Evening star., 1935-11-10

type service and every other technical
aid to flying"
For the convenience of pilots de-
parting from Boiling Field for points
north, west and south, the Air Corps
also has announced, new weather
stations have been established at
Kylertown. Skyland, Snow Hill and
Warrenton. in addition to those on
the Burgess Field route. Bi-hourly
weather reports are made by these
stations.
Areas that heretofore were blank
on weather reports are now no longer
so,' the Air Corps explained.
The station at Skyland, known as
MSK, is located at CCC Camp SNP-1
on top of the Blue Ridge about one
mile southeast of Skyland camp and
seven miles southeast of Luray on the
Skyline Drive. 1t is at an elevation
of $500 feet and guards Washington
and vicinity from the Southwest, Civ
ing advance notice of the approach
Of storms from that direction.
The Snow Hill, Md, station Is at
the CCC Camp about four miles
southwest of Snow Hill, on the East
ern Shore of Maryland 1t guards
Washington and vicinity from the
southeast, giving advance notice Of
fog and other dangerous weather
moving in from the ocean.
Capt. Edward E. Hildreth. Army Air
Corps, recently transferred from duty
in the Information Division, Office Of
the Chief of Air Corps, to Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, Ala. has been ap-
pointed commander of the 51st Attack
Squadron at that field and temporarily
promoted to the rank of major.
First Lieut.. Ralph E. Koon. on duty
at Boiling Field, has been assigned to
duty as a flight commander in the
l4th Bombardment Squadron there
and given the temporary rank of cap
tain.
The time when officers bound for
the wars took along their own horses
for personal transportation has its
modern version. His excellency Pierro
Parini, minister plenipotentiary of the
Italian foreign office, has purchased
an American Fairchild "a airplane
which he will take to East Africa for
personal transportation when he takes
command of legion of Italian volun.
teers from aboard.
Parlni has pilots license and has
flown the plane 80 hours solo since it
reached Italy, according to Sherman
M. Fairchild. president of the manu-.
featuring company. This is the third
snip OF the same type sent to Italv
within the past few months. These
are not military airplanes.
with completion of the delivery of
a feet of twin-engined Lockheed Elec.
ira alrllners, Eastern Air Lines, oper.
atlng down the Atlantic Seaboard
through Washington. is inauguratinv
hlgh-speed local service to supple-
ment the long-haul flights of the big
Douglas airliners.
The new local service, UNIQUE IN
Eastern air routes, is expected to give
eXpress-plane speed to the shorter
ranges OF travel and at the same time
to provide service to points now
omitted from the schedules because
OF the inefficiency of frequent stops
Tor the high-altitude Douglas ships.
On its delivery flight from the Lock-
heed factory, Burbank Calf, the first
OF the Electras for Eastern Air Lines.
With Capt. Edward v. Rickenbacker.
general manager of the lines, in COM
mand. flew from Columbus. Ohio. 70
newark, N. j., at an average speed of
22o miles per hour. The SIT miles was
covered in 2 hours and II minutes,
Philip P. Whitmarsh, wealthy
sportsman and explorer, has pur-
chased a sister ship to the famous
Lockheed Vega owned by Amelia
Earhart Putnam for use in aerial
explorations in the Far East and
Africa. The airplane has been
shipped to Manila. starting point for
the expedition
Wnltmarsh will use the airplane
in a survey of the possibilities of
opening airline feeder services to the
British Imperial Airways' main line
down the length of the African
continent His plane will be flown
by Dick Rinaldi, California pilot. and
Whitmarsh will be accompanied by
his wife and by newsreel camera
man.
Present plans call for a flight from
Manila to Nairobi. via Hongkong,
the Malay States, India and Europe.
The trip down the African continent
will be by way of Kenya and the
East Coast.