Evening star., 1932-10-09

travel is approaching that of rail travel
and exceeds that OF automobile travel,
received further confirmation OF these
reports later in the week in the form of
the fourth annual report of the Com
mittee en- Aviation OF the Actuarial So
c.ety Of America.
The airlines of today" William /.
Van Dusen Of Pan American AirWays
told the delegates, are approaching the
safety of the railroads. which are one
generally accepted STANDARD Of trans
port reliability. and are considerably
safer than the automobile"
The report of the Actuarial SocletyS
committee places the passenger death
rate in scheduled air transport flying
at one per $4,000 passenger hours OF
flying. or one in each 10000 flights.
During the past year. the committee
reported. there was one death Tor eacn
1886 passengers carried. In 1880 the
rate was one fatality for every i 395
passengers in 1929, one for every 1858,
and in 1928, one for every 3,3l4. on
the basis Of number OF flights, the deasn
rate of passengers was 80 in each lO0,-
600 flights in 1928: 10 per 100000 fights
in 1929: in 1880 and last year.
In short sightseeing flights the COM
mittee found that the mortality rate
was about three passengers in each
100 900 flights and that nine out OF
each 1901 900 passengers were killed. In
pleasure flying. much of which involved
inexrerienced or unlicensed pilots, the
death rate mounted to from 25 to 80
deaths per 100000 flights.
Delegates to the Safety Congress were
told that American sir transport now
leads the world in every branch OF the
industry The combined air transport
systems of all the rest o. the world can
not equal those of the United States,
delegates.
Turkey Buys Pursuit Planes.
Shipment of "a of the latest and
finest United States Army pursuit planes
to Turkey for use by the Turkish gov
ernment has been announced here. This
is the first shipment of military pls mes
from the United States to Turkey and
is part of a large aviation program
being worked out between the Turkish
government and the Curtiss-Wright EX-
Port Corporation.
The planes which Turkey is receiving
have top speed of over 200 miles per
hour and are powered with the new
7OO-horsepower Wright cyclone engines.
They have single strut landing gear
and streamlined wheels of the latest
type. with the fairing cut away on the
outside to permit servicing of the wheel
without removal of the cowling.
The shipment of these planes will
be followed by the construction OF mill
tary and training planes at a Curtiss-
Wright Giant now being established at
Kayserie. Turkey American technical
personnel is being furnished the Turk
ish government to assist in establishing
maintenance depots and give instruction
in the servicing and care Of the new
American fighting planes.
Standardizing Proves Value.
The work Of standardizing aircraft
materials and parts used by the Army
and Navy flying services, which has
been in progress for the past nine years
is proving Of the greatest value not
only to the two services but to the
aviation industry as a whole, 1t is
pointed out as a result of the eighth
annual Armv-Navy Aircraft Standard
ization Conference, recently concluded
at the headquarters of the Air Corps
Mate-iel Division, Wright Field, Dayton.
Ohio
The work of Standardization. carried
on in the face Of great difficulties,
means reduced production costs, SIM
plif1ed stock, fewer inspection difficulties
an0 greater efficiency in all branches Of
military aeronautics.
The first attempt to standardize parts
In the sister services was made at a
conference held in December, 1923, at
McCook Field, Dayton, at which it was
agreed by representatives Of the services
and the manufacturers that standardi-
zation methods should be adopted, not
only for raw materials, but also for
aircraft hardware and equipment.
The work confronting the original