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PANAMA CANAL
IS BIGPROBLEM
War And State Depart
ments Working Out
Aviation Plans
WASHINGTON, ,March 7.—De
partments of state and war in
Washington and the foreign-office
in Panama are working amicably
for a solution of the airways-across
the-cana! problem.
If there is any spot at once the
Weakest and strongest in the United
States’ national defenses, it is that
little ribbon of water between the
Atlantic and Pacific. Of course,
when the treaties governing it were
signed, Wilbur and Orville Wright
had. not made their first successful
flight. There was no thought of
airplanes as either instruments of
war or carriers of peace. Neverthe
less, a blanket clause went into the
treaty, giving the United States the
right to defend the territory Pan
ama ceded to it. and under this the
war department is now acting.
Now the skies are teeming—but
hot over the Panama Canal. Many
an airline promoter would like to
send planes across there—not neces
sarily because he wants to stop near
Panama, but because a route be
tween North and South America
must, cross the Canal Zone.
Some solution is being sought, bv
which there will be no reason for
Americans to turn thpir eyes unward
in fear should hostilities oemr. but
under which a legitimate business
man operating a line of planes
would feel reasonably sure of not
having to fall too frequently hack
on that immemorial time table line:
"This schedule is subject to change
without notice ”
South and Central America, woe
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fully behind this country in the
matter of good roads, and trans
portation in general, are in deep
need of aerial development.
CALIFORNIA WILL
HAVE HUGE PORT
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GLENDALE, Cal., Mar. 7.—The
Grand Central air terminal of Glen
dale. on a 150-acre site, will have a
concrete runway 3,000 feet long, and
plans for the project contemplate an
expenditure of $3,000,000, C. C. Spi
cer, manager, announces.
It is eight miles from the business
district of Los Angeles and will be
used as a terminal by the Maddux
air lines operating to San Francisco,
San Diego and Lower California.
PILOT RIDES WIND
AT 190 MILES HOUR
NEW YORK. March 7.—^—It's
an ill wind that blows no good.
While hundreds of New Yorkers
were complaining of the gale-like
wind wrhich swept into the city
from the south. Donald Johnston,
air mail pilot, was riding the wind
through the night at the rate of 190
miles an hour.
Johnston made his night trio
from Richmond to New York in 93
minutes firing time. The usual time
for the trip is more than three
hours.
COMPLETE AIRPORT
Pontiac. Mich., is completing an
airport said bv department of com
merce officials to be one of the
outstanding developments of its
kind in the country, viewed partic
ularlv from the standpoint of
lighting equipment installed. The
lighting svstem has been designed
to meet the department of com
merce requirements for an “A”
rating.
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Stinson to Try for New
Endurance Flight Record
;
Eddie Stinson Heft) and Randolph Page (right), veteran Detroit
pilots, hope to br»ng back to America the world endurance airplane
record held by Risticz and Zimmcrmann of Germany. They must
remain aloft more than (55 hours and 26 minutes in their plane, the
“Sally Sovereign*’ (above).
BY WILLIAM E. BERCHTOLD
(Associated Press Aviation Editor) \
DETROIT, March. 7.—(/P)—Eddie ;
Stinson, one of the oldest and great- 1
test American pilots, has his big j
brown eyes firmly fixed on a new
world endurance record for air
planes.
Outdone by the German record
holders in 1923 after he and George
Haldeman had successfully brought
the endurance honors to America.
Stinson is ready to open the 1928
battle for the non-refueling mark
with a new plane especially design
ed and built for the task.
With Randolph Page, vet eran a in
mail pilot, as his companion and
relief pilot on the trial. Stinson
is ready to take off on a flight that
will carry him through sub-zero
weather back and forth across Lake
Huron to what he hopes will be a
new world endurance record.
They must remain aloft more
than 65 hours and 26 minutes to
shatter the record made last year
by Johann Risticz and Wilhem
Zimmermann of Germany. One hour
past that mark would bring the rec
ord to America again, but Stinson
and Page hope to heat the record
so badly that they wall not be both
ered by successful international
competition for a year or so.
Load and consumption tests with
the new plane, which has been in
the air only a few days, will help
to decide—on paper— how long the
plane may be able to stay in the
air. Its pilots calculate that the
plane should be able to remain aloft
at least 80 hours, and perhaps the
time can be stretched to 90 or 100.
As soon as preliminary tests are
completed, Stinson and Page will
take off for Bay City. Mich., chosen
as the site of the trial. A runwTay
more than twro miles long has been
prepared on Saginaw7 bay, an arm
of Lake Huron, from which the rec
ord seekers will take off with a full
load. Fifteen hundred gallons of
gasoline and many barrels of oil
await the fliers at Bay City. i
The new plane, named the “Sally
Sovereign” in honor of the 15 year
old daughter of a Bay Citv re^iden^
who has offered to pay a part of
the flight expenses it me record is
broken, has many new features in
design.
