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Chicago Display to Show
How New Planes Run
‘Like an Auto’
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
A great silver bird drones
through the skies. Looking up-
ward, we can hardly believe
that the history of this graceful
creature encompasses less than
half a lifetime. Only 34 years
ago at wind-swept Kill Devil
Hill, North Carolina, Wilbur
and Orville Wright first raised
their patchwork ‘flying ma-
chine” into the air.
Few people notice the 60-
foot granite shaft that now
marks the site of this historic
flight, but equally few are the
people who remain uncon-
scious of aviation’s growing
place in our national — aye,
international — life. The year
1937 was so important to avi-
ation, and 1938 promises to be
80 much more so, that Chicago is
fittingly staging its first great In-
ternational Air exposition January
28 to February 6.
Into the vast International amphi-
theater at the stockyards, site of
the annual International Livestock
are still in the future. The visitor
with an adventurous glint in
eye will be unable to view this im-
posing array of speed and power
without reflecting on America’s ae-
rial progress.
The Oceanic Future.
the transoceanic possibilities of avi-
ation, a field first brought into the
public eye by Chairman Joseph P.
Kennedy of the United States mar-
itime commission. In November
this far-sighted official suggested
that
nies add flying boats to their fleets
and warned that not to do so ‘“‘might
prove quite short-sighted.”
Mr. Kennedy is right, because
regular scheduled air service be-
tween London and New York will
probably start this year. Within
three years a fleet of huge trans-
ports capable of carrying 100 pas-
sengers from New York to Europe
will be in service.
So much for ocean aircraft. On
land, commercial aviation has tak-
en so many rapid strides that many
cities are finding their airport fa-
cilities crowded. Chicago, Washing-
ton, Los Angeles and New York
are a few of the centers forced to
expand their landing space to ac-
commodate the larger craft.
America's fighting air force is
now the best in the world, equipped
with four new types of war craft
including the XB-15, called the
world’s biggest bomber. It also has
the ““Airacuda,’” a new fighting ship
believed the only plane capable of
downing the super-bomber single
handed. In the pursuit field the
new Seversky is the fastest com-
bat plane in the world. The army's
other important advance has been
and TWA.
first cars were simply horseless car-
riages, the whole purpose being a
motor that would propel a buggy
by the explosions of a gasoline en-
gine. The modern automobile body
and comfort came later.
Similarly, the first airplanes were
simply aimed to defy gravitation
and fly. Later man set about to
make flying simple, comfortable
and safe. The Chicago show will
illustrate completely and fundamen-
tally how well he has succeeded.
To begin with, man now does his
Just as the ‘‘open
car’’ has almost disappeared from
the automobile trade, so have cab-
ins become almost universal in the
airplane industry. Even the lowest-
priced craft now have such refine-
ments as upholstery and heaters.
Since aviation enthusiasts want
to operate their own ships, flying
is being simplified to the ‘nth’ de-
gree. And since most Americans
know how to operate an automo-
bile, the trend is to make airplanes
as much like motor cars as possi-
ble. Instead of sitting in front of
the pilot as in the early planes, the
modern passenger sits beside his
driver as in a coupe. And conver-
sation is easy as it is cheap.
Controls Simplified.
The parallel continues in the con-
trols. Many new planes now have
steering wheels and at least one
manufacturer has placed the gas
control on a foot pedal like an au
tomobile accelerator.
Another device, not entirely new
but made standard or optional
equipment on many more planes in
1938, is the tricycle landing gear.
This device, with the standard two
wheels supplemented by a third for-
ward wheel, permits the plane to
move forward on the ground in the
natural level position of an automo-
bile until it has attained enough
speed for the takeoff.
And, although the mechanism
still compares with that of the auto-
mobile, there are some new planes
on which automobile tires have
been replaced with web feet! The
reference is fo seaplanes and am-
phibious ships, rapidly growing in
popularity among private pilots.
with ships capable of fighting at
great altitudes, in the sub-strato-
sphere.
