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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
AVIATION NIGHT
TO FEATURE SHOW
Local Interest in Aeronautics
to Be Recognized at Com
merce Chamber Exposition.

The Washington Chamber Of Com
merce will hold an aviation night in
connection with the Sixth Annual In
dustrial Exposition next month at the
washington Auditorium, it was an
nounced last night. This feature of
the program. 1t was announced. will be
in recognition of 1.-The tremendous local
interest in aviation, as well as WASH
1ngtonS position as the great national
center Of aeronautics."
This occasion will mark the finals
In the exposition's model airplane slS-
tanned flight contest, and invitations
to attend will be extended to leaders
IN Army. Navy and commercial ayia-
ton circles here.
The model plane contest, inaugurated
at the exposition last year, drew IA
vorable comment from numerous ayia-
ton leaders, who viewed 1t as a dis
tlnct step in the awakening of con-
Structive interest in aircraft generally.
The response to the contest, both on
the part OF entrants and the thousands
who thronged the Auditorium during
the running of the Examinations and
finals, coupled with the Endorsement
OF competent aviation authorities, has
caused the Chamber of Commerce to
plan its Aviation night" activities this
year on larger scale.
Detailed arrangements for this fea-
ture Of the exposition are being handled
by the Aviation Committee of the cham
Der, of which Lieut.. Walter Hinton is
the chairman and Greed w. Fulton
vice chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
LIEUT.. BUELL. SETS RECORD
FOR INSTRUCTION OF Pill OTIS
Air Legion Tutor Solos 20
Students During First
Year Here.
Four Girls and One Youth of
II Years Learn to
Operate Planes.

During the past week Lieut.. w. G.
Buell., instructor for the D. @. All
Legion, local flying club. completed his
first year of service in that capacity
and, according to the records of the
legion, has set up what Is expected to
stand for some time as local record
for the number of students soloed.
During the year Lieut.. Buell. has
soloed 20 members of the legion, 4 OF
whom are girls. The solo members are
Charles K. Gladhill, j. Elmer Kreis,
Philip G. Alter, Fred F. Stowe, Eli
Amanuel, r. j. Waggy, Charles M.
Wilson, Charles A. Mason, Miss Frances
L. Jackson, James Kousen, H. S. KeFnpf,
John G. Box, jr.; W. K. Allen, Marvin
C. Solomon, Miss Mary NJ. Craig, Clar-
ence r. Rohr, George NJ. Stone, A. j.
Haighley, Louis o. Goldsmith, Joseph
Seasholtz, Deward Dewey, Miss Harriet
z. Sackett, George II. Ritnour, Donald
d. Millar, Francis M. Stephenson, G. r..
Willingham, Robert A. Grifina, Frank
T. Heinemann and Miss Marie g. Buch.
All 30 students made their first solo
flights after instruction from Lieut..
Buell. in legion planes. None of them
failed to make good landings though
many of them soloed in less than
Ayht hours. Frank Heinemann, II
years old, soloed after seven hours and
i've minutes of instruction.
OF the members scloed by Lieut.
Buell., nine have earned, their DEPART
ment OF Commerce private pilots
licenses and four lave built up sufii-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
PLANE PRODUCTION
. INCREASE SHOWN
Depletion of Wartime Sur
plus Engines Given as Rea-
son in U. S. Yearbook.

Depletion Of the surplus stock OF
wartime aviation engines was respons-
ible for increased production and lower
engine costs during the past year, while
the number and value of aircraft pro-
duceo during the year increased ire
mendously, according to report by the
Department Of Commerce in the Com
merce Yearbook, issued this week.
There were 6,034 aircraft manufac-
tured, with a total value of $44, 457, 800.
according to the report. Open cockpit
planes led the list in number, with
closed cabin monoplanes second. The
cloSed-cabin biplane was the only type
to show q reduction in number pro-
duced The greatest type increase was
In the amphibian plane class.
The average value OF all types OF
planes, including motors, built during
the year, was SO $50, as compared with
SO, 6S5 in 1928. The average value
without engines was $6,276 last year
and 1854 in 1928.
The value of engines built during the
year was $26,495,s $50, an increase of
1875 per cent over the previous year.
There were improvements in power
plants of both water and air cooled
types, according to the report.
THE large multimotored transport
plane" the report continued, including
the amphibian, played an increasing
part in air transportation. Much prog
ress was made In the development and
production Of parts, instruments and
other products required for air trans
portation,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
AVIATION UNIT ADDS
TO ITS MEMBERSHIP
Eagle Wings Flying Club Of Won
ems Organization Will Sponsor
Series Of Free Lectures.

