Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
PAGE SETS RECORD
IN CURT|SS RACE
Marine Pilot Averages 164.08
Miles Per Hour in 1OO-
Mile Jaunt.
Continued From First Page.)


ct top speed throughout the gruelling
race: One of the four big torpedo and
bombardment planes made q hurried
forced landing with the engine In
flames, though prompt action with q
fire extinguisher prevented damage to
motor or plane.
Two Surprises in Race.
There were two outstanding surprises
&n the race. The first was the feat of
Lieut.. James e. Dyer of the battle feet,
winner of the Schiff Trophy for 1929,
IN running away from three of the
single -seater fighters with his two
scatter observation plane to take third
place in the CurtisS race. Dyer pushed
his Vought Corsatr around the course
ct an average speed of 154.81 miles per
hour, less than 10 miles an hour slower
than Capt. Bage, to set new record
for the observation types. He was
nearly 10 miles per hour faster than his
nearest competitor In the observation
class.
The second major surprise was the
magnificent race flown by Lieut. D. W.
Harrigan OF the Hampton Roads Naval
Air Station, in q Navy NY training
plane, to win the ingalls, Trophy. Har-
rigan few the 100 miles at an average
speed of 10000 miles per hour, more
than 10 miles per hour in excess of the
rated speed Of the plane.
The ingalls, Trophy, won hands
down" by Lieut.. Harrigan, was do
mated by David S. ingalls,, Assistant
Secretary OF the Navy for Aeronautics,
for awarding to the pilot making the
best percentage of the rated speed of
his plane. Each type of Navy plane is
given rated speed, based Upon the
most thorough fight tests. Harrigsn's
NY plane has rated speed of 90 miles
per hour and his race today won him O
figure Of merit of 1.109 per cent. In
addition to the ingalls, Trophy he cap
tured the first prize for the training
group and cup presented by the Pitts
burgh Screw ~ Bolt Co.
Only l6 Prizes Won.
Eighteen prizes were offered for the
race, though only Is of the Is were
won by the competing pilots, due to
motor trouble, forcing three of the four
torpedo planes out before they COM
pleted the course. The prize winners
were as follows:
Curtiss Marine Trophy-Capt. Arthur
II. Page, U. S. M. c., in a Marine
Corps F6C3 Curtiss fighter, powered
with Curtiss 600-horsepower water
cooled engine; speed, 164.0S miles per
hour. He also took first prize in the
fighter class.
ingalls, Trophy-Lieut. D. w. Harri-
kA11B ~. .. N.s Al y %Ok1SOllQ6UEu IN
training plane; speed, 102.02 miles per
hour. Harrigan also took two other
prizes.
Pittsburgh Screw g. Bolt Co. Cup
Lieut.. Harrigan.
Fighting plane prizes, offered by the
CurtiSs Airplane g. Motor Co-First,
Capt. Page; second, Lieut.. Aaron P.
Gtorrs, Navy F6C-4 single-seater fight
or, average speed, 1926 miles per
hour; third, Lieut.. w. NJ. Dillon, Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy F7C-l
single-seater fighter, speed, 142.7s miles
Der hour.
Observation planes, offered by the
Chance Vought Corporation - First,
Lieut.. J. E. Dyer. Battle Fleet, in a
Vought Corsair O2U, average speed,
15481 miles per hour; second, Lieut..
G. c. Champion, Scouting Fleet, for
nler holder of the worlds altitude rec
ord, Vought Corsair O2U, speed, 144.9S
miles per hour: third, Lieut.. NJ. H.
Kernodle, Scouting Fleet, Vought Cor
sair O2U, speed. 143.48 miles per hour.
Torpedo and bombardment plane
Co.-Lieut. p. D. Stroop, Scouting
Fleet, in q Martin TAM torpedo plane,
1872 miles per hour. The other three
planes of this type were forced down.
Amphibian planes, offered by the
Keystone Aircraft Corporation-First,
Lieut.. T. D. Quinn. Hampton Roads
Naval Air Station, Looming OL-8, 117.84
miles per hour: second, Ensign w: E.
Rurdick, Naval Reserve, Battle Fleet
Looming OILS, 1873 miles per hour;
third, Lieut.. Stephen w. Galloway,
Scouting Fleet, Looming OL-6, lila
miles per hour.
Training planes, the Wright Aero
nautical Corporation-FirSt, Lieut.. D.
w. Harrigan; second, Lieut.. 8. .. Bur
roughs, Hampton Roads Naval Air Sta
ton, Consolidated NY training plane,
101 26 miles per hour; third, Lieut..
T.. r. Mclean, Hampton Roads, Con-
solidated NY, 10073 miles per hour.
New Timing Method Used.
The prizes were presented to the
pilots Immediately following the race,
the winners having been determined
by q new method of timing and COM
putation installed by the contest COM
Ynittee OF the National AeronauticS As
ISOLATION, In charge of the races, which
made possible announcements within
i've minutes after the planes had COM
pleted their fifth lap Of the 20-mile
course.
The Curtiss Trophy was presented to
Capt. Page by its donor, Glenn Ham
nond Curtiss, pioneer seaplane design
er and pilot. The trophy will be held
Corps and Capt. Pages name will be
inscribed on the honor role of those
who have won the trophy since the
first race was flown. in 1915. Mr..
Curtiss came to Washington fresh from
the celebration of the twentieth ami
versary of his epochal cross-country
Night from Albany to New York on
May 80, 1910, which won him $4,000
| prize for the first successful long-dis-
fancA crOSs-cOuntTY flight.
The Ingalls, Trophy also was pre-
sented by its donor, David 8. ingalls,,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who
was the Nays only World War ace,
by virtue Of six victories over enemy
aircraft while engaged in the English
Channel submarine patrol.
Capt. Page has had o distinguished
career in aviation. He Is known as the
Marine Corps best aeronautical navi-
the author of q standard aeronautical
text book He was born in st. Paul,
MINI, September II, 1895, and was
graduated from the Naval Academy in
1917 and commissioned Q second lieu
tenant in the Marine Corps.
Winning his wings in March, 1918.
he turned to balloon work and attended
the Army Balloon School at Fort Omaha,
Nebr. Capt. Page has served with the
Marine fighting squadrons in San Do
nningo, Haiti, Guam and China. He
has taken part in many long flights. in
Guiding the tranScontinental reliability
test in 1919; flight from the National
Capital to San Diego and return in 1928
and q recent record flight from the Ma
tional Capital to Nicaragua and re-
turn. In this fight, made early in May
Capt. Page made the long trip in six
days and 20 minutes elapsed time and
SIS hours of actual flying time