Evening star., 1939-08-02

Navy and the Bureau of Standards
for aid in recording the perform
ance trials.
Maj. Haynes and his crew flew
steadily all day yesterday and all
last night, landing at 20 m. today
after making five round trips be-
tween Wright Field and Rockford,
Ill, to set their speed mark for the
3,l07-mile closed course. At the time
of landing they had ample fuel for
still another l,000-kilometer lap. AS
they climbed out of the big ship.
members of the crew said they felt
fine" and characterized the brand
new world mark as Just another
flight"
Significant Victory.
Capt. c. S. (BilD Irvine and Capt
Pearl Robey, pilots, and Capt. C. j.
Crane and 1t. P. G.. Miller, navi-
gators, yesterday smashed the Ital-
ian record for speed over a 1000
kllometer 1921 .4-mile) course carry
ing a pay load of 5000 Kilograms or
ll,O23 pounds. Although of less m
terest to the layman than some of
the more spectacular types of rec
ordS, this is record of the utmost
Importance in the realm of national
defense and the fact that it was es-
tabllShed by standard Boeing
YB17A bombardment airplane in
combat trim made it of even greater
international significance from the
military standpoint. The flight was
made at an average speed of 259 1898
miles per hour with a load of II O23
pounds of dummy bombs. The for
mer record of 25l 1878 miles per hour
with the same load was established
IN Italy last December. The record
flight was made over a 1000 kilo-
meter course between Wright Field
and st. Joseph, H.. the big Boeing
flying fortress maintaining an alti-
tude of 10000 feet throughout the
run.
The first of the new international
records was registered Sunday. wh,-
a Boeing Bis super flying fortress,
the largest land plane ever built in
the United States, carried load of
3l,2O5 pounds. or 1872 tons, to an
altitude of 5000 feet to better the
world record held by Soviet Russia
for carrying the greatest pay load to
an altitude of 1000 meters
Record Nearly 3 Years Old.
The previous international record
was established in Russia Novem-
Der 20, 1886, by Michel Nioukhitov
and Michel Lipkias, who carried
$4,000 Kilograms or 28,66O pounds
above the 2,000-meter mark in
Bolkhovitinov transport monoplane
powered with four 6O-horsepower
engines. The flight automatically
broke 16-year-old national record
established here on October %
1923, by 1t. H. R. Harris. Army Air
Service. who flew a -kilogram
or 4,4o9-pound pay load above 1000
meters in the unique Barling bomber
powered with six war time Liberty
engines.
Yesterday Capt. w. P. Sloan and
Capt. B. l.. Boatner picked up the
third of the coveted international
records when they flew a wasp
powered Grumman amphibian mon
oplane, the standard Army OA9. a
distance of 1000 kilometers at an
average speed of 1856 O94 miles per
hour. The record established the
American amphibian type as the
fastest in the world by exceeding
the international mark of 1898
miles per hour established in Italy
May 9, 1887, by an Italian amphibian
alrplane powered with two American
Wright cyclone engines of $50 horse
power each.
The fourth international mark,
international by courtesy only, is a
Los Angeles-New York course rec
ord, second category, for airplanes
carrying passengers or crew. 1t
was broken with a margin of hour
and 81 minutes by Boeing BIB
bombardment airplane, an improved
version of the flying fortress with
supercharged engines, which was
flown by Maj. Stanley H. Umstead,
chief of the flying branch of the
materiel division of the Air Corps
at Wright Field and former engi-
neering officer of Boiling Field,
Washington. Of primary impor-
tance as another indication of the
improved speed and range of the
American combat plane, it betters a
record of II hours minutes As Sec
onds established April 30, 1885, by
D. w. Tomlinson and H. B. Smead
in DC1 transport airplane.
Little Over 8 Hours.
Maj. Umstead made the flight
from coast to coast in 9 hours IA
minutes 30 seconds, subject to final
check by the National Bureau of
Standards and the National Aero
nautics Association. The new
record is not to be confused with
the solo flight record between Los
Angeles and New York, which is
listed separately as a first category
record and is held bv Howard