Evening star., 1933-05-28

adjust themselves to suit the charac-
teristics of each design"
Col. Young also explained that suf-
ficient information on atmospheric dis
turbanceS is now available so that it is
possible accurately to design an air
plane for conditions which it will en-
counter in rough air and it is intended
that specifications taking this informa-
tion into consideration will be included
IN the proposed requirements.
Local Woman Enters Air Race.
One OF the first entrants in the Sec
ond annual woman pilots race for the
Annette Gipson trophy, to be flown over
40-mile course starting from Floyd
Bennett Airport, New York, on Me-
orial day, is Miss Johanna Busse, of
this city. Miss Busse, who flies at
College Park Airport, was a cup win
ner in the Langley day meet held there
early this month.
Prize money amounting to $3.50 has
been posted for the New York race,
$500 going to the winner. The event
ested in flying as a sport
Among those who will participate in
the race program as officials are Amelia
Earhart Putnam, starter; Ruth Nichols,
chief scorer; Viola Gentry, timer, ana
Mrs. Floyd Bennett, Col. Clarence
Chamberlain, Russell Boardman, Lady
Drummond Hay, c. S. Casey" Jones,
Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, Roger
@. Williams and Clyde Pangborn, mem
bers Of the Advisory Committee.
An Accommodating Pilot.
A Cooks tour of the wild game OF
Africa is part of regular passenger
flights on the British Colonial Airlines
crossing the former dark continent. into
which much light of day now has been
let. There has been received from Impe-
rial Airways, operating from Cape Town
to London, a description by one of its
passengers of portion of flight made
over the game country. The descrip-
tion is picked up as the big air trans
port plane was flying its regular course
high over the borderland of Uganda
and Kenya, somewhere near the
equator.
In moment" the passenger stated,
the steward returned to the cabin all
smiles.
-"The master (that is the senior
pilot presents his compliments and
asks me to state that he has seen lion
ahead He Is going to drop down and
IL YOU ali look out OF the StarbOard
windows you should be able to see it.
We all rushed to starboard. The
machine came down from the heights
with such speed that our ears popped.
But 1t was worth it. There, gazing I'D
little bewildered at this monster from
the air, was full-sized lion.
There it is every one seemed to
shout at once. As the machine got
nearer earth the beast took sudden
fright and bounded off across the sandy
plain.
"A little later the bell rang again, and
once more We all became excited. This
time it was elephants, a great herd of
them, and once more our accommodate
Ing pilot descended to give us a closeup
view. A wonderful sight this-a forest
OF white. tusks glistening In the burn
ing sunshine.
Thereafter animal spotting became a
general game. We saw giraffe, zebra.
TAT crocodiles looking like logs as thev
Slumbered in the Blue Nile. buffalo.
rhinoceroses and all manner of wild
animals. Soon we all felt like expert
enced big-game hunters"
Later in the flight the pilot circIed
the ancient ruins at Luxor so that his
passengers might see the witnesses of
former Egyptian grandeur, and also
dropped In on the Sphinx and her at
tendant pyramids.