Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
STRIKING AVIATION
ADVANCE FORESEEN.
Conference Is Told Average
Man Will Not Learn Com
pIicated Flying.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON,
Aviation Editor of The Star.

LANGLEY FIELD, HAMPTON Va,
May lathe aviation industry, from an
engineering standpoint, has been stag
nant for the past two years and drastic
changes must be made in the atrplane II
there is to be progress in the near fu-
ture,, William B. Stout, designer OF the
Ford tri-motored transport plane, de-
clared at the fifth annual conference
Of leaders of the aircraft industry with
the National Advisory Committee Tor
Aeronautics here yesterday afternoon.
The airplane of two years from To-
day. he predicted, will not look ike tne
present types of airplanes. IT Will pc
sinpler. safer and more efficient. 1t
will be so simple TO fly that layman
can handle it after a few hours OF IN
struction.
"We have found Mr. Stout said,
'stlaat we are not building the alrplanes
that the public wants l don't oeileVe
that we are going to get anywhere
with an airplane that requires that you
learn to play a pipe organ in order 10
stop, You've got to build an airplane
that the average man can buy on FIJI
Cay night and learn to fly in time to go
home Monday morning with safety ana
the entire acquiescence OF the Depart
ment of Commerce.
What the industry must do Is to IN
Eerest the man who can't ny and not
the trained pilot if the industry is to go
ahead. This is the way out from the
difficulties in which the investment
bankers have left us.
Grover Looming, designer and builder
of the Looming amphibian plane, declared
that there is too much stressing OF the
unusual features of flying for the gooo
Of the industry. n
ITO promote flying" he said, I'VE
must get rid of the idea that there Is
AFR. There can be no place IN the
commercial aviation of the future for
the pilot who must wear helmet, goggles
flying suits, parachutes and other
gadgets."
More than a score of leaders of the
industry made suggestions to the Ma
tional Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics, which is the Federal Govern
ment's great aviation research orgam-
ration, for types of research needed
during the coming year to advance
aeronauticS.
These suggestions included research
into types Of fuels, types OF engines
placing of the engines with relation to
wings, sizes and types OF propellers the
use of pusher propellers, the effects OF
wing slots and other similar devices
TO increase control at low speeds, the
reduction of motor and propeller noise
and the use of high-presSure Jets FOR
propulsion rather than the present type
Of engine.
Material progress has been made by
ME advisory committee in its study OF
Gptns and their causes, 1t was reported,
and 1t u anticipated that this problem,
recognized as one Of the most serious
h aviation today, will be well on the
way toward solution by the end OF an
ether year.
The use OF Photographic equipment
which will make between 1000 and
1000 pictures q minute, in connection
with the study Of spray injections In
1rei oil engines, was explained by Carl
ton Kemper, chief Of the power plants
section Of the committee.
The visitors were shown o set Of
automatic recording instruments which
replace o human observer and hi
mental inaccuracies In recording every
phase Of an airplaneis behavior IN
normal and abnormal night.
Another Of the wonders shown tht
delegates was q high-speed wind tunne
IA which wind speeds Of 900 miles pei
hour can be attained for the study
Of efficiency Of airplane propeller tips
which may travel up to the speed o.
sound. ..-