Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
HAWKS TO TELL
OF RECENT FLIGHTS
Noted Flyer Will Address Din
ner of Society of Auto
motive Engineers.

CHICAGO, August 23.-Capt Frank
Hawks, whose record-breaklng West
East transcontinental fight in 121a
hours made. first page news recently,
will address the aircraft banquet of the
Society of Automotive Engineers on
Thursday evening, August 28, at the
Palmer House, Chicago. The dinner
will be a feature of the eighteenth ma
tional aeronautic meeting of the So
ciety, held in conjunction with the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,
August 1928, comprising three-cay
convention.
The significance of the earlier flight
from New York to Los Angeles and
return in SO hours, 40 minutes and 48
seconds of actual flying time, made by
Can't, Hawks, thereby clipping the
West East transcontinental record held
by Art Goebel, received due appreci-
alton; but his present record is Tar
beyond any conception at that time OF
the possibilities of any such phenome-
nal record as his present one.
william B. Stout, president OF the
Stout Engineering Laboratories, Inc,
will be POSTMASTER. Another feature
will be the address entitled Unhappy
Landings" by Senator Ford, one of
the best known after-dinner speakers In
the country.
Discussion on Spin.
One of the major features OF design
which has been given serious consider
alton by all designing engineers has
been the tendency of a given airplane
to go into a spin. Many engineers have
contended that an airplane which spins
easily is difficult to get out Of spin
and vice versa. The Importance OF air
plane spinning characteristics and con-
troll will be discussed pro and con in
symposium by Lieut.. Carl B. Harper OF
the Navy; Paul z. Hovgard ard Temple
Joyce, of the Berliner-Joyce Aircraft
Corporation; Garland P. Peed, jr, aero
nautical engineer; H. A. Sutton, OF the
Aviation Corporation, and Fred E.
Weick, of the national advisory COM
mittee for aeronautics. The director OF
aeronautical research for this latter
organization, DR.. George w. Lewis, Will
be chairman.
william B. Stout, whose advocacy of
all-metal airplanes startled the aero
nautical world some years ago and later
resulted in the development of the Ford
all-metal tri-motored plane, will pre-
sent to the gathering of engineers
plea for original thinking and design
in aircraft. Speaking on the "PosSi-
bilities of Radical Airplane Design"
Mr.. Stout will explain his ideas on the
advantages to be gained by original de-
sign along the lines not as yet under
taken.
The methods employed in tight re-
search and testing by the National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at
Langley Field, Va, one OF the finest
aeronautical laboratories in the world,
will be discussed by j. w. Crowley, Jr.,
of that organization in paper on
Flight Research"
To Present Papers on Design.
with the advent of aircraft into
commercial fields and the establish
ment of passenger transport, mail,
freight and express lines, the necessity
for profitable operation has become
urgent. Such operation is based on the
pay load which aircraft are capable OF
carrying and the weight of the air.
planes themselves have consequently
become very important factor. Vari-
Gus methods have been taken to keep
the weight of engines and airplanes
TO a minimum. One of these methods,
that of weight saving by structural
efficiency, will be discussed in papers
by two we'll known authorities N air
craft design, Charles Ward Hall, presi-
dent OF the Hall Aluminium Aircraft
Corporation, and A. A. Gassuer, chief
engineer of the Fokker Aircraft Corpo-
ration.
Under the Craftsmanship Of J. H.
GeiSse, vice president of the Comet En-
CINE Corporation, the session devoted
to engines will feature the paper on
Manufacturing Costs of Aircraft En-
gines," prepared by z. D. Herrick, chief
engineer of the Lycoming Manufacture
ing Co. Comparative Data on Power
Plants for Motor Cars and Aircraft"
is to be presented by H. M Crane OF
the General Motors Corporation.
The symposium on aircraft fuels will
be presented at the morning session
Thursday August %, and will include
15-minute discussions by well known
representatives of the Bureau of Aero
nautics of the United States Navy, the
Army Air Corps, the petroleum indus
try. the aircraft engine manufacturers
and the air 1transport interests. These
include E. e. Aldrin, Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey; G. S. Fliedner, Bureau
of Aeronautics, United States Navy; s.
D. Heron, power plant division, United
States Army Air Corps: G. M. Larson,
Sinclair Refining Co.: w. A. Parkins,
Pratt 81 Whitney Aircraft Co.; D. Z.
Day. Richfield Oil Co.; j. H. Doolittle,
Shell Petroleum Corporation, and E. w.
McVitty, Pan-American Anyways, Inc.