Air Wonder Stories, August 1929 — page 91: what you’re looking at

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Landings Atop Buildings Being Tested feasibility of landing and making a take- off of airplanes from the tops of large build- ings in congested areas of large titi tested: by the American Air Transport - Asao- ciation, The: i of such ‘tests is-equal to that of the end to wi ee lon ae solution of the air tra! being used in the. test fieae a~ platform meee Yet long and 60.feet wide, It would revolve allow- ing a et to tnke. off with the-wind. It would also be inclined 25 degrees allowing him to start his—take-off ot the tep of the incline Pit be aided by the force of-gravity. To land the plea He would Jand ma ie foot of Ser incline ant gradually yy a series of spr cable retarders, A reversible fan raul also be used to create a suction to keep ees from bounding off after landing. Mail, Not Passengers, Profitable Says Zeppelin Director Rex at $2,000 a mee tied qare to carry passengers” across See Eos are not as eae as ter declar eleeseies a the Zeppelin organization reported iams-ta the New York Times, a ice per he oce: fi Weight. andthe weght of the hea ait the food, Kitchen equipment sind other necessities of his comfort, the lpasen decidedly takes- second rank as gainst Cor even: freight, Dr. Colsman ataanaiee that on the average an airship auto ¢ontinent-to-continent service would-be only thershy shy reduning the average fare to $1,000,” merican- trip- the fare es ene “would be only $1,000. For - this assenger with. all his accessories takes up 1,10 uinds, Fifteen passengers as -an_aver- ARE, cot heoetanes would net the SpmONEy $15,000 (for the 16,500 Hounde hey cup). If the aie were to carry 100,000- setters, however, which: would. take “up tery 4,000 potinds, the company would receive, at twenty-five cents per letter, $25,000. From a standpoint ‘of ° strict ecanomics therefore, passenger bysineys is nat profitable, -_ Plane to. Meet Ships 250 Miles at Sea Age fO-SHORE service. will be estab- eaped abort on the United: States - Lines, ie which operate the Leviathan, The plane will meet the <ship-250. miles at—sea,; swoop down and: pick up. mail sie ab ping. By this method a whole day is to be: cut from-_trans-Atlantia mail time. rather plane can legqye the Newark airport, which be the castern_ base, mod. carry. al tte, bp fifteen hours-after-it-bns sailed from New York. With-a ship like the Leviathas 250 miles or the eels travelling at 150 miles-an Hour woul: Plea Tantt: from the ship, and return to: its within_ four | aa fae ae t- ate the service eee of -4,000 miles, It Diane, one of the largest to _inan will have # cruising ra is-also_beHeved that the plane will- deliver and take off. Fe paseengers from. ships; thus allow- ang a Jate arrival to catch the ship long after it has sailed, or to be landed in New_ York hoor ahead of the ship, if he is in a hurry, War Games Prove Value of Planes HE results of the Ohio aerial wargame have proved beyond’ question the abili of lanes to perform what. ix required. of is “battle” osigity according to Major Gen. eral Nolin, for, the higher tactical instruction of general officers, - has elded many interesting conclusions, ‘The “bombing” of New. York was carried out Pr Lieutenant Moon, despite many difficulties, is refueling plane, by which he was to b be refueled in the air, forced 4 down by bad weather, aswell as radio ia Din he was still enabled to accomplish’ is mission, The rent oe le was to prove the value of navigation an adi in plane maneuvers, The lessons found by the warfare are three, First, that it: iss feasible. to. concentrate aircraft from all. parts of the country. at-a central point, de- aes adverse weather conditions, Second, that is: podsible for ‘craft to carry_on operations in weather far from favorable, “Third, that the equipment of the’air force is quite satisfacto For the maneuvers practically all the availab ej fighting force of the country’s aircraft was con- centrated at Fairfield Air Depot and Norton Field (Columbus, Ohio), AIR WONDER STORIES OPERATION Motorless Flight with Gliders Dt WOLFGANG KLEMPERER, who is mainly credited: with the great: development of interest. in. , Bliding and scaring in Germany pe is now in this ‘country Cnating Bier sige ivities and assisting the eppelin cores stated at the recent Seber of the Society of Automotive - Engineers “ Detroit. that the glider has sdvantages for the study of design; as it is simpler and. safer-than a power ma ine for making experiments and is oro valuable for gaining: ex experience in land- ing. The = fidergausye takes off to make an emereency. landing. ‘ailless. and tandemwing. lanes and. slotted wings were used in gliding before they hecame practical on power planes. The. principle of static uke is simple; our tents of dir on the windward side o elon the seashore or at the edge of a wood we ll a the glider. sag by, inet of gravity. Berting = along the edges of a range: of bills and making bere 8's, the pilot can soar sometimes for -houra and~ cover con- siderable distances. The duration record ig now over_14 hours, the distance record over 45 miles, and- the maxi- mim speed between-40 and 45 miles per hour, mostly. Taterally to the wind; There ate places in America, said Doctor. Kler + where is feasible to make a gtider of 100: miles, and he believes it is pons to. make a flight from Los Angeles to Francisco. “Aviation News of the Month” portrays in plain, yet concise fan- guage every important aviation advance during the month. No- where can. the average reader get such a wealth of accurate and vital information condensed into such a small volume. Some 40 aviation magazines and newspapers are utilized by our editors in the com- pilation of