Evening star., 1934-12-02

10 inspect mystery Orlon, which
is being built for her.
Although Miss ingalls, has made a
secret of her plans, it is reported that
the cabin of the new plane, which is
painted entirely black, contains fue,
tanks for long distance flying.
Amelia Earhart Putnam also ha7
turned her Wasp-engined Vega in for
overhaul and improvement work a.
Union Air Terminal, Los Angeles This
is the ship in which she crossed tn
Atlantic in 1882. She was preparin.
to sail for Hawaii when she left tn
plane.
American Planes Popular.
New American high-speed transport
airplanes now can be seen in regula.
operation on airlines in many part
of the world. They fly in 20 coun-
tries Of the Americas. There is an
American airline in China. The mos.
significant development, however, is in
Europe.
Rights for the manufacture in Hol-
land of the new Douglas high-speed
twin-engined transport have been ac-
quired and this airplane, regarded by
many as the finest transport alrplane
in the world today. now is appearing
in increasing numbers on the Euro
pean airways.
One of the big Douglas ships, used
by Royal Dutch Airlines to win second
place in the London Australia race in
October, is the first of feet which
has gone into regular service on the
long line from the Netherlands to
Dutch East Indian points.
Swissair, operating in Central Eu-
rope, uses American high-speed trans
port planes entirely. An American ship
has been setting records in regular
service between Paris and Stockholm,
Sweden.
Within the past few days a new
Boeing PAID twin-engined transport
plane, of the type used on the United
Air Lines transcontinental route and
sister ship of the plane Col. Roscoe
Turner and Clyde Pangborn few to
finish third in the London Australia
race, has been shipped to Lufthansa,
the great German air transport sys-
tenn. This is the third Boeing shipped
to Lufthansa. 1t is understood the
new planes will be used on the Berlin
Russia route, where they are expected
to reduce materially the present sched-
ules.
Glider School Moves.
Warren E. Eaton, president Of the
Soaring Society of America, has
opened gliding center at the Miami
Municipal Airport, Miami, Fla, for the
Winter, and will give courses in glid-
ing and preparation for soaring, he
has announced. The Elmira. N. Y,
center has closed for the season.
Mr.. Eaton, who is responsible for
the great annual soaring meets at Ell
mira, will be assisted by Earl r.
Southee, general manager of the So
ciety, and Harold Bowen, instructor at
Elmira and Norwich, N. Y, in both
gliding and power plane flying. Stu
dents at the Miami center will be
given courses to qualify them for
either the A or B type international
soaring license.
New Schedule Started.
During the past week WASHINGTON
has been given another high-speed
schedule to the Pacific Coast with the
arrangement by Pennsylvania Airlines
of new connection at Pittsburgh
with the Sky Chief of Transcontinental
and Western Air.
Leaving Washington Airport at $40
pm. the passenger boards the big
Douglas airliner of the Sky Chief at
Pittsburgh at $40 pm. and arrives in
Los Angeles at O'Clock the next
morning.
Another schedule of less than 16
hours is operated by the same combi-
nation of airlines. with departure from
Washington at $50 pm, connection
with the Comet at Pittsburgh and
arrival on the West Coast at 9:25 am
These schedules are in addition to
the overnight service provided by
Pennsylvania and United Airlines
systems by way of Cleveland and
Chicago Speeding up of service on
the Southern transcontinental route
will follow completion of work by the
Department of Commerce on the Fed
eral airway from Washington through
Southwestern Virginia and Tennessee.