Miami Meet

Like a swarm of insects attracted by spilled sugar, 437 airplanes of all shapes and sizes last week buzzed into Miami for the eighth annual shindig known as the All-American Air Maneuvers. Incidents:

P: Day before the opening, Pilot Benjamin King rode his tiny, single-seater seaplane at an average of 70.48 m.p.h. for 500 km., then at 80.93 m.p.h. for 100 km., thus taking two world records, giving the U. S. more world records than any other nation.*

P: While 89 fighting planes took only one minute to fly past in V formations. General Frank M. Andrews sighed in the stands: "That represents the modern fighting strength of the General Headquarters Air Force."

P: From San Juan, Puerto Rico, went the huge Army Douglas amphibion Duck, covering the 919 miles in 7 hr. 12 min. to win another world record, for airline distance for amphibions.

P: Three women pilots yammered when the committee canceled the sole feminine race for lack of enough entrants.

P: Pilot Tex Rankin climbed to 19,800 ft., set an unofficial U. S. altitude record for light land planes.

*World air records are established under the rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. By the rules compiled Dec. 31, 1934, records are awarded to Airplanes. Seaplanes, Amphibions. Balloons. Airships, Gliders, Auto-giros, Helicopters, Airplanes piloted by women, Seaplanes piloted by women. Most of these broad groups are subdivided into classes by size and by pay load. Each class may then achieve such records as maximum speed, speed for certain distances, airline distance, broken line distance, altitude, duration, circuit of the world. At present there are 254 possible records, of which only 123 are established. 40 by the U. S., 38 by France, 28 by Italy, eight by Germany, eight by Poland, one by England.

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