Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
NOTED FLYER CITES
NEEDS IN AVIATION
More Pilots, Light Training
ships, Better Airports Re-
CURED, ChamberIin Says.
BY DON BROWN.

BY DON BROWN.
America greatly needs three things
for the proper development of her avia.
tion." Clarence Chamberlin, hero OF
| the Bellanca monoplane Columb1a's
flight to Germany, said yesterday. "One
of them is more pilots: the second Is
better light training planes, and the
third is more and better airports."
Chamberlin hopes to solve the f1rSt
two of these problems himself. The
| third, he believes, is mostly up to the
| local governments of cities and towns
| throughout the country.
There's hardly light training plane
| in existence that l would care to turn
student flyer loose in after only 1C
hours of dual instruction" Mr.. Cham
berlin added, and proceeded to give
his views O. the subject at length
There are plenty which are good
enough for experienced flyers, but what
we need is one which is as near fool
proof as possible.
when a plane of this type is devel-
oped the lack of pilots will take care OF
itself. There are plenty of eager young
men and women, potentially good n.y.
ers, who will take the training when 1t
can be given.
Students troubles Clte0.
Now the student must pay around
$500 for 10-hour course. Quite often
this happens to be all the student can
raise. Then, with the 10 hours over
the student is lett fiat and with nc
plane in which to continue the many
hours of solo flying necessary before he
can get license and start making a
living by flying.
e.
admit that there have been too many
| lieve..% are due to the stalling of the
plane by inexperienced pilots. Practi'
cally all the light planes now in exist
ence, if flown upward at too steep ar
angle or allowed to let loose too much
speed, will stall-that Is, stop flying
forward fast enough to support them
selves-and then, pulled down by the
heavy weight of the motor and the pilot
in 'front.' the plane will fall nose first
or slip off sideways out of control.
II can tell before it happens when a
plane is going to stall and can take
care of myself But the student flyer
quite often is already plunging down
nose first, slipping off sideways or fall
ing in a spin before he realizes there
is any trouble. When this happens toe
low another serious of fatal crash
occurs.
II am developing light training
plane which expect will take care OF
| this trouble. I have been working on
1t for about two years. There is nc
special trick about it. It is mostly q
matter of the proper location of the
center of gravity and the proper bal
ance of the control surfaces.
THE shape of the dissection Of
| the lifting wing is also important. II
must be one which will give support
at the steepest possible angle. Thus
when the student allows it to climb
| too steeply it will go on lifting, or al
/ least hold the plane in the proper fly
| ing position, allowing it to settle down
slowly and IN control, with the lifting
surface acting like parachute.
such a plane could be crashed al
right, but it would probably result only
in a smashed landing gear. There
would be very little possibility CT the
flyer being hurt"
Two New Designs Under Way.
Two such ships, a light low-wine
monoplane and biplane, both powered
with the English Cirrus engine, are be-
| ing built in Chamberlin's shops now
He has just leased a factory located zoe
yards from the Newark municipal air
port, where the planes will be turned
out in quantity after they are thor
oughly tested.
1t is possible that light American
motors which will be suitable for them
will be developed shortly.
When the planes are under produc-
ton in sufficient quantities" the trans
atlantic flyer continued, II am going
- 80. e.. s..t.
cial pilots which will be modelled some
what along the lines of the Lufthansa
organization in Germany. Students
will be carefully selected, put on sole
flights after the regular period of train
ing, then later will be employed as
/ flying mechanics on our transport
planes until they finally gain the
necessary experience.
Il believe this will be much more
practical training than the present
system of 10 hours and then waiting
until you can raise enough money to
either buy a plane or persuade some
owner to let you solo in his" he con-
tinued.
Third Great Need Discussed.
"This is what I am doing to take
care of the first two needs of American
| 1
need is good airports. Cities must build
for the future in this respect, regard
ing the airports as parks rather than
projects which may be expected to
realize an income for the present.
New York, for instance, is spending
a great deal of money for its airport
and cannot expect to make it pay fol-
some time. But eventually the value
OF the airport and the property in that
section will increase many times. The
need for it will grow greatly and the
city will be glad it has one so close
instead of being forced to build one still
farther away by the expanding popu-
lation
Cities and towns in the South and
West must realize that in building
municipal airports. properly equipped
they are building for future prosperity
The Government is now laying out
lighted airWays over the country. The
city which, wants to be on these main
arteries of air travel must do its part
and the city which fails to do so will
find it extremely difficult at times tc
get air traffic routed its way after the
lines have been already laid out anc
| the extensive lighting systems which