Evening star., 1933-07-09

The economy program will result In
q reduction, on the basis of current
gasoline prices, of approximately 80 per
cent in the amount of fuel for reserve
fving in the Air Corps. The seriousness
of this situation, from the standpoint
of national defense, may be reanzeo
when it is pointed out that even before
this reduction was made, Reserve ON
GERS, in a majority of cases. were un-
able to get enough flying time to keep
themselves in shape for emergency
military duty.
The future for naval aviation has
become brighter by reason Of the con-
struction program planned out OF pub
lie works funds, which will involve the
building CT airplanes with which to
equip new carriers and capital ships.
A decided expansion of the naval aVl-
alton organization is a part CT the new
program.
The Army Air Corps, however. has
not as yet Jared SO well. No part OF
the public works funds has as yet
been allocated for construction Of air
planes for the Army, although the
so-called "f1ve-year" program, now
stretched into its seventh year and still
incomplete, furnishes a direct induce
ment for such action.
The Air Corps, now plunged into the
Civilian Conservation Corps program
whole heartedly, is engaged in sort OF
quasi military routine attendant upon
the furnishing of transportation, sup
plies and communications service be-
tween the far-flung c. G. G. camps and
central control points. Airplanes which
at first were laid up for lack of per-
sonnel, as Air Corps officers went into
the woods to take charge OF forestry
camps, are gradually being put back
into service to supply the needs of the
c. c. c., pilots being recalled for this
purpose as the flying program grows.
Should the G. c. C. program go on
into the late Fall and Winter, especially
in the Northern forests, many of the
camps probably will have to rely upon
the Air Corps for all communication
with the outside world. If this comes
to pass, the Air Corps may be forced to
obtain additional planes to meet the
requirements of the foresters snow
bound in the wilderness. Such a con-
tingency may be foreseen and met as a
part of the general public works pro-
gram.
Efficiency Record Set.
Weather over the Alleghenies be-
tween the National Capital and Cleve-
land proved so unusually good during
June that Pennsylvania Airlines, whose
pilots know as much about bad weather
as any in the world, were able to COM
plete every one Of the 232 trips regu-
larly scheduled during the month.
Coupled with this unexpected and
welcome record of 100 per cent eff
cheney was new record for passenger
traffic, a total Of 1910 passengers be-
ing flown during the month. This was
an increase of 43 per cent in passenger
volume over June, 1882, and an increase
OF 20 per cent over the previous month
ly record Frequent extra sections were
flown to meet the heavy passenger de-
mand.
New records also were set during June
for the volume Of airmail carried on
the Washington Cleveland run, the
total amounting to more than $4,000
pounds and exceeding by more than
5000 pounds the previous record for
any single month. Express and freight
established a new high mark Of 1000
pounds. One Of the most unusual ex-
press shipments of the month was a
crate of live turtles with hand-palnted
shells.
plans are under way for the expan-
sion of the service during July to &C
conmodate the increase in business"
it was announced by H. S. Martin
president of the line. Three 12-pas-
senger tri-motored airliners have been
purchased for this purpose and Will be
placed into service Immediately.
The first of the new ships, TIL
motored Ford, powered by Wasp en-
gines. was delivered at Washington
Hoover Airport on Thursday and went
into service on that day.
While Pennsylvania was hanging up
new records for the month, Eastern All,
transport, operating along the coastal
airway through Washington, was es-
tablishing new records for the hall
wear period ending June 80. During
the six months total of 28,527 passen-
gers flew with E. A. T, as compared
with 1858 in 1882. During each OF
the past four months records have been
set for passenger volume. June showed
a gain of 161 per cent over the same
month last year, 1852 persons having
been carried, as compared With z,9fo
for the same month year ago. The
bulk OF this gain was due to the taking
over of the Ludington Atrlines last Feb
ruary.
To care for this great increase in
passenger traffic, Eastern Air has es-
tablished an all-Condor plane service
between this city and New York, 10
round trips being made daily by the
big IS and Is passenger planes. Five
of these schedules are nonstop express
runs. Another all-Condor service has
been established between New York and
Atlanta, while the Atlantic City-NeW
York service has been augmented by
two additional schedules for the Sum-
mer months, and a Philadelphia At
lantic City service has been inaugu-
rated.
Student Training Slackens.
Bad weather, holiday and the usual
Summer slack combined during the
past week to cut down student training
activities at the local airports. Although
q number of students continued to put
in flying time at intervals during the
week, there was but one new student
enrolled-Lewis Dixon of Lorton, Va,
who signed up for the flying course
at Mount Vernon Always, Alexandra
Airport
The Alexandria field was host during
the week to an autogiro flown here
from Atlanta by William Campbell. a
vacation visitor to the Capital.
Amy H. Andrews, New York graduate
nurse, who is a student of Bill Payne
III lOIl-I1OONtI hHpOlG dIlu
who has been committing by air to take
her flight training, made cross -coun-
try training fight to New York during
the week
Training activities at College PARK
Airport College Park, Md, were put
on a Summer basis, as a number of
students, attending the University of
Maryland and other schools, went home
for the holidays.
Engine Progress Compared.
While European air powers have been
devoting a great deal Of attention to the
development Of liquid-cooled airplane
engines and have forged ahead In this
respect, the United States has carried
the air-cooled engine to point of
perfection beyond that attained by any
of the foreign powers, according to
survey completed by the Army Air
Corps Materiel Division, Wight Field,