Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 77 | Year-End Review of World Events-Aviation

I YearEnd Year y ear End Review of of- World EVents A Events Aviation ti n What record was sot by Liau- Liau ten tenant nt Apollo How many planes Iu successfully flew flow the Atlantic from west to east duri during a the he year el Who made the fir first firt t demon I of blind flying gl These and other questions are answered in this review of trend trends and developments i in aviation d during ring 1929 S A. A 9 Q T By JOSEPH H H. H BAIRD United Aviation Editor V N All Al extremely b busy s exchanging its its Wardrobe for fot forthe the tIto frock coat cont of ot big Mg aviation found tinie during 1929 19 for fori fora 0 a a- afew few S Whilo bankers bankert hauled put out their J gold Jd bal bags S' S to build airplane airplane- Ca factories tories and Uncle Sam Sam Sani spent millions in lighting and and- mapping n tho nations nation's k sky sky- roads a aviation's lat ons on's stellar r performers per lION formers orm rt were dC devising Jew new ew Two r planes tho Atlantic from west to east eRst during the tile year Tho Tim Graf Zeppelin s 's setting ettIng a a. nc new mark for than ships en encircled en- en circled M Mother th r ath ample waist And a young younge oun navy flier filer went vet C t. higher In an airplane than anyone ever e had Early January found two arm army arny Major Carl Spats and Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Ira Jm C. C in tn the thc monoplane Question Uon Mark Ma J Aloft oVer Lo Los Angeles An n geles- geles s th they theP y were verc trying to remain longer in t the e aJ air ai than nn any before be- be fore foro them When oil all January 7 they alighted at Los Angeles air airport port ort had been hours 40 minutes t s d ai aJ d 15 seconds s During its sojourn of oC t nearly a aek week ek Iii In III tho I their plane powered by three I Wright t Whirlwinds was wll thirty thirty-aix times limes Th The The- war d depart ment n hailed their f font feat at as ih a l proof that t refueling was vas feasible e REC RECORD RD The he aviation world in its more spectacular phases was vas fairly until May dOy y S. S on a clear spring day JJ Apollo 1 ollo Sou u. u cek u S. S Mf NY h hopped In his Wright Apache Apach p Plane piano at Lt naval nati til air station to tp rise 1150 high tr from ni the tho th earth His little ship equipped with a a I. I supercharger became a 3 mero mere mero ck high above the tho Pot Potomac When ono one hour and twenty tOUr minutes liter later a again aln touched earth his hi barograph registered more than feet Bureau of ot standards tests showed a true reading of or 3 U- 9 JO 1 feet feet feet-a a worlds world's altitude rec record rd Later on Oil May 26 thousands oC or Washington ton officials stood along alom the tho banks of oC the Potomac aa aM an even e two dozen planes rose to contend contenti con con- tend for fot the Curtiss marine trophy Skimming low over tho river Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant W. W G ci n n. n U. U S. S N. N flying a. a C Curtiss rUss Hawk crossed theline the tho line lino victorious His RI average speed was J miles per hour holtI Summer came and on Juno Tuno 13 the Yellow Bird a n a Bernard monoplane powered Io by a 1 twelve cylinder His His- pana Sulza took off oft from Old Orchard Or Or- chard Me for fot Le Lc Bourget field Paris In her cockpit were three Rene Hone Jean n ean Lefevre arid and Armento Lotti Jr There Thero was also an American stowaway stowaway V stO stow stow- away young oung After covering covering cov coY ering miles they arrived at nt Spain their fuel ex cx- hausted Late June saw v the continental United States crossed and In 44 H hours 3 minutes J tes and 2 seconds sec ends C Captain wt Frank Hawks Ha fl flIng flyIng flying fly fly- Ing a Lockheed Vega flew from Roosevelt field New York to Los Angeles and return while only two uns suns set J JOn On July Juh 8 Ro-d Ro Rodger r Q Williams and nd Louis Loum A A. A Tancey Yancey took tool off orf from Old Orchard Me ii In their heir Bellanca Bel- Bel lance lanca monoplane no Pathfinder for th the l City T Taking a a. straight Path a across ro s' s the tho Atlantic they landed at nt Santander Spain and refueling there proceeded to lo Rome Home Remarked Yancey on Ion his return l It was Sn Jn- dull RAIL AIR ROUTES I Railroads und lund airplanes combined d dOJ OJ oil on July S 8 to to open oDen a a. ta fast t steady travel route routt across tho continent I Charles Challes A. A Lindbergh on that date dato took teak of off from tho the west vest c coast to open tib UIO JIO route louto established by the tho Transcontinental Trans Traits continental Air Transport Atchison 4 Topeka Santa l Id and the tile Penn Penn- sl On the other end of th the the thc Pennsylvania's Airway Air