Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
KEEP i. s. PLANES
FROM AIR RACES
100 Combat Ships viii Go to
Cleveland, but viii Not
Participate.

Despite orders barring Army and
Navy planes from competition in the
National Air Races, chiefly as q result
Of two fatal crashes involving service
flyers at Chicago last year. more than
100 combat planes Of the two services
will proceed to Cleveland this week for
the 1881 races, which will begin there
Saturday and continue until Labor
day.
Though the combat planes will not
be permitted to race. scores of the
worlds most famous pilots are to par
ticipate in a series of races, which be-
gan with the take-off of 50 planes from
the Pacific Coast for Cleveland yester-
day In the Transcontinental Handicap
Sweepstake Derby. These will end on
Labor day with the Thompson Trophy
race, In which it Is expected the Amer
lean all-time speed record VIII be shat
tered.
Five Notable Flyers Due Here.
Five Of the foremost foreign flyers
are to visit the Capital tomorrow on
| the way to the races and will be re-
ceived by President Hoover at the White
House. They are to land at the Ana
costa Naval Air Station at IL o'clock
tomorrow morning and probably viii
leave for Cleveland Thursday.
The foreign aviatorS viii be the
guests of the Aero Club Of washington,
chapter of the National Aeronautic As
ISOLATION, at lncheon in the willard
/ Hotel at IL :45 pm. tomorrow, following
their reception at the White House.
Diplomatic representatives Of the five
countries are expected to attend, among
them Wladyslaw Sokolowski, counselor
| and charge d'affaires ad interim OF the
Polish embassy, and DR.. Jan Papanek,
Czechoslovakian secretary Of legation.
Adolph K. Barta, president Of the
Aero Club, has invited members OF the
Aviation Committee Of the Washington
Board Of Trade, headed by Lawrence
E. Williams, and members Of the Ma
tional Press Club to attend the
luncheon.
The five flyers are Flight Lieut.. Rich
ard L. r. Atcherly, Great Britain;
Ernst Udet, Germany; Capt. Boleslaw
Orlinski, Poland. and Maj. Alois Ku-
bita, Czechoslovakia.
Commander de Bernardo, winner of
the 1926 Schneider Cup, Is one OF the
worlds most famous racing pilots He
won the Schneider Cup with a speed of
258.S73 miles per hour, and two years
ldUET I1E ESTABLISHED u new GQCEQ ICGOI0
of 1887 miles per hour. He IVES deS-
| ignated officially by Gen. Italo Balbo,
Italian minister Of aviation, to up
hold the fame Of Italy's aviation at
the Cleveland meet.
All win Enter Air Races.
Flight Lieut.. Atcherly is q member of
the victorious British Schneider Cup
team of last year and achieved q speed
of more than 1872 miles per hour in his
trials. He is regarded as one Of the
finest acrobatic pilots England has pro-
duced
Udet, one OF Germany's great war
aces. was credited with 50 victories In
aerial combat and today ranks as one Of
the worlds greatest peace-time pilots.
Capt. Orlinsid is the Polish flyer who
won fame for his country in the famous
nonstop flight from Warsaw TO Toxic
in 1926. Kubita has gained world fame
among aviators by several remarkable
aviation achievements during the past
three years.
All i've foreign airmen are to take
active part In the Cleveland races and
win stage aerial acrobatic competitions
daily.
what is expected TO develop into the
most sensational transcontinental race
in aviation history is to begin next
Monday morning when some OF the
country's most famous pilots take on
from Los Angeles for Cleveland in COM
petition for the Bendix Trophy and
SIS 900 In cash prizes. They win con-
tinue on to New York In an effort TO
break the transcontinental West-to-East
record Of IL hours and Is minutes now
held by Capt. Frank Hawks.
Eaker and DOOIittIe to Fly.
Capt. Ira c. Eaker, operations and
engineering ofdcer at Boiling Field,
forced down twice on transcontinental
speed attempts is to enter this race in
special high-speed Lockheed built for
the event, according TO word received
from Cleveland
Mai. James H. Doolittle, one of the
country's most famous speed, acrobatic
and test flyers, viii take of from Los
Angeles Monday in a special Laird
Solution" biplane said TO be capable
Of nearly 300 miles per hour. The
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