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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Mrs. Evelyn Ford and her sister, Mrs.
Helen Creney, have returned from a
Western tour which included Los An
geles. Calf Mrs. Ford and Mrs Crenev
were guests Tor week end cruise on
the Casiana. Mr.. Edward L. Dohenv's
schooner, which was anchored at
Whites Landing on the Pacific Coast
during their stay in California
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Miss Evelyn J. L. Hamilton of Wlnni-
peg. Manitoba. Canada, is at the Grace
Dodge Hotel until some time next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

The Misses Maret Of 2l18 Ka1orama
road left yesterday by motor for Ben
nington. Vt. TO be the guests for sew
| eral days of Mr. and Mrs Edward Ham
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Mr.. Dwight r. Davis. ir.. son Of the
Secretary OF War and krs. Davis, spent
he week END with Mfr and Mrs. Ken.
acth P. Budd at Newport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27
Benefit for Library
! or Blind This Evening.

The National Library for the BlinC
9ll BIZ The beneficiary Of the perform
- This evening Of The National The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Col Stephen L. II. Sl0cum is spend
ing some time at the Jasper Park Lodge.
Jasper. Alberta. Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

MAJ. Gen, and Mrs, Thomas Q. Ash
hurn have returned from q three-Week
visit in EdCartowll. NaythaS Vineyard
where they were guests Of Commodore
E J. Bliss Of the Edgartuwn Yacht Club.
Gen. and Mrs Ashhurn will remain IN
their home at 1927 Phelps place for sew
rral weeks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Mrs Hobart Brooks left this morning
fQr Greenwich, Conn. where she will
@lsjt her cousins Mr., and Mrs James
Robert Mckee, IN their home. Berkeley
lodge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Mrs John B. Henderson will return
20 Washington from her Bar Harbor
nome the middle Of September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

The Rev. Or and Mrs. Arson Phelps
stokes entertained at dinner Saturday
evening at the Lenox Club at Lenox,
Mass. in compliment to Or. and Mrs,
StuvyeSant Fish Morris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

MIR. and Mrs. d. c. Poole arc at the
t. Regis Hotel New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont will en-
tarsain al tea tomorrow afternoon in
their place. Belcourt. al Newport for
Capt Belize and the other officers Of
he French gunboat Vile D'Ys, which
arrived there Saturday TO take part in
he celebration Of the i50th anniver-
Earv Of the Battle OF Rhode Island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27

Lieut.. and Mrs. f. b. Bayley Of
Boiling Field. y. c.. are at the Carlton
for a short stay.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
PASSENGER PLANE
DUE HERE TOMORROW
First of 10 Multi-Motored Ships
Will Be Delivered to Trans
continental Airport.

One of the most luxurious multi
motored passenger airplanes ever turned
out in the United States, the first of 1C
planes ordered flom the Ford Motor Co,
tor the Transcontinental Air Transport.
viii be delivered here tomorrow at
Hoover Field to Col. Paul Henderson,
vice president of the transport line.
The ship is one of the new-type tri-
motored Ford nlonoplanes and was sent
from the Ford airplane factory to the
Lincoln automobile plant for its inte-
rior fittings. 1t has been equipped as E
private office for Col. Henderson and is
unique in this respect The interior fur
nishings include a desk for Col. Hen.
derSon and one for his secretary a
sleeping berth and chairs for 10 people
The plane is powered with three Pratt
and Whitney 420-horsepower Wash
motors, giving a total of 1850 horse
power. Each motor is controlled inde-
pendently and any one motor will keep
the plane in the air.
Accompanied by Mai. Thomas q.
Lanphier, former commander of the
First Pursuit Squadron of the Army
Air Service at Selfridge Field. Mich.
Col. Henderson will make a tour of the
proposed lines CT the company In thr
new plane, probably beginning this week,
MAI. Lanphier now is manager of opera
tionS for Transcontinental Air Trans
port, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh being
chairman of the technical advisory
board.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

