Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1931, Page 46

AVIATION BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. ECISION of the Navy Department to withdraw from the Curtiss Marine Trophy race may prevent the holding of any com- petition for the trophy this year, but it will mean eventually the breathin of new life into those who are seeking to regain for the United States its lost place in the world of high-speed t tentative 18-year-old Curti la; lane speeds. nd plan: 3 It wfil be negesury to offer a fairly large cash prize in addition to the trophy to _attract real competition. Those who finance the design and cen- struction of racing seaplanes must be gvm some opportunity to obtain a -l ;‘;‘l’ nturnh?n h;h:lu invutme’ln‘td mpson_Tropi accompan by nu,ooouig rize money, half goin to the winner, 30 per cent to winner ol second place and the remaining 20 _per cent to the winner of third place. is 8 sufficiently attractive prize to induce manufacturers to put out racing planes. If the same amount can be guaranteed for the Curtiss there sho be suffi- cient response to insure a resumption of seaplane racing on @ seale that this eountry has not knewn since 1926. Like the Thompson, the Curtiss, un- der such eircumstances, could easily 3 creative influence in the sea- lane field which would inevitably affect Lneflcl- tomorrow’s seaplane devel- opment. Real Express Service. New York today is as close to Wash- ingten es Baitimore was a few years go. Passenger travel time between t-rmnu airports of the two cities has ‘been slashed to 68 minutes and pilcts on the new express run are waitin for & good tail wind to smash all s records between the cities. ips daily except Sunday, R insugurated by the Lus dition to its regular hourly Washington and Ntavé was inaugurate Lock- lans of these most interested in the future of the trophy are carried out, there ml;i_ be new seaplane race comparable with the Thompson Trop! which, tgou'h only little more than a year old, ers to produce an increase of 35 miles per hour in American born a hy race eady has spurred & number of recent speed records. James G. Hall, the Enl broker who has been pushing .Bll Frank M. Hawks to the limit to maintain his speed superierity, flies an Orion. Harry John- son, chief gflnt of Continental Airways, took second place in the Bendix derby, flown in cennection with the recent Na- tional Air Races in Cleveland. He ran a good second to'Ji won the race, then pushed an te New ‘York to smash Hawks' transcontimental speed record by meore than an {gmr Johnson’s plane is to be one of those \{I:Cd in regular service between Wash- an 3 first Ludington Orion was flown to Washin from California by Harry McGee, who, in spite of bad weather most of the way across, averaged better than 180 miles per heur, the speed on which the 68-minute service is based. The new express service makes it | possible for a business man to leave downtown Was! board the plane at Washington-Hoover Airport at 8 o'clock, and be in the Pennsylvanis station, New Yerk, 105 minutes later. This allows 37 minutes for transportstion between Newark Alrport end New York Oity. Flying Pullman Car. There has been test flown and made ready for the transportation ef mail and passengers on the leng sea runs eof the Caribbean, America’s mightiest airplane, the hull of which matehes & Pullman car for size and luxury of appointments. Not only is m&nl the largest in this country, RN R world, eq oper: rom land or water. Weighing mere than 11 tons, the immy Doolittle, who | after breakfast, | = HE HIGH TIDE OF FI_I!NMI CoLoNES WAS REACHED N 763, IN THIS QUIET, SIMPLE COLRT HOUSE, IN HANOVER, VIRGINIA, LOCATED A FEW MILES EAST OF Ask~ LAND, THE LATTER oN US Route P BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE |, wAS EXORESSED THE FIRST DEFINITE OPPOSITION To THe Wine. (Here Ohreici Henr maDE WIS FIRST GREAT SPEECH, KNOWN As THE TARSONS CAUSE.! craft is powered with four air-coaled Hornets, delivering a total of 2,300- horsepower. On the first flight the great craft lifted off the water in 16 seconds. Capt. Boris Serglevsky, 8i- korsky pilot and former war ace, was at the controls during the tests, which were run over Long Island Sound Bridgeport, Conn. ‘The $-40, as the great Sikorsky is known, is-designed for a gross weight | of 34,000 pounds. With the four Hor- nets roaring contentedly at an easy 1,650 revelutions per minute, she helds | a cruising speed of 110 miles hour. The landing speed, it is said, is less han 60 miles per hour. With three engines, a cruising speed of 95 to 100 miles per heur is claimed. A high wing monoplane, the S-40 has a wing span of 114 feet snd the wing has a chord of 16 feet, or a total wing area of 1875 feet. The wing | loading is enly 18.2 ds per square foot, as compared with 27 pounds for DO-X, one of the world's few larger airplanes. e each horsepower of the DO-X’s 12 motors must bear 17 pounds of load, the 8-40's motors earry but 14.5 pounds per hersepower, Transatlantic Rumers. It is on the basis of these figures, which may not mean a great deal to the layman, but which mean very, very much to the designer and - ator, that aviation people are ing among