The Eagle Wings Flying Club, avia-
ton unit of the Women's City Club
admitted four new charter sustaining
members at meeting during the past
week in the club house, % jackson
place. They are Mrs. William Lee Cor
bin, Mrs. william z. Chamberlin, Mrs
Katharine H. Capayas and Mrs. Arthur
Joseph De Mars.
Other sustaining members of the club
are Miss Ethel Bagley, Miss Blanche
Butler Brown, Mrs. Merritt o. Chance
Miss Florence M Christman, Miss
Ethel M. Martin. Judge Mary O'Toole
Mrs. Clara Wright Smith and Miss
Florence E. Ward. Flying members are
Mrs. Lyle Burns Steever, president:
Lieut.. Louis M. Rawlins, jr., vice presi-
dent: Miss Helen M. Hawley, Miss
Beaufort Kelley. Miss Marie K. Saun-
ders, Mrs. Campbell G. Gray and c.
Newell Atkinson.
the next ground school class, which
will begin early in october. There will
be series of lectures by Lieut.. Raw
Inns on the theory of flight, aerial navi-
CATION, cross-country flying, engines
airplanes, structure and rigging, meteor
ology, air commerce regulations, etc
Both men and women will be admitted
TO the class, which will meet at the
club house, % Jackson place, every
Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
In addition TO the ground course
Eagle Wings will sponsor series OF
free lectures by aeronautical experts.
At meeting of the Eagle Wings
Flying Club Friday evening Lieut.. Raw
Inns showed moving pictures of the re-
cent national air races at Chicago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

convenienceS which might add to the
enjoyment of air travel the operators
were able to add certain features which
made flying more pleasant. The inte-
rior of the planes was decorated, but
ler's pantries were added on some OF
the larger planes, seats were made
more comfortable, and the windows en-
larged."-
The growing tendency toward merg-
ers of transportation systems was an
other important feature of the year s
aeronautical development, it was stated
in the report.
Several of the major air lines" ii
was explained, were being identified
with one of the large financial groups
Railroads were linking air lines with
their systems, making 1t possible for q
passenger to travel by train over q
portion Of the route and then transfer
to plane.
still another characteristic Of the
year was the increased utilization OF
the airplane by business executives and
by concerns needing fast Transportation
for materials and employees, and varied
other purposes"
Service in South Expanded.
Air service to Latin America was
greatly expanded during 1929, 1t was
said in the report, which listed many
important new Ines established in Cen.
trail and South America and the West
Indies by two American companies
which since have been merged.
Progress was made in raising the
general standards of flying instruction,
Department officials stated. "Actine
under an amendment to the air COM
merce act, the Department of Com
nerce examined and rated 20 school:
as to the adequacy of the course of In.
struction, the suitability and airworthi-
ness Of equipment, and the competency
OF the instructors.
Popular interest in gliding was
manifested by the formation of a num-
Der of glider clubs and an increase In
the number OF companies manufactur-
ing gliderS."
The manufacturing phase of civil
aeronautics also showed much progress
More than 5000 planes, valued at $75,-
100000, were produced, while the total
OF all aeronautical products manufac-
tured was estimated at 100000 600
The Aeronautics Branch of the Depart
ment of Commerce approved 100 types
Of planes as being eligible for license
during the year. Twenty-Five engine
types also were approved.
Exports Up $50 Per Cent.
Exports Of American aeronautic
equipment increased $50 per cent in
1929 over the preceding year, IS foreign
countries purchasing a total of 347
American built airplanes valued at S.
4S5,000. Engine shipments increased
from ITO to 32l. One of the factors in
the export trade increase was the rigid
system of inspection carried on by the
Aeronautics Branch.
"A number of problems Of iHnpor-
lance to the development Of aeronautics
Branch during the year." the report
continued. These involved research on
aeronautic radio. wind-tunnel studies,
sound-proofing of airplane cabins, re-
duction of noise from engines and pro-
pellers, special airplane engine prob
lens, aeronautic lighting and strength
OF airplane joints and fittings"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
OPPOSE INLAND WATER
LANDING PROHIBITION
National Aeronautic Association
Will Bring Formal Protest to
New Jersey Board Ruling.

