Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29


III nesday, April /, In every part of
the country will be heard the
orone Of airplane engines setting out
on new schedules which will cut down
the expanses of the Nation for the air
traveller and user of the airmail.
Up and down the coasts, across great
mountain ranges, over the fertile CEN
trail farming lands and above prair1es
and Sun-tortured deserts transport
planes will hum their placid way on
new schedules which will add 10,T50
miles every "a hours to the sum total
Of distance flown daily by airmail-pas-
The National Capital will be heavy
benefector from the new schedules.
Greatly increased service Is to be
opened between this city and New York,
q new route will be opened which will
bring Florida five hours closer and pro-
vide direct communication with the
Southern seaports and . new service
wiz be installed to White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va. and Hot Springs. Va,
by way of Charlottesville. Airmail and
increased passenger service between this
city and Pittsburgh Is expected soon and
on July mail and passenger service is
slated to begin between the National
Capital and Norfolk, Va.
Breakfast In New York today and
luncheon in San Francisco tomorrow
will become the commonplace Of next
month to the air traveller as result OF
consolidation of schedules to go into
effect Wednesday.
Daily Total 56 Planes.
With all the new schedules in effect
there will be Sc transport plane arrivals
or departures here each "a hours on
regular service, at a rate Of more than
two an hour. day and night. Virtually all
this activity will be concentrated at
Washington Hoover Airport, which is
expected to rank as one Of the coun-
try's busiest airports devoted to trans
port business alone.
The Ludington Line, operating hourly
service between Washington and New
York, win increase its present operating
schedule Of 20 flights day to 80 and
VIII extend its lines to the two spas In
the Blue Ridge.
The present schedule Of hourly flights
between Washington and New York win
be maintained. The additional service
will include departures from Washing
ton at 6 pm. and New York at 6:45
pm, and the operation of special sec
tions" or express service from both ter
minals at am. and 8, and pm.
Wilmington, Del, will be added to the
list Of intermediate stops which now
include Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Trenton.
Two more stinson tri-motored mono
planes are to be delivered to the line
during the first week in April, making
total Of IL planes for use In maintain
ing the increased schedule.
The Ludington Line will inaugurate
its first extension Wednesday when one
round trip will be undertaken daily
between Washington and White
Sulphur and Hot Springs.
Passenger TRAFFIC Grows.
The increase Of service between this
city and New York is made necessary
BY steady growth Of passenger traff1c.
For several months the line has had
70 operate extra sections on practically
every fair weather day. in addition to
Its regular 20 daily flights.
Figures on the first six months of
operation show that q total Of 1896
completed trips have been made with |
out q single forced landing away from
q regular field. A total of $780,
passengers have been carried without
so much as q scratched finger. The
record day to date was February II, |
when 50 trips were made and SIS |
passengers carried
On Wednesday Eastern Air Trans |
port wiz inaugurate its new CUTOFF"
between Richmond, Va, and Jackson
vile, Fla, by way Of the seacoast
cities. This cut-off will connect at
both ends with the present New York
Miami line passing through Washing
ton, saving nearly five hours of flying
time because of its greater directneSs.
Twin-motored KingbirdS, of the type
now operated south of washington, viii
be used on the new line. They viii be
flown by Pilots Nope" Moltrup, Joe
Duckworth and John Gill. Moltrup Il
the only one of the three taken OF the
washington run. He has been flying
the mail shuttle" between Boiling
Field and New York and has built
himself up . reputation as the polar
bear Of the outfit, through his refusal
70 wear Winter flying toys or heavy
clothing Of any kind. There Is fear
among the pilots that Nope, when In
stalled In a closed cabin plane, on a
Southern run, with Summer coming on,
viii melt away. During the Winter,
helmet and goggles over shirt and golf
knickers, he complained bitterly at the
lack Of real Northern Winter.
Route Is Being Lighted.
Mail and passengers will be carried
over the new line on daylight schedules
until the Department Of Commerce
completes lighting Of the route, when
night service will be inauglrated.
Lighting Of the airway and intermedi-
completed by October.
The local increases will do their part
20 swell the total Of the Nations April
air transport expansion. Under the
present schedules mail and maiI-pas-
senger planes are flying 64,805 miles
every day. On April / the increases
which viii 60 into effect will increase
this total TO 1856 miles Of service, in
Guiding more than 10000 miles flown
BY planes which carry no mail, during
each a. hours.
Four large operators are responsible
fcr the increased mail schedules. They
are Eastern Air Transport, which adds
. total Of 1,166 miles daily; National
Air Transport, which will add 1885
miles daily by virtue Of a new round
trip daily between New York and Chi
cago, one between Cleveland and Chi
cago and two between Chicago and
Kansas City,. Trans-American Airlines
Corporation, formerly the Thompson
Aeronautical Corporation, which will
add four round trips between Chicago
and Detroit and six trips between De-
troit and Cleveland, for a total of
,58s miles, and Boeing Air Transport,
which will add 1000 miles daily through
an additional round trip daily between
Chicago and San Francisco.
First Coast Coast Line.
The new N. A. T.-Boeing schedules
will provide for the first time in the
history Of aviation q through airmail-
passenger service, with tri-motored
planes, between the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts. The passenger may travel from
San Francisco TO New York in % hours
or from New York to San Francisco
IN 81 hours.
Passengers leaving New York at 9
O'Clock IN the morning are scheduled
TO arrive in San Francisco, 2,7T0 miles
away, at 1913 o'clock the following
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