But the big future field of Amer-
ican aviation — the field to be
stressed at Chicago's air show—will
be private planes for the butcher,
baker and banker. The airplane is
undeniably becoming more and
more like an automobile!
It is as comfortable, as easy to
drive and as safe as the stream-
lined model produced by your fa-
vorite automobile manufacturer.
And the airplane is now used by
about 10,000 private owners and op-
erators, having gone through all the
early growing pains that also char-
poterisey the “primitive” automo-
bile.
Examining the “Parallel.”
There's a striking parallel be-
tween the development of private
airplanes and automobiles. The
For these craft almost any body of
fairly smooth water is suitable for
landing and taking off. More and
more lakes are being explored in
this new way by sportsmen pilots.
Most manufacturers exhibiting
small planes in the Chicago show
are either adding seaplanes to their
lines or making floats optional
equipment,
Who are these private pilots, the
men who fly to their lakeside cab-
ins after work each summer eve-
ning, and the enthusiasts who live
in the air every week-end? Are
they American millionaires? By no
means. While many rich men are
flying enthusiasts, it is not true that
most private flyers are millionaires.
The cost of the private airplane
now ranges upward from $1,000 and
to many energetic Americans fly-
ing has become a hobby that beats
golf. To the fisherman with a small
amphibious plane, the remote at-
tractive lake or stream is but an
hour or two away.
How to Hunt Coyotes!
These private craft have very
practicable uses, too. In North Da-
kota a rancher found his plane in-
valuable in ridding his property of
coyotes, which thrive in that locali-
ty and are a constant menace to
sheep and young livestock. Armed
with a shotgun scores of
the marauders fr
Another private pilot took his sea-
plane on his trip to the North Ca
last summer and used
the famous Norwegian
had a view of that wonderful sc
ery from points inaccessible
steamer,
om the air.
it to explore
He
en-
fjords
lo any
But the greatest number of ships
are used for the personal pleasure
of their owners or to earn a liveli-
hood in transporting men and goods
pr kt
A. S. Aslakson, sheep rancher of
Sheyenne, N. D., carries a shotgun
in his plane and wages relentless
war from the air on coyoles which
raid his flocks.
for hire, in sightseeing flights and
in the important work of training
more flyers.
Another important market is the
corporate field, where large busi-
ness firms are finding it both con-
venient and economical to own their
own ships. Thus busy executives
can arrange their own timetables
on long trips. Craft used in this
service range from modest two or
four passenger jobs to full-size air-
liners with specially constructed
bodies, allowing conference and
work rooms for executives while
they are in the air.
These are among the more prom-
inent phases of this phenomenal in-
dustry to be explained at the Chi-
cago show.
. Airlines Participate.
Four lines — American, United,
TWA and Pan-American—are co-
operating in the exhibition of a gi-
ant Douglas transport sleeper. Spe-
cially constructed cat-walks will en-
able visitors to examine the big
ship inside and out at close range.
In addition, individual airlines are
exhibiting equipment promoting
safety and regularity of air trans-
port.
A large section of the exhibition
floor will hold government aerial
displays. The army is sending a
P-36 pursuit ship, the navy will send
a Grumman bomber and the coast
guard will show how it saves lives
at sea through aerial work. The
bureau of air commerce has pre-
pared special safety exhibits. The
Langley field wind-tunnel and spin-
testing tunnel will be shown in mini-
ature.
These are the things that Orville
Wright (Wilbur died in 1912) has
lived to see develop from the crude
—though scientific — beginning at
Kitty Hawk. A fitting addition to
the imposing list of exhibits at the
Chicago exhibition would be the his-
toric craft that started a transpor-
tation revolution on December 17,
1903. Strange, indeed, is the fact
that this plane instead rests in
South Kensington museum at Lon-
on, sent away from the land of its
creation and achievement through
a tiff with officials of the Smithsoni-
an institution at Washington.
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