Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1923, Page 16

| AVIATION ACTIVITIES IN WASHINGTON Naval Air Station. % The F-5-L is the Beouting plane and during the war for operations. It is the plane in service use in the Navy, hav- ing @ wing span of 104 feet and a Yength of forty-nine feet. Two liberty engines, rated at 330 horsepower, fur nish the motive power. The F-b has @ cruising radius of approximately 600 miies. It is equipped with radio sending and receiving sets and a yadio compass for navigation pur- poses. It was in this type of plane that Lieut. Commander H. B. Grow established a world record for sea- plane endurace in 1919 when he r mained the air for over hours, ampton roads. an F-5-L was used to twenty men from Hampton roads to Philadelphia. The normal crew is from four to six men. Eighteen of these planes accompanied the fieet of battleships to Panama during the past winter and took part in the naval maneuvers. Aside from the 000 miles of crusing performed in connection with the flight to Pgnama the F-3-Ls covered many tho d miles of scouting with the fleet ¥ of these planes are in at the station here Lieut. L. H was developed transport rvice sanderson, United States Marine Corps, attached to this station, one of the foremost pilots of the Marine Corps, will attempt an ltitude record within a week or ten days, either at Hampton Roads or here. The scene of the test has not been determined, and although the ia station is being considered s a probability that Hampton Roads will win out. The plane which Lieut. Sanderson will fly is a Douglas Torpedo, equipped with landing wheels, and it now is at the Hampton station receiving final finishing touches for the flight. Last Saturday ascended to 00 in a Vaught carrying with cial apparatus for altitude flights. which he tested "The climb took him 100 minutes The fog near Uniontown, Pa.. which Monday caused Capt. Francis Mulcahy a0 Lieut. McGinnis to crash into a mountain while traveling, full speed in a DeHaviland 4-B, played another little game on Lieut. who with Chief Petty s returning to the station, Tues- from a trip to Louisyille, Ky. At A¢Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, another DeHaviland took off at the time Licut Gorton hit the air, to serve as a pilot for the Anacostia ship. Somewhere in Pennsylvania the fog struck the couple, completely losing Lieut. Gor- ton from the other ship or vice ve Tdeut. Gorton read his compass and then turned due west, knowing he would strike familiar territory some- time. He was fly high which probably saved him the 2 incon- Venience that Capt. . Mulcahy a Lieut. McGinnis experienced. ~ After many minutes of flying over fog-ob- scured territo ut. Gorton's ship appeared over Wheeliyg. The journey feet st, 1o Moundsville was short, and the trip home was uneventful Lieut. Gorton and Chief Petty Officer Kast left here on the 18th and flew to Louisville via Moundsville and McCook field. They left the Kentucky city on the 20th and flew back to Moundsville. Mon- day they spent at the W Virginia field and returned home Tuesday pedo seaplane 1hrough_ serv and t R e betw Hampton Roads which is to he established in a few days. According to orders re- is route New Phaeton Reo $1645% standard Navy anti-submaripe | largest type of ¥ | those per: to be flown over daily by the new Douglas torpedo seaplane, except Sundays and holidays, and will carry mail and other important matter be- tween the bureau of naval aeronaut- fcs and the Virginia station. The operation of this route and test of | the plane is to be under the super- vision of Lieut. Commander Grow of the bureau. The plane is to fly at all altitudes and in compliance with the designated methods for trials and tests. It was flown from the aircraft factory in Philadelphia here by Lieut. Weads of the bureau in two hours and thirty minutes, which is consid- ered to be a good time Painters were at work during the week labeling the building field “U. S. Naval Air Station the words of Adm £ naval aeronautic ons in Potom: do not know what the p! Capt. W. D. Thomas, commander of the station, and Lieut. Neilson of the bureau flew to New York in a De Haviland for the week end. Word was received here from Capt Muleahy, In a Uniontown (Pa.) hos- pital, that he is getting his jaw patched up and will return to Wash- ington as soon as he can get a The Casper-Hinckle seaplane, a German product, which can be stored y in_a submarine, assembled on and_flown from the craft, was given an hour's test during the week by Lieut. George R. Pond. This little ship has 1 at the station for some time, but has not been flown recent- ly owing to the need of a new type of propeller, which had to be ‘es- pecially constructed for it. A p similar to this has been constructed by the Martin organization in Cleve- lind, and was flown a short time ago by Lieut. Pond there. It is said the American design is superior to the German type. Another test was conducted Lieut. David_Rittenhouse and 1. ander Mitcher with the amphibion—now at the sta- Douglas torpedo rrive during the to participate in the erial_exhibitions. The sta 5-1. No. 00, equipped for a smoke sci n, and now be- ing overhauled, bably will be completed in time to throw clouds of smoke around certain portions of the city rom Shrine tion’s ¥ laying Hampt Bolling Field. under mitted Service type of unifor fivers to a more fortable mode. dispatched regarding a change in unifor and the result actuated it to the staff for the following ch A roll collar . on the order British offi 3 place « present “choker” boots, minus spurs, for the leggins and shoes, and a soft, collapsible cap for the present cap. Of 201 replies 197 were for the c boots. The worn by 1d com- querie | registered |“m.n mu again st be carried in the s station ne week | th th A te th pit. W although there is Wa mitted by Capt. Earl N 3 tor of the Alr Service Magazine charter here model field Ro ociation Glendinning L BOAT SEAPLANE—TYPE OF P! ERVICE HERE. 1t is expected that a decision|Taylor. The Farnam stopped at ill be forthcoming in a short time, | Baltimore on the way here and paid 4 possibility thaf | its respects to R. J. Walters, gover- he matter will be held up pending | nor of the third district of the N. A. \e return of Secretary Weeks to|A. Wwhich includes ~Pennsylvania, hington. The proposal sub- | Maryland, District of Columbia and Findley, edi- | Virginia. Capt. Streett with Col. Lorillard as pplication for a |passenger, departed Friday for Louis- onal Aeronautic | ville, Ky.' Capt. Streett did not retu . was brought |to Bolling Field until Tuesday afte Wednesday in a Farnam sport | noon. Special business in connection airplane, which landed at the|With the preparation and equipment d took off a few hours later |of landing fields on the route of the Quaker City with model alrway demanded his attention = d. The ship was at ious points between Washing- 4 ton and Dayton, Ohio. Gen. Mason M. Patrick spent two hat this is the first noons at the fleld during the irplane to car e veek, flying with Maj. Dargue, of the community r | office the chief of air service, In {the Curtis IJN-4 Various officer: Philadelphia’s in the ssociation of U the air service | station hav testing _the new ight pursuit plane the WP-1 which now at the fleld The plane is st f metal, and is a com- Y new type. All pilo who flown this plane members, headed | pressed themselves teinmetz, Gen. W. 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