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5-MILE ALTITUDE
FOR FLIGHTS NEAR
Aviation Industry Plans Oxy
gen-Charged Cabins for
Passengers.
Editor’s note: How the aviation
industry is about to hoist itself a
notch higher, with commercial
flights in the sub-stratosphere, is
told here in a series of two articles,
of which this is the. first, describ
ing developments in airplane and
engine construction designed to
meet conditions in that rarified
atmosphere.
BY ALICE ROGERS HAGER.
It is highly probable that, some time
in 1938, you will be able to step up
to a counter, lay down your money
and receive in return a ticket entitling
you to ride at ease 25,000 feet above
the earth. Plying, in other words,
is about to hoist itself a notch higher
again by a lusty pull on its own boot
straps.
In a trip about the country just
completed this writer talked with the
men who are making this great new
step ‘'up” possible, who are taking a
Jules Verne fantasy and turning it
into metal and fabric that will spell
more comfort, greater safety, more
speed for those who would take the
wings of the morning. The planes in
which I made that trip have not yet
had their first birthday anniversary,
so far as carrying passengers is con
cerned, yet already they are obsolete,
compared with the results of specifi
cations that have gone past the draw
ing boards to the mock-up rooms and
the order sheets that are to start the
process of producion on its way.
In 1937 or Early 1938.
On that trip, Donald W. Douglas,
president of Douglas Aircraft in Cali
fornia, said:
“Within 1937, or early in 1938. we
expect to be flying an adapted form
of the DC-3, equipped with a pressure
cabin, which will climb to 20.000 and
25.000 feet without undue fatigue for
either passengers or pilots. We have
already done a good deal of engineer
ing research here, and we expect to
keep our first building to a modest
scale. The DC-4 will ultimately be
switched over to a high-altitude type.
Certain basic elements in the design
make that possible, but it would have
delayed the four-motored ship too
long if we had waited to work out all
the details now. They will come
later.”
At Middle River, in Maryland.
James S. McDonnell, jr., speaking for
Glenn Martin, said:
"The Martin treamliner can be
built now, whenever the order comes
to go ahead. The elaborate tests
which we have made show that, with
thus structure, using a pressure differ
ential of 4 6 pounds per square Inch,
we can "maintain sea-level pressure
in the cabin at 10,000 feet altitude;
at. 20,000 the same as free air at 10.
000. and, at a top of 30,000 the same
as free air at 13,500.
Breaking Seal Not Fatal.
“One of the greatest fears in plans
for high-altitude flight has been of
some accidental puncturing of the
sealed cabin, such as a broken window,
which, it has been thought, would !
cause instant or very rapid death at !
such a height. Our tests in the !
Bureau of Standards' decompression
chamber indicated that there was a
safety period of approximately five i
minutes during which the oxygen con
tained in the body was sufficient and
that in this time oxygen could be
added to the air-conditioning system
by the flight engineer and the puncture
sealed with an emergency apparatus by [
the steward. The sudden decrease in
pressure did not cause any harmful
effects within given limits, also allow- i
ing a safety period.
' There are other factors that favor i
flfght at. higher levels, notably the one j
that the circular-shaped fuselage
needed to withstand internal pressure
in the shape with the lowest aero
dynamic drag: the factor that heating
is easy in spite of intense outer cold as
low as minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit
in Winter, because compression of air
raises heat automatically about 64
degrees, and that since the human
body needs a certain amount of carbon
dioxide, it is only necessary for the
air-conditioning system to discharge
10 per cent of air each round if it is
cleaned and heated properly.”
May Span North Ati&ntic.
' So far as practical considerations
are concerned, supercharged land
planes will probably be used across
the North Atlantic, because they can
fly practically above weather dis
turbances, while flying boats will !
prooBDiy continue on the trans-Pa- !
ciflc routes and on the southern route
across the Atlantic. Their shape is
not conducive to the use of pressure
cabins.”
Back again across the continent,
in Seattle, Boeing is close to produc
tion initiation of a completely super
charged ship in which both Par»
American and Transcontinental and
Western airlines have an interest.
Its 107-foot wing span will carry
four Wright G-100 Whirlwinds with
a total horsepower of nearly 5,000.
It will be designed to cruise at 20.000
feet altitude at 266 miles per hour
on 75 per cent horsepower.
Pan-American's experience over the
Pacific and in using oxygen for pas
sengers and crews over the Andes is
being added to T. W. A.’s lengthy
"overweather" experiments conducted
by D. W. Tomlinson in his super
charged Northrup Gamma. Milton
Van Slyke, speaking for T. W. A.,
told me:
"We have tested the supercharged
engine to a decidedly encouraging
point of performance, not in a single
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2000 ROOMS WITH BATH, frwn $2.50
HOTEL Alfred Lewis. Mgr. I
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DAILY SHORT STORY
IN LIKE A LAMB
By M. A. Tapp.
