Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10

lish automobile racing driver, has
played hand with Death and won In few
minutes judges hang up outside the door Of the
world new automobile speed record. 1t reads
245 miles per hour.
A great concourse of people is gathered at
Epithead Bay, England, q few days after the
Schneider Air Cup races, September, 1929.
During those faces q flying officer OF his
majesty's service, H. r. d. Waghorn, drove q
supermarine plane at an average speed of
1886 miles per hour over 217-mile course.
Now Squadron Leader A. H. Olebar is climbing
into his plane, supermarine powered with an
R-R, Re- engine The weather is perfect and
Squadron Leader Olebar Is tense but calm. A
moment of deathly quiet save for the roar Of
the planes engine, and then-he's of! Be-
fore that plane settles down again new
world record for airplane speed has been eS-
tablished. Olebar in his flight split the ether
ut the stupendouS rate Of 357.23 miles per hour!
I EFT us go to Germany. We Chamber into q
- queer, coffin-shaped silver car standing on
perfect stra;ghtaway roadbed. It is the
new heralded "glorihed bus with an airplane
motor" DR.. Franz Kruckenberg of the Han
mover Traffic Experimental Laboratory is at the
controls. The four-bladed atrplane propellers
Of this Zeppelin on wheels" begin to move.
The 400-horsepower gasoline motor roarS and
coughs amid clouds Of exhaust. The white
sengers splits the morning atmosphere at an
average speed of 100 miles per hour.
And now it's Gar Wood at the wheel of Miss
America TX, or Miss England pioted by Kaye
Don, or Betty Carstairs on the Detroit River,
travelling at speed of approximately 100 miles
per hour; or it's a rocket plane or rocket sled
or rocket car cutting space like falling stars.
Can man stond the PAGER Can the human
organism stand the pressure7 He stands these,
you say. Yes. but these are nothing compared
10 what it viii De necessary for him to stand
ere long if cutomotive designing engineers &C
complish What they hope to in motors and air
plane-body designers in bodieS-nothing COM
pared with the speed man win be In position
to avail himself of in a few years If dreams
can be made to come true.
"There is plenty more speed In my Bluebird
shall shoot for the 300-mile mark within the
next few years." says Campbell. And In the
marshes of the Ohio River lies the wreckage
Of a swift monoplane, all that remains Of a re-
cent transcontinental speed trial by Capt. Ira
Eaker, United States Army Air Corps. The
little plane was capable Of more than 235 miles
per hour And in an airport at Oakland, Calf,
sits specially constructed plane waiting for
the master hand of Col. Charles Augustus Lind
bergh powered with 650-horSepower motor
and capable Of an estimated speed Of $50 miles
per hour Up at Syracuse University Harry w.
Bull. 2l-year-old student, plans to surpass
his 75-miles-per hour rocket-Sled record on the
ice of Oneida Lake
All these speed assaults assembled are only
evidence Of what man has in mind regarding
speed in transportation and his inclination to
use it to the utmost of his capacity But what
iS that capacity?
speed alone, aside from the effects engen-
dered by the wind and other factors which may
enter in, apparently, SO far as known, has no