of them have been exported to Canada,
where they are used even in the VIM
ter months to transport miners and
supplies to places far In the interior of
that cold and remote north country.
Some of the small cabin ships are
used on the mail lines Of the United
States to carry passengers. They are
useful for starting such routes when
the passenger load is not expected to
be large and where both passengers
and mail must be carried. Most of
them have a high pay-load capacity,
with economy of operation. They are
used by business men who wish to
transport members of their companies
quickly and in comfort or to carry ma
terials.
The Transport Plane.
The big brother of the single mo
tored cabin plane-for all these small
cabin ships, despite their remarkable
efficiency in some cases. have but one
epgine-is the transport plane used on
mail or passenger lines. 1t has three
motors. There are several such planes
now built in the United States. The
engine power Of these has been stepped
up until some Of them have a total
horsepower of 1900 or more and a
speed of nearly $50 miles an hour.
They are distinctive in appearance.
with their three motors, one mounted
in the nose Of the fuselage and two
Evening star., 1928-11-18
AIRCRAFT BUILDING
PLANNED IN DETROIT
Boon to Development of CONNER.
clal Aviation Seen in Expo.
sition Arrangements.

DETROIT LP)-A boon to the deveI-
op1lent of commercial aviation is seen
in plans for erection in Detroit this
Winter of the first aircraft exposition
building in the United States.
Plans a.ready drawn call for a
Si,O0O,OO0 structure at the municipal
airport. to be built either by the city
or oy private capital with the provision
mat 1t may be acquired later by the
city.
It is hoped to complete the building
III tlme Tor 1t to house the second an
nual all-Amerlcan aircraft show in De-
lrolt next April to IA, inclusive.
use OF the exposition building for the
snow Is expected by manufacturers to
maugurate an intensive sales campaipn
for commercial aircraft. Exhibitors
only VIII be able to display their latest
achievements in airplane bodies and
motors, but will be able to run their
planes cut of the display rooms onto
the air field and demonstrate new fea-
lures TO the thousands of prospective
buyers, just as many automobile sales
n rc do,
Last years e,l-American show was in
convention Hail. and manufacturers
were forced to land their exhibit craft
at outlying airports. dissemble them,
truck them to the hal land there reas-
Semble them for the exposition. This.
they point out. will be eliminated by
tne new exposition building. Thus an
arplane could be flown here from the
'Faclnc Coast landed at the municipal
airport. TAXED into the building, brush
eo on and placed on exhibition.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
LICENSES 0UTNUMBER
PLANES IN OPERATION
10000 Numbers Issued, but Many
Are for Aircraft Yet to
Be Built.

Although 10000 airplane license num-
ners have been issued by the aeronau-
Tics section Of the Department of Com
merce, this does not mean that number
OF alrplanes actually are in operation
In the United States, officials of the
section have announced.
There were this month 5.906 licensed
and Identified planes for which licenses
nave been requested in active opera
tlon throughout the Nation, according
TO reports to the department. The re-
manning 1000 outstanding licenses
either were issued to manufacturers in
blocks for planes under construction or
belonging to planes which had been
WlthdraWn from operation because of
age or accident 1t was explained that
manufacturers may take block of 25
or so numbers to meet their manufac-
turing needs for a period in advance
and 1t may be several months before all
OF these numbers are on planes actually
in operation.
The latest reports also show 4,13e &C.
tive licensed pilots and 1850 active
licensed aviation mechanics are plying
their trade In the country. Certificates
have been issued for 78 different types
OF approved aircraft and for 10 types Of
approved aviation motors.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
FLY TO BATAVIA.

Four big Fokker monoplanes to be
used in air transport service in the
Netherlands East Indies have made the
long flight to Batavia from the
Schiphol Airport at Amsterdam, the
Department of Commerce has been in
formed. Stops were made for fuel
and supplies at Budapest, CONSTANT.
nople, Bagdad. Bender Abbas. Karachi,
Allabahad Calcutta, Bangkok and
Medan.
Two pilots. mechanic, spare parts
and large consignment of mail were
carried in each plane. In service on
the airways in the East Indies they
will carry two pilots, eight passengers,
mail and freight. Motor service sta
tions have been established at Karachi
and Calcutta. The tri-motored planes
have American steel propellers and
American wheel brakes. The Royal
Netherlands Air Transportation Co.
plans eventually to establish regular
air service between Amsterdam and
patavia.
Evening star., 1928-11-18