TTHE Buxton
Arms, a medi
um - sized apart
ment hotel on the
near north side,
could boast as
guests a list as re
markable for its
gregariousness as
for Its variety. But
of all the guests
who daily pushed
their various ways
into or out of the
hotel through the
shiny brass revolv
ing doors abutted
upon one side by
the boulevard and
on the other by the
hotel lobby, per-'
haps Burton Eld
ridge was the most
noticeable.
It must not be
hastily adjudged
that Eldridge's
prominence sprung
“'I’m So Awfully Much Obliged
to You.’ ”
you know!”
• • • •
gLDRIDGE found
a situation in
his hands and no
knowledge of what
to do with it. So
he followed, as he
did from habit, the
line of least femin
ine resistance. It
was his first experi
ence with the new,
emancipated wom
an, but he didn’t
realize it.
"I like you,” Me
linda told him
shamelessly, when
he was saying good
by to her after he
had timidly con
sumed his first
highball. “You in
trigue me. There's
something fine and
wonderful hidden
away in the maze
from the wells of any sort of fame
or renown, for exactly the opposite
was true. He unconsciously attained
to the eminence of certainty through
the simple expedient of maintaining
his almost utter anonymity, para
doxical though that might seem.
For the shy, self-contained man,
fairly well built and not exactly dis
tasteful to look at, who was then
nudging middle age, happened to be
one of those infrequent mortals who
are the very sign and symbol of nullity.
Not that, he himself ever suspected
the fact!
The cloak of neutralness he wore
so easily was the product, not of his
own choosing, but of the selfish weav
ing of his late maternal parent, who
had completely subjugated her son
to her whims and wills from the day
he was born until the day when he
no longer found it necessary to worry
about what was coming next, in her
respect.
It is said that it is a long road
that has no turning. Eldridge found
that the road bearing him turned
surprisingly and very completely upon
the day that Melinda Jeffery, who
was walking directly before him across
the hotel lobby, accidentally dropped
her purse.
The multifarious component parts
which serve to make up a woman's
purse rolled and scattered in all
directions, and Eldridge, not even
glancing at Melinda, instinctively
knelt dowrn and began gathering fem
inine articles together. His shoulder
by chance bumped Melinda as she,
too, groped for her belongings.
* * * *
JJJE RAISED his head to apologize
A and instantly froze like a setter
at point as he discovered, not a foot
from his face, the sort of face that
people dream about. Dazedly his
startled gaze traveled from high volt
age deep brown eyes to the pert nose,
the lips curved in a humorous and
confidential smile, the round, firm
chin. Eldridge gulped.
Melinda laughed and suddenly
Eldridge's usual wooden visage creased
in an almost unprecedented grin.
The Jovian bolt which had seemed
firmly affixed between his shoulder
blades slowly melted and his back
bone seemed to melt with it as he
helped Melinda to her feet.
“I'm so awfully much obliged to
you, Mr. - uh,” she began.
“Eldridge is my name, Burton
Eldridge,” he managed to get out.
“Well, I'm Melinda Jeffery, up in
1036. I've seen you around the lobby
many times, Mr. Eldridge. but I never
thought I'd meet you socially, and in
such a preposterous fashion!” Eld
ridge goggled at her somewhat inanely,
at a loss for words.
“I had an Aunt Melinda.” he mused,
“and she was a wonderful woman."
Suddenly his face mottled red at his
temerity in speaking.
“On the strength of an implied
compliment,” Melinda laughed, “sup
pose you come up to the apartment
and have a drink? One doesn’t re
ceive too many gallantries these days,
high-altitude flight but in a day-by
day grind, simulating transport condi
tions. We know pretty well what we
can do with oxygen, and now’ we are
working on mechanical details of the
gas system and the cabin. Mr. Tom
linson has also found In his continued
or your psyche that I can’t believe
you've yet discovered. So, I’ll expect
you here on Sunday atemoon, so I
can probe. May I?” Naturally, he
said yes. Another course would have
been lese majesty!
The memorable Sunday afternoon
was followed by other and equally
memorable occasions when Eldridge
visited. Once or twice he even came
so far out of his shell as to take her
to dinner. He was astonished, not
alone by her erudition and grasp of
affairs, but by the apparent simplicity
with which she grasped situations by
the horns and twisted them somehow
to suit her own ends.
