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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
AIR PHOTO SECTION TO RECORD
BOMBING FEATS AT SAN DIEGO

ments of the 18th Bombardment and
95th Pursuit Squadron, which compose
the 7th Bombardment Group. A nom
commissioned officer and two privates,
trained in ground and aerial pho
Biography, have been ordered to duty
at Rockwell
Ground and aerial photographs alike
play an important part in the tactical
training Of the Army flyers" the War
Department stated, lone instance be-
ing the aerial photograph taken from
q bomber flying among formation Of
its fellow bomb carriers showing for
nations Of pursuit planes diving on
them in simulated attack.
Brought into the subsequent critique.
such a photograph enables the group
commander to determine points OF
strength or weakness in the attack or
defepTes Ineneuvsrs and bring these to
the attention Of his assembled Ayers.s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
AVIATION SCHOOL
CHANGES PLANNED
Conference to Be Held Here
This Month on Amend
ing Regulations.

Important amendments to the regu-
lations governing aviation ground and
flying schools are to be considered at a
conference of the Aeronautics Branch,
Department of Commerce, with repre-
sentatives of the aeronautic industry in
the National Capital the last week in
September.
The proposed amendments have been
drawn up by the Aeronautics Branch
and cover changes in the required
equipment of ground and flying schools,
the rating of flying instructors, monthly
reports, dual instruction, shop practice
and other points.
For Flight Instruction.
It is proposed that ground schools
not providing flight instruction shall be
required to affiliate or make arrange
ments with an approved flying schoo! 70
provide necessary flight instruction be-
fore such ground schools shall be elig1-
bic for approval.
Another amendment provides that
each school approved for ground in
struction shall be equipped with one
class room for each 100 students en-
rolled, capable of seating in comfort
at least 20, students, and that the
ground school, in addition to flying
Equipment, shall have the following
demonstration equipment for ground
school instruction:
For transport and limited CONNER
cial courses: One modern type airplane
complete except for the engine, two
additional types of wings or wing Sec
tions, three aviation engines in cur
rent use, representing the air and
water cooled types.
For private courses: One modern
type airplane, complete with engine.
Rating of Instructor.
1t is proposed to amend the regula-
lions to provide that flying instruc-
tors rating shall run concurrently with
his transport pilots license and may
be renewed semi-annually upon salts
factory evidence that he has actually
served as an instructor in an approved
school for not less than so hours of
dual instruction during the preceding
six months.
Another amendment requires the
submission of complete outlines of flying
and ground courses and class schedules.
A monthly roster and report will be
required under another suggested
amendment Other amendments are of
relatively minor Importance, except
that it is stipulated that the courses
given in aerial navigation shall include
a course of at least Is hours in radio
and its use, and the aircraft inStru-
mentS course shall include three hours
of instruction in parachutes, their care
and use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

First Legion Member.
When the D. C. Air Legion's Junior
Unit was organized several months ago
column that boys and girls of Wash
ington were to be offered an oppor-
tunity to learn the elements of aviation
without cost the first member to be
enrolled was Gordon.
During the past week the junior unit
of the legion held its first business
meeting for the purpose of making
plans for the coming school year. 1t
was desired to have full membership
present, so T. j. Waggy, manager of the
D. c. Air Legion, gassed up the legion'S
Bird biplane and took off for Hendricks,
W. Va, to get the first member. He
returned at about 7:45 that evening
with Gordon in the front cockpit after
his first trip outside of the State of
West Virginia.
On the way to washington the Bird
ran into head winds which delayed 1t
SO much that it was dark when Waggy
arrived over Washington Airport. So
Gordon has the added thrill of night
landing to tell the boys about when he
gets back home.
Boy Boosts Aviation.
Gordon stated that he feels that
Washington boys and girls should take
advantage of the offer of the d. c.
Air Legion to learn something about
aviation and expressed the hope that
Hendricks would soon start an air
legion.
The Committee on the National
Miniature Aircraft Tournament, Orville
Wright, chairman; Col. Lindbergh, as
sociate chairman, has notified the Dis
trict of Columbia Model Aircraft League
that the following boys are eligible to
compete in the national contest at At
lantic City, october 10 and IL.
George Shipley, ace, senior, SIS M
street, holder of District record for in
door hand-launched, minutes 143s
seconds, winner of class A in the Dis
trict tournament.
Frank Salisbury, 1924 Vermont ave-
nue., silver ace, junior, District of Co
lumbia champion for 1880, holder of
District records for flying true scale, 1
minute 1925 seconds; indoor helicopter,
1 minute 1915 seconds; outdoor dy-
manic, Is seconds.
Sullivan is Champ.
John Sullivan, 14l2 Twenty-ninth
street, silver ace, junior, rlnner-up for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
JUS. AIR LINES COVER
1Q,725,335 MILES,
First Six Months Traffic This
Year Included 1873, 900 Pas
SengerS and Huge Mail.