It is the first plane to be equipped
with a new nine cylinder air-cooled
radial engine developed by the
Wright Aeronautical corporation,
known as the J-6. Aeronautical en
gineers are awaiting results of the
long grueling trial to measure the
value of the new engine which has
several new features.
To cut down air resistance and
decrease the plane's fuel consump
tion, Stinson has built his plane
with a retractable landing gear of
unusual design, since the wheels
and undercarriage fold up into the
wings of the plane. Engineers claim
that 21 per cent of the resistance
is cut by folding the under carriage
into the monoplane wing.
Special cowling developed by the
national advisory committee for
aeronautics to cut down resistance
offered by the projecting cylinders
of radial air-cooled engines has been
employed on the plane. Stinson
hopes to cut down his fuel con-'
sumption further in this way.
Eight hundred gallons of gasoline
will be stored in the huge tanks
built into the fuselage and wings of
the plane, while a belly tank wall
carry 200 gallons more when the
plane takes off for its trial. Built
especially for a world endurance
flight, the plane is a veritable “fly
ing gas tank.”
The exhaust will be utilized to
heat food while the plane is in flight
through a special device which cir
culates the warm air around a con
tainer in which food may be placed
Unlike some endurance fliers, Stin
son and Page insist upon caring
adequatelv for their heavy appetites
and plan to take plenty of food with
them on the long grind across snow
covered lakes in the vicinity.
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Aviators—
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—and visitors to Airport Opening
WELCOME!
Brownsville feels honored to have you with' us at the opening of the
Brownsville Municipal Airport and the inauguration of the Interna
tional Air Mail service. We know that it will mean much to all of us.
I 'AS PART OF THE BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM
FAWN SEED FOR THE AIRPORT GROUNDS
' .WAS PURCHASED PROM .US
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McDAVITT
Brownsville
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BRITISH SONS
HELPJELVES
Reflected Glory of Elders
Is Spurned By Youths
Wishing to Work
LONDON, March 8, (A5)- The sons
of Britain's famous men have
spumed the shackles of reflected
glory and shown a decided pref
erence to make names for them
selves.
Anthony Asquith, son of the late
ex-premier, is one of England’s
best known film producers.
H. G. Wells’ son has chosen film
production with such success that
his father is writing scenarios for
him.
August Johns’ elder son became
an engineer and a second son of
the painter is attending a sem
inary at Roehampton studying for
the priesthood.
The Honorable Esmond Cecil
Harmsworth, son of Viscount Roth
ermore, turned his back on a jour- |
nalistic inheritance and entered j
politics.
R. C. Joynson-Hicks, son of Brit
ain's home minister, is a stock
broker. “Young Joe” Chamberlain,
son of the foreign minister, has
entered he army. One of Ram
say MacDonald’s sons is an archi
tect. A son of the late Bonar Law,
former premier, studied law but
preferred a journalist! can ndenda
•preferred a journalist! career in
America.
Oliver Baldwin, son of the con
servative prime minister, accepted
his professional inheritance of poli
tics but chose to oppose his father
as a member of the labor party.
PAPER PREDICTS U. S.
TO CONTROL SHIPPING
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 25.—(/P>—
The Scandinavian Shippirg Ga
zette predicts that the United
States may become the greatest
shipping nation in the world be
cause of the Jones-White law.
The gazette calls this law the
outstanding feature of 1928 in in
ternational shipping. “The Ameri
cans are great organizers,” it says,
“and with the assistance of this
act, a thinly veiled subsidy on a
scale larger than ever in the his
tory of merchant shipping. Ameri
can shipping men should make
heavy inroads on European ship
ping.”
DIES PRAYING FOR KING
CAIRO. Egypt—Miss Bessie Ne
vill, an English tourist, died while
praying for the recovery of King
George.
The Brownsville
Municipal Airport
Was entirely erected
under our supervision
The Brownsville Municipal Airport comprises approximately one J
I square mile, and is being equipped to secure the Triple-A rating as es
tablished by the United States Department of Commerce.
The field is provided with adequate runways, 2,5p0 feet in length
by 100 feet in width, constructed in the most approved frianner in accord
.with the specifications of the department.
! The lighting equipment includes the most modern border, flood and
beacon lights, centrally controlled, assuring maximum safety for night
flying.
Ben V. Procter
I Engineering Company
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| ocean liners churning the seas of the . ' /jgEA ■
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I birds of canvas and steel, streaking Phone 617
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