themselves about the pessible sphere of the “Forty” in trans-ocesnic service. Pan-American Airways, for which “Forty” was built as early as a year ago, was negotiating with Imperial Airways, Ltd., holders of the franchise for aireraft operations in Bermuda, for the establishment of internatienal air- mail. Though Pan- can ple off | say that the big new amphibian is intended for the Caribbean runs, there are many, in and out of the company, Oarmicy Haoomy AT 1931—PART FOU. By James W. Brook MR Pews 1N BT JOHN'S CHURCH N St Joun's Crorea AT Ricimono, HENRY MADE HIS [MPASSIONED DLEA FOR'LIBERTY OR. THe Siver. Tonaveo Oravor, reading lights, ash trays, cigarette lighters and other small yc'bmxom are fuumm“tel the hull design. compartment is equipped as & galley, with ice box, cleco;?c me and steward’ try. A call system for who have their eyes turned toward | tim the Bast, with a picture of “Forty” in their minds. The length of the t Sikorsky is 76 feet 8 inches and its height, on wheels, is just short of 24 feet. Fuel tanks have been installed to earry 1,040 gallons of gasoline, gllowing a cruising range of nearly 1,000 miles w¥ith 24 pas- sengers. With 40 passengers, the range is 500 miles. The test ts, aceording to infer- mation received here, show very cred- itable performance for so huge a eraft. The top speed is said to be 130 miles r hour and the initial elimb at sea- level 712 feet per minute. An absolute eeiling or altitude range of 13,000 feet is shown. Take-off time with full lead is 20 seconds from land and 25 seconds from water. On three engines, the ceiling is 6,600 feet. Comforts of Home. ‘The interior is eommodious and lux- urious. The hull is a full 18 inches wider than a Pullman car, allowing ample room for large, lounging chairs. A rest room, a smok- ing lounge for six people, individual | the *8-40” was ordered for Pan American by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, in his capacity as teehni adviser for the of the great craft ADPr Y . Twe were or- dered and the second now is half com- pleted at the Bridgeport plant. The hull of the .40, it is pointed out, is nearly as large as the Santa Ma- ria, the flagship of Columbus. In ap- m.nnce the craft strangly resemb! .k; widely known twin-engined Siker- Oenstruction of the ship followed the expenditure of much time in laborious research work, which began many months ago. The first wind tunnel tests of the model were run two years ago. Engine nacelles equipped with many types of cowling were put through more than 300 hours of wind tunnel testing before the final edmbination was de- cided upon. Hull tests started in comfortable | Wi ‘ashington tional hull designs wr:h:fl;’d O“t:: 11: course_on ousa than 2,000 runs were ::- of ‘operai the type of huyl bn:E" adopted. ‘The inauguration ef night airplane ameunting to on, to select passenger service over all divisions of ! fi Deatn/” the transcontinental air between on comprehensive system of _beacons, u;m:: intermediate landing flelds and radio alds to air navigation were in- stalled. On this route the first great chain of Weather Bureau airways stae tions was established. All these alds were directed toward the time when day and nl,ht service, not only for airmall, but for passen- gers as well, would become a fact. Night flying first was inaugurated in 1924, mail being carried part of the way at night. This service ndufllz expanded until the entire route was g flown 2t nl&m by mail planes. Nig| it passel service first wi opened betweenn?:n Francisco and Salt Lake City, a distanee of 692 miles, in 1929. 'x‘hl: run ammt:lu!hd the fea- sibility _ of T8l passenger nmpyoru ave:’l.!lh airways, and last year all sections of the San Francisco- Ohicago pertion of the transcontinen- ril, | tal were flown at night by large pas- senger transports. he riment of Commerce and Weather Bureau have continued flfi: programs _of nmelo':‘mem ':n "hzfi 2,760~ e transcontinental rou today ine sets ? standard ior\“&p world Atlantic to the Pacific, astest as well as the T—— , Pareick. WASHINGTON HEARD THAT SPEECH. IT 19 NQT ON ‘RECORD THAT HE MADE COMMENT, BUT IT CREATED A DEED |MPRESSION, AS DID HENRY'S SPEEcH IN THE "PARSON'S CAUSE AT HANOVER, FOR THESE ADDRESSES INVOLVED FUNDAMENTAL. PRINCIPLES THAT PRESAGEQ TROUBLE IN .~ and-day ‘;uuennf alrplane service in e 'mDsumunt f Com has zha o merce lighted emergency landing fields every 30 miles along the airway, and there are revolving beacons every 10 miles. In the bad mountain stretches there|uled opers! are blinker ts every 3 miles. Unit- Mxllusmnlonl has 32 radio tele- one stations between the coasts in addition to those of the Department of Commerce Aeronautics Branch. Harder to Get Killed. It's becoming more difficult all the time to get killed in an airplane acci- dent. If a man, weary of life, decided to end it all by riding around in trans- y hope of a|ls going to be fully ?0"4 planes daily in the atal erash, he probably would die of old age if he persisted. The chances of becaming involved in 8 fatal crash on & scheduled alr trans- port line during the first six months of this year were ome in 4,000 miles of fiying. 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