A recent ruling of the New Jersey
State Board of Commerce and Naviga-
ton prohibiting landing of flying boats
and seaplanes on inland waters of the
State will be vigorously fought by the
National Aeronautic Association
The ruling Is threat to civil avia-
ton progress, it was stated by the as
ISOLATION. Porter Adams, chairman OF
the Executive Committee of the asso-
citation, has sent formal protest to
the New Jersey board In the absence
from Washington of Senator Hiram
Bingham Of Connecticut, national presi-
dent. who Is now en- route to Samoa
Dwight Morrow, National Aeronautic
Association governor for New Jersey,
is expected to take the matter UP with
the board personally upon his return
from Mexico.
In his letter of protest Mr.. Adams
declared that such q ruling Is drastic
and obviously detrimental not only to
the aircraft industry, but to the best
interests of the people Of New Jersey"
and requested that the N. A.. A. be
given an opportunity to appear before
the board in opposition to the rule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Wing Is Different.
The principal difference between this
craft and the rubber-powered models
is the shape of the wing.
A Los Angeles paper describes the
new plane by stating that at FIRST glance
the extreme rake-back is eYident-the
tip fronts are about three inches be-
hind a. parallel line that would 60
through the front midpoint. It's cen-
trail chord is three and q quarter inches,
with wing tips that might have been
an elevator on a tractor airplane of
similar dimensions. These extra tips
extend thirteen-sixteenths of an inch
further back than the liza inches OF
the trailing edge.
Has Extra Tips.
If these extra tips were joined into
an elevator, 1t would be seven and one
fourth inches long by three and one
sixteenth inches.
Laterally the dihedral may be about
10 deg. Actually the left wing tip is
an inch and a half higher than the
mid rib and the right wing tip is the
same, The left wing tip Is slightly
turned down in front
The main part of the wing consists
of four balsam spars tapered from one
eighth of an inch by three thirty-sec-
onds of one inch at the mid rib, down
to ee-thirty-seconds, then by one
sixteenth OF an inch at the tips.
Cambered Ribs.
Seven cambered ribs are cemented
between these two spars, the center one
being three inches long, the next pair
measure two and flve-eighthS inches
The next pair measure two and Ave-
sixteenth inches and the tips are two
and one-Sixteenth inches long. These
measurements are of the chords and
not along the curvature Of the ribs.
The extended tips are cemented on
to the wing ends. Tissue paper covers
this frame work in the usual way.
A pair of steel wire clipS--one on the
leading edge, and the long one on the
trailing edge-cemented in place, COM
plete this wing. The IL motor base
sets into the slots of these, the front
(short) one being one-fourth inch
above the wing and the long one seven
sixteenths above the trailing edge. This
gives the wing an angle Of incidence OF
three-sixteenths Of an inch--that Is
the trailing edge is that much lower
than the leading edge.
Wheels Of Cardboard.
This wing sets about four inches from
the front end of the motor stick, with
the wheel wire-frame attached about
an inch from the trent end. The
wheels are of fiber or cardboard, thin
and an inch and fourth In diameter
The 14-inch balsam motor stick il
q fourth Of an inch thick and ar
eighth Of an inch wide, with the con-
ventional end-hook In front, and bear
ing at the rear, so that the motor oper.
ates on top and the wing Is attached
as usual, underneath.
The bamboo skid, four inches long
slants back from a point two inches
from the rear end Of the base, where
1t Is cemented in place. A two-inch
brace from the end is slanted down to
the skid, and then cemented, thus
forming triangular area that, when
covered with tissue paper, makes the
only semblance OF rudder on thi,
strange craft. -
The Observation-Disclosures balsam pro-
peller block was eleven sixteenths OF
an inch thick and Observation-Disclosures
of an inch wide. 1t was marked with
the customary two diagonals and SO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Navy Officers Study Armament.

