Evening star., 1937-03-21

Tempelhofer Field, now is planning TO
building a new air terminal, three
times larger.
The new airport, according TO a re-
port to the Commerce Department
from Assistant Trade Commissioner
Roland Welch at Berlin, probably will
be the worlds largest It will include
a passenger terminal building five
stories high and will replace the Tenn
pelhofer Airport.
WEIGH also reported that the Ger
man Zeppelin Hindenburg is undergo
ing structural changes in the passen-
. ger cabin section in preparation for the
transatlantic flight season She is TO
make her first fight Of the season 10
+ the United States May 4, with Lake
hurst, N. j., as her terminal Eighteen
round trips are to be made between
Germany and the United States this
season.
The new airship LZ-13O, now under
construction, is expected TO be ready
| for the North Atlantic service next
Fall, WEIGH reported
DINNER in Washington Tuesday
evening, breakfast in Honolulu
Thursday morning. This is possible
under new interairline schedule an
| nounced by c. D. Renouf, local district
traffic manager of United Air Lines.
Passengers, mail and express leaving
Washington via Pennsylvania-Ce Central
Airlines are transferred to the Uniteds
new Mainliner at Cleveland and reach
San Francisco in the morning. They
1 have six hours in San Francisco before
the departure Of the PAN American
AirWays clipper, which reaches Homo
lulu early the following morning.
Renouf reported that considerable
mail and express already is moving
out of Washington each week for Homo
lulu and Manila by air.
PR1ZE money totaling s25 900 already
has been posted for the 1887 Ben
dix transcontinental speed race. to be
flown from the Pacific Coast to the Ma
tional air races at Cleveland on Sep
tember 3. There will be separate
prizes for pilots continuing on to New
York.
Feminine pilots will compete for a
special prize of S2,5OO, in addition to
the main prize money, and there will
be another $4,000 for the pilot who
breaks the coast-to-coast record now
held by Howard Hughes.
Hughes has not yet announced
whether he will compete. The entrance
OF Michel DeToyat, famous French
pilot, who last year few away with
the lions share of the prize money at
the national air races, has been an
nounced. Roscoe Turner and Cecil
Allen are expected to compete.
The present transcontinental record,
held by Hughes, is hours 28 minutes
25 seconds. His average speed was
$50 miles per hour. Previous vim
ners of the famous Bendix Trophy
are James H. Doolittle, 1881, average
speed, 223.05 miles per hour; James
| G. Halzlip 1882, average speed, 245
miles per hour; Roscoe Turner, 1893,
average speed, 214.78 miles per hour;
Doug Davis, 1884, average, 2l6.237
miles per hour; Benny Howard 1885,
average, 238,704 miles per hour and
Louise Thaden, 1886, average, 1906
miles per hour.
7 A NTICIPATING the heaviest air
travel in history, American Air
lines has announced a supplemental
contract with the Douglas Aircraft
Co. for seven additional f1agShips for
delivery during the Summer. The
contract price was given as $3.50 900.
Three of the new planes will be
2l-paSsenger Club" planes and four
will be arranged as air sleepers. with
berths for IA and daytime accommo-
dationS for % passengers.
Delivery Of these airplanes will
bring to total of 50 the American
fleet OF Douglas transports, purchased
| at a cost of S5,6O0,O0O.
The airline industry, at the outset
Of the Spring travel season, is faced
( with serious shortage of equipment,
despite the fact that total orders for
transport aircraft during the past wear
f! have exceeded S10OO0,OO0" said c.
R. Smith, president of American Air
lines.
Signs OF an air passenger boom
are unmistakable. In the first two
months of 1887 a gain of over SIS
per cent already has been noted over
the comparable period a year ago.
The primary problem of the in
dustry this year will not be the de-
velopment of new business to fill air.
planes, but, rather. obtaining equip
ment to handle the volume of air
travel we will encounter"
1t is estimaed by the Air Trans
port Association of America that prl-
vate capital totaling around Sl25 OOO,-
600 already has been invested in COM
mercial aeronautics in the United
States, although the industry still
is regarded as in the non-p profit max
ing pioneering stage