Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1928 — Page 8

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Aviation PLANES SILENT, INVISIBLE ARE NEW WAR PERIL European Engineers Seek Mechanism Secrets of Deadly Craft. By Science Service PARIS, Oct. 26.—Airplanes that will be silent as they move through the air and practically invisible from the ground may be one of the next steps in aviation. Already remarkable progress is being made in experiments conducted by France, England, Russia and Germany. Silencing of the aero-engines is in many ways the simplest of the prob. lems, but immediately any mechanism is employed which reduces engine noise other sounds which begin to make themselves apparent are the high-pitched notes set up by the rapidly revolving air screw or screws. Instead of using an ordinary two or four-bladed propeller, tests are being made with screws having six or more blades of rather a small size. These blades are designed and shaped specially to lessen noise when in rapid motion. It is probable that before long secret demonstrations being discussed, will be conducted with large airplanes equipped with silenced engines and “noiseless” types of multi-bladed metal air screws; and the sounds these machines make as they rush through the air will be reduced further by elimination of external wires and friction producing projections. A more immediately practical field of research, and one almost equally

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fascinating, lies in the progress with “invisible’ paints or dopes. In England the authorities have evolved a queer, dark dope of a dull, greenish hue. This not only makes a big machine elusive to sight against a background of cloud, but it is also the least conspicuous color when a high-flying machine comes into the rays of searchlights from the ground. A problem even more complex is reported under investigation in German laboratories—reduction and elimination of telltale shadows. Recently German designers and builders have accomplished remarkable strides in the production of giant metal monoplanes simplified in construction to offer a minimum of resistance to their own progress through the air. Such huge craft have their motors sunk in a big single wing projecting on either side of the streamlined hull, and when they are flying immediately toward any observer viewing them from the ground these very large machines, widespread though their wing span is, present an astonishingly small object to the eye. But when such a machine passes almost directly above, the eye is attracted by dark all-revealing shadows formed and held under the lower surface of the large carved wing It is these shadows which draw attention to the machine. In many respects such aerial researches are the most significant —and also the most sinister—ever undertaken. The evolution of a machine which will rush througn the air unseen and almost unheard has practically illimitable possibilities. Used as a weapon of war, its horrors would be almost unspeakable. It would represent in stark, terrible reality that silent and invisible death which writers of fiction so often have described. Continue Flight East Jack Moore and Dick Lackey, East St. Louis, stopped over night at Hoosier airport. Today they continued their flight to Washington, in an American Eagle biplane.

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Northwest wind, 5 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.45 at sea level; temperature, 46; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, unlimited; ground fog, clearing. Airway Company Formed By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Formation of the New York, Chicago and Pacific Airways Company, with headquarters here, for establishment of the first regular air passenger transportation between Chicago and New York, was announced here today. Tri-motored, fourteen-passenger monoplanes will be used. Service will be started as soon as the planes are delivered, it was announced. An eight-hour schedule will be followed. Fare has'been set as SIOO a passenger. Girl Is Air Passenger Miss Francis Brown, of the Indianapolis Bush and Broom Company, was a passenger Thursday, on the Embry-Riddle Company air mall plane to Cincinnati and return. Fast Time on Air Dash Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, Thursday afternoon took Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Cummings, 4166 Washington boulevard, to Huntingtion, W. Va., in a Travelair monoplane on a business trip. The flight of 270 miles to Huntington was made in two hours and fortyfive minutes, according to a telegram received at the airport. They were to return today. ‘Kid’ Is Fliers’ Mascot The twenty-third Bombardment Squadron in Hawaii has fired its cat mascot and has adopted a kid, according to a recent Air Corps News Letter. The only flying cat in the Air Corps, continues the letter, had his picture in all the papers and as a consequence was so well looked

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after that he became “insufferably lazy and ‘high hat.”’ So, “some of the boys’ captured the kid of a mountain goat. It was christened “Steve’ with a bottle of milk, a sergeant, qualified as nurse, and the new mascot took his first ride in a plane. Although only six weeks or so old, he chews everything within sight. It seems that there is some apprehension as to the possible fate of the planes should the kid ever get out of control. Europe by Air is Easy Europe, including all main cities as fa'r east as Constantinople, Moscow and Leningrad, can now be “done” quite comprehensively within the ordinary two weeks’ vacation. The Spanish airmen, Haya and Ortega, have just completed a 6,000-mile sightseeing flight, with leisurely stops, within thirty-oqe days. Map Wilds From Air Federal geological surveyors, using airplanes, this summer mapped 1,000 square miles of Alaskan wilderness barely penetrated hitherto by white men. Pack horse trains were also used in the old-fashioned manner of surveying. Comparison of results showed that the planes made the journey four times, each time in about an hour and a half, while it took the pack train party three weeks to penetrate the same territory once. Leases Beacon Site Bjl Times Special MARSHALL, Ind., Oct. 26.—Sixty square feet of land has been leased from Oral Titus north of here by the aeronautics division, Department of Commerce, on which a beacon for guidance of inail plane fliers will be erected. Work on the beacon will begin soon. Plane Is Fire Fighter That a plane can more readily, quite as effectively and far more quickly render aid in the event of

Carmen on Red Mules, Shops ‘ Chi’ for Shoes By Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Grand opera in red bedroom slippers tramped down Michigan avenue Thursday night. Mme. Maria Olszewska, new contralto in the Chicago Opera company, was on her was to a rehearsal of “Carmen.” She also was on her way to buy a pair of shoes. The lady, “who can’t speak English,” had only one pair, and when her train arrived at the station she discovered to here embarrassment that they had been stolen. She didn’t want to miss the rehearsal, however, so it was “to mules and away.”

Are was recently demonstrated by a British airman flying in Scotland. He was flying over a farm a short distance from his' airdrome when he noticed a vast column of smoke curl upward from a threshing mill. He immediately returned to the airdrome, summoned the flying corps force and was successful in getting the fire extinguished before the arrival of the fire brigade from the neighboring town, which had previously been notified. Airport Sites Offered Bn United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., Oct. 26. Two tracts of land near here have been offered to the city for purchase or lease as airport sites, according to Mayor C. W. Snider, who said that when others are located federal aeronautics officials will be called to recommend one best Suited for an airport.

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DOG SHOW PLANNED Central Indiana Club Holds Field Trial Sunday. Earl Shorb of Hobart will be the judge for the third annual fall field trials and bench shows of the Cen-

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