Evening star., 1936-05-03

In aQdlJl0n 10 the program OF ra
landing contests, parachute jumping
and other flying events, several of the
latest models Of standard light air.
planes will be shown on the ground
and in flight, among them the new
Taylor Cub and the low-wing Aeronca.
The Bureau of Air Commerce is ex-
pected to show three of the revolu-
tionary new light airplanes entered in
its competition for an airplane suitable
for mass production. These will be the
Hamnond-Y, IS of which have been
ordered for the use of the bureaus
flying personnel; the Waterman tailless
airplane and the Curtiss. All three are
of novel design and unusual per-
formance
The Langley day air meet, most i'm
portant local aviation show of the year.
has attracted an average Of $4,000
spectators during the first three years
it has been held. There will be no ad-
mission charge to College Park Airport
next Sunday, but, in tribute to Mothers
day each person admitted to the public
portion of the airport will be asked to
deposit at the gate an airmail letter to
his mother. Special envelopes and
stationery will be available at the gate
and an airmail plane will be waiting
on the field to fly the letters to the
airmail post Office at Washington Air
port, it was announced by Chester H
Warrington, president of the Derby
Association.
All mothers attending the meet will
be invited to register and there will
be prize Of a free airplane ride to the
oldest mother registered and to the
youngest mother and baby.
The Washington Air Derby Associa-
tion Trophy, awarded annually to the
outstanding local aviation leader Of
the year, will be awarded at ceremony
in the associations new club house at
College Park Airport during the after
| noon.
The formal competitive program, to
begin at / pm. next Sunday, includes
a bomb-dropping contest, precision
landing contest, precision landing con-
test for solo students, balloon bursting
contest, relay race and stunting or
| aerobatic contest. Thee will be an
exhibition parachute jump by Miss
Helen Frigo, who also is expected to
| fly in one or more of the contests, and
| demonstrations of tactical flying by
Maryland National Guard and Army
Air Reserve pilots.
Last Thursday night members Of
1 Nf
the Bureau of Air Commerce at an
exhibition of the Link training device
in the Department Of Commerce
Building. The Link trainer. also used
by the military services, makes posi-
BILE training in all the details of in
strument and radio flight without
actual use of an airplane. The most
intricate navigation problems can be
worked out by the pilot under condi-
tions almost exactly duplicating those
encountered in fight.
EXAMINATIONS for Air Corps Re
serve officers for appointment as
of the Regular Army will be held July
81 and July 80. A number of local
Reserve officers now assigned to the
409th Attack Squadron are eligible for
examination and appointment.
Although so appointments are
authorized to be made among the
various arms each year, the entire
allotment of so vacancies has been
awarded to the Air Corps this year, it
was announced, to meet an acute
shortage of pilots in the squadrons of
the General Headquarters Air Force
The appointments are limited to
graduates of the Army Air Corps
Training Center at Randolph and
Kelly Fields, Texas.
Local Reserve officers who wish to
apply for examination are asked to
submit their applications to the sta
tions at which they last served or, if
they have had no extended active duty
with the Air Corps, to the command
ant, Air Corps Training Center.
ICANDIDATES for naval aviation
cadet training from the local area
will report to the Anacostia Naval Air
Station May IS for month of pre-
liminary Of elimination training.
The four candidates chosen for this
first elimination training of the 1886
season are Arnold w. Smoot, 910
Eleventh street southeast, and Justus
Steele, 26 Franklin avenue. Hyatts-
vile, Md, both graduates of the
University of Maryland, class of 1885;
Walter r. Lipscomb, 623 c street
northeast, member of the 1886 gradu-
ating class of George Washington
University. and Gilbert J. Frauenheim,
3100 Warder street, 1884 graduate of
the Carnegie Institute of Technology
If they successfully complete the
preliminary training course the four
will be sent to the Naval Air Station,
| Pensacola Fla for a wear Of urinary