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Show --- frnE -- -7 Z4, 1921- , , , Giant Air Craft in Making SALT LAKE: LEADS 4 OFFICIAL OMB LIGHTING SEIM - Miff 110110 1 1 VOLUME H.. ,,,...4, , i,,,,,t:.1(...141 , ; il t '', i t . '', '''''1; ' . ..-- - ,1 I ,4...1 . ,, , i''. I j. l''' ., i t. ,' 'A , 14'. , ....? l',''' i (, oA'''' ., -- 7 , F i I at Business Airport to Claim Justifies - Aviation of Center -- -West. United States. t. Oft,: io First Units of Commissioner Finch's Field Beacons Arrive; Will Show Wind Direction. - - :"Suers' ' !' 41moi Salt Lake City i 1 eTornci. ,l' f' .1, i 4 '' ,' A ; ,' . i ;;' ' I . f to . ; . ' ,, - , 1 S - - 't, - - 4 o '4 , ; ''' 4 ! 1 ' - ,, , ' X )' - Through the 'Nation's, Largest Airplane Factory ' twice-a-da- i 1 f, 4 I and-she- et 4 a ' 1 t I 6 s. '''s multi-motor- 1 i h - 4 aI , ,. ' 1 s; 06- ij - fp - I - , I ...." ; 1 ( I COMPANY BOEING r'' . BIG - Article Praises S. L. A recent article appearing in the construction magazine "Airport and Management: says that Cons .misisoner Finch has given his eity more airport per dollar spent thaw any other major American mini. cipality. The article was written after the writer had mad an ex. tensive study of American airports. An interesting experiment was tried recently by the commisaioner when he hung s arge magnetised bar of Iron on the tail gate of a truck clearing the ground by only a few inches and had the truck driven baek and forth over the e',Ndered runways of tho field. At the end of tho day's, work there was a couple of barrels of old iron, nails, nuts. bolt& and even horse shoes for sale to the junk men. NEW TORKIletstenant Cols Norman Jay Roots. managing director of Roosevelt field, naturally believes in using an airplane for transportation. Ha Pew to Chico,. go for his wedding there today to Miss Louise Wardell. With him were eight of the' wedding party. Ethl HAS - - ItM256- EXHIBIT - ,! 4 'Jrr 4 .I- - - X - : . 1 f TOMT Iwhile I 4 L. , 1 , ied in the nation. , In in spite Of the small e populationwest comparison with th east, the has become the real pulse of Amer- , A Ica's Every step forward in aviation is a distinct advantage for Salt Lake. Its natural location makes for the it the' loeical trade .enter At kest-7o- ? , 'section of the nation bounded on the north by Canada. on the east by the Ist;.aissippi river. on the eouth by Mexico and on the west by the Pacific ocean. When air transportation becomes more corn Loi.,,emomoloowilt mon and males organizations beT11,, iroa gin to fly their representatives. Salt , central location Lake will be the for them. ex to eight hours these re may fly from Malt La any of the principal No other city west. cities in'the In the west is so conveniently local- ed. and there is no other section of the country where aviation is so wetessary and desirable. because of long distances between large ' cities. Possibly more thrilling than ac- AC arc welder. Tubes and sheet Accomplished Fact' flying through the clouds is metal stock. ranging from .035 to - It Is not uncommon for enthu- tually elastic cities to claim themselves the sight of over 6.000 workers .375 Inch thicknes.4 ....ea welded sucDirect current welding located most favorably for aviation at the Boeing Airplane company's cessfullyfactory at Beattie, Washington, Is also used in certain classes of development Salt Lake, however. To man to for must fly." making 'wings work.- Torch welding and brazing Is not in a position where it tasual observer it is interesting. aro used extensively. tut structural! say "Ma can be done." but it faces the is Mechanical it To the " that engineer declaration the ars eletcrically welded. world with parts the There is a revelation. All Parts elated- this is f3eing done." disfew the Within Boeing a years air The sheet metal department with nothing Imaginary about from 215 employee is equipped to mantances to other cities. because they Airplane company has grown a bandful.of employes to the lug-se- t ufacture and assemble tangs of are actually being flown. heattle.