Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1931, Page 43

AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. racing pilots, including one Schneider winner and another who has traveled faster than any other man, save one, have been ed to the National Alr Races in Cleveland August 29 to September 7. Three foreign nations so far have offi- cially accepted invitations to partici- pate in the annual classic, and four others are expected to send their crack pilots to compete against America’s finest. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, whose race around the globe in less than nine days makes them ranking figures in aviation'’s hall of fame, have assured officials that they will be in Cleveland to participate actively in the races. Post won the Los Angeles-Chicago non- stop race in connection with the Na- tional Air Races last year in the Winnie Mae, the plane in which he circled the lobe. . The three nations which have ac- cepted invitations to_participate in the 1aces are England, Italy and Czecho- slovakia. They accepted at the request of Lieut. Alford J. Willlams, jr., former Navy acrobatic and racing star, who is organizing a foreign team to appear at Cleveland, as he did for the Chicago races last year. Williams has yet to' visit Germany, France, Spain and Poland, but all four are expected to accept his invitations, backed as they are by the official invi- tations of the air race officials and Gov. George White of Ohio, an avia- tion enthusiast of no small caliber. Comdr. Mario de Bernardi, who won the 1926 Schneider Cup race for Italy at Hampton Roads, Va., has been desig- nated by Gen. Italo Balbo, TItalian minister of aviation, to represent Italy. In the 1926 contest de Bernardi estab- lished an average of 258.873 miles per hour. Two years later he created a new SOM! of the world's most famous () world speed record of 318.57 miles ptr‘ to be| Flight Comdr. Richard L. R. Atcher-| hour. ) Britain's representative is ley, who achieved a speed of more than 332 miles per hour as a member of the victorious 1929 Schneider team. Only one man in the world has traveled faster. Atcherley represented England at Chicago last year and, while he did not have a racing plane, put up a mas- | terly exhibition of acrobatics each day of the meet. It is rumored that he is to bring over a remodeled Schneider racer for the Cleveland classic. If Atcherley brings his racer, he will be entered in the Charles E. Thompson Trophy race, this country's outstanding speed event. A speed of 175 miles per hour will be necessary to qualify for the ‘Thompson, which was won last year with & speed of 201 miles per hour, and it is expected that the winner this year will have to pass the 240-mile- per-hour mark. One Thousand Planes. Completion of the Navy's five-year aircraft procurement program finds the aerial fleet with a strength of approxi- mately 1,000 planes on hand. It is vir- tually impossible for any one to say just how many planes the Navy has for combat service in case of emer- gency. The number fluctuates from day to day as planes are laid up for routine overhauls or for other reasons. It is estimated that more than 10 per cent of the 1,000 planes always are un- dergoing overhaul, reducing the number of daily effectives to something less than 900. The Navy tables at the beginning of the fiscal year showed 1,006 airplanes, of which several—obsolete—were then stricken from the list, reducing the to- free wheeling FREE W started a trend thats now a sfampede DAY all motordom is thanking Studebaker for introducing Free Wheeling a year ago. Philoo Trensitone Radio installed at the factory at small extra cost. Stude- beker Free Wheeling ! lenced engine, obassis and body give usperelleled reception. tal to exactly 1,000. Of the 1,008 car- ried on the list at that time, 201 were training planes, unfit for combat duty, and 14 were transport fllnu. suitable only for the carrying of personnel and cargo. The remaining 791 planes, suitable for combat service of various types, were divided as follows: Patrol, 64; torpedo and bombing, 153; observation, 368, and fighter, 206. Jim Ray Repeats. James G. Ray, lanky test pilot, who made aviation history by landing an autogiro in the White House grounds last Spring, duplicated his achievement at the Capitol during the past week, landing in the central parking oval ainted on the east plaza. land. Pn( was only slightly less difficult than that at the White House, though Ray was handicapped by having to set down on the pavement rather than on the . lmm.ar' thre t the pla e three passes af za to M,Zdy the air currents before making his actual landing. He then came in easily, motor throttled completely down, dropping almost vertically on the re- vol wings. He moved scarcely a foot. along the pavement in landing. e flight was a demonstration of the ability of the revolutionary type of aircraft to operate in restricted quar- ters in the heart of a city, and to lend point to the episode Ray picked upy Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- cut, president of the National Aeronau- tic Association, and carried him out to Burning Tree for 18 holes of golf. When a bystander expressed the hope that the Senator might break par for the course, he drawled: “Well, we ought to get a couple of birdies, if not an eagle, on the way out.” ingham, an_ardent advocate of pri- vate flying, belleves the autogiro and result in moving out of the suburban areas of large cities hundreds of miles. Alrship School Busy. The Navy's dirigible program has re- sulted in the establishment at the Naval Alr Station, Lakehurst, N. home of | the airship Los Angeles, of the coun- | try's largest lighter-than-air training | school. A new class consisting of 20 officers has just commenced a year's course at the school to equip its mem- bers for the handling of balloons, blimps and larger airships. In addition to the 20 airship students, five additional qualified heavier-than- | air pilots will take courses at the school. | These five officers will fly the fighting airplanes attached to the U. S. S. Akron, | glant Navy airship now under con- | struction at Akron, Ohio. Their train- | ing is intended to fit them to perform additional duties on the airship when ! not_actually fying the airship's planes. ‘The student airship pilots will go | through & course including free bal- ‘ looning, kite ballconing and airship training. The first four weeks will be | devoted to ground school, with one flight day each week. During the period beginning with the fifth week, half the time will be spent in ground school and half in primary flight instructicn. The student must qualify as a free balloon and kite balloon pilot before undertaking airship