Evening star., 1933-01-01

W JIlC puDllC uul IllE Tic pdSG year
toward a self-sustaining basis. N
finements in the art of air navigat
aviation history.
In the field of individual achieve
ment, as in that of organized air trans
port, 1882 was bright year. Many
records were established, oceans were
spanned and the first constructive
steps were taken toward establishment
of regular transoceanic air transport
service. In the lighter-than-air field
indeed, the South Atlantic was spanned
by regular service, the Graf Zeppelin
having made, over a long period of
months, score of scheduled crossings
between Friedrichshafen and Pernam-
buco.
AS the new year dawns it brings
promise of a number of real develop
ments in air transportation. Con-
tracts have been signed for planes cap
able Of regular ocean crossings, con-
Struction of several fast, high altitude,
long range land transports heralds an
imminent change in domestic schedules
and policies, and far-reaching appli-
alton of lighter-th developments
to ocean travel appears on the horizon
In the United States and Germany.
In exceedingly brief form, some OF
the more important and interesting
aeronautical events of 1882, by months,
were as follows:
January.
Transcontinental air transport fares
were sharply reduced; Mai. James H.
st. Louis to Havana in IL hours: %
private planes arrived in Washington
on the first annual cruise Of the United
States Amateur Air Pilots Associa-
ton, which ended at Miami two days
later: a new Bleriot speed trophy was
established but has not yet been won;
the U. S. S. Akron completed 62-hour
military flight to Bermuda waters, the
longest nonstop flight by an American
airship; Capt Reuben C. Moffat Army
Air Corps, testing a new pursuit plane
Ohio, to Washington in Sc minutes,
three quarters Of an hour less than
any previous record; Russell Mossman,
flying IN scheduled passenger service
from Chicago to Washington, few
from Pittsburgh to Washington in Al
minutes, at an average speed of 282
miles per hour or Al miles per minute,
establishing what was said to be a
record for all commercial planes; the
National Aeronautic Association agreed
to make women eligible for full competi-
ton with men at the National Air
Races.
February.
Art Goebel established a world alti-
tude record for Diesel-powered planes
of 20,865 feet; E. L. Cord locked out
81 Century Airline pilots in the first
major aviation labor dispute and pre-
cipitated series of events which dis
turbed the industry throughout the
year, resulting finally in congressional
inquiry; Ruth Nichols broke Goebel's
Diesel altitude record: one of the
greatest naval air expeditions was COM
pleted when "a Navy seaplanes COM
pleted a 3000-mile formation flight
from the Canal Zone to San Diego in
IL days without damage to equipment
or injury to personnel.
March,
The Collier Trophy was awarded to
the Packard Motor Car Co. for its de-
velopment of the Diesel type aviation
motor: the Graf Zeppelin made the
first OF its series Of successful round
trip runs between Germany and South
America, carrying mail and passen-
gers; Lieut.. Comdr. w. M. Dillon flew
from Washington to Miami nonstop in
5 hours As minutes and then returned
to Washington in a second nonstop
flight of hours Is minutes: BoSsou-
trot and RosSi, France. in their sew
enth attempt, established a new world
closed course distance record of 6,575
miles at Oran, Algeria, exceeding by
las miles the former Doret-Le Brix
record; J. A. Mollison. England, COM
pleted a record flight of days II hours
80 minutes between London and Cape
Town, Africa.
Concentration of all air transport
activities in the National Capital at
Washington Hoover Airport was COM
pleted by moving OF the night airmail
from Boiling Field; Pan-American Air
ways absorbed the million-dollar Com
pania Nacional Guiana de Aviacion, in
the first of series of mergers which
greatly strengthened the United States
foreign airmail service; Lewis A.
Yancey established an autogiro altitude
record OF l9,200 feet; Los Reichers few
nonstop from Montreal, Canada, to
Havana, Cuba, a distance of /, ,786 miles,
in hours 8 minutes; the Department
OF Commerce announced new regula-
ton making 1t mandatory for all air
transport pilots engaged in scheduled
operations to qualify in blind" or in
strument flying This regulation be-
came Iully enectlve To-Day.
May.
The u S. S. Akron made the first
test of its new airplane hook-on gear.
two planes making total of II con-
facts and being lifted aboard for the
first time in history; the Akron began
its spectacular and successful cruise to
the Pacific Coast, overcoming violent
Texas storms on the way West; long
series of ocean flights began with the
departure of Lou Reichers from New
ark, Paris bound, only to be forced
down at sea off the Irish coast and
rescued by a passing steamer; the giant
German DO-X, laid up for months at
New York, started its return flight to
Germany; Mrs Amelia Earhart Put
nam made the first solo transatlantic
flight by a woman. from Harbor Grace
to near Londonderry, Ireland; the
DO-X landed in Berlin, after an alb
sence from Germany of a year and a
half, the national balloon race started
from Omaha, Nebr.
June.
Balloon No of the Army Air Corps
won the national, landing at Hatton,
Saskatchewan, after record fight of $40
miles for balloons of its capacity:
Stanislaus Hausner took of from New
York and was forced down at sea $50
miles off Spain, being picked up later
by steamship; 80-minute passenger
express service between Washington
and New York and night airmail SER
vice between Washington and Pitts
burgh were inaugurated; the U. 8. s.
Akron returned from the Pacific Coast,
landing at Lakehurst after an absence
of 38 days in which 1t few 1885 nauti-
cal miles; organization of a number of
new tactical units of the Army Air
Corps was completed under the five
year program; the veteran Nav& diri-
gible Los Angeles was decommissioned
after years and months Of active