Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21


Buenos Aires to within SNOWFALL toss
of the North Pole
The importance of the Twin Cities as
an aerial junction point is growing. The
projected connection to Winnipeg is
only one of two important new routes
which have been proposed. The Senate
during the past week adopted an
amendment to the TreaSury-Post Office
supply bill providing an appropriation
mail line from st. Paul, Minneapolis,
to Seattle, Wash, by way of Fargo,
N. Oak.
The amendment, says Senator Gerald
P. Nye of North Dakota, one of the
heartiest advocates of the proposal, has
the approval of the Budget Bureau. He
said he expects the amendment TO
stand through the conference with the
House.
The new line would be the first i'm
portant through line for the Northwest
and would complete airmail service
across the northern tier of States.
There has been considerable agitation
from the States affected in favor of this
service.
Abnormal Aeronautics.
The past year, in the opinion of
Edward P. Warner, former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics,
has been even more abnormal in the
aeronautical field than in other
branches of industry. There have been,
he says, too many manufacturing COM
panies and too little business to keep
them going.
. It is almost certain, however, he
holds, that there will be an up-trend
next Spring. which should be the begin
ming of reasonable and normal growth
in an industry which is recovering from
depression following an Enthusiastically
large boom period. He sells little indi-
cation of any marked adoption of the
airplane as vehicle of personal trans
port or pleasure during the next few
months and says that in his opinion
such progress will be gradual and,
while 1t will play an increasingly i'm
portant part in the sales for the coming
year, there will be no more miracles
of popular conversion to aeronauticS."
Lieut.. Ralph A. Ofstie, in. charge of
the flight test section at the Ana
costa Naval Air Station, and Lieut..
T. p. Jeter, aviation member of the
Navy Board of Inspection and Survey,
have gone to Seattle, Wash, to con-
duct acceptance tests on new F4B-2
brought in to replace the FOB and Feb
types Some of the F3B's are being
brought to the East Coast aboard the
U. S. S. Langley.
Army Orphan Annie.
A luckless Army Air Corps lombard
ment squadron which never knows what
sort of an outfit 1t will be on the NOR
row Is the 72d, known as the Orphan
Annie" of the Air Corps, stationed at
Luke Field, Hawaii.
At first, says a pathetic recital Of
woes sent in to the War Department,
ing outfit, equipped with LBS planes
Time and these venerable airplanes
passed. AS the last of the LBS winged
its way into the realms Of darkness
eternal where mourneth the whang-
doodle for its mate, the squadron, with
out planes and without hope, was
scheduled for rehabilitation.
Whereupon, saith deponent, the
morale of the squadron blazed up furi-
ously and the officers scurried about
hither and yon to find airplanes to re-
store the squadron TO its flying status
and stave off dissolution. Thanks 10
neighbors at Wheeler Field, the squad
ron was able to get four PW-9 pursuit
planes, Of exceedingly ancient vintage,
and so became the only bombardment
squadron in the corps equipped with
pursuit planes.
The tide turned and in came the
OLE observation plane, just as the
PW's were gasping their last The
squadron got four of the newcomers
and became the only bombardment
squadron equipped with observation
planes. AS the O-10's went into the
limbo of the lost there came along four
AS attack planes, and the squadron be-
came the only bombardment squadron
equipped with attack planes. Still throb-
bing with life, the squadron is looking
for four blimps, four cargo planes or four
trainers In its Christmas stocking.
ROmance-Oh, Yeah?
Any one who thinks the modern
transport plane pilot Is q blithe and
carefree young man, able to go pretty
much his own way, Is invited to read
a hand book containing some 100 pages
Of exact rules Of flight, supplemental
TO all Department Of Commerce and
other regulations, which must be obeyed
to the letter by pilots of one Of the
transcontinental mail and passenger
lines.
The book conveys a picture of the
modern pilot as q most serious-mtnded
young fellow who realizes his RESPONSE
bilities and accepts discipline as ne
catch the eye Is an absolute prohibition
against side slips, fish tailings, skids,
spirals, steep banks and other maneu-
vers which must be mastered by every
student flyer, but which, though per-
fectly SAFE are permitted to have no
place in the itinerary of the air traveller.
Pilots are forbidden to make banks eX-
ceeding 80 degrees and are cautioned
that every turn must be perfect Exc
cution Of unnecessary maneuvers Is TO
be cause for dismissal.
Pilots may not take of nor may they
land without proper signals from air.
port officials except in extreme emer-
gencieS. They may not fly blind through
cloud banks or fogS unless IL Is known
certainly that their destination is clear,
and when flying blind they must main
tain constant radio communication with
ground stations.
The pilot must keep an accurate log
book, must observe all Federal, munich
pal and State aeronautical regulations,
must be familiar with customs, quaran-
tine and immigration laws and must
permit no infraction Of these laws by
his passengers; must have thorough
knowledge Of laws governing the use of
radio transmission and must be skill
full radio operator.
Pilots are required to familiarize them
selves with time tables Of their own and
connecting air and rail lines, so as to
avoid delay in transferring mail and
passengers in case of uncompleted
flights The book prescribes speeds for
taking of and landing in exact miles
per hour, as well as the altitude for
leveling off for flight.
Thorough rules are prescribed for the
conduct and duties Of co-pilots. All in
all, the lives of transport airmen have
become much less colorful They are
permitted to exercise little initiative, but
they have become highly dependable
men for the jobs they must fill.
Jobs Open.
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