Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1930, Page 73

Aviation BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. HE National Capital will see, un- der combat conditions, the great- est air force yet assembled in this country when the Army Air Corps holds its Spring ma- neuvers next May Approximately 500 Army combat and suxiliary planes of all types will be con- centrated from all parts of the United States to determine the ability of the Air Corps to meet a major coast de- fense emergency. The entire northern section of the Atlantic seaboard will be tnvolved in the simulated warfare. ems will involve flying covering more than e miles in almost a dozen This, it is said, is the first time in the history of American military aviation in ce times that so large an operation or concentration has been or- dered. The territory over which tactical and | I other military air problems will be con- ducted extends roughly from Norfolk, Va., to Boston and w as Buf- . N. Y., and_Pittsbu he exer only wili be a orough-going test of the Nation's air defense, but also of the military Spring maneuvers were held by the Air Corps last Spring and in the Spring of 1929, these will be the largest and most important ever held and will be the first east of the Alleghenies The field exercises are to serve a three-fold purpos:, the War Depart- ment has announced. They will permit training and operation of a large num- ber of ing. and the wo ual combat condit 4 and stail probiems. All Squadrons Engaged. of supply, g All tactical squadrons in the United | States from North, South and West will be summoned to serve in the mimic air war. In addition, it is likely, the vari- ous National Guard squadrons, one in each National Guard divisional area, will be represented. A large number of Air Corps reserve officers will be called to active duty for the “duration of the war,” including a number of distin- guished fiyers no longer in the military service, who may take refreshed cour- age and participate actively in the maneuvers The tentative program calls for con- centration of all units during the latter part of May and for the creation of a great combat unit to be known as the First Air Division, under command of Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, assist- ant chief of the Air Corps. The division will consist of a head- quarters group of about 180 planes: a bombardment group of about 40 planes; four observation groups, totaling about 135 planes, to which will be added an unknown number of participating Na- tional Guard observation units, and one attack group of about 50 planes. In ad- dition there will be a number of mis- cellaneous aircraft such as radio, photo- graphic and ambulance planes According to the present plans, which have not been approved finally and which are subject to change, the air division will assemble at Fairfield Air Depot, near Dayton, Ohio, scene of the first_Spring mareuvers two years ago, for preliminary training in large scale joint activities. Fairfield is adjacent to the Air Corps Matereal Division and chief test station at Wright Field. From Fairfield the entire division will go to New York. probably by way ©of the National Capital, Baltimore and Philadelphia, and will be distributed in the metropolitan area to work out the Various tactical problems to be solved there. The sector of operation will embrace most of New York, Pennsyl- | vania, New Jersey and Delaware. Final Phase to Be Local. The next phase of the field operations | Wwill cover Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, while the third and finai phase will take place over Mary- land, the District of Columbia and Vir- ginia. The East Coast excrcises will Cover @ period of from ten days to to veeks. The annual field exercises,” said F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, “are of tremen- dous value tc the Air Corps not alone in testing current tactical theories and in development of new methods of aerial combat but also in teaching the Air Corps to co-ordinate as a team. “Owing to tHe geographical distribu- tion of our air forces—in Texas, Cali- fornia, Michigan, Virginia and other Pplaces bsolutely necessary for the efficiency of the service that the Air Corps has opportunity at least once a year and under the most realistic con- gitions possible to function as a unit. While we are not as yet prepared to divulge the plan of action to be fol lowed, I can say that it will be dramatic #nd realistic and should attract wide public attention. New Passenger Line Opens. The new Ees Air Transport pas- senger service between New York and Atlanta, which is to be extended about January 1 to Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla. afferds a magnificent means for seeing the beauties of the Atlantic sea- board States. The line passes directly over some of the most interesting spots in the country from a historic view- point and embraces some of the most magnificent scenery in the East When service was inaugurated over the line during the week the writer was e 1 the opening run from v Cepital as a stern Air Trans- dler Field port, wt two earlier planes gotten away over the li The morning had been sharp and raw, with a heavy ground must, in sharp contrast to the genfal hospitality of Atlanta folks during the preceding night. Those Atlantans just weren't getting any reciprocation from the ‘Weather Bureau at all and it wasn't until the plane began to fly North that the atmosphere became mild and genial Ten minutes after leaving Candler Field our pilot, ¥ D. W Co- had rd, nt back word ne Mountain and above tree- the great granite above, he circled ¥ end of the peculiar s and flew past the face now arved for the Stone Mountain Memorial at a distance of 200 feet or less. The statue of Gen. Lee now tak- ing form probably would have looked sstounded had its features been a little more yielding. We aboard, having rub- ber faces, had the advantage of the general in this respect at least. School Days Again. Straightening out on the u- > the peculiarly terraced 'ms of Georgia and landed minutes out of Atlanta. aced farms, common to the of Georgia, North Carolina £ th Carolina look for all the world like the contour maps we used to study in the class room. In the West the blue ranges of the AVIATION Needs Aircraft Engineers and Draftsmen COLUMBIA “TECH” All Branches of Drafting lueprint Reading, Estimating e Classes "Earoll ARy Fim Day and Evening Sessions o Correspondence Instruction. » Tor_ Drailing or Ene. Catalosue. S Rleiiier Now for Fev. Eok. Clavees: COLUMBIA TECHNICAL SCHOOL 1319 F St. N.W. Metro. 