Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 157, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1928 — Page 10

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Aviation SPEEDY GIANTS OF AIR RECEIVE GRUEUJNGTEST Huge Monoplanes Will Be Ready for Passenger Service Soon. Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—The trend toward bigger and faster planes for commercial air transport is shown clearly by the test nights of three of the largest passenger liners in point of power ever constructed in this country, one of them at least probably the fastest multimotored passenger plane in the world. This plane, the Keystone Aircraft Corporation’s tri-motored Patrician, took the air for the first time on a test run over a measured course and attained a speed of 151 miles an hour, timed by stop watches. Before that the ship had shown an air speed of 160 miles an hour. Three more of these giant monoplanes are under construction and will be ready to fly within a few weeks. The Patrician is a high wing monoplane powered with three 525horsepower Cyclones. Carries 20 Passengers It is equipped for twenty passengers, and has a stateroom with berths for two. The pilot’s cockpit is arranged for two pilots side by side. In addition to the regular navigation and flying instrument installation, it carries a radio transmitter and receiver in the pilot’s compartment for obtaining weather reports and direction data while in the air. The roomy passenger cabin has a radio receiving set with an amplifier for the entertainment of the passengers. This first plane of the series is being sent to Chicago for the aeronautical exposition, which opens there on Dec 1. Will Tour Country After the exposition it will be flown on a tour of the country and will then be placed in passenger service. It is likely that it will be placed in commission on the PanAmerican Airways route between Miami and Havana. The first of anew series of Waspmotored fourteen-passenger Fokker monoplanes has been flown to Los Angeles It is part of an order of ten such planes that will be placed in service by Western Air Express, operators of the mail and passenger routes from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City and from Pueblo, Colo., to Cheyenne, Wyo., and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Biplane In Service The Boeing company of Seattle has placed in service on the Pacific Air Transport a Boeing subsidiary operating between Los Angeles and cattle, a twelve-passenger Waspmotored biplane, and others are being built for use on the Boeing Air Transport line between San Francisco and Chicago. The Sikorsky company sent its first Pratt & Whitney Hornet powered, twin-motored amphibian into the air at Curtiss field recently. Figures on the performance of this plane are not yet available, as tests have not been completed. New Mail Routes to Open Announcement of opening of several new air mail routes and extensions has been received by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. Route 30 from Chicago to Terre Haute and Evansville, with a branch to St. Louis, opened Nov. 19, will be extended Dec. 1, from Evansville

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Leaping from an altitude of 4,000 feet when the wing of his plane folded up in a terrific line squall, Paul Collins, air mail pilot, saved himself with his parachute. Collins, on his way from Cleveland to New York, met a sever gale near Segal, Pa. After landing he recovered the mail from his wrecked plane and sent it on by truck and rail.

In the Air

Weather conditions at Indianapolis airport at 9:30 a. m.: South wind, fourteen miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.90 at sea level; temperature, 34; ceiling and visibility unlimited. toto Atlanta, Ga., through Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn. Anew route from Atlanta to Miami, Fla., by way of Jacksonville, Fla., will be opened Dec. 1 also, providing direct air mail service from Chicago to Miami. Flint and Pontiac, Mich., will be added as stopping points on Route 27. Bay City, Mich., to • Chicago, effective Nov. 27. Landing Device Finished The model of anew airplane landing and launching device has been perfected and tested in wind tunnels by R. James Gibbons, Brooklyn construction expert and member of the advisory board of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York university. Assisted by a staff of engineers, Gibbons worked nine years to complete his device. The expenditure for equipment and research was approximately SIOO,OOO. The resultant mechanism, the inventor asserts, can be used on rooftops in congested cities, on battleships and merchantmen, on marine sheds, postofflees, warehouses, railroad stations and in wooded or mountainous country where plane landings have hitherto been perilous and take-offs impossible. Automatic Pilot Tested The automatic air pilot, a device for automatic steering, has been approved by three trans-Atlan-tic airmen—Clarence Chamberlain, Herman Koehl and Major Fitzmaurice. The device wa fitted to aJunkers plane and was flown to a given height by Captain Koehl, who then turned all the controls, except the rudder, over to the automatic pilot. It was found that* the device counteracted any tendency to gain or lose height and when the rudder bar was pressed the mechanical pilot automatically banked the plane to make a perfect turn. Tests are going on to extend the scope of the automatic pilot to the rudder, and it is hoped that eventually an airman will be able to leave all his controls assured that the pane will keep on a straight course and maintain its height, and give his attention to the details of navigation, weather reports, etc. West Leads in Pilots According to the aeronautics branch of the department of commerce, the west still leads the east in piloting activities. In a recent tabulation California leads all other states, with 633 licensed pilots. New York comes next, with 347 pilots. Ten states, fairly well distributed geographically, had 2,343 of the 3,659 pilots holding active licenses, or 66 per cent of the whole number. These states are: California, 633; New York, 347; Illinois, 216; Michigan, 194; Pennsylvania, 180; Ohio, 180; Texas, 176; District of Columbia, 162; Misspuri, 150, and Virginia, 105. Canada Gets Plane Plant The Fairchild Aviation Company will manufacture its own planes in Cnaada, it is announced. Anew $500,000 plant is to be erected at Canada, it is announced. Anew Production probably will be at the rate of five or six planes a week The company’s program, as outlined, includes erection of landing fields and additional hangars. Some 500 to 600 men are to be employed.