---Th- e y achedin story industry aluminum,brass, terns plate. or Leaving on Isles. passengers. mail and express of the growth of that company dairy tin; radiators, sheet metal in aircraft construcontrol eurfaces. by the truly pioneers Cr. carried to Lea Angeles romance of seats, floors, etc. nos.al wing ribs, Western Air Nxpress Irk a hours; to ctionis an outstanding now the largest aeronautics. is It Air an Francisco by the Boeing All finished parts from the manation manufactur- chine. metal deTransport. Inc.. in 6 ,4 hour; In toa factory in theexclusively. brazing ing airplanes are sent to the plating Seattle- by Varney Air Lines partments of The consists twelve Naplant hours- to Great Falls by the shop where cadminum plating is Parks Airways in 0 hours, buildings, having a floor area of used exctusively. This department Additional is 300,000 square feet. to Omaha by Boeing Air Trans- - units equipped with spray cabinets and now under construction will ert in il hours; and to Denver by 600.- - electric baking ovens. to the square up bring footage Western cable department has charge Boeing Air Transport and Within its walls are built army of The all cable work. including steel Air Express (with connections at 000. and navy military planes. mail cables elecfor controls Cheyenne) in I hour& poetitee planes (which now carry SO per tric wiring, which. inand the of togo,d Itpokane are &leo within the a planes of the nation's entire air mail cent hour flight. day. Is exceedingly elaborate, due load), combination Best Toe Long IlauL to the introduction of lights. eletplanes, sea- trieal Instruments All airmail now passing from passenger carrying and radio. planes, "sport" planes, training The hull department, with 50 any point east of fifth Lake to any planes and won must Lake pass Salt of mploye& makes up pontoons and point planes. through this city- - It is for this the hulls for the flying boats. while The Factory nal& reason that In volume of airmail wood shop. including the saw the The (mope of the Booing organ- mill. manufactures handled It is second to no other all wood beams ow ization world seen a is resume nation from of the in the and ribs for the wings and wood city Chicago is the only till In the ea- - operations in different factory jigs. Mon that surpasses San Lake in the units: The wing room assembles wood Raw materials and purchased and metal number of lines radiating from It. parts whieh comprise Items of an average inventory in the According to postoffice officials excess wings and sends them to the of 6250.000 are carried in sewing It le an established fact that all where they are covsection mail lines of 200 miles or shorts stock. ered with fabric. Theme wings are The machine shop of 205 ex- taken into the dope room d.slance will not be prefitabe. For to be treater distances. kowever. It is perts, picked from more than 1.100 doped and varnislied and made candidates extra handles of every class generally eonceded that the ready for delivery to the final ascost of a cents per letter Is an machine work required in the man- liembly. A metal wing department far off let by the speed of deliv- - ufacture of the airplane parts, assembles this material for various, ery. that airmail service is hers and makes many of the tools used Boeing models using metal wings. to stay and win Increase steadily by other departments. It contains fabric covered wings, or wings omen equipment iTt volume until that time draw made entirely of metal. designed to Forty-fiv- e tubing. wires. spewhen all Bret cities snail ' will be stream-line- d Models Made. cial ehannel sections', and similar The enthusiasm of the visitor flown. items: engine and turret lathes. which rises steadily with the visual- and grinding. nibbling and milling tuition of each department, reachmachines. es Its climaz In the final assem:gier-Enthilslis- lii The heat treatment room. which blyrbuilding. It Is hers that 45 Is in conjunction with the machine models of military and commershot,, is provided with thermostat!. cial planes become a reality. Lined controlled call), up for about as tar as one can see Ovens which are used to strengthclearly are planes of all sizes and en and toughen the various metal shapes in their various stages of parts.. nearing completion. To prognosThe brazing and welding shop, ticate the future of these winged of citizens in 321 skilled workmen. machines which within a few days is one employing getting lines to their clues of the Welds, brazes and assembles parts will become roaring instruments in of the greatest difficulties Wad.-worton the bench or in the ma- the bands of America's made modern M. airmail system." shop. As pioneers in thl transportation. isiAo see a future of United State,' postoffice de- chine use 1114. of electric airIn in In Industry that development welding partment, Washington. 