Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-01
AIR ZOO ATTRACTS
VISITORS AT RACES
Exhibition Gives Glimpse Into
Past, Present and Flu
ture of Aviation.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON,
Aviation Editor Of The Star.

C1EVEI, AND AIRPORT, September
I-This immense greenswarded airport
covering some 100 acres OF nat OIllo
farm land, has become a sort OF aero
nautical geological park, with peculiar
hooking aircraft in fenced-oH spaces
herring through the palings at a myriad
ooggle-eyed humanity. The Cniei gu
ference between this spectacle ana that
Of a regulation fashioned zoo Is
that the SPECTATORS are eating all their
own peanuts-if they can AFFORD pea
nuts to eat a.. 49,, o;r
When not actually in flight, the ar
planes participating in the beWlloerln3
array of events making up this great.
est of aeronautical shows are staKeo
down in serrid ranks extending from from
here to way over yonder, wnere CliiI
Henderson's gaudily uniformed het III
people dwindle down to nothing at az
and the airplanes become merely sorC
of varicolored hedge row on the lar
edge of mile-long plain.
Like Fortune Telling.
walk along this line is much IKE
a visit to the den OF an aefonautlcal
fortune teller; it gives you a sllitpse
of ayiation's past, present and 1uture
There are airplanes which have mace
history in the last few years. There are
airplanes which are making history
today There also are airplanes OF types
new and as vet virtually untried, which
are forecasts, perhaps. OF the aircraft
which will fill the skies tomorrow.
There are among the Motley array
of aircraft such ancientS as the OK
powered trainers Of postwar vintage.
one of which came to an ingloriouS end
Yesterday afternoon in dead stick
landing contest. The contestants were
required to land to a bull's-eye on the
field without the use of motor or brakes.
The old-timer came in too high and
the pilot attempting to kill his speed,
stalled and slipped squarely into the
circle on one wing tip.
fast ground loop and the poor old
crate settled down dejectedly on the
bull's-eye at an angle which bespoke
wounds too deep for the surgeons
knife. An abashed pilot clambered out
to superintend the towing away OF the
wreck.
Flyer Is Disqualified.
One of the officials of the contest
asked whether the landing, which was
the only one in the circle, was to be
allowed replied tersely: Nope, he's
disqualified. 1t was contest without
brakes He broke"
: There are many airplanes which have
figured in aviation history one of the
most recent of them being that of
Russell Boardman and John Polando,
the Cape Cod, in which they estab-
lished the worlds nonstop distance
record between New York and Istan-
bul. Turkey
One of the interesting Spectacles, in
PRODUCING what many claim will be the
aircraft of tomorrow, has been forma-
tion flying by autogiroS, those new wind
mill planes. Six of them have been
tpresent at the races, two of the noted
,autogiro pilots being James G. Ray
croft, who landed in the White House
and Capitol Grounds in Washington,
and Amelia Earhalt Putnam.
There are many new-type high-speed
planes of all sizes, many of them the
loW-Wing racing type. which is begin
ming to appear on the Nations trans
port lines in answer to demand for
greater and still greater speeds. TAX
ing advantage of perfect stream lining
and design, they are able to achieve
sgreat speed with relatively little horse
power obviously the goal which the
aircraft industry must reach for future
success.
Marines Show GamenesS.
: The Marines of Fighting Plane Squad
ron 9 from Quantico, Va, continued
{. their demonstration of gameness, which
created two new caterpillars when Lieut..
! L. H. Sanderson and Lieut.. w. o. Brice
took to their parachutes to save their
lives. Equipped with two new planes,
: Sanderson and Brice were back in their
: places yesterday afternoon and the
4: squadron went through the identical
: maneuver which resulted in the crash
in midair "a hours earlier. The squad
= ron has lost three of the nine planes
with which it left Quantico only a few
days ago, that of Lieut.. j. G. Adams
having been forced down and damaged
en- route to Cleveland. 1t was hauled
. into the National Guard hangar at the
. Cleveland field and is being put 4 in
: shape to rejoin the squadron on the
way back home. Those of Sanderson
and Brice were completely destroyed.
. 1t is game exhibition and one which
has boosted Marine Corps stock with
the crowds at the raceS