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Show LONPON VEiMIGHT:": Dcesn't Sound Strange After This Year's Ocean Flights By JOSEPH W. LaBIXE In New York a hard-boiled prize fight announcer led his audience in prayer. Throughout Through-out America one hundred mi.lion minds were focused on some vague spot over the briny Atlantic where Charles A. Lindbergh was piloting his "Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris and fame. That was in 1927, only 11 years ago. A few days ago another transatlantic flight ended and only a few hundred people bothered to read about it. Of more than 50 such trips being planned this summer, only two are attracting much at- j tention, those of Howard Hughes and Douglas Corri-gan, Corri-gan, the "mistake" flier. The ocean flight that made people hold their breath a decade ago has now become commonplace, and rightly so. This does not dim the ac complishment of Lindbergh; it merely means that transoceanic trans-oceanic aviation has grown up. that science has begun to capitalize on its carefully planned program of conquering the Atlantic. The Hughes trip was but a forerunner fore-runner of this summer's transatlantic transatlan-tic travel, a back-nnd-forth scries of journeys that will keep the waves humming for weeks to come. The airships of four nations are flying from Europe to New York over different dif-ferent routes in a series of "survey" flights. Great Britain started things off a few weeks ago when the Mercury, Mer-cury, unique pick-a-back plane, soared away from the mother ship. Maia, over Foynes. Ireland. The Mercury landed at Montreal 22'j hours later. Takeoff Load Problem. This "mother-and-papoose-enher-back" composite ship has attracted more attention than any aviation development de-velopment in recent years. Entish engineers worked on the well-founded theory that a ship can f!y cas.ly carry. r.g excess weight but it can't take oil .th much extra load. Kj e-cially e-cially is th.s true cf seap.incs. which arc held down by suction cf tiie wat. r cn their pT.toi. r.J. S-i the Main and the Mercury, locked to-gi to-gi -.lier, rife from the airport as a sirit'.e unit and separate in mid-air. The Maia is a land ship, the Mercury Mer-cury a seaplane. I'iyint; a different route from the Ar.cres to New York the Germans are werkir.g with three seaplanes. Nord-Aind, Nirdn.eer and Nerd-stern. Nerd-stern. Tiie ships bcler-.i; to Deutsche Lufthansa and are making H reund trips tins year preparatory to starting start-ing regular transatlantic mail service. i - - I . - i f ' i i'.V, ,111, ' , . . ' s ' -. y. :-. I : : J ' '.. : ':- I , i'-- .' t London newspapers, one day old, were sold by this newsie in Tur J Square, New York City, a couple of weeks ago. The papers were carri -: across the Atlantic by England's pick-a-back plane, Mercury. France is experimenting this summer sum-mer with the Lieut, de Vaisscau Paris, one f the largest tlyir.g beats in tiie w orld. Stunt Flying Banned. There is more to this stcry cf aerial navigation than meets the j eye. Transoceanic f.yir.g hasn't been merely a matter cf building one ship larger than the last and seeing hew far it would go without refueiir.g. Since Charles Lindbergh first dreamed about it curing his New York-Paris hep, the best minds of aviation have been working to develop de-velop feol-prcof ships that will ran mechanically, like trains. Until such ships ccu'.d be perfected, per-fected, the United States was justified justi-fied in frowning on stunt Atlantic ships. That's why D. jg Ccrri'gan't request for a permit last year was denied: it's why Corngan had to depend on a way-Aard compass to f!y his ship to Ireland a few weeks agi. Outside cf the weight problem ment.oned above, er.-.r.cers have r-und no st cf the..- d.tt.c.i'.ty in con-q.ier.ng con-q.ier.ng tiie weather. Ui.i.ke ti.e Tactic, Ta-ctic, which is usui.'.ly c'.ir.. the Atlantic At-lantic is befit u.th atmospheric dis-ti.rlai.ct dis-ti.rlai.ct s. Km; ec.'