Evening star., 1936-08-09


Amelia Earhart Putnam. in her newly
completed Lockheed Electra, and
Jacqueline Cochrane Odlum, in q
Northrop monoplane, are expected to
be among the starters.
Also for the first time, the Thomp-
son Trophy Race, outstanding speed
event of the aviation year, will be
opened to international competition.
One of the entries is Michael Detroyat,
famous French acrobatic star, who
will fly Caudron- -Renault racing
plane against the fastest land planes
this country can offer.
Total prize money has been in
creased from the $4,000 of last year
to $4,000 and the keenest competi-
ton in the history of the event is
In the Bendix, five pilots
will compete for $4,000, with an ad-
81 500 for the winner, If he
Detters the transcontinental speed
record of 8 hours, IS minutes and 10
seconds established last January by
Hughes. In the Thompson,
six pilots will fight for a purse of
sl7,500, with an additional $2,500
bonus for the winner il he exceeds
the present Thompson speed record
Of 252686 miles per hour.
Roscoe Turner, former holder of
the transcontinental speed record and
former Thompson Trophy winner. is
expected to fly in both the big races
In a new racer powered with a special
twin-row Wasp engine said to have
a maximum output of ll50 horse
power Benny Howard, who won both
Bendix and Thompson races last year
in his white monoplane, Mister Multi
gan. has installed a new and more
powerful engine in the same ship
for this years races. Earl Ortman
also Is putting a larger engine in his
Keith Ryder monoplane Howard
Hughes is expected to f1y in the ship
which holds the present record.
The Ruth Chatterton air derby for
sportsmen pilots also has been thrown
open to pilots of both sexes this year.
Peggy Salaman. British society girl.
who established a London -Capetown
record some years ago, has entered
this event. The Amelia Earhart
Putnam race for $500 prizes, how
ever, is reserved for women flyers
only.
A new and interesting feature of
the 1886 races will be a series OF five
contests for standard airplanes of
types suitable for operation by the
private owner. These events will be
judged on the basis OF complicated
formula which will take into account
economy Of operation. safety and
other factors rather than speed alone
Good performance. medium power
and moderate cost will be prime fac
tors.
These events will be a cruising
contest, a private own
ers' feature contest, a speed contest,
q take-of and landing contest over
a barrier and = closed course speed
event in which planes must take OH
and land over the same obstacle. Each
of the five contests will be flown
with the airplane loaded to the De-
partment of Commerce maximum al
lowable gross weight. There will be
a minimum cash prize of $1,000 for
the Ave contests. with trophies and
cash prizes OF 500. $50 and $40 for
the first three places in each event.
These events will give the private
pilots a chance to compete on equal
terms, regardless of the size, cost or
power Of their ArplaneS.
WHILE attention of the aviation
world now Is centered on the
coming National Air Races, Miami
aviation officials are going ahead with
ambitious plans for the annual ALL
America Air Races. to be held IN the
Florida city next December. At this
meet a special drive will be made for
world records.
Miami has established permanent
100-kilometer landplane and seaplane
courses and 3-kilometer straight
away maximum speed course. 1t is
probable that many of the National
L
for the Winter meet and record trials.
INSTRUMENT ratings for non-air-
line pilots are provided in an
amendment to the air commerce reg
ulations which will become effective
August Is. Such ratings will be nee
eSsary after that date to qualify q
pilot to operate along Federal airway
during bad weather, which requires
navigation by radio and instruments.
The Commerce Department has
designated 80 air routes in the United
States as civil airways. These desig-
nations. also effective August Is, are
preliminary to and establish a work
ing basis for regulations pertaining to
airway traffic control, altitude OF
flight along airways and the new in
strument flying regulation in case OF
bad weather.
The now legally defined airways are
so miles wide-25 miles to either side
of q center line connecting airports
and airways beacons between the air.
ports. They are wide enough to in
clude both the beacon light and the
radio range beacon courses, which do
not always coincide. In some cases
they include the alternate routes along
which airlines are authorized to oper-
ate under certain weather conditions.
Under the new rules, aircraft oper-
ating eastbound along the airways are
required to fly at levels Of odd thou
sand feet Q,000. 5000, 5000, etc..
while westbound planes fly at the even
thousand levels. When crossing an
airway, the pilot is required to do 50
midway between the thousand-foot
levels. at 500, $500, $500 feet or SINH
lar intervals.
The new regulations also cover
training flights along the defined air.
ways and such conditions as ice forma-
ton. duststorms and severe electrical
storms.
The amendment providing for in
strument ratings for scheduled
airline pilots is intended to permit the
non-scheduled and private flyers who
possess the required training, skill and
experience to make use of the full Fed
eral airways euuipment in bad wealth