under the wings. Most OF them now
in use are monoplanes, although some
big biplanes having high altitude per-
formarce are used in the West. Their
cabins will hold from IL TO 18 persons,
and as they pass close to another
plane. with the two pilots sitting out
in the bow. they resemble huge liners
OF the air. More and more of these
ships will be used in coming years on
the transport lines Many of them are
already used by large commercial COM
panies.
The amphibian is very different in
appearance from other planes, having
both landing gear and fying-boat hull.
Some types with single motor VIII
carry five or six passengers. Others
with two motors and larger cabins will
carry eight passengers or more. These
planes are really flying boats which may
be landed on land by means of auxili-
ary wheels. Many persons In aviation be-
lieve that they will be OF increasing
importance because of this added
safety factor, and that on routes along
the coast or where lakes and rivers are
frequent they are the passenger air.
craft of the future.
Navy Develops Flying Boats.
some fy1ng boats are nlonoplaneS
and some biplanes, but all are recog-
nizable by their large and peculiarly
shaped hull, which in all cases more
resembles a boat than the fuselage o.
a plane. The only large American
planes Of this type have been built by
the United States Navy. In recent tests
some of them have shown remarkable
lifting qualities. Abroad they have been
built primarily as passenger craft, and
experiments are now being made there
with flying boats having a wide cruis-
ing radius and capacity of 20 pas
sengers or more Flying boats are used
on commercial airways In various parts
of the world. Probably the flying boat
will be the ultimate heavier -than-air
transatlantic craft
The military planes are Of many
types, depending on the purpose for
which they are used. The small pur-
suit planes used for attacking enemy
aircraft are at present single-seater
fighters with great speed. maneuvera-
bility and climb They usually carry
two machine guns mounted to fire
through the propeller. They are struc-
turalIy very strong so that they may
be dived at high speed
The attack plane carries a crew Of
two. with machine guns mounted fore
and aft. 1t also carries small bombs.
1t is used for attacking ground troops.
The observation planes carry photo
graphic apparatus as we'll as guns, and
their function Is to observe and record
Evening star., 1928-11-18

there; but it Is certain that the men of
the prairies. the ranches and the oil
fields take to flying with ali admirable
ncnchalance and ability. At Tulsa,
Okla, for instance, it is not at all un-
usual to see airplanes drop in with a
rancher or two who have merely come
to town for lunch or business. They
own their planes and they fly them.
They use planes as the fastener uses
automobiles. The Mississippi Valley is
the paradise of flying men. with its
wide fields and easy landing places.
The next type of plane in common
use is the small cabin plane. This is
used for longer trips, being more COM
Portable for passengers. 1t is more ex-
pensiVe than the open commercial plane
and has more horsepower and wider
flying range. Such planes cost from
$4,000 to $4,000. although the small
open planes may be bought for $4,000
to $4,000. In the cabin pane it Is not
necessary to wear helmet ana goggles
The cabins may be warmed and even
in rainy weather they are comfortable.
They are the limousines Of the air.
They are often monoplanes. whereas
the sport planes are usually biplanes.
These small cabin planes are far
more popular in the United States than
anywhere else they were developed
here and are distinctive American
type Of machine. So far they have not
been copied very widely abroad. Many
Evening star., 1928-11-18
BY w. f. BERCHTOLD,

