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the world.
The oceans, however, though
have yet to bow to the air ira
notably successful air transport Ii
spectacular of them the long Pan
to Panama, which for 600 miles s.
out of sight of land.
The Graf Zeppelin has undertaken
air transport operations across the
South Atlantic and now is engaged in
the second Of q series of 10 flights dur
ing 1892 between Friedrichshafen and
Pernannbuco. This service, however,
cannot be considered as q regular air
transport line. So the ocean still re-
mains an unconquered field for the air
transport industry.
This year, however, it appears likely
that the first really serious and well
organized attempt will be made to span
the Atlantic with a regular mail and
possibly passenger service. Much OF
the groundwork has been laid and two
very powerful American aeronautical
organizations will combine in the effort
to pioneer the first transoceanic air
service.
The bulk of the advance work has
been done. Trans-American Air Lines,
the creation Of the Thompsons, father
and son, has gone into the problems of
q Northern transatlantic airline very
thoroughly during the past two years.
Not only has most thorough study
been made ashore and afloat, but studies
have been made by air This work, as
has been true of ali real pioneering, has
not been conducted without loss. The
death Of splendid pilot was exacted
as the first toll when Parker D.
Shorty Cramer went down at sea
while pioneering the airway over the
North Atlantic near the Faroes
Cramer was one Of the first men who
really attempted in a serious way to
prove the feasibility Of an Atlantic air.
line. He died in the effort to make his
hopes for such service come true. His
work Is to be carried on by his asso-
ciates.
Trans-American has just been Joined
In the ocean airline enterprise by Pan
American Airways, which today oper-
ates one of the greatest air transport
services in the world. Though their
plans have not yet been made public it
Is believed by qualified authorities In
the National Capital that some concrete
activity will come out of the alliance
within few months.
This belief is strengthened by reports
received here that a bill authorizing
the minister of communications of Ice
land to grant a concession to Trans
American Air Lines to operate an air
mail and passenger service rom Detroit
to Copenhagen by way OF the Northern
Atlantic route has been passed at
ReykjaVik by the Parliament of Iceland.
The concession was granted for rs years
and for the first is years no other
American company can be granted a
similar concession.
With the passage of this bill, the con-
cent nf oil fhA 81
has been secured for the establishment
OF the service, which is to be operated
by way Of Northern Canada, Greenland,
Iceland, the Farce Islands, the Shetland
Islands and thence to Denmark
Night AirmaiI TO Broadcast.
The radio conversation which goes on
between pilots on the night airmail runs
and the ground radio stations which
provide them with weather information
and keep constant check of the move
ments of the speedy mail planes will be
picked up for broadcasting over a ma
tlonal radio network. including Station
WRC, from IL 80 to IL O'Clock tonight
The unique broadcast will be put on
with the cooperation OF the Post ONCE
Department, the Department of Com
merce and the Weather Bureau, and
VIII be sent out from IS stations.
The broadcast is intended to show
now the country's mail and passenger
planes are flown with split second
precision on the 2,700 mile coast-to-
coast aerial highway ana will give the
public its first opportunity to ""sit in
on night airplane operations.
Listeners-in will be able to hear the
crew of one Of the big transcontinental
mail-passenger planes out of San Fran
cisco reporting to ground stations and
talking with pilots Of other planes in
hight hundreds Of miles away. An
nouncers in three other planes in flight
near San Francisco, Chicago and New
York on the transcontinental airway
Will describe to the radio listeners how
the pilots use the two-way radio tele-
phone and the directive radio range
beacon.
The three planes which will be used
fer the broadcast will be flown by three
OF the Nations outstanding airmail
p4lots-Jack Knight and w. D. VIII
liamS, each with a million miles of
flying behind him, and Ray Little, who
participated in the first coast-to-coasr
airmail flight IL years ago.
Listeners will be able to hear the
dlspatchers' orders from the ground
stations. the broadcasting of weather
and other information to the pilots
ana the pilots broadcasting reports OF
their position.
Air Station Museum Opens.
AS its contribution to the George
Washington Bicentennial Celebration
the Anacostia Naval Air Station has
established an interesting aeronautical
museum, including a representative
series Of aviation engines, a large col
lection Of models of Navy planes oi
various types, many photographs and
other exhibits.
The engine collection begins with one
OF the ancient Wright four-cylindel
engines Of the type used in the first
airplane. Comdr. Warren G. Child
commandant Of the Anacostia Naval Ali
Station, one of the Navy's air pioneers
made his first flight in front of thi.
motor, which was arranged to drive two
pusher propellers through sprocket anc
gear drives
In the engine collection are Curtis
OX-5 of wartime vintage 1918 Hall
Scott. Curtiss D-12, a Maybach water.
cooled airship engine, wartime Liber.
ty, a 775-horsepower Packard 3A2500
a Packard Diesel a Gnome rotary en-.
gtne, type In which the whole engine
revolved with the propeller and an ole
Lawrence three-cyhnder. There also /,
a big Salrnson radial sea-sled engine
built for war use.
Plane Models Are Shown
The model series includes famou!
Navy planes dating from the wartime
F-5-L twin-motored flying boat up u
the present-day types and one or two
which have been proposed but not yet
built.
There are a number Of interesting