Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 7 | Merican Glider Expert, Employing New Method, to Attempt 400-Mile Flight from Frisco to Los Angeles

Glider Expert Employing few rew Method to Attempt Mile Mile Flight From Frisco to Los Angeles us Ls s Will Use Thermal Soaring for forI I Record Journey y IY LEICESTER WAGNER AGNER Staff Correspondent c d Press I Cal April 13 13 Tak Tak- Tak rig ng ng like an eagle William Haw- Haw will attempt a nonstop our lour glider gUder flight from San to Los Angeles some time the next few months lus Ius Americas America's leading glider who taught Colonel and Mrs s A. A Lindbergh to fly in the ess CS craft revealed details of oC posed flight in fn an interview tie he United Press today augh Captain Fr Frank Hawks lew a l glider across the coun coun- wed by an airplane Bowlus at t artificial means of ot rill rm be towed Into the air by an I bile cast loose his towing nd lid then depend upon his abila abil- abil a navigator to complete his hise I e flight light down the coast us lus explained a new method of ot thermal flying thermal current soar- soar le ic calls It it-b it It-by It by which he hc ex ex- peets to complete the record break break break- Gliding heretofore has b been en done with the aid of convenient air lir currents currents currents cur cur- rents over hilly country countr Bowlus Bolus ex ex- USES NEW EW METHOD l The new method discovered by Robert Kronfeld noted German glider gIld gIld- er cr expert and taught to Bowlus during dur duro ing log a year and a half hat of schooling takes advantage of ot rising air currents of warm air or thermal waves The earth is naturally a l reflector of heat from the sun Bowlus explained explained ex ex- some spots more than others oth oth- ers era For instance out there on the airport and he waved tow toward the huge expanse of or Gr Grand Central air terminal terminal the concrete runways reflect re reo re- re fleet a great amount of heat more than the surrounding ground i Warm air from the field is drawn together and rises In a huge spout to great eal heights just as smoke rises from Crom a fire or steam from a kettle Bowlus on his flight in which he hopes to break the existing long distance distance dis dis- tance mark of miles will wm follow the Marin burin hills to the Big Basin country country coun coun- try near Santa Cruz there to gain altitude and soar over the mountains near Salinas and thence down the extreme westerly range along alons- the coast through San Simeon to San Luis Obispo I MAY SKIM OCEAN OCEA Continuing without halt Bowlus will fly down the coast to Ventura perhaps through the Santa Ynez valley val val- valley le ley or else skimming the ocean thence up the Piru valley to San Fernando Fernando Fer Fer- nando and to Glendale Naturally he said such a flight light could not be made without Investigation tion of thermal currents so he plans a number of short glider hops over the thc course before his nonstop flight Having set July as a deadline for tor forthe forthe the flight Bowlus is completing a new glider differing radically in design from those in current use Its foot 60 wing is extremely narrow narrow nar nar- row and its long fuselage is streamlined streamlined stream stream- streamlined lined like a bullet His enclosed cabin will hang just below the wing and in the nose of the ship constructed construct construct- ed entirely of wood metal a thin veneer of durability and lightness