A distance equal to 43o times around
the earth at the Equator was flown
! during the first six months of this year
| by 90 major American airlines, accord
ing to reports received by the Aero
nautical Chamber of Commerce. Planes
Of these lines carried more than 133,-
| 600 passengers and 5000 900 pounds of
mail during the six months.
The total distance flown was TO-
| 725,335 miles, and the reports show that
there has been steady increase in the
| number of miles flown each month,
with the peak in June, when 1880, 1853
miles were flown. Each month also
| showed an increase of several thousand
in the number of passengers flown as
compared with the preceding month.
Expansion to Continue.
The reports indicate that the aver
age citizen is becoming more and more
inclined to accept the airplane as an
ordinary means of transportation and
that there is no limit to this expansion
now in sight. Not only is the air be-
coming the accepted medium of travel
by more and more people, but the rec
ord of performance by the air transport
companies is improving.
During April, May and June the 90
airlines showed remarkable perform
ance record, 97.3 per cent of all the
mileage scheduled being flown success
fully, an improvement over the record
Of IS per cent completed during the
first quarter, when weather conditions
were less favorable. Mail and express
matter carried by air increased steadily
during the six months.
One of the significant facts revealed
by the reports is the increased number
- L, = Bet. tv~o to- l1,, \
average air transport planes. The aver
age tri-motored plane was in the air
95.6 hours during June, as compared
with SCI hours in February, and the
increased hours of service were proper
tionately the same for other types of
planes. This increased use Of planes,
with resulting operating economies, was
due, in part, to better weather condi-
tions, but more to maintenance of reg
ular schedules with fewer planes
through careful planning and dispatch
ing.
Vast Gasoline Consumption.
The Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce report shows that the 3l5 planes
reported in service by the 20 airline
operators consumed 4,737 ,946 gallons of
gasoline during the first six months, of
which 2,788,236 gallons were used in
the second quarter. These planes used
144,67S gallons of oil during the six
months, of which 89625 gallons were
consumed in the second three months.
Single-engined land planes still pre-
dominate along the airlines, accounting
for 676 per cent of all the equipment
on the transport lines. Tri-motored
planes accounted for 222 per cent, and
the remaining 1912 per cent was about
evenly divided between seaplanes and
amphibians.
Thirteen planes were retired from
service during the six-month period
and 81 new planes put into operation,
still predorninates. accounting for 96.15
per cent of the 675 engines in use or
ready for use on the transport lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
COMPUTATION Is MADE
OF AIR WEATHER DATA
Hampton Roads Aviation Station
Completes Report on Conditions
for Past Five Years.

The Astrological officer at the Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, Naval Air Station has
completed a compilation of airship
weather data for the Hampton Roads
locality for the past five years, accord
ing to a report to the Navy Department
The work, which is regarded as highly
important in connection with future
lighter-than-air operations. involved the
classification and summarizing of more
than $4,000 hours of surface winds, &C.
cording to velocities and directions, in
Guiding detailed tabulation OF such
items as gustiness strong winds, thun-
derstorms and fogs.
The report has been forwarded to the
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, where II
will be compared with similar records
from Quantico, Va. Anacostia Naval
Air Station and the Naval Air Station
Lakehurst, N, j.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
AIR FIELD BOUNDARIES
MARKED OUT BY RADIO
Tests to Lessen Danger of Pilots
Landing in Fogs Prove
Successful.