Three Navy officers have been enrolled
in the Army Air Corps Engineering
School at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, to
study methods Of the Army in handling
armament equipment. The Navy men,
Lieuts. ]. B. Sykes, 8. b. Moore and
wv. @. Switzer, recently completed q e
year post graduate course at Annapolis,
and are on tour of various stations
and factories concerned with armament
to study the subject further and make
observations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
AVIATION NEEDS CITED

Increasing demands from the avia-
ton industry for lightweight furniture,
especially office Equipment, for use in
airplanes, has been met by nanufac-
turers, who will display the latest in
aircraft furniture at the coming Ma
tional Business Show in New York,
starting october 40.
Aluminium desks and chairs and
lightweight filing cabinets have an
sWered the problem for flying Offices In
use by many business executives. New
light weight portable typewriters aid
the stenographer In keeping baggage
down to a minimum weight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

cient time for the limited commercial
test. The nine who have passed the
private pilot tests are Gladhill, Kreis,
Stowe, Amanuel, Waggy. solomon,
Rohr, Stone and Miss Sackett. The
four who have put in time for COM
mercial licenses are Waggy, Solomon,
GIadhill and Kreis.
Heinemann holds the record in the
legion for soloing after the shortest
period of dual instruction and also is
the youngest member to solo. Stone
set an elapsed time record by soloing
Just three weeks after his first ride in
an airplane. Miss Jackson OF the
Aeronautics Branch, Department of
Commerce, was the first girl member
to solo and Miss Sackett was the first
TO win her plots l.csnse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
HAWKS MODEL ON VIEW

Smithsonian Institution Housin z
History-making Airp1anes.
The Smithsonian Institution, which
now houses the famous Spirit of St.
Louis, in which Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh made his New York-Paris flight,
has added to its historical collection
model of the Lockheed monoplane in
which Capt. Frank M. Hawks less than
two years ago established his nonstop
transcontinental records between New
York and Los Angeles and return.
The Smithsonian also is planning to
show collection of photographs of
Capt. Hawks latest sped plane, Trav-
clair Mystery Ship" In which he es-
tablished the present transcontinentaI
record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

carved that it revolves clockwise IN
flight as q pusher--it must therefore,
be wound anti-clockwise. AS for the
end-hook and bearing, No. 8 piano
steel wire Is used for the propeller
shaft, Two thin washers are the fric-
ton reducers that operate on this shaft
between the propeller and the bearing.
Motor Is Described.
Two strands of Para rubber one
eighth Of an inch fiat by one-thirty-
second Of an inch thick is the motor.
The technical skycraft maker may
want some more statistics. If so, here
they are:
The wheels are three and a half
inches apart. viewed from the front
and makes the motor base about four
inches from the ground when at rest
on the take-off or alighting.
Bamboo strips are used for the wing
tip edges.
A straight line drawn at right angles
to the mid-rih shows the end Of the
balsam spar to be seven and three
fourths inches from the middle, and
the extremity of the added tips measure
another inch, and three quarters.
Cement may be any nitrocelluloSe So
luton.
Balsam parts may be dyed with ana
line coloring, and make gay contrasts
with the natural hue OF the paper
covering.
Lengthening the motor base may
lengthen the duration Of the flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
COL. AGUILAR ENROLLS
AS AVIATION STUDENT
Mexican Military Attache Will
Study Mechanics, Meteorology
and Navigation.

Col. Francisco J. Aguilar. military at
tache for the Mexican embassy, Is one
OF the first persons to enroll for the
Fall class in airplane mechanics of the
Aviation School of America, which will
open at 7:l5 pm. tomorrow in the
school class rooms, 1108 Connecticut
avenue, 1t was announced last night by
Bruce LeGore, president of the school
Col. Aguilar also will take the course
in meteorology and navigation, start
ing Monday evening, october IS.
The welding class will start Monday,
october l, Mr. LeGore announced, ses-
sions being held in the school shops,
923 Kenilworth avenue northeast. A
class in aerial photography will start
october 90 in the Connecticut avenue
rooms. the class being limited to six
students.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
NEED OXYGEN TANKS
TO TAKE PlCTU-: IS
Flyers Required to Soar to Great
Height when Making Photo
graphs in Washington State.


