Evening star., 1932-04-17


mail service over the same
lie service now flown between the
give this city connection with the
henieS from New York.
ton, engine speeds and other factors,
and a large number of controls.
Small rooms within the operating
rooms contain gasoline and oil supply
tanks for weighing and supplying the
oil and gasoline used by the engine or
! engines under test. These also are well
| ventilated and are provided with fire
| proof drop doors, separating them from
| the operators rooms In case of emer-
| gency.
Two independent fuel systems are
! provided in order that engines may be
run simultaneously on different fuels
without any intermixing or change OF
| fuel characteristics The tanks in the
laboratory are supplied by pump lines
with fuel from an oil storage building
| located outside the laboratory
The laboratory is expected to be the
cradle OF better and more efficient air
craft engines; a weeder of ineff1ciency
in a day when improved efficiency is
the hfeblood of a new industry.
Cuban Line Purchased.
| Pan-American Always the giant
United States air transport line which
now extends into virtually every cOUn-
| try in North, South and Central Amer
| icas and the indies has expanded by
| taking over In its entirety the national
air transport system of Cuba, q mil
lion-dollar outfit operating airlines
connecting all the principal industrial
cities of the island republic.
The Cuban company, known as Com
pania Nacienal Guiana de Aviacion,
| s. A., has In service IA airports and
operates a feet OF II planes, chiefly
| tri-fnotored landplanes and twif1-fno-
| tored amphibians over more than $50
miles of airways
Comparlia Nacional Is to be operated
by Pan-American as an independent
line serving the needs of the travelling
public and the industrial and CONNER
| Cial interests of the country, but closely
| tied up, through direct, connecting
! schedules, with the three international
! trunk lines of Pan-American Airways
| System which traverse Cuba, linking
that country with the United States
and so countries and colonies Of the
| three Americas.
Air Lessons Held vital.
That the initial phases at least Of
the next great war must be fouaht
and won in the air stands as one OF
the conclusive lessons Of the recently
concluded Army-Navy Hawaiian ma
neuvers. in the opinion Of ell the Of
ficial observers.
Though the maneuvers, lasting for
eight days, involved all ships and fa-
cilities of the feet and a1l available
ground forces, the very nature of the
air operations for seven days confined
all activity to planes, submarines and
airplane carriers.
Despite heavy rain, high winds and
other severe handicaps, the air opera
tions were carried well out to sea, by
day and night, the Army air forces be-
ing called upon to stave of the brunt
of the fleet attack before ground forces
became engaged Mt all
The naaf1euvers were followed by a
critique held at Pearl Harbor and at
tended by about 1000 Army and Navy
officers All movements and plans Of
both forces were gone into and the rea-
sons discussed. 1t was agreed that.
with proper air defense, an island such
as Oahu would present formidable
target for an enemy attack.
1T is believed that the taking of the
Dardanelles or of the fortress at Verdun
would be child's play in comparison" /"
it was stated in an unofficial report
of the maneuvers to the Army Air
Corps headquarters here.
Bombing Accuracy Increases.
Startling increases in the accuracy Of
aerial bornbardment as a result of con-
tinued training are reported from
Langley Field, Hampton, va, home of
the 2nd Bumbardment Group Bomb
ing efficiency reached new peak in a
unique test which resulted from mari
time rl1ishap In the waters OF Chesa-
peake Bay
An aged vessel, the Haines. then
being towed to deep and wAtery grave
by a Coast Guard cutter, gave UP the
struggle far short Of It's goal and went
down about 200 yards off Plum Tree
Island in the fishing boat channel. The
authorities branded 1t menace to
navigation and the 49th Bombardment
Squadron was ordered to remove the
menace.
The hulk was entirely submerged and
its location was marked by float 10
feet square to facilitate aiming opera
tions After several days of target
practice with sald-flled bombs-such
a target being too good to destroy at
one fell swoop-real bombs were taken
aboard and when an inspection party
went out little later the largest piece
of the Haines that could be found was
less than six feet long.
The fact that the wreck was blown
up is very pleasing" it is stated in a
report to Air Corps headquarters here,
but the data on errors is, to say the
least astounding In the bombing
matches held at Langley Field in 1929
the average radisl error, the distance
from the point Of fall of the bomb to
the pin-pUif1t center Of the target, was
about 200 feet.
IAN improvement was shown In the
1880 matches, the radial error being
194.07. A still greater Improvement
was shown for 1881, cut of AS feet
for an average error of 1895 feet being
the result of the observers. This shows
steady, though slow. improvement
among the recognized expert bombers
Of the Army. the contestants In the
matches being the team having the
highest score in each squadron
During the record bombing of the
1sines the average radial error was
approximately rs feet. an achievement
by an entire squadron which we be-
lieve to be worthy of note"
The famous old monkey suit of the
Army Air Corps is about to go the way
of the Flaming Coffin, the ancient
Martin bomber. "red-dog" gloves and
other extinct relics of military flying.
If you have seen Army pilots, OF pie