Show Hawks Ready to Try Glider I Flight Across United States I Noted Aviator Confident After fter Tests of Mo 1 Mo- Mo tor less Ship I ISAN SAN DIEGO March 29 UP UP Confident in the ability of his his' trim cabin glider Eaglet Captain Frank M. M Hawks noted aviator said tonight he was ready to take off at dawn Sunday in iii an effort to make the first glider flight across the United States Stales Captain Hawks put the Eaglet through a vigorous test lest today and declared that he was pleased with the performance of the craft Hawks climbed into the cabin of the glider lider at the Los Angeles municipal airport at 1015 a. a m. m and at 1230 p. p m. m cut loose from a towing plane piloted by J. J D. D Jernigin Jr over Lindbergh field in San Diego After circling tho the field for half haIr an hour rid riding In the wind currents the flier filer fer nosed down laWn his glider gilder and came to a a. perfect landing completing com corn pieting a round around trip from San Sasi Diego to Jo Los Jon An Ang Angeles lc les Ho flew to to Los LosAn An Angeles Friday The Tho trip from Los Angeles I wa was waa delightful Hawks s declared From tho the standpoint of the tha glider slider and o of towing plane plant we vc could ask for 01 nothing h lter The Tho air was wasa a n. bit hazy and bumpy but that did not bother bothel us UR much 1 Captain s veteran a and holder of It u number of transcontinental trans continental power plane Jex- Jex peets to land his glider r II In Van Courtland park lark New ev cw York eight days after ho ha leaves San Ean Diego Tho The first days day's flight tho longest on tho the will ill III be he ended at Tucson Ariz I O tidIes miles from San an Diego Other overnight stops planned are arc Cl 11 Paso and anti tvr tr cC Texas TexaN Tulsa Okla East St St. Louis oui Ill m 5 Columbus Ohio and I Buffalo N. N l V. V St tops Slops is i's for fuel for lor r lI the tho o oh ait h plane lane I and for lor supplies W were rc to bo be made I at al Yuma Tuma and Phoenix Ariz Lordsburg Lords Lords- burg and Wichita Falls Texas Springfield Mo Terro Hauto and Indianapolis In hid Ind Cleveland eland Ohio and Elmira N N. Y 1 OTHERS ON ROUTE Approximately sixty major cities and towns and numerous villages hinges aro arc on tho the flight route roule as planned Tho TIm all air train will toward Now New cw York at ut a cruising speed of approximately seventy miles per Ier hour Captain Hawks s said The total distance from froni tal takeoff of to the lie landing In New York will bo approximately approximately ap aI ap- ap proximately miles Captain Hawks s and tho the pilot will communicate during the flight light by ly means of a novel nov l telephone arran arrangement so constructed that the telephone can be released when Hawks severs his tow line preparatory to a L landing A radio receiving set et ha has been Installed in inthe th the tho glider slider to entertain th flier tiler during ln th the tho lOll long hours between hops hos rho Tho Eaglet a lCt was w con constructed b by Professor R. R E E. Franklin I of or the Cr University of or Michigan and Wallace Franklin his brother It has hal a foot ty-foot wing spread pread is 15 twenty one te feet t long Ions and with Hawks and a t small cargo Curso aboard will wilt weigh h about roo OO pounds c I |