Associated Press Aviation Editor
DAYTON, Ohio. Sporting blood. love
of adventure and keen desire to
make something out Of nothing" were
in large measure responsible for the
Wright brothers experiments with air.
planes which finally resulted. 25 years
ago, in the first human fight with
a power driven heavier-than-ai ma
chine.
I'VE began our tinkering and expert
menting for the pure sport of the
thing, never hoping or even enter
tanning a thought that we might
Wright, vino actually piloted the
plane which he had developed with
his brother, the late Wilbur Wright. on
its first successful fight at Kitty Hawk,
N. c.. in 1908
We thought it would be great sport
to build something capable of carrying
us aloft, and even as boys we kept build
ing our kites bigger and bigger. hoping
We might get one big enough to sup
port us in flight.
After we had flown successfully at
Kitty Hawk both Wilbur and l often
talked of the possibilities Of flying as
the greatest Of all sports, one that
would eclipse auto racing and other
sports in which men INDUCED for the
joy of the thing
Sees Flying as Sport.
1T has really been very disappoint-
ing to me to realize that sportsmen
have failed to take to flying as a
sport. The military and commercial
branches of flying have developed be-
yond our early expectations in many
ways, but the last 25 years have seen
little real interest in flying as a civilian
sport. This is a phase of aviation
which 1 hope will enjoy greater de-
velopment III the future"
Gliding, while of no practical value,
he says, is also a great sport. deserving
Of more popularity as a pastime. But
there is little interest in gliding in
America. Some attention has been
given it in Europe in recent years, how
ever.
THE last time I visited the scene of
our first flights at Kitty Hawk was in
1911, when / vent there to do some
gliding with an English companion on
vacation. 1t is fascinating sport that
should grip any true sportsman once he
has tried it.
"Helicopters. the oldest form of flying,
are good sport, but they should not be
looked upon to revolutioniZe flight.
They are worthy of devoted attention
as sport, but it seems unfortunate to
expect too much from them"
Lover of Out of Doors.
Mr. Wright has been a lover of the
out of doors since boyhood and still
spends several months each year on his
private island in Georgian Bay, Canada,
fishing. boating and generally enjoying
the life. The press of other business
made 1t necessary for him to return to
his Dayton laboratories early this Au-
tumn after only two months at his
Georgian Bay retreat.
Asked whether he does any work at
his Georgian Bay home, he replied:
"Oh. nothing of any importance" and
then smilingly added, without further
explanation. I'm still tinkering. trying
to make something out of nothing"
Evening star., 1928-11-18
AVIATION
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

certificates for airplanes of foreign
manufacture, Canada alone eX-
cepted.
Not only are American airplane
manufacturers flooding the do
meStic market with airplaneS of
continually improving types, but
they are increasing their domina-
ton in the markets of the world.
The first nine months of this year
witnessed a doubling of the
volume of exports of American
built airplaneS and aeronautical
products to all parts Of the globe.
The exports included 118 COM
pleted planes. The total value of
aeronautical exports during the
nine months was $2,606,603 as
compared with $1,0l0,055 during
the same period last year. Canada
remained the principal market
for planes, engines and parts.
Peru ranked second for planes,
Germany for engines and Soviet
Russia for parts. The Mexican
market for airplanes was IL times
as large as last year.
The expansion of the airmail
services continues with unabated
vigor, the amount of mail carried
by airplane in October exceeding
by 10 per cent the September
poundage. For many months the
volume of airmail matter has
been rising month by month to
hitherto unforeseen levels. The
airmail service now comprises "a
lines. operated by % private COM
panieS over a network extending
from Montreal. Canada, to Mex
leo City and Havana, Cuba. Ap-
plications for many new routes
are pending.
Establishment of new airways
is going forward rapidly. There
now are more than 5000 miles of
airways equipped or under con-
struction for night flying, with
l,446 electric or acetylene beacons,
265 lighted intermediate landing
fields. l9 radio weather reporting
and communication stations, sup
plemented by telephone service,
and 3 ocean air beaconS on
the Pan American airway route.
There are 9l0 miles of airways
equipped for day flying. with 80
unlighted intermediate fields. BY
June 80 next 2,442 more miles of
airwayS will have been added, the
Department of Commerce airways
section reports. The Weather Bu-
reau has established Al upper air
meteorological stations on the
mail routes, mostly at airportS.
Eight cities now are equipped with
mooring maStS for dirigibleS.
Detroit is planning to begin
erection this Winter of the first
permanent aircraft exposition
building in the United States; to
be erected at the municipal air
port at a cost OF $1,0OO,OOO. It is
hoped that construction may be
completed in time to house the
second annual all-American air
craft show in Detroit next April.
The first international Civil
AeronauticS Conference, to be
held in this city next month. is
expected to result in the revela-
tlon Of secret research develop
mentS in the aeronautical labora-
tories here and abroad. Further
stimulation of commercial avia-
ton development is anticipated
from the conference, which will
present the first opportunity for
an interchange of ideas between
the worlds foremost aviatorS and
aeronautical engineers.
In the light of its past growth,
present development and imme-
diate prospects, the future of the
newest transportation giant should
prove bright indeed
Evening star., 1928-11-18
New Parachute jump Record,

The Brooks Field parachute depart-
ment during the past Summer has set
a new record of SO successful iumps.
most of them from seven-ship De Hayi-
!and-4 formations. The department is
headed by Lieut.. Linwood p. Hudson
and Master Sergt. Erwin H. Nichols.
With seven more jumps made success
fully, Sergt Nichols will have establish
ed record of having supervised 1000
parachute Jumps without a single Sc
ricus accident.
Evening star., 1928-11-18
N interesting picture of the

