Evening star., 1935-05-17
TOML|NSON SEEKS
4 MORE RECORDS.
Former Navy Flyer Set ID
Marks in 19-Hour Flight
Just Finished.

After establishing IA speed records
for distance with load in 19-hour
flight over a .000-kilometer course.
which had Boiling Field for one of
its corners, Daniel w. TomhnSon,
former Navy flyer, and Joseph E.
Bartles, copilot, will set out again to-
morrow over the same course in an
effort to capture four more records,
two of them world marks.
Claims for five world records will
be filed by the National Aeronautic
Association as a result of Tomlinson's S
performance yesterday. These claims
must be passed upon in Paris by the
, Federation Aeronautique Internation-
ale. where rulings probably will be-
come necessary on several novel fea-
lures of timing and checking of the
flight.
Fighting rain and lowering clouds,
which finally forced them to select
an alternative route in the vicinity
of New York for the final lap of
their 3,100-mile flight. Tomlinson and
Bartles landed at Floyd Bennett air
port, New York, at 1:16 o'clock this
morning, Eastern standard time, &C
cording to the Associated Press.
Seek Speed and Load Marks.
On tomorrow'S flight, which is de-
pendent upon weather conditions,
Tomlinson and Bartles are to carry
a pay load of 1000 Kilograms or 4,400
pour~.s. They will seek world records
for speed for 1000 kilometers, or
6213 miles, with 1000 kilogram pay
load, and for speed for 1000 kilo-
meters, or l,2426 miles, with 1000
kilogram pay load and United States
records in the same categorieS. They
are to fly two laps of the triangular
course, which has as its corners New
York, Washington and a point near
Norfolk, Va. The start and finish. as
yesterday, will be at Floyd Bennett
Airport, New York.
Before Tomlinson and BartleS took
off from New York early yesterday
morning France held AZ official world
aviation records and the United States
was in second place, with 33 records.
AS a result of yesterdays flight. If the
world record claims are upheld, France
will hold As records and the United
States 38. Should Tomlinson be sue
cessful again tomorrow, the interna-
tional standing will be: France, first
with 43 records; United States, second
40 records, and Italy, third, 81 records
U. S. Seeks Supremacy.
The National Aeronautic Association
Is staging campaign to put the United
Sfofnc in r,nSifinY1 nf uunr1d
in the holding of international air
are the first response to its efforts.
Most of Italy's major records are for
altitude and American flyers soon are
to turn their attention to these marks
1t was said at N. A. A. headquarters.
The NJ A. A. will ask the interna-
tional recognition of the following
world records for Tomlinson:
Speed for 1000 kilometers, or 1,242 6
miles, with payload of 500 Kilograms,
or LOO pounds-173. .636 miles per
hour. Former record, held by France,
1885 miles per hour.
Speed for 1000 kilometers with pay
load of 1000 Kilograms, or 1900
pounds-173.636 miles per hour.
Former record, held by France, 1886
miles per hour.
Speed for 5000 kilometers, or BIOS
miles, without payload-169.031 miles
per hour. Former record, held by
Spain, 1870 miles per hour.
Speed for 5000 kilometers with pay
load Of 500 kilogramS-1690 miles
per hour. No previous world record.
Speed for 5000 kilometers with pay
load of 1000 kilograms-16903 OBJ miles
per hour. No previous world record.
Nine U. S. Marks Set.
Nine United States records were
established, only three of which have
been previously recognized. They are:
Speed for 1000 kilometers without
payload and with payloads of 500 and
1000 Kilograms, all three at 174.2e6
miles per hour.
Speed for 1000 kilometers without
payload and with payloads of 500 and
1000 Kilograms .636 miles per
hour.
Speed for 5000 kilometers without
payload and with payloadS of 500 and
1000 kilograms-169031 miles per
hour.
Tomlinson and Bartles failed to at
tain only one Of the Is records for
which they strove yesterday-the world
record for speed over l ,OOO-kilometer
course with payload of 900 Kilograms.
This record still is held by France,
with speed Of 174.7 miles per hour.
Tomlinson, former member of the
famous Navy acrobatic team. the Sea
Hawks emerged smiling from the
plane, showing little sign of fatigue,
according to the Associated Press.
Because of poor flying conditions
around Norfolk last night the fifth lap
had to be abandoned. To make up
this mileage the flyers flew from New
York to Boiling Field, returned to New
York, and then flew course between
Floyd Bennett Airport, Newark Airport
and North Beach Airport. They made
an extra lap of this short course, add
ing more than 43 miles to their total,
as an extra precaution.
The airplane they used, a big twin
engined transport plane, is the one in
which Tomlinson few days ago estab-
lished new transcontinental transport
speed record and which was used by
the Bureau of Air Commerce in series
OF radio compass tests in California
and over the Pacific Ocean.