116 O. craft, the Boeing engineers devel- changes faster than any other on in a recent interview. a low low to oped earth. voltage amperage bound Is "An infant industry t bandicapPed by failures. ouch as are certain to come to some air lines as soon as they ate left to be desirabilsupported by their actual ity above other means or transportation instead of mere enthusiasm. to get a line to la their desirebusiness men will their towns with proposed pramise A girl, in the office of Com'Balt Lake City has aa airport believe air lines and may actuallycommunimissioner IL L. rinch recently which is on the whole & good one, the lines will help their surfac and well ties. and that the people within asked valet on. should do who Is with an excellent for repairs and passenthem will support the airmail by .charged 45 cents for a dinner and equipped T. C. Martyn in the writes J. gers," Wadsworth Mr. using it, tells us. he continued. then .didn't get it. This is about New York Times. "From Chicago to Lak Salt same kind of question being City stretches a line that after a business house or pri- the secondclass airports and landing vate person has used the airmail asked y operators of air line in of fields.- All of them are. for present few times. PowliblY cut of sym and out of Bait Lake. They s..;it. "Why should We pai needs, adequate. and most of them pathy for it, continucd patronage a an on cents ter wiil only exist whets there is gasoline when have good drainage and fair suractual savings of time edequateto that money is used for building faces," he continued. "As mountain terminus for compensate the sender for the ex roads which we do not Inger The question appears to be Boeing Air Tranapvt and Western tra few tents. one is has and Air out every about one that of Express, the silt Lake airport "Only hundred applications for airmail been discussed seriously in Mall, will doubtless grow. for it is, perservice is posted lot bids by ths states, most of them having a gas- haps, one of the TO011t vital ports tax.of this kind. on the transcontinental airways," postoffice department." Mr. Wads- oline At the western air conference Marlyn declared. worth said- - "The others are apparGovheld this summer in Boise, ' In the article smitt.en for the ently sponsored by George H. Darn suggested New York paper the author chambeee-ocommer.le and similar aernor said havsolution of the by at problem who guarantee organizations e that a general survey of airports of account made of ail most anything and thee.- if the line ing an led nation him to believe that sold at airport, and the tax the is awarded them, they forget about of them are behind actual turned over by the state most It. As an example. I know of a city need..use in developing for of barely 100.000 ponuiation guar- Icollected, It was held that in anteeing 500 pounds of. airmail per his Mantler the large and small I day each way. which iv absurd. Not would be raying for the even the biggest cities of the na- operator field according to Ills usage of I V I tion furnish that amonnt." t Finch for the gait 'Ake airport , ' , t, developed this week with the arid- rN, eb val of the first lighting unit. It is olist planned to place a ring of then .... units flush with the ground in the A , "" ' i 'ewe center of the field. Radiating in ... all directions from the center eir- . ...- , 1 . l' ,,, cle will be lines of these liyhts. . The line of lights will burn from l, 1 the circle in the direction the wind it z i' , , I. blowing. these lights being op- ) , , ' (rated by en automatict device which will change the row accord- r"."'"'..""41..),-. e ing to the direction of the wind. . Thus a transport plane arriving t. t ' - ' -' ir at night will be able to make an t :1; I. immediate landing without being 1.1:1 t ' required to first make a circle ,,.,,,' I. around tbe field to see which way f .', , the wind is blowing by flying paid e ' ' , ' . t 4 ' I, the uusal illuminated cone. The l't, N, vision be will , , ..-pilotr greatly in. IA:, ''',..46,k....a.f..14 Anyibt,e,,,-5creased and the eafety of landing at night accordingly better. center circle of lights will be in. have been ordered and should sr.. Commissioner Finch expect, the exiled immediately es these units I rive within the next few days. The stood tshs! paomecsoordsionrsg ' i tEcTrag directional rows of lighte will be laid as soon as titer can be menu. tured. 