this department, The publishers welcome short contribu- tions to these pages from the various scientific institutions, labor= atories, makers and distributors of planes, ete, Safe Flying Lies in. Better Instruments is: Belief N order to test whether the safety in flying malls anicerasesl Hy. thie jiee of better Andra re iewt ~ Alfred F, Heg ‘gér has been Wright Fa oer Ohio, to ape a sues eriments, says Air Travel Hots Licut. Hegenberger was the navigator f the. first plane to fly. from America to Hawaii and 38.an exponent of the “better in- struments’ idea, He believes that the ing: netism of the earth can be used to hold to their Cees and that by devices. at ed to the Bote inductor gompans, & layee large part of bt human clement can be-avoi sie, eanspped with the earth inductor: compass, set the compass for their route, and the mec on the compass will carrect the plane if it goes off the route. New Parachute Can Support Plane pS. NEW parachute, 84 feet in diameter, bas designed by Major E, L, Hoffmann of the eae Air ores, which is capable of supporting. an. aii the air-and. gz it down. gently, says Air Trapel News, A_ recent. test_ was made of it by hanging on to it a 1600-pound bomb fram: an altitude of several thotsand. fect, The parachute let the bomb down to the und gently but then moch ony ‘was in “getting-the ’chute to re Jease- the bomb, There was a tendency, to drag it. over the field despite all the efforts of the attendants, The Air Corps is now at work on a_device which, setts automatically release the weight on_reaching the . ground. Otherwise, due ta-the tendency of the chute to race across the ground with ite weleht and its ing- ness to deflate, it- will be useless, oe gs a “Flat Spin” to be Studied GrUnres of the: peculiarities of the “flat Spin” which occurs to planes, often with serious. results, are being undertaken by the National ‘Advisary = Committee for Aeronautics at the Langicy Field laboratory, says a despatch. in the New York Times, .A. yertical tunnel will-be constructed at a-—cost’ of: $12 in thé Jaboratory tests, | It is that Ay ok Fhe Saat pln might lead to a method of utilizing it for better Tanding of _ planes, Means: have been found to climinate the -spin where it is pedesiree but the possibility of put- ting it to ‘henefi use, animates the experts, Tt eet heen found very often in ry RemeSaErS that_planes iogh cannot spin are at an_aviator has for. mai been able: by a-dtn to wonk If out of 3 tight place, Albany-New York in Half Time Now AX illustration of how quickly the spced of our best trains is:becoming antiquated came with the. test of an air liner, plying from Albany to New York, with the Twenti- eth Century Limited. The plane lett New York, arrived in Albany, exchanged ‘greet- ings with the. mayor and returned to New York in 157 minutes. The time consumed by the Twentieth Century is 175: minutes from New York ‘to’ Albany, The plane is one of seven which will begin a regular New York-Albany- service to run on a sched- uledtime of seventy-five minutes: between the two cities. Four Day cere to Hawaii Now A® nee it and pusseiiges service he. A trent is grea Honolulu on a BT ee schedule is ares plan of. the ee year-Zeppelin Company. With New York now only 32 Hours away from San Francisco; the .company - officials expect that a 36-hour service from the West Coast i ai Honolulu will ut Hawaii four days travel of New ork. The Sony is at work-on two lighters than-air- ships with whick they expect~ to Rugurate the service, ships - are” ~ being constructed simultaneously with two gigantic navy dirigibles ae Akron, Ohio. Akron, it is expected, aoe the “eustern ‘terminus of the air ine, e first’ ship will “be Inuriched-in the get of 1935 Be followed 14° months lnter e second, The dirigibles will be al- most twice the size of the Gra: pelin, having therefore—a~capacity_ of about 7,000,000 cubic feet. They will be. filled with helium: instead of hydrogen. The United States hns <alread enough helium to- fill our_airship needs, an in fact our supply of it-will make us the. world center tofill the needs of the rest of. the world, The company is negotiating for- a contract. to carry government } nas ae eaecs ale ine. proves succe! extent i * the. Ori ient-.and Australia, Thus with tho ptr in ne K in, travel-across three-quarters ¢ globe by air will be possible, . Radio Sky Road E Road Hoped for Aviation SE BE ces sr a of a road in the sky for cans of radio is*the plan on which metpae tient tk and_ electrical working, pitesatinedins —— ree ee “oo — To engineers are In the recent-war games where 3 made his way to. New York through adverse weather, the communication by radio infotming the bomber of his position and the weather ahead -at all times, proved its worth. The army bomber used—non-directional radio, But what the engineers to do is: to build directional beams in the sky, by which an avi- ator can tell-at all times whether he is on the tight pa Direction beams have failed in the past botisne they had a ‘tendency to dip into the ses when er a preaenes ‘ore. deposite. Recent: He however, tw ational Air: Transport Hots “blind’ with the: aid af directional eam, One ofthe ae traveling fom me leveland rt Hadley_ Field, 5 landed at Bellefont, Bay where’ he was in interned 5 atmost See wae to. Be . that the weather. was lot, ra ae went oe and be os Reet ete gee ) pth Bette bt til ete Oe 6 bk Ah ed. nen hte... one eee. ee te where ee ie ie. re . was. guided ‘only ty” th ‘ie dle beam =a by the rtment - of Commerce, he lot concentrated only on the dotg-and dashes pie i from the receivers clamped. to: his ears, These ets and conker toe Mao bat tee of his path he was, He traveled safely through a the fog and_landed at Hadley Field, (Continued on- page 189) ‘ihe scomicbhoo