Evening star., 1932-08-30
NEW RECORDS FoREsEEN.
Haizlip's Flight Seen Forerunner oi
Other Broken Marks at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, August 80 (P).-The
challenge of superspeed, and with it,
perhaps, the world airplane record, to-
day faced the 1882 national air races.
With a new transnation race king
crowned yesterday. in the person of
James G. Haizlip, who brought the At
lantic and Pacific within 10 hours and
19 minutes Of each other. tn: classics
main goal was to find q successor to
the landplane speed throne occupied
since 1924 BY France.
Not since 1928. when the Air Corps
swept to victory in the now extinct
Pulitzer trophy race with speed Of
24S miles an hour, hav. the air races
been able to boast Of true racing
progress, and the feat Of the Ferguson,
Mo, pilot of striking a faster gait in
clipping nearly an hour from the for
mer Los Angeles-to-New York record
was taken as a cue for an assault on
Frances mark of 27s.4so miles an hour.
Fast Planes Added.
This attack was scheduled to move
under way today in dashes over a
three-kilometer course, though the
readiness OF the pilots indicated that
the true tests may come later after
mechanics have spent more time In
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fort.
The fight which Haizlip paced
across the country yesterday, followed
by J. r. Wedell, Patterson, La; Col.
Roscoe Turner, Los Angeles, and Lee
Gehlbach, Mount Clemens, Mich. add
ed four of the fastest planes of the
races to those already on hand, which
are destined to find their measure in
the straightaway dashes.
Mai James H. Doolittle, deposed
transnation record holder, has thick.
well steamlined racer. which Russell
Boardman, transatlantic flyer, injured
in q fight test, had planned to ny.
1t was to be flown today In test
hop, while another Doolittle ship, the
rebuilt craft Of 1878 transnation
dash, was being worked on night and
day in Wichita, Vans, for possible en-
try in the lists.
Waits for Repairs.
ready in time" Maj. Doolittle said
and do not know as yet what plane
I will fly in the Thompson Trophy
race Labor day. Neither ship has been
clocked and it is not fair even to es-
innate their probable speeds. The
plane in Wichita, which was damaged
a few days ago when the retractaple
landing gear failed to drop, will not
be ready before Thursday
Another plane whose nose will be
turned towards the world land plane
record is gull-wtng monoplane de-
signed and to be fiown by Robert Hail.
27-year-old flyer from Springfield. Mass.
Hatzlip, who speeded at 275 miles
an hour over parts of the transconti-
mental route, may be expected to boost
this gait for the shorter dash after his
plane has been groomed, while Wedell
and Turner both planned to measure
their craft over the abbreviated course
as soon as mechanical checking has
been completed.
Gehlbach's plane. which faced q
thorough going-over because of oil
trouble which splattered lubricant over
pilot and craft in the transnation test,
is a duplicate in appearance Of the
Boardman plane, but Gehlbach's mount
has less power.
Pilots Strike Settled.
The thunder Of 81 Air Corps planes
today opened the Army day program.
-Four numbering bombers from Lang
ley Field, Va, and the LIST Pursuit
Group composed of three squadrons
from Selfridge Field, Mich, took the
air for the greatest massed demonstra-
ton of the current meet.
Passing in review before rapidly fill
ing stands, they roared into the cloud
filled sky separated on the turn, and
prepared for a mock attack The bomb
ers, cruising at low attitude, were the
target of the speedy fighters, and the
stands ratified as from two directions
the squadrons dived from their high
vantage point.
Theoretically wiped out, the bombers
landed, while the remaining yellow
birds that we're left assumed perfect
formations.
Haizlip's feat overshadowed a threat
ened strike Of racing pilots who reached
an agreement with air race oficials to
continue in the meet after they had de-
manded doubling of prize money in
closed course events.
Sixty pilots, who Sunday night signed
a petition demanding an increase of the
stakes, were represented by E. M
CMatty) Laird, Chicago. non-contestant,
and agreed to stay with the meet under
condition that they form an organiza-
tion group to be consulted when the
1888 program Is worked up.
AS an aftermath of the threatened
pilots strike, the Contest Committee Of
the National Aeronautic Association
coted to refund the entire entry fee
posted by flyers, for each event they
entered. Previously. so per cent had
been refunded to all starters.