Evening star., 1932-08-17
Trials Are Being Conducted
Over Mile Course at
Hoover Airport.
SHIPS FLOWN SIX TIMES
BY 3 DIFFERENT PILOTS
Averages to Be Used to Fix Handi-
cap for Competition-Flights to
Continue Through Saturday.

With "a contesting pilots on hand
at Washington Hoover Airport and sew
eral more expected during the day
speed trials for the National Handicap
Sweepstakes Air Derby for the Cord
Trophy were begun today over the Off
cial Navy speed course
Each of the competing planes will be
put over the mile course a total of six
times by three pilots, the average speed
for the six runs being taken for the fix
ing of handicaps. All runs are being
made at top speed only rs feet of
the water, and crowds were on hand
at Hains Point and the airport to wit
ness the tests.
Several well known pilots, including
the winner of last years light-plane
derby and one of the country's fore
most civilian stunt pilots, are among the
contestants on hand at the airport to-
day. Two 22-year-old Pittsburgh girl
flyers were the only woman pilots reg
istered for the contest at noon today,
though Miss Marjorie Doig, veteran of
several women's races, is expected later
in the day.
Field First in Trials.
The speed trials, which are expected
to continue through Saturday, began at
Q o'clock this morning, when Joseph A.
Field of Bradford, Pa, took off in his
7-year-old Travelair biplane for the
Anacostia Naval Air Station, from
which the speed course extends for a
mile down the Potomac
| After Field finished his runs over
the course in both directions, he re-
| turned and the ship was taken back
over the course by William Payne, local
aviation instructor and test pilot. The
| fifth and sixth runs over the course
Army Air Corps, engineering officer at
Boiling Field, and one of the Army's
best known test pilots.
Only two ships were put through the
speed trials during the morning. the
second being a closed cabin monoplane
entered by r. A. Moore of Dayton,
Ohio. The test pilots expected to put
several more through their PAGES dur
| ing the afternoon and to resume the
tests early tomorrow morning.
Test Follows Examination.
The handicap speed trials are being
made after thorough examination Of
| the conteSting planes by technical
committee composed of Lieut.. Comdr.
Ralph S. Barnaby, u. 8. N; Ken Boe-
decker, Jack Lenkard. and r. T. Wick
ford. This committee is going over each
plane from propeller hub to rudder,
feeling every nut and bolt and guy
wire so no changes be made by con-
testants after their handicaps are set.
So thorough Is the work of the tech
nical committee that the judges will
be able to determine change Of even
per cent in the number of engine
revolutions during the flight. An in
crease of 8 per cent in the number
of engine revolutions during the derby
will be sufficient to disqualify pilot and
plane.
For the first time in an aviation
handicap event, victory will depend
upon the exact technical rating of each
will be accompanied by members of
the technical committee who will check
the first 20 planes at each control stop
on the 2,500-mile course to determine
If the speed factors have been changed.
Delegates Are Arriving.
While the speed trials were being run,
delegates for the annual convention of
the National Aeronautical Association
were arriving in Washington from all
parts of the United States and France
Business sessions of the convention will
begin tomorrow morning at 80 O'Clock
in the Mayfower Hotel, continuing
! through tomorrow.
Delegates to the convention, contest
ing derby pilots and Federal and civil
aviation leaders will attend the annual
banquet of the association tomorrow
night at the Mayflower Hotel to witness
the presentation of trophies to the
Harvard Flying Club, Comdr. P. v. H.
Weems, Navy navigation expert, and
other aviation trophy winners of the
past year.
| List Of Competing Planes.
! Competing planes, with their official
| Department of Commerce numbers, con-
test numbers and names of pilots, in
the order of their arrival at Washing
ton Hoover Airport, are as follows:
Travelair. NC2141, No 4, Joseph A.
Field. Bradford, Pa; Cessna, NC9862,
no contest number, j. H. Hays, Ponca
City. Okla; Stinson, NC226-W, No. IL.
r. A. Moore. Dayton, Ohio Pitcairn,
Donaldsonville, Ga; Waco NC69sN, No.
coupe, NC174K, No. 10, C. j. Fenton,
Toledo, Ohio; Waco. NC847V, no con-
test number, Lee Gehlbach, Mount
Clemens. Mich: Waco-C, NC11470 No.
| II, S. C. Huffman, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Rearwin, NCl2531, No. 80, Raymond
Hill, Cleveland, Ohio; Waco, NC655N;
No. n, Sam Sague, Cleveland, Ohio;
! Travelair, NC6l2K, no contest number,
Doug Davis, Atlanta, Ca; Monocoupe,
| NC178K, no contest number, j. E.
Herndon, Kansas City, Mo-; Monocoupe,
MOSCOW, No. %, Harold Newman, Nc
line, Ill; Stinson, NC408Y, No. 90,
Dudley Reed. Fairmont. w. Va; Bird,
| NC790Y, no contest number, Helen
Richey, Pittsburgh. Pa; Monocoupe,
NCl2027, No. SO. Jack Morris, Pitts
burgh; 1Ionocoupe, NC1l895, No. %,
Helen MacCloskey. Pittsburgh; Waco,
NC11211, no contest number, Harvey
Hughes. Lansing, Mich; Robin, NC514N,
no contest number, DR.. ]. E. Owen, Ash
vile. N. c.; Gypsy Moth, NC900M, no
contest number. Fred Dorset, Augusta.
Ga; Travelair, NC11200. no contest
| number, G.. c. Lenox, New Haven,
Conn; sTravelair, NC619K, no contest
! number. j. D. Crane, New Haven,
Conn; Waco, NC753K, No. 5, c. H. Cof-
| frin, Brooklyn, N. Y; Aristocrat,
| NC457K, no contest number, p. A.
! Sturtevant, Elmhurst, Ill.