w e | until he made some arrived here | POS speedily printed and sent across the waters to rouse the Ki ASHINGTON'S #tartling report on French designs covered about ten thousand words. It was wxitten by him in two days, King and members of the British Parliament. With modest pride in the success of his fir&t important mission, and meditating upon the full import of his hazardouis journey, the young man, now approaching the age of twenty-two; mounted his horse and rodc away to Mount Vernon. LT SARROIANIED Phee hi | JOU RNAL oF Yon. ROBERT INNWIDDIE Efg: His Mgty Conm: By James W. Brooks THE Major Gerge Biafnglon, SENT By THE s Licutenant-Governer, ander m Chict of VIRGINIA, 7o THE COMMANDANT | BRITISH PARLIAMENT TODAY o THE | FRENCH FORCES P GOVERNOR's LETTER, AND ATRANSLATIONor rie Faench OFFICER's ANSWER WILLIAMSBUR, Printed by WILLIAM HUNTER ngy Lord F. lait night. » & a & Men talked about by.ou.&.. Silence often insuses prai Copyright 1930 by Jumes W. Brooke Al Rights Reserved Historieally Correct Stetches CALVIN FAD) N the day following his return, Wnnhi.zxgeon ‘was joined by x in @ mporning ride. As ueual, they were fn uncémmunicative pair. Finally the old%ellow® hroke the silence. “George, I have sent for copies of your report to send to my friends in England. It is well done. I am pleasedgthat you would nos talk much of it who do not talk about themselvesare the most uniforms, have finished a grueling eight-month course in the primary fly- ing schcol and a part of their course of four months in the advanced school. Their rank is mew in Army service annals. The fi cadet ranks below a West Point ,» but above a mas- ter sergeant. If graduated from the fiying school the cadets now flying in the 1st Air Division will be commis- sioned second lieutenants in the Air Corps Reserve or may take examina- tion for service in the Regular Army. First Pilot in Command. Another interesting feature is the fact that the 1st Air Division, the first unit of its kind in the history cf American aviation, 15 commanded by the Army's first airplane pilot, Brig. Gen. Benjamiy D. Foulols, who for some time was the whole flying per- sonnel of the Army. Gen. Foulois is expected to become chief of the Army Alr Corps following the retirement of Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet. Foulols, then a lieutenant, took a correspondence course in flying from the Wright brothers 22 years ago, fol- lowing the purchase by the Army of its first airplane. Foulois had the plane shipped to Texas and went there to learn how to fly it. He would fly misf , some- times damaging the plane as a result, then would communicate with the ‘Wrights by mail, detail the trouble and ask for information as to how to cor- rect his errors. part of the cost of maintalning the Army's first airplane out of his own ket because of a deficiency of con- gressional appropriations for the pur- e. He was so taught that the most capable pilots in the Air Corps. e illustrated his abllity to fly in dramatic fashion when the maneuvers began by leaving 19 other Army pilots behind on the trip from the National Capital to Dayton, when he broke through a solid wall of fog and storm over the Alleghenies. So bad was the storm that two other flyers were forced down, others turned back or failed to start at all. Wright Field, of which Fairfield Alr Depot, scene of the concentration of the Afr Division, is a part, was the scene of the first flights of the Nation's first military plane. The open fields which ‘magnificent flying Materiel Divi- sion, were used by the Wflght brothers | for many of their early its. Over the ground where first Army plane made its maiden flights the mightlest air force the Army ever has | assembled has been undergoing training for combined action on a scale never before undertaken in peace-time mili- tary history. 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Among the devices developed for ground handling of the Akron outside the monster airship dock is a mobile | stub mooring mast resembling a steel skyscraper on wheels. This mast nor- mally is about 80 fece high, but has a telescopic superstructure which may be extended to a height of 120 feet. The mobile mast will be used to hold the nose of the great divigible and to tow it into the dock. To handie the tail, a specially built locomotive, capable of a pull of 63,000 pounds, is being constructed. With the mobile mast tractors for the handling lines, it is an- ticipated the new aerial monster can be handled safely in even fairly brisk breezes. Handling of the airship by such pow- erful mechanical means wid impose great strains on the structure of the |taken into account in the design and it has a structural strength six times that of the Los Angeles, which has been |foul, for seven years. Radio experts of the Army Air Corps and the locomotive, and possibly special | | atrship, it is anticipated. This has been | | construction of the ship, however, and | flying successfully, in fair weather and | | . at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, have succeeded in perfecting a lightweight two-way radio telephone outfit of a size and weight making possible installation in the single-seater pursuit planes, overcoming one of the most serious handicaps faced by the pursuit squad- ron commanders in large-scale ma- neuvers, g mouncement of the completion of thé new radio apparatus was made fol- lowing successful tests a few days ago in the vicinity of Wright Fleld, during which three-way conversation was maintained between airplanes traveling many miles apart. The Navy, lacking proper two-way radio telephone equipment of light enough weight for mounting in its single-seater fighters, has adopted a policy of using as leaders for the fighter squadrons two-seaters large enough to bear the weight of radio equipment capable of ranges up to 200 miles, required for long-range operations at sea from the decks of the carriers. The Army sets developed at Wright Field have been used successfully up to ranges of 100 miles. Much of the credit for the new set, regarded as one of the most imj nt military aviation com- municat! developments in several s, goes to Lieut. Albert F. Hegen- of the Materiel Division, hero with Lieut. Lester Maitland of the first flight from the United States to Hawall. Lieut. Hegenberger, Capt. Thomas C. Rivers and Capt. J. C. Whitesides, radio engineers at the Materiel Division, flying in’ a transport plane, kept up di- rect conversation with Maj. A. H. 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Conversation between the transport and pursuit was maintained clearly up to a distance of 50 miles. ‘Though the planes of pursuit squad- ron leaders now engaged in Air maneuvers are radio equipped, the equipment has not been entirely satis- factory because of its limited range and the handicap of weights so great as to siow down the planes and decrease their maneuverability to some extent. ‘The worst weather of the Winter visited Geneva, Switzerland, during this year's motr show and reduced attend- ance and killed chances to stress “the Betty Washington Choice lnn Quiet Food Fredericksburg, Va. Lieut. Foulols had to pay a lnrze.‘. - Drive out to BEAUTIFUL SINGING PINES TEA HOUSE for an Old Virginia Ham or Chicken Dinner F: x Court House, Va. | WARREN GREEN HOTEL Warrenton : Virginia 40 Miles from Washington Over Lee Highway Through Bullrun Battlefleld ER. Proprietor ton 280 Ham Dinner 6-7:30 P.M. o 1-3 and The Crocker House In Alexandria reakfast Corner Fairfax and [[Luncheon e Sts. 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