Air Wonder Stories, July 1929 — page 97: what you’re looking at

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New Flying School Regulations EW regulations for flying schools that wish to obtnin Department of Commerce lidenses or-approyals have been completed, The obtaining of the ratings or approvals by the flying school is voluntary, but the Commerce Department bellevés that reput- able achools will wish to obtain them and thus weed out thoss who cannot and will not comply with the regulations, Schoola are divided into three “classes; private, Umited commercial and transport, the regu- Jotions for training and equipment becoming progressively stiffer from privnte to trens- port, Students of tHe first must have ten hours of dual instruction and eight hours of solo flying. Credit may be obtained, how- ever, for ‘check’ flying or that with the instructor in the plane with the student. Limtted commercial students must hove at Jeant fifty hours of flying thne of which fiftean or twenty hours may be “ohock" aviation. time, Transport students must have at Jeast 200 hours of which 35 to 60 hours may be “checked.” Students In Iimited commercial and transport must also have experiance in other planes than the ona need for Instruction, notebly in cabin planes, Students must also have a minimum num- ber of hours of ground instruction on afr commerce, airplane Construction, navigation end meteorology. With the new regulations the Department hopes to make a great atride forward in {ncreasing the safety in Warns Aviators of Stalling DEVICH to warn an aviator thet his plane 1s approaching a speed whera a stall is probable has been Invented by R; A. Mobenn of the Ottawa (Canada) Fly- ing Club, A note of warning ia sounded into the sure of the pilot by speclal earphones which he weers. An air speed indicator on the wing strut is attnohed electrically to a amall electrical device which causes a buas when the apeed fnlly to a dangerous point, Nine Million Miles With 102 Foreed Landings iD order to determina how effective their motors were In use, the Wright Aeronguti- cal Corporation sent questionnalres to users of their Witrlwind motora. In response they Jenrned that 402 -pilots-had flown over nine million miles or thirty-elght thmes tho dis- tence to the moon, with only 102 landings ave to engine trouble, This was an average of ons landing every 91,000 miles or every 912 honre of flying, Seventy-one of the pllota reported one or more Jnndinga to exon 27,293 hours of running. ‘The record of the other #11 pllote showed 65)687 hours of filght without a single landing due to motor trouble. New Atlantic West-East Hop NEW effort to successfully hop the At- Jantio on the wwest-east route will be made tils summer by two or three Prenah- mien. The pilot will be Jean Asgolent, 2 former Prench Army pilot, and he will heave with him 2 mechanic and possibly Armand Loettit the owner of the plane. Army Seeks Fliers for One Year Ls order 10 keep up With Its air expansion program. the Air Corps of the United States Army Je seeking efvilfian and army reserva filers to agvept a commisalon-In the Alr Corps and serye for one year, Qualified csormimerGial transport pilots will recelve com- mipsionag in the Alr Corps reserve and will than be ordered to active rervice for ore year, No yeserve officer higher than the Ernde of second llautenant will be ordered to active duty but those above that grade muy resign ond be reappointed as secona Neutenartd if they wiah active service. Story of Airmen’s Death on Plane bee dramatic story of the death of two Lairmon who had disappeared while on a hunt for the missing Southern Cross wae yovealad when the bodies of the -men Were found beside their plane In the Interior of ‘Augtralia. 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