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SOUSA IS THE WILL. ROGERS OF MUSIC Famous Bandmaster and His Hundred Musicians Will Give Two Concerts at Cadle Tabernacle. IF he had not won such an enduring fame as the writer of his country’s patriotic marches, Lieutenant Commander John Philip Sousa might have come down through the years as the Will Rogers of music. Sousa is perhaps the only American composer who has the facility to .tell stories and crack jokes in terms of music and for at least two decades the American people have laughed as heartily at his humoresques and parodies upon current popular music as they have applauded such march-tunes as "Stars and Stripes Forever,’’ “Semper Fidelis” and "El Capitan.” For his Golden Jubilee tour, which began in Schenectady, N. Y.,

on July 19, and which continues for a period of more than twenty-one weeks, Sousa has turned out another humoresque. The theme this year is found in "Among Mi Souvenirs.” Among the young man’s souvenirs (one suspects the young man is Sousa himself) is a photograph, a letter and a broken heart and as he meditates, he goes back before the brokenhearted time and remembers when he and she were singing “Twinkling Stars Are Laughing at You and Me,” when he was "Seeing Nellie Home.” In addition to his humoresque, Sous* has given spice to his new pr jgr: m by a transcription of the hit numbers from the various New York musical shows, entitled “Ten Minutes on Broadway.” Sousa’s tour this year celebrates his fiftieth year as a conductor and is the thirty-sixth which he has made at the head of his own musical organization which this season will consist of more than a hundred musicians and soloists. Sousa and his band will give afternoon and night concerts at the Cadle Tabernacle Friday. Other theaters today offer: “The Vagabond King” at English’s; Scotch Highlander band at the Lyric; Charlie Davis at the Indiana; “The Man Who Laughs” at the Circle; "Plastered in Paris” at the Apollo; "Show People” at the Palace; movies and girl revue at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual. This afternoon and evening at the Cadle Tabernacle, the United States Navy band will appear in concert under auspices of the Police and Fremen Emergency Fund. The band numbers forty-five musicians. returning wave. Thus by measuring this strength of the returning wave the number of changes in step, the distance is determined. Warning Given on Planes The aeronautic* branch of the department of commerce warns purchasers of foreign-built planes, except those made in Canada, that such aircraft are not eligible for licenses in this country, as we have on reciprocal agreements with any foreign country except Canada relative to airworthiness certificates for export. Negotiations are under way with several foreign countries regarding these certificates. Foreign-built aircraft, excludinr Canadian planes, may not be usee for carrying passengers or property for hire, between the differen States or possessions of the Unite; States, says the department, as the; are not eligible for license, whicl Is required for all operations of aircraft for hire in the United States or In interstate commerce.

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FARM TARIFFS' HIKE TO AWAIT HOOVERRETURN Cooiidge Postpones Increase on South American Products. BY PAUL R. MALLON, United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—President CSoolidge has informed an interested party nothing will be done about increasing farm tariffs on South American products before President-elect Hoover returns from his South American good will tour. The President’s statement had reference to the corn schedule upon which the tariff commission has recently made an unpublished report to Mr. Cooiidge. The statement aroused considerable interest among returning congressmen, because of the prominence Hoover gave the increased tariff proposals in his presidential campaign and the co-related fact that he is now embarked southward on a mission which will enable him to learn, among other things, just v hat the situation about the tariff is below the Panama canal. Opposition of South American countries, chiefly Argentine to the American levies against corn, hides and other products has been expressed, in the press and otherwise for two years or more. Threats have been made that a u ~ :ott might be instituted against manufactured product from the United States if this country continued efforts to exclude South American raw materials. In the campaign, Hoover stressed the idea that the tariff must be made effective for the American farmer. Many of Hoover's friends in congress, led by Senator Borah, his foremost campaigner, are working for an extra session to enact higher

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