training. “There is,” the Navy Department ex- plained, “nothing so effective in teach- ing atmospheric structure as g afloat in a balloon as a free mcle in the air. The knowledge cf is of tremendous value in airship opera- tion in case of failure of power plants. ‘When air speeds are low, as in the light airplane will itly increase the range of man's lcl!:::lu and will | Georg: THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 12, 193\—PART FOUR. time required in non- is 20 hours, with a mini- flights. During this time the student must act for. riods as radio or nician. After 10 hours of his instruc- tion, he is checked as to ability to steer courses, maintain constant pres-. sures and fly at constant altitudes. Be- fore qualifying in non-rigid airships the student must 10 satisfactory land! under various weather condi- tions, two of them without an instruc- tor or qualified airship pilot aboard. Since the ultimate object of the training is the handling of rigid air- ships, the student is required to have a minimum of 15 flights and 200 hours in the air in rigid airships. He must have performed certain jbed du- ties satisfactorily and must have had at least six months’ association with a rigid airship in active operating com- mission. The course terminates with written and oral examinations before a m- fication board. Students who 1 all requirements and are recommended by the qualification board are desig- nated “naval aviator” (airship). After recetving this rating and having six months’ active duty with rigid airships under the rating the naval aviator (airship) may be ordered by his com- manding officer to appear before a board to determine his fitness for the designation “qualified to command rigid airships.” The examination in- cludes the :fi:fl handling of a rigid airship in various maneuvers. ‘rhsp officers composing the new class at Lakehurst are Lieut. Comdrs. Bernard F. Jenkins, Edwin F. Cochrane, David E. Cummins, James L. Fisher, Volney C. Clark, Frank L. Worden and J. L. Ken- worthy; Lieuts. Harold E. MacLellan, Wwilliam K. Phillips, Richard 8. Cross, jr., Vaugh Bailey, Donald M. Mackey, e H. Mills and Howard N. Coulter; Lieuts. (Junior Grade) Hubert M. Wes- coat, Emmett J. Sullivan and Earl K. Swearingen and Ensigns Willlam A. Cockell, Charles H. Kendall and Hur- ley M. Zook. Two of the five heavier-than-air pilots have reported for the course. They are Lieut. D. W. Harrigan and Lieut. H. L. Young. Akron Trials in August. The Navy Department expects to wit- ness the beginning of trial flights of the ‘Akron during the latter part of August. Prior to the first trial there will be a lsunching ceremony inside the con- struction hangar, in which the cells will be filled with helium and the airship permitted to lift off its cradle for the first time. The aerial monster is to be t?ll oeremony, according to present plans. After the christening there still will remain a considerable amount of work to be done before acceptance tests and trials . Though the big will not be accepted by the Navy until the trials are completed, the test flights charge, owing to the lack of trained civilian personnel to handle the ship. ‘The trials will be made under super- vision of a board of inspection and sur- Authorized Service Harrison Radiators CREEL BROTHERS 1811 14th St. N.W. Decatur 4220 loff or landing, the airship operator Starting as a trond under Studebaker sponsor= ship, Free Wheeling is today such a triumph in every State, and under every driving condition, that no car is truly modern without it. The demand for Free Wheeling has grown to landslide proportions. Nine (9) makes of cars have followed Studebaker in offering Free Wheeling and more are getting ready to do so. But Studebaker Free Wheeling remains Free Wheeling in its finest form—with positive gear control. 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The new route is one of 16 new air- mail lines for which contracts were awarded by the Post Office Department at the nning of the new fiscal year. The Washington-Atiantic City "line is the third of three spokes to be es- tablished with Atlantic City as the hub. The first, between New York, Newark and Atlantic City, was inaugurated during the past week. The second, from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, is to_begin tomorrow. one trip a day is scheduled between Washington and New York, as many additional flights as are neces- sary will be made to care for passen- ger_traffic. Other new routes authorized by the Post Office Department at the begin- ning of the fiscal year now are going into operation in various parts of the country, all, technically, as extensions of nxmn{allnn. ‘They include routes from St. Louis to Memphis, Cheyenne to Denver, Fort Worth to Amarillo, Boston, by way of Portland, to Bangor; El Paso to Albuquerque; Omaha, via Sioux City and Sioux Falls, to Water-. town, S. Dak.; New York to Kansas City, Pueblo to Albuquerque, Pueblo to Amarillo, Albany to Springfield and Boston, Albany to New York, Albany to_Cleveland, Cleveland to Nashville. By c ying the routes as exten- sions the Postmaster General was able, under the terms of the McNary-Watres act to award the contracts without call- ing for bids. This he did in each case. When the new routes all are in oper- ation the total length of airmail lines in the United States will be 29,586 miles. Over these lines there is to be flown a total scheduled mileage of 84,- 771 miles each 24 hours. Famous Plane Junked. One of the Navy's most famous air- planes been ordered to the junk ile at the Anacostia Naval Air Station. t is the old F6C-4 Curtis Hawk single- , equipped for inverted , which was made famous by Al- ford J. 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Hueffer. 1929. .9'139){!124 can hardy remember | single Anacostia station, who gained a name for himself as an acrobatic pilot of note while flying the old ship. ‘The Hawk, with two others of identi- cal design and equipment, comprised the “Flying Fish,” star acrobatic sec- tion created at Anacostia by Gardner. In this plane several of the most dif- ficult acrobatic maneuvers possible to the modern afrplane were first perform- ed, among them the inverted falling leaf, which few pilots in the world have mas- tered. It was first performed by Wil- liams, as his farewell to the Navy, and was first performed in public in the | same plane by Gardner a few weeks later at the Curtiss Marine Trophy race. The $6C-4 was left at Anacostia after abandonment of the stunt section and was stricken from the Navy list when it was determined that the cost of & necessary major overhaul would have been excessive in a plane of the age of this veteran. 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