Evening star., 1932-07-24

most wholly q personal one. PrlVate
industry has been looking solely toward
its own interests, he said, and the Post
ONCE Department, he admitted, prob
ably has been acting only with the view
of administering the airmail law as
laid down by Congress.
But we. in the department" he said,
"feel that the time has now come when
we must broaden our vision OF the
whole picture of national aviation"
Mr.. Glover said that he does not see
how the transport operators can longer
regard themselves as separate from the
rest Of the industry and that no longer
should the industry think OF itself only
as being divided into factions with con-
flicting interests.
Air transport and. especially so, air
mail cannot become self-supporting
and consequently self-respecting with
out the assistance OF the rest OF the IN
dustry, or, in other words, all the In
dustry pulling together as one for that
one goal-success for commercial avla-
ton in all It's phases" he said.
ut has often been my thought, and
still is. that neither commercial nor
military airplane manufacturing can
survive if air transport fails. The fu-
ture of aircraft manufacturing rests on
transport
The postal chief expressed the belief
that "a new unified policy. in which
military, commercial, industrial and
governmental interests would partici-
pate, would result in very great gain
being accomplished for the greater sue
cess Of the aviation policy OF this
country"
New Transports Described.
Success of the fast new twin-motored,
low-wing bombardment planes pro-
duced by Boeing for the Army Air
Corps has resulted in the construction
of an entirely new type of transport
plane. which Is declared as a result OF
preliminary tests, to be the fastest
world.
| A feet of the new Planes will go into
service beginning this Fall on the trans
continental airmail and passenger lines
of United Air Lines and will make pos
| sible a reduction Of the New York-San
Francisco travel time to % hours or
| less. The present airplane schedules
across the United States average ~
| hours.
The new transports, according to in
| formation received here have cruising
speed of 155 miles per hour with full
| load including 2 pilots, 10 passengers,
!
/ fuel for ATS miles of flying.
! They have wing span Of "A feet and
a length of 81 feet. With full load the
ships are said to have a rate of climb
of Gas feet per minute and can reach a
maximum altitude of about 10000 feet
above sea level. The gross weight Is
l2.2l0 pounds.
The new transport. like the bomber
is a twin-engined, low-wing, all-metal
monoplane. 1t has retractable landing
gear and is notable for exceptional
cleanness OF design. The engine
nacelles are faired smoothly into the
leading edge of the wing. Two $50
horsepower supercharged Pratt &
Whitney wasps form the power plants.
In addition to standard navigating
instruments, there will be three pairs
of instruments whose functions are
duplicated. including directional gyro
and compass; sensitive altimeter, re-
cording elevation not only in thousands
| but in hundreds of feet; rate of climb
| indicator and turn and bank indicator
and artificial horizon.
| Hot-water heat for Winter and
cooling system for Summer make for
passenger comfort. There is double
ventilating system, including not only
central system for the entire cabin,
but individual ventilators for each pas
senger Cabins are insulated against
| noise and sudden temperature changes.
| The new SHIPS are the result, in part
at least, of the progress which is made
possible by well balanced program Of
development which is being followed by
the War and Navy Departments and
which makes possible an alive and
aggressive aviation industry.