Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-02

oposal and prepared to fight the
: House.
Washington has been given four
connections by air transport to st.
Paul Minneapolis and two direct air
connections from Chicago to the Pa
cific Northwest through new sched-
ules put into effect during the past
week by Northwest Airlines. oper-
ating from Chicago to Seattle along
the new Northern Transcontinental
Airway.
Under the new schedules four daily
round trips a day are flown between
Chicago and the Twin Cities and two
round trips between Chicago and
Seattle. Connections from Washing
ton may be made on planes of Penn
sylvania, American and Central Air
lines.
Preparation now are being COM
pleted by Daniel w. Tomlinson and
Joseph E Bartles for an attempt to
bring to the United States three world
altitude records for loaded land planes
as another step in the campaign OF
this country for world aviation
supremacy.
Tomlinson and Bartles will fly in
the same Transcontinental and West
ern Air -engined. Douglas mono
plane in which they recently estab-
lished nine world records for speed
and distance with loads. Should
their coming attempt prove success
full the United States will capture
from France world leadership in
number of international records held.
When the National Aeronautic AS
ISOLATION, which is sponsoring the
American drive for supremacy, closed
its record books May % the inter-
national standings in the list of rec
ognized world records were as follows:
France. A; United States, Al; Italy,
81: Germany. 9; Poland. 3; Great
Britain, /. This total of 118 records
includes three course records for
speed not previously listed and also
two closed course distance records,
both held by France. which have been
reinstated after having been dropped
All three of the records which Tom
linson and Bartles will seek within
the next week or two are held by
France and success, therefore, will
exactly reverse the standings OF the
two countries. The date and location
for the altitude trials has not been
announced and will depend upon
some changes nov being made in the
airplane, including change OF en-
g1nes.
An increase of 70 per cent In the
size of the Fairchild Aircraft Factory
at Hagerstown, Md. Is being under
taken as a result of increasing use
of privately owned aircraft for bust
ness and pleasure and improved con-
ditions in the aircraft industry, it has
been announced by Sherman NJ. Fair
child. The factory is being expanded
by addition of a wing which will
make available about $4,000 square
feet of floor space. The work Is to
be completed about July /.
An increase of 40 per cent in the
number of three-place cabin mono
planes and two-place open cockpit
monoplanes sold during the first quar-
ter of the year for business and
pleasure uses has been reported. The
Hagerstown plant is working day and
night, with two shifts, to fill current
orders, which include six single-en-
gined Baby Clipper amphibian trans
ports, a new type f1ve-place low
wing monoplane, the two smaller
pleasure and business types: recon-
struction of the Weick rudderless
monoplane for the Bureau of Air Com
merce. and a giant high-speed cargo
transport and troop carrier shown
as the C-31. This is one of the few
airplanes every designed specifically
for transportation of freight and ex-
press.
American aircraft production showed
gain of nearly IS per cent in volume
during the first three months of this
year, according to report by the
/ Bureau of Air Commerce. During the
first quarter of this year the industry
produced $40 airplanes. as compared
with 259 during the same period last
year.
OF the 349 new planes 1893 were
built for domestic civil await ton use,
81 for military purposes and 70 for
export. These figures represent an
increase of about 100 per cent In pro-
duction for domestic civil use, de-
crease of about IS per cent in military
deliveries and an increase of about
so per cent in aircraft manufactured
for export. it was announced.
The tendency toward monoplane
construction was overwhelming in the
civil aeronautic field. There we're 40
monoplanes built and only % biplanes.
Feather-weight radio equipment
will be available at the sixth annual
national soaring contest at Elmira,
N. Y, June 90 to July IA, to make it
possible for contestants to maintain
communication with ground stations
and other pilots in the air during the
course of record flight attempts.
The exchange of meteorological in
formation which this system will make
possible, it is believed, may be of
decided benefit to contestants in es-
tablishing new records. The COM
bination transmitter and receiver to
be used in the gliders weighs only five
pounds and gives a range of Is miles
between gliders, or 80 miles between
glider and ground.
permanent ground station has
been constructed and a second trans
mitter installed in one of the auto
mobiles used for tow-launching of
gliders. A directional antenna will
be used in broadcasting orders to
pilots and to give them weather in
formation and other facts which may
aid them in locating the best nos