.iy is th.s true en ti.e e..st-wcst hop, where u-.'.il last year there were relat.vely fe.v StlCCeSsflll f.. (til'.S. Until a ft weeks ;.- the cei'.ir.-; f r ccmn.ercial '..ines was C-C-.-J feet. Since er.c.ncors have hng known that Atlantic weather ri.s-turl ri.s-turl ances Ct u'.d be cverconie by high altitudes, they have teen seeking seek-ing sonic means cf reaohir.g these heights under pract.c.l cer.d.ti. ns. Although oxygen cqinpnient has been available to facilitate great elevations, it weighs so much that pay loads would be cut too low. But from Sweden has come word of a new airplane motor capable cf sustained performance at altituoles up to Jl'.OOO feet. If it lives up to its claims, the motor will facilitate Rights through tiie stratosphere where weather is always calm. V. S. Service Heady. Whatever may have happened to her supremacy on the high seas, America need take r.o lack scat in transoceanic service. While France. England and Germany are busy with their "survey" lights, Fan-American Fan-American is preparing to inaugurate regularly scheduled service from LI FT Douglas Corrigan. whose 'mistake" flight from New York to Dublin recently was frowned upon with good reason by F. S. department depart-ment of commerce olllelals. UK-LOW UK-LOW When Howard Uuches and his Intrepid crew landed In New-York New-York after llielr record-breaking trip around the world, which au. guied well for the future of transatlantic trans-atlantic aviation. New York to Lcndcn in her rr.a moth Eceir.g "clipper'' shirs. J how soon the service will yr . body knows. It's just possible that in a f '. weeks you may be able to si. about $450 across the ccur.te: New Y'crk and buy an air ticket : ' Lender., arriving there less a hours out cf Port Washir.r.tn, Lc Island. Similar acccnur.odatixs the liner Queen Mary would be E1 plus tips, plus several cays erj " Passengers, mail and express be shuttled between the txo ci rents in the new 3,OM-pcund fyi -: beats (P. A. A. has ordered sj them) that cfTer everything frcs " d.r.ing lour.ge to a bridal suite. - Tr.e new "clippers" are riice . '.' large as those now rr.ak-j rei -lar. uneventful trips across the I cif.c. being far and away te r. " luxurious aircraft ever built. T .-st cf them was launched last Ap '-' and is r.ow ur.cerg:ing test iha . the Pacific coast. It is larger i . the Santa Maria in which Cc'.ur .b crossed the ocean, and three U3 " the sice cf the average cc r. e.-t a.r transport. I: has a w-rgscre- . and hold ycur breath cn th s o just half a city block Icr.g. c: 1 feet! j Two Deck Airliner. I From stem to stern, the nex be ' has been bu.lt to parallel an cos j vessel It even has two de:is. t p cr.e for r.avigaticn and : i cne for passengers. Up cn the i.i deck a large crew will te cn a-t ' Ahead, in the cockpit, the snta'j 1 part cf the deck, are the p '.-t co pilot whose work is largely left robot instruments. Eehmd them the navigation room are the rat man and the navigator, the form in touch with land at sU -- Back cf the navigator is the en, . r.ccr, possibly ihe busiest rr.as the ship, lie handles thrct-i checks engine performance ar.icc cut m the w u-.g to repair an a.u motor if it needs treatment. And suiH-rvising all these ir.t3 the t'.ight master, corrcs r in J the captain cn an ocean liner. 1 is an administrator, pilot, ergnft navigator, rad.o eperator ar.i X man rolled into cne. Luury Over the Wives. Down in the passenger deck rr-3 crn voyagers enjoy all the cci forts of home, and more. Ex-" for slight vibration and the nil f.ed hum cf four powerful eng."' therc'is no perceptible sign oirugf -Fig'-.t rooms are at the pu'o'.ic's oi posal: cue cf them seats riore thf n do.-en persons con-.fon.-.'oO' the others, tl-.ough somewhat s-ni cr. have big scats against the Tints far it looks like thcyu !ta . to omit only cne gadget; roeoo can figure out where to put swimn-.-.r.g pool! C Wfslrrn Ntwpt ' ' t. ; '- . Ki:. m ; r, ...... 1 ''i - 1- i . ' ...-.-si .! |