Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1931, Page 26

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 6, 1931—PART FOUR. LS I rically Correct Sketches: Copyright 1930 by Jumes W. Brooks 3 d By CALVIN FADER Al Rights By James W. Brooks AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTCN. e | hBERE| - - ‘ ADSBY'S Tavern in Alexandria was the scene of many formal and informal MERICA’'S battle to regain somz of her lost ground in high- speed airplane development has received a strong impetus by the preparations which have been made for the Thompson \ Trongy race, to be flown at Cleveland tomorrow as the climax of the National Air Races. The Navy Department also has become = strong force in the Nation's struggle for speed supremacy. Though the Thompson Trcphy is little more than a year old, it has come to be recornized as the foremost American speed prize and a,H EN visiting Alexandria, Washington quartered his_mount or coach in the Tavern courtyard. Here, later, occurred the first meeting of Lafayette, Baron de Kalb and the second compet the world’s finest pilots and fastest No plene which fails io exceed n for the trophy, is bringing together some of planes America ever has seen. , 175 miles per hour in trial runs may be entered in tomorrow’s competition and it is anticipated that the winner will have to exceed 250 miles per hcur to win the trophy and a lion’s share of the $15,000 cash prizes. Eight-Year Record Broken. | One of the most seesational indi- eations of what may be expected in the race tomorrow came during ti trials of the new Cee Bee racer with Lowell Bayles at the controls. Bayles, | in four dashes over a one-mile straightaway, averaged 267.342 miles per hour, bettering the American speed record of 266.59 miles per hour, which has been held for eight years by Lieut. Alford J. Williams, jr. former Navy racing and acrobatic star. Bayles' rec- ord, however, is unofficial, since it was merely a qualifying heat and was not officially timed by proper officials of the | National Aeronautic Association. As this is written, Bayles i3 planning to go out under official sanction in an effort to_capture the American specd record. Bayles made, two runs with the wind ard two egainit the w of the four being to fying figure. covered the mecsured mile at a spe of 286 miles per hour. The world" official spzed record for land planes is 27848 miles per hour and was es- tablished by Adjt. Bonnet at Istres, France, in 1924, Unless Bayles can | coax more than ten miles per hour | greater average speed out of his plane | for the four dashes over the mil> course on his official runs, Bonnet's | zecord will be safe so far as the Gee Bee is concerned. | James H. “Jimmy” Doolittlé, | Army racing and _acrobatic | star, however, remains to be heard | from. He has a plane which as this is written is on the Pacific Coast | waiting to start in the transcontinental Bendix Derby race. Doolittle claims this plane has a chance to set a new world land plane speed record amd it | may be pitted against the French | pilot's record before the close of this | year's classic. | Lieut. Williams _established the | American speed record, which he still | holds officially, on November 4, 1923, | at Mitchel Pleld, Long Island. Confined to Land Planes. ‘Though the world's fastest planes | have been sea planes, the Thompson rao= is confined to land planes. There are no other rest:ictions and pilots may use trick motors and fuels or any other | methods they choose to ircrease speed. The race may be regarded as the best American pilots can achieve in the | high speed line and, from that stand- point, the contest is of interest to avi- ators the world around. Last year's Thompson was won by | the late Charles W. Holman | lact year, its racing monoplane being flown by Capt. Arthur Page, U.S.M.C,, wio was leading th2 field when he crashed and was killed on the seven- teenth lap. Last year's race caught many of the American designers unprepared and several who would have liked to enter | special racers were unable to do so. The situation has changed this year and planes designed from nose to tail for the purpose will flash across the | starting line tomorrow afternoon in what s expected to be the most thrill-* ing speed competition this country has known. While the country's civil aircraft de- signers have been at work preparing for the Thompson on the basis of a plane designed merely for a single race, rtment has plunged and arduous task of ntific spead develcpment on a long- program. The Navy program is ted to produce high-speed racing planes but. of vastly greater impor tance to the Nation, it is expected to speed up the standard service planes and to produce results which may be reflected in the commercial craft which fly the Nation's airways in regular transport service. The Navy Bureau of Aeronautics has consistently advocated a policy of high speed development, it was pointed out by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau, recently, but, be- cause of lack of funds, has been unable to conduct even the preliminary re- search work necessary to begin & pro- gram of development. Competition Produced. High speed development, Admiral Moffett said, produces direct and im- mediate competition, stimulates cre- ative thought and yields results which are directly applicable to the service alrcraft upon which the Nation must depend for defense and in which speed is a vital factor. N single-seater fighters which are puttng on cally demonstrations of s | combat flying at the Cleveland race: have a rated top speed of little more than 180 miles per hour, while Great Britain has developed, largely as a re- sult of experience in Schneider racing competition, an “interceptor” fighter which has'a reputed speed of better than 210 miles per hour. The Navy now is getting started on its high-speed program with a fund of $220,000, made available two months ago. Virtually all of this amount has | been obligated for only a single step in | the program, necessary for the development of a the preliminary work gatherings during Washington's happy hours as a farmer at Mount Vernon. Both he and his wife imparted rare digrtiy to these events Visitors today will find the ball-room floor as highly polished as in the days of yore. John Paul ones, when the latter offered his services as interpreter in a wordy war between the tavern kee, old courtyard has recently brick from the historic étreets of rand Marql:xein Lafayette. The en repaved with lexandria. ‘The Navy is calling for essistance upon all existing governmental research organizations which are equipped to handle these problems or separate phases of the problems. