Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
HOURLY NEW YORK
AIR TRIPS PLANNED
Amelia Earhart Announces
Daily Schedule of New
Company.

The National Capital is to be the
| scene of one of the most interesting de-
velopments in modern air transporta-
| ton In this country beginning August
| Is, when aerial passenger service is to
| be established between this city and
New York on a schedule of hourly trips
in both directions.
| The announcement of the projected
service, made on behalf of the operat-
| ing company by Miss Amelia Earhart,
| noted woman flyer, who, as vice presi-
dent of the organization, will occupy
the most important position in aviation
thus far attained by woman, has
aroused the interest of aviation people
as has no other project here this year.
The line will be the most heavily
| Travelled air transport route in the
country, If not in the world, with 20
flights between the two cities by tri-
motored transport planes each day, or
total of 1000 miles flown daily.
Veterans in Organization.
Plans for the line are said to be the
most thorough ever made for a project
of the sort in this country, surprising
even the splendid organization set up
under direction of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh for the Transcontinental Air
Transport Line, established a year ago.
The operating organization for the new
line Is one of the most experienced yet
assembled for new project, including
veterans in each branch, among them
several who went through the organi-
cation and initial operations period with
the Transcontinental Air Transport or
ganization.
The organization is to be on an even
larger operations scale than was the
T. A. T. Line, it being organized for
an initial 4000-mile daily operations
schedule, as against 3,700 miles daily
for T. A. T.
The new line is privately capitalized
on a scale which contemplates several
years of operations, even though no
profits should be shown during the first
few years, it is claimed, and the project
is expected to be the most thorough
test yet made of the possibility of air
transportation as an independent and
self-sufficient medium of transportation
in competition with the longest estab-
lished existing forms of transportation.
The line is to be the result of several
years of the most thorough planning,
and every aid of science is to be en-
ployed to insure success.
The Governments hourly aviation
weather broadcast along the New York
Washington airway is to be supple
mented by the company'S system. Tel
etype will be used to maintain continu-
Gus communication between fields and
ground-to-plane, two-way radio tele-
phones will be employed to keep pilots
and ground stations in constant COM
munication. In addition to the hourly
weather information from ground sta
tons, the pilots of the planes, four of
which will be in the air constantly dur
ing the 10 hours of operations each
day, will make frequent reports to
ground stations and to pilots of other
planes of the weather conditions en-
countered in flight.
26 Flights Daily Altogether.
The establishment of this new service
will make the New Washington
airway the most heavily Travelled by
planes on scheduled service in the
world. In addition to the 20 daily
flights by the passenger planes, there
are at least six flights each "a hours
by Eastern Air Transport mail planes,
with frequent double-schedule flights
to increase the total.
The operations personnel Of the line
is to be composed of skilled pilots with
long experience in the operations end
of the industry. Flight operations will
be in charge of Paul F.. Collins, known
throughout the industry as Dog" Col
Inns, who is a veteran airman pilot and
who was general superintendent of the
Transcontinental Air Transport Line.
Mr. Collins will be a vice president
Eugene Vidal, former Army pilot, who
went over to T. A. T. as traffic man,
will be vice president, in charge Of
traffic management of the line. Miss
Earhart, also a vice president, will be
in charge of public relations. She for
merly was assistant to the traffic man
ager of T. A. T. and is the holder of
transport pilots license, the highest
granted by the Department of Com
merce, and holds the first license of the
Federation Aeronautique 1nternationale
issued to an American woman. She is
the only woman member of the adj
viSory board of the National Aeronautic
Association, and is also the only woman
member of the contest committee of
that association.
Service Is to start at 8 am. August
IS, with planes leaving Newark Airport
and Washington Airport simultaneously
They will be followed by other planes
each hour until pm. The flying time
is to be l hour and As minutes, with
stop at Philadelphia. Buses will
carry passengers between the airport
and the center Of the city at each stop.
The planes are to be tri-motored 10
passenger Stinson monoplanes, especial
ly designed to meet the requirements Of
the new line. They will be powered
with Lycoming engines, though pro-
vision is made in the design for the
later substitution of Diesel engines If
these are found preferable.