way way- Limited started starlet Its westward Journey Journey- from New York City Two hombros as n. they they- described themselves es camo caine to Ito c. c th a th field St St. von Louison on I Jul July 3 32 after DoCter r remaining In tho tEo air I 4 42 42 h nir I. I 21 minutes s find 30 seconds sec ec I ond thus breaking tho the previous I endurance nd r n o record d by 17 ho hours and 37 minutes Their names were vere Dale Dalo Jackson J and l Forest orest OBrine and anti their their- chip thip WAS a r. r Curtis Challenger During During- their lr fUs of oC J miles tar far enough to h hz at atthe the Uie c. c equator they the CO completed 1 rort forty forty- eight contacts to lb uin I In n them was vas divided 5 fl ln In mon money Their 1 or stands lh Th Grat daf Zopp Zeppelin In most famous ot of took tool ot off ff from hor her hangar In Jn Jul July Julf on br her second ful lq America In Oct October eJ 1923 she lob ed and tho t th B but hud been j In a nt tempt earlier this V year tr I THE ROUND W rHE-W FUD CRUISE CRUSE Arriving at N. N NJ N.-J. J. J on August 4 tho the big big- ship remained I here here- four tour days On August t 8 her commander Dr Hugo Eckener lf ed e her in tho the al air and pointed ed it eastward for tor a a. lobe tour With a crow crow of of ot forty elm at twenty twenty wn- wn t ty r. r aboard she Rhe traveled tr fleetly across thu tho In the tIo record time of t 5 hours an I 4 B min ut On August 1 13 12 she left l haC haten n am Halting a r. r rounded round u d tho world arriving a at Lakehurst 2 21 l lda's days das 7 hours and anti 31 after r she left lct there earlier in Ia th the tho 3 month During Durin- its trip l Uio tho air giant gant maintained main main- an average speed of or 50 so milts mIles per hour Scientific lesl research m h achieved a. another another an other victory at IJ Now V e York on September 2 1 I when Lieutenant Lieu tenant J James H. H i Doolittl tJ s. s. s A. A sitting In covered m cock cockpit lc I pit roso from tho Uio field crl circled d around several Bc t CS and landed I again guided BOl solely by instruments It was Wl tho the first successful demonstration demon demon- stratton of bf f blind lying Commercial air Una operators J foresaw the clay when hen Zog fogs fogs' would lose their thell terror teror for fr pilots piot op op- op by ly instruments alone poo- poo littles little's feat was with tho tim 0 old aid id or of an artificial horizon a 1 direction finding radio and an m unusually un un- usually l sensitive altimeter tel It Is Js predicted thesa Instruments soon will vIiI be lo standard equipment c on nigh priced commercial plants plas llan LARGEST DIRIGIBLE E S Work Vork ork on the worlds world's largest st dirigible blo ble be began an at Akron 0 O. Nov November 7 when Rear Hear Admiral William WIliam A. A Mar MaC feU feti U. U S. S N N. drove a golden bolden rive In the master rin ring of ot the navys navy's With a gas gaa l capacity o ot or cubic feet anti and a 1 length of feet Ht she and tier her sister ship the 5 will far tar surpass furpass the tho Grot Grat Zet present queen of ot he the ali ah Both navy novy ships will carry five ho planes to o J thim fon attack These planes b bo bJ 5 In marsupial pouches from rm which they vilL SlL take off Itt 1 Lalur lY l bo ha l retrieved by L 01 special hooking apparatus th the navy has baa p lI l itaci ch Ze Zeppelin will be t further i pro ro J by sixteen machine They will have a 4 lS i. i ed n nf nr 7 7 8 knots and a a. aland rUl o 80 land Tho The 4 ZitS wai wa to tobe be beI completed thIU months I om n-om November 7 and the B fifteen aft after r thc first fh fc ship chip Conqueror of ot two 01 Commander Comman der del rd E. E.- Byrd an mNO Nov r 29 Called over ocr th tha south duth pole h in hid Ford 1 tri motor piano after i or off from Little Am Ant base He and hl h's hs companions pent eighteen 1 hours ape 9 aloft over tho cold eoM barre aBt al ih tho bottom bottoni o of the tho world 1 the man n to reach rench the south O th polo pole by hy airplane YEARS YEAR'S STATISTICS Other Oilier ts' ts ot of the th year Included tho the of tho the first metal all tM na navy i. anti and the thO 1 o ot of J a f U op k IceT ep lug Ing ng planes planes' oh on their true cour course t while lluta rest S While aviation's 8 i an-i heron hero hero- mba 1008 n s were performing their I drills and nd sawa bross-sawa word whining busily busHy in a hundred alt l piano facto ries Commercial pilots pilot were wind wind- big Ing ng their dally co cp he the country and thousands h U o oT or young ounG m men n Vero learning 1 fe 6 It lie 13 suc UcH fuI pilots t 4 Commerce Commerce- nt showed at tho the end y tJ c l last st fiscal year c r Ju June e 30 30 there thera two t o air lIr lines Une carrying forty fatty seven carrying mall and one on carrying la sen r S