Clear reception of radio boundary
marker signals used for marking out
landing field limits for pilots flying in
fog or darkness has been obtained with
an outfit weighing only few ounces in
experiments conducted at Fairfield Air
Depot, Dayton, Ohio, the Army Air
Corps has announced.
The tests were made to determine
the value of an ultra short-wave pro-
jector for boundary marking. Using a
doublet antenna 2 meters long and a
super-regenerative detector, followed by
two stages of audio amplif1cation, the
signals were received strongly at an
altitude of 1000 feet with the beam
projected straight up. With the beam
projected out from the field at an angle
of As degrees the signals were received
10 miles away at an altitude of 5000
feet.
At low attitudes very sharp visual in
dications of the boundary of the field
were obtained when the receiver was
replaced by a crystal rectifier and a
microammeter. The work is regarded
as very important in connection with
the problem of overcoming fog danger
in landing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
RIGID RADIO CODE TO MAKE
AIR TRANSPORTATION SAFER
Graft Must Garry Apparatus Of Approved
Type to Assure Constant Touch With
Land and Machines In Air.

The installation of approved type
radio and auxiliary equipment also
must pass the inspection of the de-
partment and no licensed aircraft may
be flown with radio equipment until the
installation has been inspected and
approved by Department of Commerce
inspector
The regulations cover such points as
minimum requirements for radio trans
uniting sets, including frequency range,
antenna power requirements, electrical
and mechanical design, power supply
and operational requirements, radio
receiving sets, including the same points
as for transmitting sets; minimum re-
Quirements for aicraft engine ignition
shielding equipment, including over
all shielding assembly, magnetos, igni-
ton distributing harness, spark plugs,
low-tension shielding, shielding of aux
lliary electrical apparatus and opera
tional requirements.
Engine Shielding Tests.
Regulations are prescribed for the
testing of engine shielding, insulation
resistance and for providing safeguards
against wear which might disturb the
functioning of the system.
A table Of minimum requirements for
radio installation on aircraft is con-
tanned in the code and covers such
points as installation wiring, the trans
Knitting and receiving antenna systems
including fixed, trailing wire, vertical
mast and other types; transmitting and
receiving power equipment.
Specifications for the bonding OF
metal parts of the aircraft are con-
tanned in the code as we'll as regulations
covering tests of the efficiency of such
bonding.
AS a safeguard. it is provided in the
code that the Secretary of Commerce
the Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for AeronauticS or the director of ali
regulation may waive any of the regu-
lations when particular facts Justify
such waiver In an individual case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

The highly interesting and important
training maneuverS of the 7th Bonn
bardment Group at Rockwell Field, San
Diego, Calf, are to be perpetuated by
photography. The group has been car
rying on a great deal OF high altitude
day and night bombaroment including
a number of really spectacular flights,
but there have been few pictorial rec
cwds made of these events, according to
q War Department statement.
The lack of Photographic equipment
at the field not only has prevented a
record of the training flights but ac-
pointed out.
To meet the need for Photographic
records the War Department will es-
tablish an Air Corps Photo Section at
Roclswsll field to aid the field prison.
mel in recording the aerial accomplish
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
TWO AND A HALF HOURS
NOW FOR 14-DAY TRIP
Government of Peru Establishes
Air Line From Head of Amazon
Valley to Pacific Coast.

Fourteen days of hard travel on the
ground have been reduced to two hours
and thirty minutes by airplane through
the establishment by the Peruvian gov
eminent of an air line from the head
of the Amazon Valley to the Pacific
Coast, according to report received
here by the Department of Commerce
The line crosses the Andes at one
of the lowest points in the range, at an
altitude of IL, 900 feet and stops are
made at Cajamarca, Clendin. Chacha-
poyas and Moyobamba. Single-engined
United States-built biplanes, carrying
pilot, four passengers and 500 pound:
of mail each. are used
The following savings of time are ef-
fected, according to the reports received
here by the Department of Commerce
Pacasmayo- jamarca. by train anc
motor, 9 hours; by plane, 20 minutes
Cajamarca- Celendin, by mule and auto
IL hours; by plane, 20 minutes
Celendin- Chachapoyas, by automobile
and mule, days; by plane, SO minutes
Chachapoyas- Moyobamba. by mule anc
afoot, days: by plane, so minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

