Evening star., 1935-05-26
FOR THE CAPITAL MOTORIST NEWS OF AVIA

lish official world records In at least
so of the 110 recognized categories.
Aside from the importance Of the
records they brought to the United
States, the flights of Tomlinson and
Bartles served to demonstrate to the
world the worth Of the new theodolyte-
radio method Of timing record flights
at high attitudes. During the course
Of both flights, one of which lasted
more than 10 hours, the of1icial timers
at New York, Washington and Nor
folk, Va, were In agreement within
four-tenths Of second at all times.
Another feature Of the Tomlinson
flights was that on the first Of them
Tomlinson took of with the greatest
gross load ever lifted by a Douglas
twin-engined transport-25,0 900 pounds.
He carried 800 gallons of fuel, few
with his engines set at their maximum
efficiency speeds to conserve fuel and
landed with but Is gallons left in his
tanks-sufhcient for only Is minutes
Of flying.
In his drive for records Tomlinson
took away from Spain its only world
aviation record-speed for 5000 kilo-
meters without payload Five of the
world records broken by Tomlinson
were taken from France and one from
Spain. The other two were new rec
ords, no previous flights having been
made for record purposes in these
categories. Three American records
were broken and eight new United
States records set in categories in
which no previous records had been
| recorded.
National Aeronautic Association off,
cials warmly commended the United
States Weather Bureau and the Army
Air Corps for their cooperation in
recording the Tomlinson records. The
Weather Bureau sent two men to New
York to aid in the theodolyte work
and the Army turned over its facilities
at Boiling Field and other points to
help out the N. A. A, observers in
their exacting task
On the basis Of performance data, 1t
has been estimated that the new ST.
korsky SAB. now nearing completion
at Bridgeport, Conn, for Pan-Amer-
lean Airways, will be capable of estab-
fishing five world records: a new Fair
child amphibian, also nearing compile
ton for Pan-American at Hagerstown.
Nd, will be capable of taking four
| world records, and the Tomlinson
plane, with new engines soon to be in
stalled, will be ready for assaults on at
least four world records for altitude
with load. N. A. A. officials are hope
full that all Of these planes will be
flown for records.
Officers and enlisted men of Squad
ron VN-6R, local naval aviation re-
serve unit Of the Anacostia Naval Air
Station, have made an unusually
creditable showing in their annual
inspection and written examinations
according to Navy records.
In the written examinations, espe-
cially, the commissioned and enlisted
personnel revealed the results of the
intensive training schedule of the
past year. The average marks for
officers, on basis of 4 points as a
maximum, was 35 and for enlisted
men 81 in their written examina-
tions. conducted as a feature of the
annual inspection, held this month.
Last year the average examination
marks for officers were 2.99 and for
enlisted men 2.73.
The annual inspection, conducted
by the Naval Reserve Inspection
Board and officers Of the Anacostia
station and the District Naval Re-
serve, included personnel, airplane,
flight operations and materiel inspec-
tions The written examinations
covered navigation and radio for the
officers and proficiency in rating for
petty officers.
Recent flight operations for the
personnel of VN-6R have been de-
voted largely to practice fixed gun
merry runs, radio and navigation. For
enlisted personnel recent training has
included free machine gunnery and
night flying In the air and routine