Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1937, Page 7

* CLIPPER IS READY T0 LEAVE FOYNES Gas Pumped Into Giant Fly- ing Boat for Return Hop to U. S. BY HAROLD E. GRAY, Captain, Pan-American Clipper III FOYNES, Ireland. -Tuly 15 (N.A. N.A)—The Pan- .nerican Clipper, after our short flight across the Irish Ses trom Southampton yesterday, lies safely moored on the calm waters of the River Shannon here, fueled and ready for her departure this afternoon on the long “uphill” trek homeward and the completion of the first Ameri- ean survey flight across the Atlantic and back again. Our short stay on this side has been most interesting—and very busy. For the last five days the Clipper has been ashore at the great British marine air While First Officer William De Lima and I devoted the daylight hours to & thorough ground study of the coastal areas along the southern and western sides of the Island of Eng- 1and, our service engineers, under the watchful eye of Engineering Officer C. D. Wright, went over every inch of the Sikorsky's big Pratt & Whitney engines, over every instrument, valve, lever, control and fuel line-—practi- cally ever rivet—on our survey ship. Her condition on our arrival here, after her long 3,500-mile flight from Port Washington, was the occasion for considerable favorable comment on the art of British and contin- ental airmen who journeyed to South- ampton during our stay there to have a look at this first of the Pan-Ameri- can Clippers to appear on this side of the ocean. Wright found little, actu- ally, to correct or replace, but the engineers lavished on her, none the less, as much care as though she had Just flown around the world. Co-operation Is Hailed. Every one was extremely pleasant and the co-operation we received from both officers and line men of Great Britain's great national air service, Imperial Airways, gave material sub- stance to the agreement of co-opera- tion existing between the American and British companies for the period of our mutual trial flight operations. On our arrival back in Ireland this morning the same pleasant welcome was extended us, and the ground crew at this trans-Atlantic air base im- mediately turned to to aid us with preparations for departure today, since it was our original intention to | make our westward crossing during the daylight hours in order to be able to study conditions of water and weather in full light and make our landfall on the Newfoundland ocoast- line after darkness. However, with the preliminary sur- vey flights only just beginning, the ocean-wide system of co-ordinated steamship and radio aids is not yet completely organized on a full 24- hour-a-day basis. from ships at sea are now assembled from this side only in the afternoon. Radio activities, operating on the same frequencies as the Clipper and the Imperial Airways' Caledonia also might interfere with the transmission and reception of our flight-control messages between our guiding ground stations and the airlines in flight. Constant Map to be Available. Shortly all this will be changed, of eourse, 0 that a constant weather map will be available for our flights and radio equipped to stand a 24-hour guard. This transition from the pres- ent stage will be a simple one. But until it is made we will schedule our flight departures after 6 pm. (G. M. T.) when an up-to-the minute flying weather map is completed and the radio channels cleared especially for the alirliners. This night flight westward, however, has its distinct advantages. It will enable us again to practice celestial navigation in the semi-Arctic twilight over the Atlantic and will bring us into Newfoundland while the early morning fog is most likely to put to a good test our ability to drive in to our landing under what are considered to be typj- cally “bad” flying conditions. night’s weather map indicated our ‘weather should be fair. We will have headwinds all the way and at all alti- tudes. Therefore we will graduate our flight plan in descending steps, start- ing at 10,000 feet altitude from here, sliding down to 5,000 about haltway, then down to 2,000 for the final sector. Gas Pumped Into Tanks. Twenty-five hundred gallons of gasoline have been pumped into the clipper’s tanks. Our larder has been restocked under the personal super- vision of our ship's clerk, Willlam Thaler. Everything is in readiness for an interesting 17-hour flight across the Atlantic to America. Everywhere we have met enthusiastic interest on the part of every one. Ever since our arrival we have been besieged by individuals, as well as im- portant business firms, urging us to take back to the United States letters and bundles of correspondence, pack- ages of style sketches and materials, merchandise of all kinds, gifts—and at least 50 persons would go as pas- sengers—at any price. Of course, all had to be refused. But it would seem that the public here is ready to accept trans-Atlantic air transport even be- fore our first test flight is completed. In a way our flying has just begun. Yor several years now the technical means have all been set up, checked and rechecked through every conceiv- able test. We are making this survey flight in & clipper design that is actu- ally five years old and which was as eapable of flying the Atlantic in 1934 as she 15 today. Our weather fore- base at Hythe, Southampton. | Grenade Device Perfected Weather reports | Last | A new device for firing of grenades from an attachment to the Army rifle has made its appearance during the Summer training of the New York and Philadelphia area Marine Corps at Cape May, N. J. The instrument has been kept secret to date, pending its perfection. Here Pvt. Charles J. Shanahan shows how the rifle is fired when the “chucker” is attached. the Atlantic flights are based have been known to them and studied over by them for severa! years. Yet they do not accept them until after we have personally verified them by means of actual experience. We have found it difficult to ex- plain to interested laymen the differ- ence between flying 2,000 miles over a known course and an unknown one— | especially if the unknown course hap- pens to lie over unbroken water—and water looks the same whether it be the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Pacific or the Atlantic. Actually there is a great deal of importance in a first-hand study of Atlantic weather conditions by means of actual flight surveys made, not in haste, but under conditions which permit a leisurely and thorough study of con- ditions encountered. Too, there is something to be gained |in the confidence with which suc- | ceeding flight crews will head out across the Atlantic. There is such a thing as wearing an invisible, but none the less definite, “groove” in a course line across an ocean that instills, after | successive crossings have been made, | an easy familiarity on the part of the | flight officers. B We are really out here to “get ac- quainted” with the Atlantic. To- morrow night's flight does not promise to be as easy as our eastward crossing proved to be. But, after a week's Accuracy up to 300 yards is now obtainable. sion of the grenade while in the Marine’s hand ‘is eliminated. rest and a chance to study what we learned on our first crossing, we sre thrives on snepshets. casting and observations service, our| radio communications and direction- finding equipment and methods, our sclentific flight eontrol, the engineering formulas upon which these flights are bastd, the corps of highly trained transport personnel, for posts both aloft and aground—all these have long since been ready. Selentists’ Data Verified. There is nothing about the airliner or the transport technique that repre- sents an unknown quantity. But these flight engineers who, by mathematical formula, schedule these transocean training flights are pure scientists. ‘They never let their imagination in- terfere with their considered calcula- tion of facts. The facts upon which WHERE CAN YOU FIND Swift's COOKED 3¢ m. 12¢ B <+ TURN TO PAGE A-13 Danger of explo- A. P. Photo. looking forward eagerly to our flight home. (Copyright. 1937, by the North American Newspaper Aliiance, Inc.) LIONS CLUB.OUTING HELD AT CAMP LETTS More Than 70 Members Attend. Lose Ball Game to Boys' Team. More than 70 Washington Lions Club members attended the club's annual outing yesterday at Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. boys' camp on the Rhodes River, near Annapolis, Md., as guests of Leonard De Gast, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and past president of the club. ‘The program included bridge, & yacht trip and a base ball game be- tween a team representing 250 boys now at the camp and a picked Lions Club nine. Hugh V. Keiser, chairman of the committee in charge of arrange- ments, reported the score of the ball game as “at least 100 to 0 in favor of the campers.” The outing took ghe place of the club's regular weekly luncheon meeting | at the Mayflower Hotel. District Gov. Bert Piers of the Lions Club, was | among the honor guests. 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