The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-17
new DEVICES
HOLD INTEREST
At AIR SHOW
innovations for Comfort
Attract Many at
st. Louis.
BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM
Times Aviation Editor

ST. LOUIS, Feb. IA riot of
colors, ranging from the usual
blacks and dark blues to scarlet and
robins egg blue, with all the other
colors Of the spectrum in between,
and ali the comforts and convent
enceS Of Pullman, mark the 1880
airplanes on display at the second
annual International aircraft ex-
position.
The eighty-seven planes shown
range from tiny one-place sport
planes to huge air liners, from land
planes to sea planes and amphibians.
Following the growing tendency to-
ward luxury in air travel, most of
the planes exhibited are cabin ships.
More distinctly new planes are
found here than have been ex-
hibited at any of the larger air
shows Of the past several years.
Shut Out Drone
In noting the many gadgets and
innovations designed for the COM
fort and convenience of passengers,
the observer sees deep, comfortable
reclining chairs of brilliantly COL
ored feathers and mohair, with ad-
Unstable head rest; silken and
leather wall coverings in futuristic
designs, individual wall lamps be-
side each seat ash trays, dom lights,
radios, heaters, complete lava
ries, kitchenettes with electric or gas
stoves, thermos Jugs, sleeping &C
commodations, instrument panels in
the passenger compartment to sat-
iSfy the passengers curiosity, silk
curtains at the windows and heavily
padded walls to shut out the drone
Of the motor and permit converse
ton without shouting.
The smallest plane, aside from
gliders, is the Heath parasol, dressed
up in the new brilliant color COM
binations. Next in size is the Baby
Ace, a midget closed one-place plane
selling for 81 1895 fully equipped.
Chief among the dreadnaughts of
the air are the keystone Patrician
and Curtiss Condor, both eighteen
passenger and crew planes, the Ford
standard transport and a Ford club
plane. The latter is equipped with
berths, lounge chairs, writing desk,
card table, loud speaker radio,
kitchenette, rugs and other luxuries.
Tonager Is Exhibited
To the fier one of the most in
teresting planes in the show is the
Curtiss- Wright Tanager, winner OF
the Guggenheim safe-aircraft COM
petition 100000 award. The Tana-
ger, three-plate cabin biplane, de-
parts from conventional biplane
construction by the addition OF
three devices.
These are a new type OF aileron,
mounted at the tips Of the lower
wings, automatic wing slots along
the entire leading edge of the wings,
and comfortable rear wing flaps,
which when turned down permit
very slow landings, in small space.
The plane lands and takes of
almost vertically.
Another plane that attracted
much attention was duplicate of
Colonel Charles A. Lindberg's huge
new Sirius low-wing
monoplane. Somewhat resembling
the Sirius is the Curtiss Carrier
Pigeon. In this ship the pilot sits
far back in the fuselage and in
front is baggage or mail compart-
ment, almost tall enough for a man
to stand upright in it, capable of
carrying a ton of mail,
The famous Travel Air mystery
Ship" a low-wing cockpit mono
plane capable of 235 miles an hour,
also attracted attention.
IS Engines Shown
Among the historic planes shown
are the Bellanca Columbia, in
which Clarence Chamberlin and
Charles Levine crossed the At
lantic: the st. Louis Robin, holder
of the worlds retueling endurance
flight, and the Bull Sun God,
which completed refueling flight
from Spokane, Wash, to New York
and return last summer.
Indiana exhibitors included the
Davis Aircraft Corporation, Rich
mond, with two monoplanes; Indi-
ana Tool and Manufacturing Com
pany, Indianapolis, airplane engine
gears and other parts, and several
others. The Chevrolet Aircraft
Corporation, headed by Louis Chev-
rolet, which recently moved from
here to Baltimore, is displaying one
of its new four-cylinder in line, in
verted, air-cooled motors.
Seventy-f1ve different engines,
with the air-cooled type predom-
mating, and myriad Of accessory
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