Evening star., 1936-11-22

iiS lIOfu lOCdl iIlAlltdIy dIlu COIlIIlcICldl
for the indoctrination and training OF
midshipmen. few total of 4,154 hours
with a safety record exceeding that
Of 81 other naval aviation activities.
The Schiff trophy now Is held by
Training Squadron VN2D8, Naval Air
Station, Pensacola, Fla. This squad
ron, entrusted with the flight training
Of embryo naval aviators. put in 49,
670 hours Of flying without fatal acci-
dent or serious injury to take the
trophy for the 1885 fiscal year.
MISCELLANEOUS aircraft opera
" tors in the United States are
steadily expanding their activities, in
step with the steady growth of the
scheduled air transport industry.
A semi-annual report by the Bu-
reau of Air Commerce shows that dur
ing the first half of this year the mis-
cellaneous operators few 4l,5l7,085
miles and carried 531.795 passengers.
Another report shows that these op-
orators few 691 ,951 miles per fatal
accident and l,0l2,612 miles per pas
senger fatality during the half-year.
Both figures represent new all-time
safety records for the miscellaneous
operations.
Miscellaneous operations include
flying services, schools, Photographic
flying, crop busting and private flying.
STOCK airplane races will be new
feature of the All-American Air
Maneuvers, to be held in Miami De-
cember 1912. Six featured races
have been arranged to determine ma
tional stock racing championships.
The events will be similar in purpose
to the annual Memorial day automo-
bile races at the Indianapolis Speed
way, 1t was explained.
The stock airplane races will include
competition for the Glenn H. Curtiss
Trophy, open to &C. licensed airplanes
OF unlimited displacement, over eight
laps OF flve-mile course; for the E.
H. r. Green Trophy, open to &C" Ii
censed airplanes of not to exceed $50
cubic-inch displacement, over five laps
OF the five-mile course; &C" licensed
race for airplanes of not to exceed
55o-cubic-inch displacement, over five
laps of the five-mile course; a &C" -
| censed race for airplanes of not to ex-
ceed 200-cubic-inch displacement.
over five laps of two-and-a -half-n1ile
course; the Clare w. Bunch Trophy
race for monocoupes only, over four
laps of the five-mile course; and the
Aviation Manufacturing Trophy race
for licensed Stinson airplanes only.
over four laps of the five-mile course.
There will be free-for-all race for
women pilots, from Jacksonville to Or
lando and Orlando to Miami.
There also is to be stock airplane
contest, based upon cruising economy,
beauty, private-owner features, barrier
take-off and landing performance and
straight-away speed, for the Detroit
News Trophy.
The air meet will be preceded by an
exhibit, beginning December 6. Ar
rangements already have been COM
pleted by various manufacturers for
the exhibition and demonstration of
29 late model airplanes.
AS was the case last year, there will
be standing prizes for American pilots
establishing official world airplane
records in any of the categories of the
Federation Aeronautique Internation-
ale.
Army, Navy and Marine Corps
squadrons, including 30 Marine planes
from Quantico. Va, are to take part
In military demonstrations during the
meet. The program will close with
an international air cruise from Miami
to Havana, open to all licensed pilots,
on Sunday, December l3.
FRANK HAWKS, who for years has
held his share of the world avia-
tlon speed records, now has two air.
planes. The first, 1,150-horsepower
hlgh-speed monoplane Of unusual de-
sign, he calls Time Flies" The
second, a little 40-horsepower Taylor
Cub, has been named Time Fits"
Time Flies" is to be used in cross
country and altitude runs. An inno-
vation of design is "retractable cock
pit. The pilots seat is raised and
lowered by means of a manually-
operated hydraulic jack. A connect
ing rod operates a hinged cockpit
cover. For take-offs and landings, the
seat is raised and the cockpit cover also
raises to form windshield. In flight,
the pilot lowers himself into the cock
PIT and the cover closes and fairs into
the top OF the fuselage, leaving a per-
fectly smooth surface.
Time Flies" is described as a semi
low wing cantilever monoplane, com.
pletely streamlined 1t is % feet long,
with span of 81 feet 1t is said to
nave cruising speed of $40 miles
per hour, top speed in excess of 375
miles per hour and a landing speed
OF IS miles per hour. The rate of
climb is 1000 feet per minute at sea
level. 1t carries the most complete
equipment yet installed In an air.
plane of its size. including Sperry
gyro-compass, automatic pilot, and
two-way radio.
Hawks uses his little Time Fits"
for committing purposes between his
| nome and the flying field or to nearby
New York and New England points.
The three-bladed comfortable pitch
propeller on Time Flies" weighs more
than half as much as Time Fits" in
its entirety. The big ship burns As
gallons of gasoline per hour. The
little one will cruise an hour on 2h
gallons.
Hawks is quoted as saying that
when ne climbs out Of the big ship at
the end Of high-speed fight and
gets into Fits" to loaf along home at
30 miles per hour it is like a deep-sea
diver coming to the surface. The
change gives him a chance to relax
and get his breath before getting
home.
THE Canadian government has an
nounced that airmail service on
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