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Of more than s1,500,000, most Of 1t
for new high-speed Douglas trans
ports, which were the first of the new
types to operate out of Washington.
One Of these, on its way from Santa
Monica, Calf, to New York for de-
livery to Eastern Air, established a
transcontinental transport speed rec
ord of u hours, minutes and so
seconds, averaging 221 miles per hour
for the crossing.
With these splendid ships Eastern
Air has whitfield the Washington
Miami schedule to less than seven
hours. During the past week one Of
the Douglases flew from Miami TO
New York, making all regular stops,
in 8 hours, "a minutes, 20 seconds
a record for the route. Also during
the week a pre-inaugural trip was
made between New York. Wash
ington and New Orleans. Over this
route regular high-speed six-hour
schedules will be inaugurated jan
uary IS.
The high-speed programs Of Penn
sylvania Airlines, one Of the real
air transport pioneers, and American
Airlines were inaugurated here with
in a few days of each other.
Pennsylvania, in its eighth year OF
continuous operation from Washing
ton across the Alleghenies, has put
3-mile a minute Boeings into serv-
ice and chopped the Washington-De-
troit schedule to 3l2 hours. The line
hopes to double its present service
between Washington and Detroit and
to extend the Boeing service to Mil
waukee, to connect there with the
Northwest Airlines service to Seattle,
thus completing a new high-Speed
Northern transcontinental route.
OF unusual significance was the
inauguration by American Airlines
during the past week of overnight
Douglas and Condor service between
Washington and Los Angeles. This
Inauguration, providing 20-hour serv-
ice across the country, not only puts
Washington on its first direct trans
continental route, but 1t also opens to
air transport service the virgin areas
Of Southwestern Virginia and the i'm
portant Tennessee Valley country.
Airway Work in Progress.
Although American Airlines Is re-
stricted at present to daylight opera
tions between Washington and Nash
vile, Tenn, a distance Of $50 miles,
the Bureau of Air Commerce now is
engaged in the ground work on a
lighted airway along this route which
will make possible night operations
later in the year.
Lighting of this airway, which will
do away with present emergency
type flying operations on the route
Is made possible by an allotment OF
S465, 900 to the Bureau of Air Com
merce by the Public Works Admins
tration.
Selection Of intermediate landing
field and airways beacon sites now is
in progress under the general super
vision Of S. S. Boggs of the Bureau
of Air Commerce. Al Smith is select
ing radio station sites along the route
The washington-Nashville airway
Is to be routed by way Of Lynchbure
and Roanoke, Va, Bristol and Knox.
vile, Tenn, to Nashville. Standard
aviation beacons and emergency
landing fields are to be installed anc
in addition IL small radio stations
are to be placed along the route tc
provide radio range service and point
to-point communication.
According to original plans for the
airway, radio stations, each costing
approximately $4,000, are to be in
stalled at or near Culpeper. Warren
Lynchburg, Roanoke, Pulaski and
Marion, Va, and Bristol, Morristown
Knoxville. Hartman and Sparta
Tenn.
The project has been undertaken
with p. w. A. funds to meet the emer-
gency conditions created along the
route by the already well-established
airmail and express operations o1
American Airlines and the newly
opened passenger service. The airway
opens the direct route from Washing
ton and the New England-New York
area to the Southwest. When the air
way project began last August 1t was
estimated 10 months would be re-
quired for completion.
Froesch Gets Sales Job.
Charles Froesch, who traces his
aviation career back "a years to the
Farman brothers in Paris, has been
selected by North American Aviation
to take charge of the disposal OF
100000 worth of airplanes, engines
and spare parts, made obsolete by
new high-speed equipment.
Mr.. Froesch, who for nearly three
years has been in the aviation business
in Baltimore, is to undertake the sale
Of II airplanes, IL engines and thou
sands Of dollars worth Of spare parts.
Among the airplanes are Curtiss Con-
dors, Mailwings and Curtiss King
birds.
Coming TO the United States soon
after leaving the Farmans, Mr.. Fro
esch was engaged in various aeronau-
tical ventures here until the World
War, when he entered the Army and
became an inspector Of aircraft and
engines, with headquarters here.
Since the war he has been engaged
in motor truck and airplane produc-
ton, project and sales activities.
Post Aiming High.
Wiley Post, following his recent alti-
tude flights at Bartlesville, Okla,
during which he proved to his own
satisfaction the excellent high altitude
performance of his veteran airplane,
the Winnie Mae, is preparing to take
advantage Of these qualities to estab-
lish some new speed records.
Post, 1t Is said. has turned the
Winnie Mae over to mechanics at the
Lockheed factory In Burbank, Calf,
to be prepared for o transcontinental
nonstop speed flight at an altitude
Of $4,000 to $4,000 feet. At this alti-
tude, he believes, the Winnie Mae
not only will develop. its best speed,
but he will be able to take advantage
Of the prevailing high velocity winds
of the equatorial spill" to help him
on his way.
Post, according to unofncial reports,
plans to drop his landing gear imme-
diately after taking of and has d.
rected the factory engineers to install
q landing skid under the flIsela1e so