'Ws are preparing for a great expansion in paseenger traffic With tha inauguration 0t the II passen. ger pWie service be. tween Salt Lake and Chicago acheduled for October I." Commis., stoner Pinch remarked. Our land. lug field has been declared by' many to be the hest in the coun. try. It is certals that everything has been done that has been deem. d desirable. There is some dis. cussion among various pilots ando companies as to whet kind of a runway is the best. some say a cement runway is preferable. others think the soft dirt ' The light is coveted with inch thick view glass whkh is will stand the abase of the heavy planes trayvline over them or landing on them. IA s vo , A new night lighting scheme de- signed by Commissioner Harry L. of 40' 'F1 '; the center 41apmroylossnugnotAsortmf 1 ", Is Ts Airport Improvemen Commissiotter Harry L. Vlach standing by. working model of the airport lighting Mean which be deeigmmL-Thlighting unit ea top of the model le matpl of the cam to be Med buried flush with the ground. They bays bees made ape. daily to order for gait lobo Mr. AIRPORT FOR - 1 ) , I . i - 4 1' 1 - 1 I Injures Al;' Nail m - Would Use Tax Salt Lake Airport On Airship Gas Praised by Article To Build Posts In New York Paper t , over-enthus- gas-lin- i 4 . ) . . - Radio- Assures Safety to Planes NEW YORK. Aug. Radio, providing constant combetween munication transport planes in the air and their ground bases. is supplying the link in merdal aviation that assures safety and regularity of service so vital to its success, Herbert Hoover, Jr, son of the president Avid In a recent radio talk. "To be able to fly with certainty at night. to fly through or avoid fog and storms, and to maintain constant communication from the piano to the ground is to provide regular, safe and economical service for air passengers." Hoover said. "Radio is providing that missing link, necessaray to the development of air travel 24,--(8P- , , I Spinning Tests To be Discussed , CLEVELAND. Aug :S.Spinning tests for commercial airplanes which have been required under government licensing regulations are expected to be discussed by commercial airplane manufacturers during the industrial of the Aeronautical meetings Chamber of Commerce, here. Aug. 24 to Sep. S. The present alrworthinestr requirements. which constitute the engineering code set up by the government for the guidance of aircraft manufacturers. provides Oat any airplane weighing than 4,000 pounds Must be subjected to a spinning test before an approved type cerifleate will be , granted. Passenger Plane Be Shown at Air Show in Ohio. 18 t ,(,.($),.....0.0..:-.- tJ .4::::,::.-..M:-1:::-Ig-.J.S.:.- I 4 !1 A featured exhibit at the Cleveland Air show. which opens Montrlday, is the Boeing motored transport which passed and through Salt Lake: Monday. will be used on the regular service of the route commencing October L This transcontinental passenger carrier, pictured above, has a high speed of 135 miles an hour. carries 21 people-- 1S passengers, two pilots and a steward. It weighs tons when fully and eight loaded. This transport bag a wing MO feet. is 51 feet long. Man of and 11 feet from the bottom of the wheel to the top of the fuselage. The passenger cabin la six and feet high. nineteen and feet long and five and feet wide, with hot and cold running water, forced ventilation and heating, Insulation and mound proofing. The three Hornet engines, developing 1.571 horsepower, can lift the ton load 100 eight and feet a minute to a maximum eleof approximately three vation miles. The photograph In the upper right band corner shows the frame work of this plane with the frame work Of it Boeing army , plane In front. At the left of this picture of! one of the comfortable, reclining wicker chairs inside the mammoth plane. The smiling girl lean office employee of the Boeing Air Transport. Inc. i!.......q:...m.p.Tpl..pl.. . one-ha- three-quarte- 4.? f,)cc::41....g"St..:''VEL...V:.:...:.:....:'-'...- 4 lf and Original Main Bearings are Still in GopdCotidition m A, rs one-ha- one-thi- 0 lf rd one-ha- aaa - 1 Isi.V.-0- c,11,7C16..0- 14. dsgA.t.I.1'..'.11,..k lf 0 oco' N-- 11' ,.doil 4 .. ...AP... . .....1' 000 TLa;;I.I'l:::::..: 1 sir 100.1E; S it lisuil.....0" col. 1.141"1 ". 