Show GREAT INTEREST IN GLIDERS MANIFESTED Cheaper Than Power Planes but Safety Doubted New ew York Through York Through the long lone for for- to forgotten forgotten gotten science and sport port of or gliding aviation latIon which for a lime time III lust t Sear ear appeared to be losing Its hold on the popular Imagination although making tremendous strides commercially Is Isa a again aln the topic of dilly dally and comment throughout the United States Two arguments are arc nd by bythe bythe bythe the glider gilder enthusiasts ista In fa favor faor or of or this method of living dying Ing and aull learning to fly one that It Is cheap nn and the other that It 1 Is safe C Certainly It costs less planes although some than po power er of the Imported gliders run ns fiS high ns as the low v powered eret planes The safety argument howe however er Is Iq still merits certain op open n to debate and Such experienced ed pi pilots pilots pilots lots as 0 C S Casey Jones and Clarence D Chamberlain are arc of tine the I opinion that gliding Is dangerous and Chamberlain hoes oes so far as ns to toI I say that In his Ills opinion the powered airplane Is the S rifer sifer craft Jones argues that gliding as a train tr trainIng Ing for PO powered has hns distinct limitations and Is not at all of the opinIon held by Capt Frank Crank M lit MUa Ua ks that a course in gliding should be made m a prerequisite to all flight traIning Hard Work In Towing Haw Ia Hail Is s differentiates distinctly be between between tween soum and und tow to lowing In The Thelast Thelast last he admits frankly fr Is ht with Ith serious problems and danger nger It Is hard bard work On his flight ht cross across the country his only rell rel came cime at the end of f each ach ilav lay day when hen twee fl ee of the towline lIne tow line which tugged him out of at soaring position time and he could glide and sill sail hit er tile the air currents would carry carry carr him lIe He could control to a rem degree debree by utilizing the air nil currents for climbing turning and descending However Ho Hoe e cr the Interest In gilding bids fair fall to outshine for a n time pub pub- public public lic lie Interest In all nil ot other oilier her forms of or aeronautics aero aero- nero n The pro progress ress of Ua Hawks Is across tl tie e a country countr was as a lont lonh lon series of receptions In vv which Inich thousands par rot ot since tine the world flight of the Graf Craf Lep Zeppelin r Tin lIn his has the whole nation turned out to witch watch as ns It did for the aeri il al train tr 0 Over cr cities where his ah advance ance man had preceded trim the flyer er looked do down don n on an buildings and housetops hou blackened with Ith peo pIe Out In n the ilie country along the pro plo pio course couise com se farmers from miles around massed ma ed their cars along the roads and brought their families to see the tow plane lIe pass Too Expensive for Transport Speculation particularly In Ger German Germany man many as us to the il 11 a availabilIty Ity of the to toe towed to e glider gilder for tor tIne the lie tl ii inns lIS port of Good booth Is attracting attention Captain ln Rawls 11 Is enthusiast st as he Is has little faith in this form furni of trans transport transport transport port Certain Cert as they are arc built today have hae little to offer us as air loco loco- locomotives motives cs and tine the themselves el eles es are still primitive creations Iso ro o auto pilot has Set iet been developed ch for operating oper lUng a o glider gilder and none mine but avery a avery avery very good pilot is 11 competent to han handie handie handie die the controls of the towed timed aircraft r ft The pense expense mounts as one considers the v factors siry sary ry for equipping an aerial train and Ith present equipment this tills expense ap appears appears pears to climb lImb faster fIster thin than the pay payload payload payload load The rhe next neet nc t step appears to be pow powered ered gliders although your our U true due ue sail sailplane sailplane plane enthusiast resents regents re the lie Id idea as much as the fun fan abhors all forms of mechanical propulsion prop an and c especially auxiliary engines s Already at Dayton a n po powered ered glider has re re- received re- re received received favorable fu recognition by the array army engineers at field In England tine tile Dw Div sett Hawk special Is flying Ing with a motor that de develops half clops one half horse horce PO toner ver er and the Arnn a powered glider tin th it at much at the St Louis show sho has sho has flown o n East Eist |