Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
M'CRACKEN AIR LINE
ORDERS 81 PLANES
ID 20 Passenger Flying
Boats to Be Used on South
American Route.

Orders for $2,315,O00 worth of air.
planes to complete what it is claimed
will be the largest feet of flying boats
and amphibians operated by any airline
in the world, were placed yesterday by
William P. MacCracken, jr., former
Assistant Secretary Of Commerce for
Aeronautics, in his capacity as chair
man of the board of the New York, Rio
g. Buenos Aires Lines, Inc, 1t was an
nounced here last night.
The orders call for a fleet of IA
2O-passenger flying boats of the Com
modore type. adapted from designs of
the Consolidated PY-1 patrol
flying boat, which, when added to the
planes already in operation, will con-
stitute a fleet of 81 multi-motored
planes for operation over the 9,000-mile
route from New York to Buenos Aires.
passing through this city.
Cost Is 100000 Each.
The planes on order cost 100000
each. They will be powered by twin
Hornet motors of SIS horsepower each.
In addition, orders have been placed for
nine twin-motored Sikorsky amphibians
and eight fast mail planes, including
two Lockheed express planes having q
cruising speed of $50 miles per hour.
The service between this country and
South America is to cut the travel time
from two and three weeks to seven days.
Later night flying is to be attempted in
order to cut the time between New York
and Washington and Buenos Aires to
five days or less.
Tho irh fr~@o
are to be delivered in New York at
intervals of Is days and will be flown
South through this city.
New Company TO Cross U. s.
Creation of a large new transport
company, to be known as the Always
Corporation of America, which plans
to inaugurate an airplane passenger
service connecting the Capital. New
cities with the Pacific Coast by way of
a Southern transcontinental route. was
also announced last night.
The service is to be all-flying and the
line. it was announced,
Is expected to be the first which does
not utilize rail combinations for q part
of the trip.
Mai. Gen. Amos A. Fries. retired,
former chief of the Army Chemical
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president and general manager of the
Airways Corporation Of America and
will have his Offices in the Tower
Building, Fourteenth and K streets.
Gen. Fries spent IS years in active
Army service and also is known as an
engineer. organizer and executive.
Former Representative Walter F.
Of Long Beach, Calf. con-
sulting engineer, is first vice president
and assistant general manager OF the
Always Co. He Is to be in charge OF
the Western operations Of the system.
Macdonald to Direct Field Work.
Field operations are TO be in charge
vice president, a former Army pilot,
who has been flying since 1918. Among
the members of the board of directors
are three residents. of the National
Capital and several prominent aMation
people, as follows:
II. Newton Whittelsey. president OF
the Whittelsey Manufacturing Co.,
manufacturers of theGAviaft plane in
the United States; Lady Mary Heath,
formerly of London, but now licensed
American pilot; John T. Waldhauser of
the Arundel Corporation of Baltimore,
j. w. HeintZmann, general counsel OF
Knabenshue, head Of the Knabenshue
Aircraft Corporation of Los Angeles;
George K. Perkins, Washington aviation
lawyer and former Army pilot. who saw
active service In France: Frank E.
Ghiselli, vice president Of the Mer-
chants Bank & Trust Co. of this city,
and William z. Furey of the law firm
of Van Doren, Rafferty, & Rogers, this
city.