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has been asked to conduct the investigation to determine the best form for high- speed seaplane floats in its new 2,500~ foot seaplane channel. The high-speed wind tunnel and other facilities of the committee at its Langley Field labora. tories also will be pressed into servic to aid the Navy in carrying on its re- search work. The Washington Navy Yard and the Bureau of Standards also may be called upon for assistance in | parts of the program. Problems Are Many. Though the cevelopment of & purely high-speed plane, in which all possible | sacrifices are made to sattain the one cbjective, presents many troublesome problems, the application of the results of high speed development to standard service planes presents still further problems, likely to be even more vexa- tious. This has been explained by Ad- mirai Moffett, who said a few days ago “It will be understood that all avia- tion development is toward high speed, commensurate with the requirements of load to be carried (guns, gasoline, etc), maneuverabllity, low landing speed, size, and the many other ele- ments that are combined in an_air- plane. Whether an airplane be of 90- horsepower or 900-horsepower, the de- signer of the airplane endeavors to in. | clude in tts construction every element | which will make for the highest pos- | sible speed, while giving full consider | ation to the necessity for tife machine | being & paying proposition—that is, as | a military machine, it must be able to | carry gunnery equipment for a given | range and employ that equipment. For | | & commercial machine, passenger and freight must be carried for a reasonable istance. “The military airplane is of a wide variety of types, each having some spe- cific mission to perform. Some are primarily of high speed with relatively | little offensive ~power; others of low speed carTy & very large bombing load; still others stay in the air for & great | length of time, but have only moder- | | ate speed and limited armament. So | the military airplane has some one at tribute dependent on the primary mis sion of the type, but each with due | consideration to its primary mission 1s | Just streamlined and capable of | just as much speed as its designer can | | peel | . in a special Laird racer with a speed | high - powered light - weight engine. | incorporate in it. of 201 miles per hour. Holman was killed this year when he flew into the | Much money and several years of time will be required for the Navy to even | “The peculiar geographical position of the United States has made it nec- ! which was a_potential enemy. “Thus we have never brought out a service airplane in which speed was predominant; however, our service ma- chines of the types found in the coun- tries of all major powers—single- seater fighters, patrol, bombing and observation planes—have a performance which is not surpassed in speed or in climb by the similar types of any na- tion of the world, and at the same time they are not surpassed by their forelgn counterpa in reliability, turdiness and maneuverability. Unfair Speed Comparison. “It is manifestly unfair to compare the speed of & naval carrier plane, car- rying the gasoline necessary for five or ! six hours’ cperation over the open seas, radio equipment and life-saving gear, which includes flotation gear for the planes and rubber boats for personnel, to that of a light foreign landplane with a gasoline capacity of less than half of that of the American carrier plane. “A falr comparison can be made only between machines performing the same mission. It must be constantly borne in mind that American carrier planes require & stanch and rugged construc- tion for the use of arresting gear, thus taking on additional weight, which re- sults in the few miles per hour loss of speed. “However, in view of the fact that the arresting gear permits the oper- ation of a larger number of planes per carrier than on foreign carriers, with a shorter landing interval between successive planes, it has been held in the United States Navy that the dis- advantage occurring from the small reduction in speed has been amply counteracted by the greater number of planes which can be so swiftly put into actlon. “High speed in aircraft, having in mind what has already been said about every type being developed for the maximum speed commensurate with its mission, is almost entirely a mat- ter of horsepower. It is possible with the rapid development in strategy and tactics of aviation that high speed as a primary characteristic may be- come of particular importance to our service. Accordingly, our engineers have followed with the keenest interest the development abroad of power plants of extremely high power. This has not been done with the immediate ex- pectation of installing such power plants in service types of machines, but rather with the idea of being prepared to provide such plants if required. “The British interceptor fighter is the only machine today which now in- ground upside down while putting on | reach the status now existing abroad in | essary that we have aircraft capable | COrporates the principles of the racing an acrobatic demonstration at an air | meet. Neither the Armyv nor the Navy will be represented this year in the ‘Thompson race, though the Navy De- | partment has resumed its high speed | airplane program, abandcned in 1926 | when this country withdrew from com- | racing plane development, fon of Admiral Moffett. The engine research program, how- ever, is to be only a portion of the task the Navy has lald out for itself. Ex- ensive research will be undertaken in aerodynamical form, types of structure to support the forces which necessarily in the opin- ;ox carrying out offensive and defensive | | missions over 3 tremendous coastal and | | sea area, making necessagy in our naval | | planes a compromise between per- | | formance and endurance. None of the | probable missions involved requires | ‘apced as & primary element such uf would be the case, for example, were machine, but this machine was de- | signed entirely as a defensive weapon. Its development was deemed necessary by the air ministry of Great Britain for the defense of London. due to that city's proximity to many alien countries. “The power plant of this type is highly supercharged and cannot be tition for the Schneider tropby. The | are applied to a high-speed plane, and | our principal industrial centers within | OPerated at full power near the ground. avy was represented in the Thompson | in propeller design. | a few hundred miles of & major power | (Continued on Pifth Page.) Just drive a Chrysler and you will nzezer want to PAvED Roase emAvEL mOADE wanTH poads. —_— 0—'_—@ MamnALs ™Y cmeLs MARYLAND t Inn, College Park, Route 1. Inn, Westminster, Routes Breakfast—Lunch Afternoon Tea and Dinner Maryland Fried Chick Our Owa PLAY NUMEMALS INDICATE MILEAGE BETWEEN OLTLONED PODVTS ) CORNESPOND TO STATE ROUTE MABERS PENNSYLVANIA mit, Routes 240-15-16. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Hazelburst Farm, Queens Chapel Rox Exte; 18th St. NE. 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