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POLITICALANNOl'N CEMENTS
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FOR
REPRESENTATIVE
HENRY A. SLATER
(Republican Nominee)
OF CORDOVA
Election November 5th.
Cordova lias never been represented in the Terri
tonal Legislature and you now have an opportunity ot
voting for a home candidate.
FOR
ROAD COMMISSIONER
JAMES L. GALEN
(Republican Nominee)
OF CORDOVA
The support of all voters is solicited at the Election
on November 5th.
AMERICAN AVAmON FIELDS
IN FRANCE^DESCRIBED
AMERICA N A VIATIOX ( !•:XTER. ]
Issodoun, Franco, Aug. 2 (by mail).
This American (lying camp is the
largest In France, and is said to he
greater than any other in th world.
A flying field of thirty-six square
miles, tin* area of an American county,
v ith nine separate* flying in Ids, on
\ hieh American aviators ad inee to |
fin1 stage of Might combatant: und air
planes Liberties, Xieuports. 1 aproni
and all the others, with of; rs. in
struc tors and newly equipped .iviators
.‘ welling our squadrons each month
iin so were some of the main :■ atures
of this vast aviation ground
As the Associated Press correspon
dent entered one of the lield a big.
gray machine rose from a near-by
lield with a loud droning* no; .
"There goes a Liberty a ; plane,"
said one of the officers, it .is one
of tin* fast increasing number now
coming, and every flight was itched
with keenest interest and growing en
thusiasm by those who will p i' it to
the supreme test on the lighting;
front. Only one opinion wa heard
among these men. that it was 'he big
gest and fastest machine of tin m alb
I* was doing wonders in quick ■ eent,
. l.d besides straightaway High’ it had
lien put through all the intricacies
o» acrobatic flight and had 1 • • i» pro
nouneed equal to the whole r age*.
(1. > | - of a\tors \,c:e lined up as
v.c arrived. preparatory to taking the
air. They were lithe, stock young
n.i ;i. like two football eleven about
t- take (lie field. Tli" t ying rounds
! stretched olT for miles nine ."Ids of
four square miles each—all clean-cut
stubble fields on which tile machines
; could light w ithout shock. Above
them circled countless planes, singly
and in squadrons, drawn out like wild
i geese, looping and diving ami in all
t'ne evolutions of flight, with groups,
ol acrobatic planes over to the light
making headlong spirals, wing slips ^
and renversements.
in the foreground rose a "it- of;
barracks, one story pine shacks loo
feet long, not very ornamental but j
I very practical Fully a thousand of
these barracks had risen on this level
plain to house the army of flying men
on the way to the fighting hue.
We went from field to field to note
each stage in the development of aim
bat aviators. Generally speakin , it
was explained, there are three dis
tinet branches of this aviation for
warfare chase and combat work, in
which most of the fighting ocairs,
bombardment of enemy for es, camps
[ ami towns, and scouting or reconnais- j
\ sauce work tor purposes e; observa
tion of enemy activities. It is for
i ombat and bombardment that the
training is done here, and c those go
| ing forward monthly about four-fifths
are combatants and one-fifth bombard-)
ment pilots
"Those are the ‘grasshoppers.’" I
said the captain as we came in field
No. 1, where the initial groundwork
and theory of flight begins. The grass
hoppers were diminutive machines
with just enough horse power to jump
over the ground, and occasionally rise
ten feet. The men call them taxis and
routers. They were skipping about
singly and in squads. Two were hav
ing a race across the plain, ami one
taking a dive, buried Its nose in the
ground. This was the circus part of
flying, at the start, but there was j
plenty of very practical work beside,
with motor instruction, gunnery, trap
snooting, rifle range nr.d machine-gun
firing Small dummy enemy airplanes
dot'ed the field ns targets, and the
bounding grasshoppers took their
shots and were rated by the match
ing instructors.
On the second field the nviat< rs had
left the grasshoppers and were in a
! double-control machine, accompanied'
by an instructor. They were retting
the "feel” of the machine In actual
flight, and if the rudder was not ma
nipulated deftly the instructor was
there to make the correction. And it
was necessary here to learn how to
come down as well as go up, and to
come down at a definite point. Small
numbered flags marked the landing
point of each machine and the descent
must be made close up to this flag.