In furtherance Of its campaign for
safety in air transport operations the
aeronautics branch of the Department
of Commerce has issued a rigid code
of radio requirements for transport
planes. It is proposed to make this
code effective December 81.
Aircraft not only will be required to
carry radio in transport operations, but
1t is required that radio and auxiliary
radio equipment carried in any licensed
aircraft shall be of type and design
approved by the Department OF Com
merce.
communication between ground stations
branch stated in announcing the regu-
lations, radio equipment carried on
aircraft must meet unusually severe
requirements. Reliability, simplicity of
operation and freedom from fire hazard
are essential"
Vibrations and Shocks.
The equipment must be constructed
to Withstand continued vibration and
landing shocks, it was pointed out,
without breakage or change in perform
ance. Though space and weight must
be kept to minimum in the designing
of aircraft radio sets, the department
admitted, reductions in weight and
space must not be obtained at the ex-
pense of accessibility for inspection and
maintenance.
Obviously" it was stated, "the re-
quirementS imposed can be met only by
highly specialized designs, both electri-
cal and mechanical"
Under the proposed regulations manu-
facturers of radio equipment and
auxiliary equipment may make applica-
ton to the Secretary of Commerce for
an approved type certificate for such
equipment. An approved type certifi-
cate may be issued following the finding
by the department that the equipment
meets the minimum requirements set
up under the code.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
MAPS 110-MILE AIRWAY

A strip of airway 10 miles long and
IA miles wide was mapped in AZ min
utes by a Wright Field pilot who
recently made Photographic flight
from Richmond Ind, to Columbus,
Ohio, for the purpose, the War Depart
-rlent has announced.
,Tile mapping was done from an alti-
tude &C $4,000 feet with one of the
latest type Army cameras. Pictures
were taken With an overlap of 20 per
cent. The photographs will be used for
correction of air navigation maps 1t
is intended to fly continuous strip to
Unicntown, Pa, at the same altitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14

District of Columbia champion for 1880,
holder of District records for outdoor
hand-launched, 10. minutes 40 seconds;
outdoor baby ROC. minutes 502S
seconds.
Harry McGinniss, 202 Connecticut
avenue, Kensington, Md, ace, Junior,
best junior indoor hand-launched rec
ord, 6 minutes seconds.
Everett Meeks, 1908 Myrtle avenue
northeast, silver ace, senior, holder Of
District records for outdoor ROC fusel-
age, 8 minutes 90 seconds; outdoor
helicopter, l minute 1926 seconds; OUT
door ROC scientific, minutes IT'S
seconds; indoor glider for distance, 40
feet inches.
Champs Get Together.
Meeks and Sullivan competed with
honors at the national tournament at
Louisville in 1929. Sullivan placing Sec
ond there in junior championship Of
the United States.
Thirty-nine boys from Is cities and
one girl, Betty Hind of San Francisco.
qualified for finals. San Francisco
qualified eight, Providence and WASH
ington five each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
NEW AIRWAY BEACON

The Always Division, Department of
Commerce, has established a new re-
volving beacon on the New York-At-
lanta Airway, passing through the Ma
tional Capital, to mark the new Char
lotte, N. c., detour.
The beacon is a standard 24-inch
type of 100000 candlepower, and is
located about 21a miles south of Hunt
ersville, N. c., on what is known IS
Site No. 2.
A similar beacon has been established
at Site No. on the same airway about
l mile northwest of Belmont, N. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
SINGLE-SEATER PLANES
BID TO PREDOMINANT
Superior Performance Indicated by
Order for TIT of Fast
Combat Type.

Boeing single-seater combat Planes
will become predominant types in the
Navy fighter squadronS and the Army
pursuit squadrons as result of or
ders for 1T of the fast little ships
placed by the two services. These
planes are said to out-perform pursuit
planes of any other nation.
Equipped with Pratt g. Whitney
Wasp engines, the Boeing fighters and
pursuit planes have total weight of
approximately 2,7o0 pounds with full
military load They have wing span
of only 80 feet to maintain this load.
The new planes are expected to de-
velop speeds in excess of the Boeing
Pig, now standard Army pursuit
plane, which is credited with having
attained a top speed of 1874 miles per
hour. Planes of this type are used by
the Army for regular pursuit operations
at attitudes of more than miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Air Mail SO Per Cent ON Time.