To his delight, he discovered that,
not like the frivolous youngsters he
had read about in newspapers and
the comic supplements, Melinda had
a mind which ran to cultural mat
ters as well as things more Intimately
terrestrial. Eldridge basked in the
warmth of an understanding heart
as he discovered Melinda's knack of
taking an abtruse point from «his
dropping place and pursuing it to an
ultimate and conclusive equation,
* * * *
“BURTON, I actually believe that
you're coming out of your chry
salis," Melinda said thoughtfully upon
the day that he appeared accoutered
in a modish Spring suit and jauntily
perched Spring hat, instead of the
stock and staid banker's gray she was
accustomed to expert. She shook her
head in disbelief. “I see it, but I can't
believe it's true!’’
Eldridge calmly looked her straight
in the eye. Inside himself there \vas
a little song bubbling, over and over.
ror tne first time In his life, practi
cally, he had dressed for something
besides utility. Happily he looked ;
for the signs or approbation he con
fidently had expected from Melinda. !
There were none, and a bit puzzledly, i
he followed Melinda into the apart- |
ment and took a stance nonchalantly |
by the Georgian fireplace.
"What's the matter, Melinda,” he •
queried with just a tinge of arro- j
gance in his tone, ‘don't you like
my outfitting tastes?”
Melinda still bent thoughtful brows
upon the metamorphosed figure. A
long, pregnant silence followed, and
then Melinda spoke.
"I think my work is finished,” she
said simply. Eldridge stared uncom
prehend ingly at her, suspecting some
joke.
“Would you mind making yourself
clear?” he asked.
“I mean that I'm through work
ing on you! I'm getting married!”
For an awful instant panic smote
Eldridge amidships. Then he quickly
strode over and grasped Melinda by
both shoulders. ‘Poppy-cock!” he i
shouted. "If you marry anybody, it’s
going to be me!”
“Of course! I've had the license
for ages you masterful thing! I'm
through with making you find your
self, and don't blame me!” She
dimpled happily. "I couldn't very
well marry a worm, could I?”
(Copyright. 1937.)
flights that turbulence is not entirely
eliminated at sub-strat06phere alti
tudes, but that it is better than 90
per cent less than at levels now in
use.”
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RATE RAISE ASKED
Driver Compiles Figures on
700 Trips to Argue
for Increase.
Basing his recommendations on rec
ords covering 700 separate tripe, S. P.
Bellows, 1621 Wisconsin avenue, vet
eran taxicab driver, has filed a new
schedule of taxi rates with the Public
Utilities Commission.
Bellows said this was the first time
the commission had ever been fur
nished with such a comprehensive
record.
Here's what Bellows found out when
he balanced his books:
The average fare is 32.8 cents per
trip. The average cost is 16 9 per
trip. On a basts of 4 cents a mile
cost, this leaves the driver 15 9 cents
net. The majority of drivers, how
ever, set 5 or 6 cents a mile as their
cost of operation. On the latter
basis, a driver is more in business for
his health than for a living, Bellows
declared.
The average passenger stays in a
cab 8.2 minutes. The driver spends
the next 18.5 minutes after discharg
ing a passenger looking for another
one.
Here’s what Bellows would do
about it:
Make the first zone fare 25 cents
instead of 20 cents, as at present.
“Most people give you a quarter any
how,” Bellow's said.
Charge 10 cents for each additional
passenger in excess of one. This
charge Is now made for each in ex
cess of two.
Make a square out of what he called
the “gerrymandered” first zone, with
Fourteenth street and New York ave
nue as the center. Its boundaries
would be Twenty-second street on the
west, R on the north, Third on the
east and B southwest on the south.
The present boundaries are Twenty
second street, Florida avenue. Eighth
street northeast and southeast and D
street southwest and southeast. He
would equalize the other zones and
bring them closer in.
Put Walter Reed Hospital into the
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trips. It’s a total of 50 miles. At
4 cents a mile you make 80 cents. At
8 cents a mile you lose 20 cents."
Members of the commission are
looking over Bellows’ schedule.
CONNALLY TO SPEAK
Will Address Texas State Society
Reception Saturday.
Senator Connally of Texas will be
the principal speaker Saturday night
at the Texas State Society’s recep
tion and dance at the Mayflower
Hotel In celebration of San Jacinto
day.
Karl Crowley, solicitor of the Post
Office Department and president of
the society, who has just returned
with Postmaster General Farley after
dedicating some Federal buildings in
Texas, also will appear on the pro
gram.
More than 1,200 Texans are ex
pected to attend the celebration.
Plan Trips to New York.
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committee in charge is headed by
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