Land of the Soviets, Russian plane making a leisurely west-to-east world tour, landed on U. S. territory last week, at Altu, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, 7,000 miles from Moscow whence the plane flew one month ago (TIME, Aug. 19).
Army Air School. The Army's advanced flying school at Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.) heretofore has required only one year's enlistment. Thereafter graduates could choose between two years' additional service in the Air Corps or go into commercial flying. Private flying schools have complained, on the one hand, that the Army was thus hurting their business. On the other hand, the Army has complained that it is getting too few graduates from Kelly Field. Hence: new War Department regulations which require that flying students must enlist for three years-one at school, two in the Air Corps or its reserve.
To South America. Racing to stretch their air lines down the South America east coast last week were Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line (TIME, July 22).
¶ For Pan-America President Juan Terry Trippe & wife. Technical Adviser Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife, and others, flew from Miami for Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, by way of Florida and the Antilles. They were to return to the U. S. by way of northern South America and Central America. Mrs. Lindbergh asked fellow passengers to call her Anne. She calls her husband Augustus. Col. Lindbergh reported progress frequently by radio, beginning his messages "Lindbergh, pilot."
¶ For N. Y., Rio & B. A., Senhorita Alicia Sampaio, daughter of the Brazilian consul general at Manhattan, christened a Sikorsky amphibian Pernambuco. It left New York for Pernambuco, its station, to be ready for the opening of its 8,500 New York Buenos Aires line on or about Oct. i. Formal opening depends on the start from New York of the 32-passenger Consolidated Commodore, biggest U. S. flying boat, which the company has just bought.
New York to Miami. Three loaded planes opened the first New York-to-Miami passenger and express line last week (Eastern Air Express).
Schwab into Aviation. Charles Michael Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (see p. 12), two years ago met with Orville Wright, Glenn Hammond Curtiss and other flyers, also with Henry Ford, and suggested ways of industrializing aviation. But until last week he did not enter the field himself. His present essay was to become the largest individual stockholder in the General Aero Corp. and to sell it the Atlantic City Motor Speedway, which he controlled, for a passenger airport.