Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
AIR OFFICIALS CO
T0NEW YORK SHOW
Capital Airmen Play Promi-
nent Part in Largest Aero
nautical Show of Year.

Aviation officials from the National
Capital during the past week have
played large part in the New York Air
Show, said to be the largest aeronauti-
cal event Of the year, which has been
in progress since May 3. The list Of
speakers and participants in the pro-
grams resembles who's Who in Avn
alton" of this city.
The show has had many important
results as a result of attendant
meetings of national organizations
interested in aviation. Many urgent
problems relating to the advancement
of aeronautics in general are much
nearer solution today than they were
q week ago, it is reported by those who
have returned here from New York.
Schools Teach Aeronautics.
A meeting on aeronautical education
revealed that more than 800 American
public schools are now giving some
form of aeroRautical instruction. The
aim of a sane aeronautical education,
it was stated by Prof. Roland H. Spauld-
ing, IGuggenhein specialist on this phase
Of aviation research, must include not
only flyers but non-fyers, to the end
that all may be prepared and trained
to use this new form of transportation
to the benefit of society.
The first national celebration in
honor of airmail pioneers and pilots who
laid the foundation for commercial avi.
alton in the United States was one of
the important features of the show.
Postmaster General Walter r. Brown,
w. Irving Glover. Second Assistant
Postmaster General in Charge of Air
mail; James G.. Edgerton, first airmail
pilot, and E. Hamilton Lee, dean of
airmail pilots in points of hours flown,
were the speakers. All but Lee went to
the show from the National Capital
Carl +. Egge, former chief Of the con-
tract airmail system of the Post once
veteran mail pilots attending the show.
Col. Young Speaks.
Col. Clarence M. Young, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics,
was one of the chief speakers on the
transportation day" program at the
show. Army and Navy day was fea-
tured by addresses by F. Trubee Davi-
son, Assistant Secretary Of War for
Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau Of
Aeronautics, and David S. ingalls,, As
sistant Secretary Of the Navy for Aero
nautics.
Many of the foreign aeronautical,
military naval attaches on duty at
the National Capital were present at
the show on international day." Maj
Georges Thenault, French military at
tache and wartime commander of the
Lafayette Escadrille. being one of the
speakers.
Lieut.. williams Present.
Lieut.. Afford j. williams, IT., former
crack Navy speed pilot, who recently
resigned to continue speed plans de-
velopment as private citizen, was
among q number of noted pilots who
went up from this city to the show.
Williams discussed racing plane devel-
opment at one of the meetings. Lieut..
Ralph S. Barnaby, Navy Bureau Of
participated in a glider demonstration
in connection with the show.
The airplane exhibits at the show in
cluded the six largest airplanes built in
the United States, among them the new
Fokker 32-passenger. four-engineS mon
oplane, the Ford tri-motored mono
plane, the Sikorsky 12-paSsenger am
phibian, the Consolidated 32-passengsr
flying boat, the 21-paSsenger Curtiss
Condor and the l6-passenger Savoia
Marchetti flying boat.
The smallest plane shown II the tiny
Aeronea, powered by q 20-horsepower
engine, which weighs less than 400
pounds and travels IS miles on two
quarts of gasoline. Every type Of glider
built in this country was shown. Among
the exhibits was the worlds largest air.
craft power plant, an 18-cylinder Ital-
ian 1sotta- Fraschini engine, developing
800 horsepower, shown in public for
the first time by authorization of Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini.