Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
PAY-LOADFL|GHT
TO PAR|S PLANNED
Trade Wind Will Make Trip
From New York Via Ber-
muda and Azores.

NEW YORK, August 23.-PlanS for
the first transatlantic pay-load flight
of heavier -than-air craft were an
nounced today by Victor j. Pere, presi-
dent of the Washington National Bank
of New York, acting as spokesman for
the Flight Committee for the Trade
Wind,
The fight, with a cargo of souvenir
post cards and bank correspondence,
will be from New York to Paris via
Bermuda and the Azores, and return
by the same route, and Is set for early
in october. A specially designed sea-
plane already is under construction in
New Castle, Del. ,
Lieut. william S. MacLaren will be
the navigator in command. A gradu-
ate of Annapolis and former United
States Navy flyer, MacLaren has been
for the last two years test pilot ana
instructor for the Newark Air Service.
He is a licensed transport pilot and
a seasoned navigator, and IN recent
broadcasts over Station WABC he has
urged that transatlantic flying be taken
out of the stunt class and put upon
sound commercial basis" He estimates
that the fight of the Trade Wind will
require 40 hours elapsed time.
Mrs. Hart CO-PiIOt.
Accompanying MacLaren as co-pilot
will be Mrs. Beryl Hart, who is naVl-
gator and one of the IA American
women who hold Department Of Com
merce air transport licenses. Mrs.
Hart a widow, lives at ST. West Enc
avenue, New York City. She owns ana
flies her own machine, a three place
biplane. which she houses at the New
ark Metropolitan Airport. She has had
$50 hours of day and night flying.
The transatlantic flight will be mace
in a cabin seaplane OF the Slx-paSsen-
ger type. Most of the cabin space WILL
however, be specially designed Ior car
rying cargo and fuel.
ings at Bermuda and the Azores, 1t Will
he necessary to carry only 400 gallons
Of fuel and oil. This will leave space
available for the post card mail ana a
consignment of financial correspond
ence destined for banks abroad.
This will be the first attempt at
transatlantic fight with heaVler-
than-air machine carrying pay load
Previously, Col. Lindbergh and those
who emulated his feat have demon
strated that the Atlantic can be flown.
nut the airplane in its present stage
of development requires so much fuel
for a nonstop flight that it would be
neither safe nor practicable to add to
its burden any considerable amount OF
other cargo on such a flight.
Nonstop transocean flights will not
become commercially feasible, therefore,
until an airplane Is developed which
can carry ample fuel for such a dis
lance and at the same time carry an
additional pay cargo.
Equipped With PontOOnS.
The Trade Wind will have two pilot
navigatorS. 1t will be equipped with
pontoons for landing at sea, with the
latest instruments for navigation I'M
der all weather conditions, with pow
erful sending and receiving radio and
with all the other modern equipment
for safe long-distance flying.
More important, the TRADE Wind will
span the Atlantic in three compare
lively short hops, with refuel landings
between. This greatly increases the
margin of safety, permits a big reduc-
ton in fuel load and leaves the Trade
Wind with considerable surplus capac-
ity, which will be utilized for pay cargo.
Lieut. MacLaren calculates that the
New York-Paris flight will require 40
hours of elapsed time. This is less than
half the best Zeppelin time for the
distance and third the fastest time
by ship and rail.
The Flight Committee may request the
Post once Department at Washington
for a special ruling which will enable
the Trade Wind to fly as an official
unit of the United States airmail. The
souvenir post cards to be carried will
be of uniform size and weight and
will be illustrated in commemoration
of the flight. Upon arrival in Paris
they will be posted to their addressed
destinations, said Mr.. Pere.