13101 log 13$1 a. Ii itkways Agent To Advertise Utah ;N 1 11 I Salt Lake and CtVa scenic attractions will be advertimed in the cast by Homer J. Merchant traffic agent, Western Mr Express, who will leave here Sunday on a two flying tour to Los Angeles, Kansas City, St Louis, Cairo and In each one of the Harrisburg. cities visited Mr. Merchant will over the radio or to groups talk of business men on the wonderlands here. Mr. Merchant who has conducted the activities of ths Western Air Express terminal in Salt Lake for the past year, reports that people are now becoming besided Ile exp!ains the dif ference to be that many have been who wou'J not use aii tranaportation, while they are Itew beginning to recotnIxs Its value, &Pt' use it. "Last Sunday the Western Air Express carried a tote! of 520 passengers over it. lines." Ilr. Merchant said. This iurpasees all records of any air trisnaportation In the ration. On that e,mpeiny day every available aircraft waa 1.,se4 and all were canied In intercity transportation, the shortest distance between any two pointa being Lou Angeles and Catalina There were twenty passe's,-gee carried between Salt Lake and Los Angeles that day. The passenger businclis on the Western Air Express has so far leen treater than that on any othtr line in America.' I.e concluded. While in Cairo, Illinois, Mr. Merchant will visit his parents and e friends. Fe will fly a total of 5.000 miles. tt011 &el C...,7 t- A 'MgAm."' 01 I Se. Cit' 1.xe 6,- -- Gelat loos I. So ot of are r5;0,00 . e. Atlte, t OSA.Arig . ellt-Ir d. . . - to . , A :..s tvista 8 - erg tee t . osti ler toe tea 11 olg' - tier! a - 11.3111'etr'9' e son- .'Ae.polili7e1 beet'. tistilf.eX18 000 ' is50t1,1 vistie cetiterttlf 10 t'sos 1),T e US 5 los ootuoe C er lOf ,,,.0 t" I Oil O. to tte t 0. it t-c- A too 4t .06 ...nt0V VC'. e$ 41.,tosT''ttooel set. ell e 'taco 118 vor0 1.10 101 it ifoteo ',-"nie -ute tOV rtit- t- . ttle'2 tallier Veaelvlblielle. 94:liVvelCe to spa ,- teoorl tatiPlettee umo- 111,E lort..-,s- T11 , : et , 191u it& ..a. treevett 06 It tto () re seri $11 le v,,---J. TKAge At .t., oar. ilotX.1.116 Us ..103,:all tio,..J 08 ttlee 4.113.. tS.,& ...-.011 - I; ,Ant -. tollttInte:t.81.C17,-t- oteTesteur lin. ekelbt l'..ZIX . 0114' .tobs c) t 013 ,,e,69 . ga4 itorio terr treill tuts Vor.'t ta , 10, 1 Iv a s. ,e,ope fol at ' 4fruse , v's . .....A --- - 1011. is i c ols,- p,lks'tc's (141 . r4 4 itilltec u" rf - . I 41. I cti,F 4 1, tent. a. r, o'd-tim- Don'ts for Aviators' Airport Eddie Quillen having compiled a series of "don'ts" for motorists and screen players, now turns his attention to the air. The following 'nillanien quips are tor the benefit of those who would avoid the fate of the well knowa "Darius Green:" 1Don't get excited it your motcr stops dead in the air. Just turn to page 21 in "Schnitz's Handy r Fliers" and read the ditvetions In the second parazraph. Thls volrme can be procured by mall order. 2Don't "walk the wings.' if you Ire the only perzon in the plane. 3Don't go too fast over Try to save your 1 Hotel Opens At Oakland, Calif. Announcement of the of the first airport hotelopening in the United States 13 made at the Oakland municipal airport. It contains thirty-seve- n rooms and includes a restaurant and ticket offices for all air lines. According to the American Air Transport association such houteleries will be built at various other airports. flying. Your discardee, empty bottles will jeopardize the safety of monis on the ground. 1Don't think that is a aynonynt for 7Don't get panicky if you ci mb Into a stalL" Horses don't pull the string on your Vres. chute until you have lumpcd clear of the plane. It is hest to count 4Don't attempt ground-loop- e at a low altitudes unites feeling un- from one to ten first, then swear. usually melancholy. eDon't complain It your chute b Don't drink intoxicants while falls to Polls Y- THE no record i , first-cla- of tremendous mileage to the credit of Vico, is further convincing proof that this fine oil has no su- S ss ht-haeaded.- ." n I perior on the market. Ask your Vico dealer about the unconditional guarantee. He knows that Vito will stand up under the Most severe conditions ; and he knows that the makers of Vico stand back of the statement that Vico is the best oil your money can buy! U-- NE r . H I?. Adttadr)roilb. PARAFFIN qmOIDow Nantaeturall and IrTANI OIL Ouationteed by REFINING COMPAIIIIIiitt Lek. El I cto , |
