Evening star., 1933-12-15

Eugene L. Vidal, director of aeronautics.
Department of Commerce; Lieut.. Comdr.
Frank M. Hawks; James G. Jimmy"
| Weddell; Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover,
Army Air Corps, representing Mai. Gen
Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the Air
Corps. first military pilot and pupil of
the Wright brothers; Lieut.. Comdr
Thomas G. w. Settle, U. S. NJ, holder
of the official world altitude record by
virtue OF his recent stratospheric bal
loon fight. and Capt. William j. TAFT,
United States Coast Guard, in whose
home at Kitty Hawk, N. c., the Wrights
were living when the first airplane flight
was made on December II, 1903.
The Thompson Trophy, won by Jimmy
Weddell at the national air races, Los
Angeles. last Summer, will be presented
to Harry Williams, builder of Weddell's
ship, and the annual Thompson plaque
will be presentedNto Weddell.
Program on Sunday.
Sundays program will start during
the morning with the take-offs on their
speed flights of Comdr. Hawks and
Weddell They have not set the times.
which will depend on weather and
other conditions.
Hawks, to smash the present German
world speed record for 1000 kilometers,
must average 220 miles per hour or
of more than 1900 miles. His flight
will carry him to Kitty Hawk and to
the home of Orville Wright at Dayton,
Ohio. At both these points he expects
to drop wreaths. The direction Of his
flight around the great triangle will
depend upon wind directions Sunday.
He viii start and hopes to finish at
College Park,
Weddell is to take of from College
Park on a nonstop speed flight to
New Orleans.
Sunday afternoons meet at College
Park, the first airport in the world and
first base of what is now the Army Air
Corps, will include program OF civil
and military flying. A demonstration
of modern transport airline equipment
is to be given Sunday at washington
Airport
SUNDAYS program also will include
ceremony at the National Museum at
1890 pm, during which the Washing
ton unit of the Women's National Aero
nautical Association will place wreath
beside the case containing the Wright
brothers exhibit.
The Washington celebration is spon-
sored by the National Aeronautic AS
sociation, which also is sponsoring sim
liar celebrations in so American cities
tomorrow and Sunday. In the local
demonstration the N. A. A. has the CO.
operation of the Washington Air Derby
Association, the Greater National Cap
ital Committee, the Aero Club OF WASH
ington, the Washington Board OF
Trade, the Washington Chamber OF
Commerce and the Women's Aero
nautical Association.
The national observance will include
several flights for national or interna-
tional record purposes, In addition to
those of Hawks and Weddel. Nal.
Alexander p. de Seversky, at Detroit,
will attempt to better his own world
speed record for amphibian planes.
Viola Gentry and Frances Marsalis are
expected to be in the air over Miami
in an effort to better the women's re-
fueling endurance record Of 3 days,
1 hours and minutes. Roscoe Turner
may undertake . speed flight on the
West Coast.
As q feature of the celebration, the
N. A. A., with the cooperation Of the
Washington Air Mail Society, ts spOn.
soring q special commemorative cachets
which viii be cancelled Sunday ct Col
lege Park.