A check made by a Chicago bank
showed 81 per cent of all bank letters
sent by airmail during July reached
destination on time. Westward from
Chicago there were only two days dur
ing the month when mail did not
reach San Francisco and Los Angeles
for the clearing day intended, Boeing
System representatives reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
SANDY POINT PILOT AID

An aviation radio beacon station has
been established at the Sandy Point
Light Station, Sandy Point Md, to aid
pilots flying in the Chesapeake Boy
region. The beacon transmits OH a
frequency of 305 kilocycles every 100
seconds, operating for so seconds and
then remaining silent for three minutes.
The beacon is operated continuously
during thick or foggy weather, and
daily in clear weather from 80 TO
am, 1890 tn 8 am, 1880 to 2 pm.
and 1880 to 8 pm,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
PERILS OF SUN-TAN
Bronzed u. S. Flyer Is Taken for a
Mexican.

When California sunshine causes a
patriotic United States Army combat
pilot to be taken for Mexican by
United States customs officials it's time
something was done about the sun
shine, according to a plaintive COM
munication to the War Department
from March Field, Riverside, Calf.
According to the report, the climate
in Southern California this Summer
has been unusually sunny, but relatively
cool, as result of which several officers
deferred taking their leaves. The sun
shine, however, put wonderful coat
of bronze on all of them. So pro-
nounced was the effect that one of
them was stopped for identification
when he tried to cross back into the
United States from Aqua Caliente. He
had difficulty convincing the customs
men of his nationality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
CAPT. HAROLD c. MAJOR
ASSIGNED TO QUANTIC0
Completes Year in Air Corps School
and Now Takes Charge of
Vo Squadron.

Capt. Harold c. Major, U. s. M. c.,
who formerly was on duty in the Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics as information
officer. has completed year as a stu
dent at the Army Air Corps Tactical
School, Langley Field, Hampton, Va,
and has taken command of VO Squad
ron 6M at Quantico, Va, the Navy De-
partment has announced.
Capt. Major succeeds Lieut.. George r.
Towner in command of the squadron,
which is an observation squadron at
tached to the Marine Corps East Coast
Expeditionary Force. Lieut.. Towner has
taken up duties in the Company Off,
GERS School at Quantico.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
U. S. Observer at Budapest.

John j. Ide, European technical as
sistant to the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronsutics, who is stationed
in Paris, has been designated by the
State Department as unofficial Amer
lean observer at the ninth Information
al Congress of the Comite-Juridiaue
Internationale de L'Aviation at Buda-
pest from September 20 to Octobsr 3.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Tail Wind Adds to Flyers Speed

Aided by strong tail wind which he
picked up at an altitude of 5000 feet,
Lieut.. NJ r. Greer, Naval Reserve Avia-
ton Base, Squantum, Mass, recently
flew from Buffalo, N. Y, to Boston in
2 hours and 40 minutes, for what is
thought to be a record for this dist
lance. The distance from Albany. N.
Y. to Boston was flown in one hour.
The plane was Navy Vought Corsair
observation plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
REPORT CAPACITY LOADS
"Border-to-Border" Airways Sue
cessful on Pacific Coast.

Dinner in Seattle, midnight lunch in
San Francisco and breakfast in San
Diego, Calf, is the rule on the new
overnight Observation-Disclosures" air pas
senger line operated by the Boeing sys-
tenn. The line is the longest lighted
airway in the country over which pas
Sengers are flown.
The planes make the round trip Of
2,400 miles between San Diego and
Seattle in "a hours, including an g.
hour layover in Seattle. Capacity pas
senger loads have been the rule since
service was inagurated, according 60 re-
ports received here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Model Aircraft
BY GEORGE w. WATERS.

TINY kid amnded but with peculiar sensation in his
stomach doomed down out OF the heavens In G Air
while heavy headwnds played havoc with the plane in which
he riding
he in the picture in this column with aviators
his head that he regards next halo about the head
of Air" his Gordon Baker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
Bombing Forest Fires Planned.

The Sc of bombs containing a fire
extinguishing liquid in combating for
est fires in their early stages is being
considered. The bombs would be
dropped from patrol planes.