Evening star., 1935-05-06
NEW AIR RECORDS
TOML|NS0N'S GOAL
Former Navy Pilot to Race
Big Plane on Course
Charted From D. c.

An attempt to break eight world
airplane records and to establish II
new American records is to be made
over Washington this week as part
of the National Aeronautic Association
campaign to restore American leader
ship In the air.
The record attempt, the first to be
made in response to the appeal of
Senator william G. McAdoo of Cali
fornia, N. A. A. president, will be made
by D. w. Tommy" Tomlinson, former
Navy air veteran, in the big twin
engined high-speed monoplane which
last week established q new transcon-
tinental record Of II hours minutes
and Is seconds from Los Angeles to
New York.
Tomlinson will fly the ship over a
,000-kilometer closed course, with its
corners at Boiling Field, Langley
Field, Va, and Floyd Bennett Airport,
New York. The sides of this triangle,
which has been officially measured
and certified by the N. A. A., measure
exactly 1000 kilometers, are 621 miles.
u. s. to Rival France.
The new records, all of which are
to be sought in single flight, are va
rious records for speed and distance
with loads. Should the flight be sue
cessful the United States will be
brought almost to q parity with France
in the total Of international air rec
ords held. The total then would be
40 for France and 80 for the United
States, the N. A. A. announced.
Other record attempts will be made
within the next few weeks by aircraft
manufacturers and air transport oper-
ators under N. A. A. guidance, it was
announced, to give this country an
undisputed leadership. The drive is
being made to increase the prestige of
American aviation In the eyes of the
world and to enlarge the foreign mar
ket for the aircraft of this country.
TomlinSon, for the first time in the
history of international speed trials,
will fly this week at high altitude. He
plans to maintain an altitude Of ap-
proximately $4,000 feet and his flight
will be recorded by the new theodolyte
method sanctioned by the Federation
Aeronautique Internationale recently.
To Contact OfficiaI Observers.
Oficial timers will be stationed at
the three corners Of the great triangle
and as the pilot approaches each
turning point he will establish radio
contact with the pylon observers. The
plane then will be picked up by
theodolyte and followed during the
course Of its turn. To establish q
permanent record 1t Is planned to
photograph the recording scale OF the
theodolyte and q synchronized stop
watch with . 16-mm. camera.
The plane to be used In this at
tempt is one of the fastest multi
engined transports In the world and Is
the same airplane used by the Bureau
Of Air Commerce in its recent RADIO
compass tests of the California coast.
It has q maximum cruising speed Of
205 miles per hour at $4,000 feet and
q top speed Of 215 miles per hour.
No definite date has been set Tor
the start Of the flight, but Tomlinson
hopes, II the weather Is favorable, to
take on Thursday or Friday from
Floyd Bennett Field, New York.
Senator McAdoo in q radio address
last night called upon the American
aviation industry and the public to
support the N. A. A. campaign for
records. He pointed out that the CAM
paign is designed as Q means Of "ex-
panding our foreign commerce and in
preparing o most vital element in our
national defense"