Evening star., 1933-09-10

! Association of America, or j. Earl
Steinhauer. at College Park Airport.
Thanks to the advent of Fall weather,
the activities of the N r. A., or both,
the local airports are enjoying an In
spring revival of student pilot activ-
ity and sports flying. The Summer
slack was taken up with a bang as four
new students signed up for flight train
ing, one passed his Zero hour" and
soloed and another signed up for the
purpose of building up time toward a
commercial license.
George Brinckerhoff and Earl Stein
hauer, at College Park Airport. were
planning a series of Sunday afternoon
flying programs, beginning today, to
provide competitive flying for local
sportsman pilots and entertainment for
the Sunday motorists visiting the field.
The programs will start this after
noon with omb-dropping contests for
amateur flyers. The contests will be
divided into two clasSeS-solo, in which
the pilot will fly alone and drop the
| bombs. and mixed doubles, in which the
pilot will fly and the bombs will be
| dropped by feminine passenger. Reg
ulaticn sand bombs prescribed for
amateur competitions will be used and
prizes will be awarded the winners.
! Next Sunday it is planned to hold a
skill contest" for local sportsman fly
ers. They will be put through the reg
ulation Department of Commerce tests
for private pilots and graded on points.
Landings to a mark will be made out of
180,360 and 720 degree turns.
While plans have not been COM
pleted for the third Sunday, it is likely
an aerial treasure hunt" will be held.
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voted to the long planned Concentra-
ton day program for all local pilots,
mechanics and airplaneS. Another
Sunday will be given over to relay
race over three-cornered course.
The public is invited to the Sunday
afternoon programs. Free parking space
will be provided at the airport, located
along the railroad tracks just east of
the Washington Baltimore boulevard at
College Park, Md.
Air Services Inaugurated.
Air Services, the new flying organ
iZation which has taken over Studen,
training charter and sightseeing flying
and other miscellaneous aerial activities
at Washington Airport. has gotten of
to a good start, with more than II hour:
Of charter flying for the week. A new
SUuQtIlL WAS tlllOlltu, Odill Mdltu VI
Potomac, Md.
officers Of Air Services are John S
Wynne, president; Samuel Solomon
vice president, and Bill Payne, secre-
tary-treasurer. Wynne and Payne dc
the flying. Mickey Cole has trans.
ferred from Washington Airport to the
new organization as dispatcher.
A fleet of five airplanes is being
operated by the group, including two
cpen-cockpit Fairchilds for student in
struction, an open-cockpit Standard
and a cabin Fairchild for sightseeing
and cabin Stinson Junior for charter
flying.
Wynne son of the former Postmaster
General, for five years has been man.
ager of Hoover Field and for half thai
time was manager of the combined
Washington Hoover Airport. Payne ha!
had 10 years CT flying experience anc
has conducted the Hoover Field Flying
School for years.
The former sightseeing service
which has been taken over by All
Services, has established world records
its planes having carried more thar
10000 passengers over Washington.
Paul E. Calico, New York sports
writer, in Washington to get materia
for an article on the world series pros.
poets of the Washington team, obtained
a plane frCm the new organization TX
keep up his flying time.
Lewis Dixon Solos.
Down at Mount Vernon Always. Alex
andria Airport, Lewis Dixon of Lorton
Va, passed the crucial test of every
student flyer and made his first SOLE
I flight. He now is building up time fol
his private license and expects to buy
his own plane when this goal is attained
Helen j. Frigo, local private pilot
who has been flying as member o.
the District of Columbia Air Legicr
and ION her own" for more than three
years, enrolled to build up flying time
toward limited commercial license, anc
possibly toward transport license, tht
highest type issued by the Department
CT Commerce.
The following new students were en-.
rolled: Thomas A. Danner lumberman
of Alexander City, Ala, who is moving
to washington; Graham Anderson Mar.
tin, employe of the N. R. A., anc
Horace ]. Lande.s, also in the Govern.