5626 sefulness pf scores | of non-military airports within the zone | course, | Appalachians were beginning to pile up and as we neared Spartanburg, S. C., | 16 minutes out of Greenville, the noble masses of the Great Smokies, the greatest mountain range in the East, loomed a mile high over the foothills, reaching a climax in the knob of Cling- man’s Dome, 6619 feet high. From Spartanburg north the route flown is amazingly rich in historical significance. The battlefield of Cow- pens is seen as the plane takes off and a few miles out of Spartanburg the ship passed over Kings Mountain, scene of the remarkable battle which marked a_turning point in the Revolu- tionary War. The monument dedi- ated ~ during the past Summer by President Hoover may be seen. The heaters in these modern trans- port planes work enthusiastically, and though we had removed overcoats and ts on getting aboard we now had to shut off the heaters and open the win- Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, ahead in the 18-passenger Con- dor, was making toree-minute speeches | in each airport along the line, in re- to welcomes by local officials. gged along behind and missed all but one of these functions, catching | the one at Greensboro, N. C., where | the whole party stopped for luncheon. | Catch Up on Speeches. At Charlotte, N. C., Wonsey stopped for fuel and the other ships disappeared |long before we were ready to get away. |We caught up at Greensboro just in time for the speeches. From Greens- boro to Richmond there were fewer farms and more for this _country being surprisingly wild in appearance from the air. There was a forest fire, and though we were ng more than a mile above the ground the smoke, drift- ing in a strong wind, climbed up to meet us. At one crossroads town a mile beneath we could see two automobiles collide at a blind corner caused by a jutting build- ing. We could see both cars long before they approached, though they were no larger than two ants, apparently. Cas- ual as it may seem, we couldn't get in- terested in the accident. It was so re- mote that it might have been in China so far as we were concerned. We didn’t even know the name of the little village in which it occurred. ‘The sun was getting low as we dropped into Byrd Field at Richmond. We had passed over the battle areas around Petersburg and Amelia Court House and could see in the distance the final scene of the Civil War at Appo- mattox. A score of battlefields around Richmond were visible at one time. Pulling out of Richmond after a stop of only six minutes, we climbed into the fading sunlight and headed _across Northern Virginia, crossing the Rappa- hannock and then crossing the Potomac four separate times as it would through | the flat country. We landed at Wash- ington-Hoover Airport at sunset, in one minute less than six hours of flying | time after leaving Atlanta. ‘The new passenger line, in addition to | being a deeply interesting line for the traveler, is a most important link in the country’s air transport network, con- necting for the first time the Northern and Central Seaboard States with the South and Southwest. It probably will become one of the country’s heavily traveled air routes. Merrill's Cub Growing Up. ‘The lioness cub harbored by “Dick” Merrill, well known airmail pilot, in the Eastern Air Transport hangar at Rich- mond is becoming a problem, as ladies will when they begin to grow up. She recognizes one or two of the pilots and mechanics as boon companions and with hem she will play like a kitten, but she is becoming a little snappish toward strangers. The other day one of her buddies walked into the hangar and saw no cub, but only the broken chain to which she is usually tethered. While he was stand- ing there he heard a soft thudding be- hind him, and before he could move went down like a falling tree with his own weight of cub all over him. The cub purred delightedly, rubbed her sides on him and licked his face and neck. When he strove to catch her she raced away like a kitten, tail in the air, stop- ping to crouch and then dance away like an idiot, all set for a big frolic. One of the pilots, a dog fancier, brought in & puppy named Murphy and introduced pup to cub. The cat arched its back, roared with a funny changing voice which sawed up and down the scale, and made a lusty pass at the puppy. Murphy dodged, but not soon enough, and last some fur and absolute- ly all his confidence in lion cubs. Some 200 probably will be exhibiting a new arrival soon. Two Glider Books Appear. Two Washingtonians have just come out with books on gliding, both contain- ing instruction cours | The first is by Lieut. Ralph S. Bar- | naby, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, the |first * American licensed glider pilot. | Barnaby discusses the history of gliding | and offers suggestions as to selection of gliders and location of the scene for glider flying. He describes training in glider operation step by step, illustrat- ing the text with sketches and drawings made by himself. The book is sald to be a progressive and thorough course of fiight training for the three stages of | glider fiying. | The second, by Capt. Arthur LaRoe, | World War veteran and now a flight surgeon in the Army Air Corps Reserve, is in the nature of an elementary course in glider flying, divided into five sec- tions dealing with history, theory and rinciple of flight. construction of air- craft, launching and flying the glider and terrain and meteorology Both books are well planned and | written, and should prove interesting not only to the enthusiast but to the layman who wants to know what this | fiying business is all about. EA\N“'ER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE Where to Motor and Dine GRAY'S HILL INN Overlooking the Potomac Formerly a vart of Mt Vernon Luncheon Dinner Richmond Boad—16 MI.—Ph. Lorton 3-¢ Lafayette Tea Room 106 W. Patrick St. Frederick, Md. Blek Luncheon—Tes- Dipner Box Jinches' for Yourits. 506 (6 king Space in Re . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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