N interesting picture of the
" growth of that lusty young
n giant, commercial avia-
"A ton, is painted in a group
of independent reports made dur
ing the past few days by the
separate governmental agencies
most directly interested in aero
nauticS here and abroad.
1t is a picture as colorful as any
in the amazing history of Amerl-
can transportation and industry
and is agloW with a promise OF
future development on a scale
which a few years ago would have
been considered fantastic. 1t re-
vealS the infant transportation
giant widening his sphere Of in
f1uence from the large cities and
wealthy centerS of population
into the farm regions and rural
communities in every part of the
Nation.
One of the most enlightening
features is the struggle Of Ameri-
can cities and towns to prepare
municipal airportS so they may
obtain a high rating when the
Department of Commerce makes
it's first airport rating survey
early in 1929 and so they may
share, as consequence, in the
benefits of the new tranSporta-
ton era.
Since January of this year 118
widely scattered cities in the
United States have dedicated
municipal landing fields, raising
the total of commercial. Army.
Navy and intermediate landing
fields to 1887. Establishment of
800 additional airports has been
proposed and work on many of
them is in progress. Many of the
larger cities. with airportS already
established and in use, are adding
TO their equipment and putting
their fields into condition to
merit an "A l A" rating, which
will designate the best airportS.
During the past three months
the Department of Commerce
has received requests from 384
American cities for advice and
assistance in the laying out of
airpOrtS. This duty has been in
trusted to five airport experts
who have been in the field daily
for the past two years.
Perhaps one of the best illus
trationS of the growth of civil
aerOnauticS in the United States
is contained in the report of air.
plane manufactures, just made
by the aeronauticS branch of the
Department of Commerce. Today
there are 140 companies engaged
III manufacture of airplaneS in
this country, number of them
having plants costing many hun
dredS of thousands of dollars and
employing as many as 1000 work
erS each.
The department has issued it's
Seventy-third approved type certif-
lcate for airplaneS, the manufac-
ture OF 33 new types having been
authorized since June /. During
the period between October | and
October 10 the engineering sec
ton of the aeronauticS branch
checked and approved technical
data submitted for 25 different
alrplaneS, advising manufacturers
OF errors in the design of II
others. During that period, how
ever, but two certificates were
IsSued-a startling demonstration
of the care exercised by t.
Government to prevent the
marketing of unsafe airplanes.
Owing to lack o: reciprocity
agreements with foreign nations,
the Department of Commerce
does not issue approved type
Evening star., 1928-11-18
S VARIOUS TYPES OF MODERN AIRPLANES
n AND THEIR USES DESCRIBED BY LINDBERGF
Distinct Difference Between
Craft and Their Uses
Are Outlined.
Increased Growth of Aerial
Travel in West Is Cited
by Colonel.
BY COL. CHAs. A. LINDBERGH.

It must be puzzling to persons who
have no close association with aviation
that airplanes are of so many different
types. Between the small, lCw-poWered
sport plane and the big innlti-motored
transport ship, the pursuit ship of the
military services and the cumbersome
bomber there are many intermediate
planes, each built to perform q distinct
function.
There is the amphibian, which will
land either on land or water; the vari-
GUS seaplanes, which raTse from the
small plane with pontoons to the huge
flying boats: fast racers with great
horsepower and small bodies and wings
others which depart entirely from ordi-
nary conventions. such as the autogiro,
with its revolving surfaces. and the
planes using various forms of slots or
auxiliary wings.
The light sport plane is an easily
recognizable ship. 1t Is usually an open
cockpit affair, holding two OF three per-
sons and powered with a motor of low
horsepower and economical fuel cCy-
sumption. These planes ele used for
training students to fly and for private
owners who wish to nop about the
country at small expense They are
easily liHSt vi
are well built and comparatively safe
They are the planes used for sight
seeing rides at most flying fields. They
are used by doctors, bankers and ranch
ers in the West for quick transportation
between widely separated towns
Westerners Able Flyers.
The Westerner has taken to Tying a
little easier than his Eastern cousin.
Perhaps it is because the strain of ad-
venturous blood is a little fresher out