Oxygen tanks and special navigation
instruments will be required for the
mapping of an area of 1900 square
miles on the Olympia Peninsula, WASH
ington, under orders issued to the 18th
Photo Section, Army Air Corps, crissy
Field, San Francisco.
The photographs must be made from
high altitude and a new Army Fair
child Photographic plane will be used.
The plane has 3 service ceiling Of
20,500 feet and has space for two cam
eras with all accessories.
The present project will bring into
play a camera which will photograph
an area of IL square miles with single
exposure and which will make possible
more accurate survey than is possible
on the ground at less expense and an
enormous saving of time. From the
photographs 1t Is possible for engineers
to compile practically all of the neces-
sary data for making typographical
maps with virtually no ground work,
even to the placing Of contours to as
close as 10-foot interval.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
BUILD "D0-X" SISTERS

Two Planes Under Construction in
Dornier Plant in Germany.
Two sister planes OF the giant Dor
MED "Do-X," the worlds largest air.
plane, are under construction in the
Dornier plant at Altenrhein, Germany.
and are to be completed next May, ac-
cording TO report to the Department
OF Commerce from A. Douglas Cook as
sistant trade commissioner at Berlin.
The two new giants are TO be pow
cred with Isotta Fraschini "Asso 1000
motors of 900 horsepower rating each
The present Do-x now is powered with
IL American engines and is being
grooned for transatlantic flight. This
Is the plane which carried 1863 persons
at one time In a trial fiiq'lt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
234 Carried in IA DAYS.

Eastern Air Transport, operator Of
the New, York-Atlanta- Miami airmail
route, carried 234 passengers on its New
ing to Ralph S. Wrestling, general trafiac
manager. The passenger planes serve
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton, In addition to the terminal cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
CITED AS WORLD RECORD
Aviator in Air Talks Over 1000
Mile Phone Circuit.

Mile Phone Circuit.
An aviator 5000 feet above the city
of Buenos' Aires, Argentina, recently
conversed with the general post ONCE
in Sydney. Australia, over a 14,0Oo-mile
circuit, a feat believed to have set a
world record in radio telephony, the
Department of Commerce has been in
formed in q dispatch from Assistant
Trade Commissioner H. p. van Blarcom,
at Sydney.
An engineer OF the radio-telephone
service between Sydney and London
was conversing with London when he
was switched over by land line to Mad
rid. AS the radio connection was good
at the time, Madrid switched through
to Buenos Aires. An airplane was max
ing a test flight over that city In a
radio-equipped plane, so the circuit was
extended and long conversation was
held. The length Of this radio-tele-
phone circuit was approximately $4,000
miles,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Million Visit Airport.

ST. LOUIS (E).-Nearly q million
persons visited Lambert-St. Louis
Municipal Airport during the last
fiscal year. Sightseeing planes took
$4,000 persons aloft. and 1885
pounds of airmaiI were handled.
Eighty-two planes use the fela as their
base.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Model Aircraft
BY GEORGE w. WATERS.

YELL fellows while await anxousl for the trip to deah
old Atlantic City the National
mind or the finals for while,
Maybe modelplane pilots already
model plane but it sounds interesting
The less model came into the lmeght out in Los Angeles
this
wing and the that section quick
novelty OF the hookup with what they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

"Here it was all much different.
I asked for the 8 o'clock weather
reports and was given detailed in
formation, collected within the
past half hour, from Detroit,
Toledo, Cleveland and other points
all around. I was able at once to
tell that there was a bad weather
spot around Toledo and Sandusky.
with clouds down almost to the
ground, rain and very poor visibi-
lity. Conditions were not too
good at Cleveland, where wanted
to no. I decided to wait to see
whether the weather would i'm
prove and while waiting had a
very satisfactory breakfast at the
airpcrt restaurant.
Later weather reports showed
the bad spot still persisted at
Toledo and Sandusky but that
conditions were improving else
where and he decided to take OF
for Cleveland, skirting the thick
weather. He went out to the air
plane, which had been fueled and
was waiting on the line. Another
contrast presented itself
~ the early days he would have
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-22
Work on Starr Co.
Roadways Opened

~ A%N III tAF
RIO GRANDE CITY, June III
Work on the two county roads in
t~e-sectint the state highway and
running to the northern boundary
Of the county opened last week.
The contract for road work was
let 70 A l. Harris. San Benito and
calls for the completion of both
roads In ninety days.
Crews were put 70 work az the
sane time on both the Santa Elena
and IL Sauz roads. The first named
lltersectS the highway III the east
err part Of town at the same point
rs the old road In fact the Old
ruads lines are followed % a great
extent a effort having been made
10 s~traighten the road I'm certain
PAGES. This road when completed
70 Jim Hogg county lines will be
~ miles in length.
~ Sauz road intersects the high
Nay at Garseno 9 miles west OF
ioTn and runs directly north TO the
jim Hogg county line, a distance
OF so miles. Both roads will Be ~
gravel.
The total cost or the two roads
Is estimated at $160.O0OOO.