The captain of field No. 3 was about;
to step into the "Flying Dragon," one
of the most curious machines of the
fleet, for besides being a very fleet
fifteen-meter car, it was famous for
its dragon body, with flaming scales
and tentacles and great red eyes.
Here on this field the aviators entered
single-control machines, without an
instructor, and for the first time took
their own risks.
On field No. 4 It begun to develop
whether the aviator could qualify a*
a combat airman or for bombardment
nr scout observation. He was now in
a fast rnarhine with a wing surface
of eighteen meters, and was begin
ning to make dips and engage* in high
air maneuvers. He was being accus
tom« d to all types of machines There
was a fleet of one of these strange,
types drawn across the plain Their
i hiet novelty was in having hall hear
ings on all their mechanism, giving
a hair-trigger response t«> the slight
est touch
"If you sneeze you loop the loop."
was the way the of.'ic. :* explained the
delicacy of this mechanism.
Progress is rapid now that it is evi
dent what a flyer can do. He enters
a very fast machine at No a. with
fifteen meter wings, capable of making
120 miles an hour. Some of the men
drop out of the training at this point,
as H has become evident that they
lack the deftness or get faint at the
height or from the heat of the motor.
The rest go on to field No. »j. where
they begin pursuit work, and some of
the early stages of aerobatic nose
dives and slips.
"There is nothing freakish about
these acrobatics.” said the officer, "for
they are one of the most essential
parts of coipbaf aviation. To he a
chase and pursuit pilot one must he
able to outmaneuver the enemy avi
tor; to make quick turns under fire
; a 1 g*-t al ov*• y» i • ad\ e;ar\ or on
! fail <)ne or t he of her will I ••
out maneuvered, and the fastest man
v m t he game '! fe enciay is \ •• y
skillful at acrobatics, and he i: t
he beaten at his own game."
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was
in command of field No. 7 while he
was here, and the car of the late of
finer stood in the hangar with a group
of flyers about if paying tribute to
the splendid qualities and daring of
their late leader His good humor was
recalled by the name he had given
his car. "Doc Yak." and the doctor,
with his flowing whiskers. was
painted in darning colors on the side
of the car.
This is the field on which forma
tion dying is begun, in squadrons up
to eighteen machines, hut usually
! with five. The squadron flies in V
shape, with the commander at the
apex of the V, carrying a streamer
which signals the commands. ,\ fleet
of fifteen machines was starting as
we passed, and another had just come
down after two hours in the air, end
ing with a figure eight, a difficult evo
lution executed by "crossing the con
trols," so that the rudder serves as
elevator and the elevator serves as
rudder At night this field is lighted
by powerful searchlights, and night
flying goes on from 1" o'cioi k until
daylight
On the 'ombat and acrobatic field4-.
Nos. K and !•, stores of machines were
in the air going through their fighting
evolutions or dipping and loopin.
The. combat airplanes carried camera
gunso. a novel device combining a
dummy machine gun and a photo
graphic camera. It looks like a gun.
but as the trigger is pulled the cam
era takes a picture of the target,
showing just what would have been
hit if a shot instead of a lense had
Idazed ahead.
It was over the acrobatic field that
the real wonders were going on, in
the vertical virage. spirals and wing
slips. Spectacular as these seemed to
be, each had its use in tin* fighting
game The "vrillc" is that dizzy head
first tumble, and the chief thing is not
io do it but to undo it and come out
of it It has its uses, too, in deceiving
an enemy into the belief that the avi
ator has been hit and is tumbling,
then, as the enemy is off guard, at
tacking him suddenly as the aviator
comes out ot his headlong dive One
of the flyers made four vrilles as w*
v. atched.
It is dangerous only wh« n near the
ground." said the escort. "High in
the air there i-; comparatively no dan
ger. for there is plenty of time to
set your levers ho that you’re sure to
come out of the vrille "
Others were doing the spiral, an
other form of head-first dive, except
that the ear is always under control,
whereas in the- vrille tin* control is
lost until the aviator succeeds in
emerging from his fall. Often the*
mac hines seemed to stop suddenly,
turn over and then glide awa> in the
opposite direction, right side up
One* of th»* he1--1 maneuvers for
evape from a danpe ro i fight is the
• rtie .il wing'‘lip, as if i the fastest,
nteins of 1" in:* altitude and getting
he low an unc-cpial combat When an
acrobatic- maneuver missc - nr i badly
done if !• a “pancake" or a “barrel”
There is a mu< h lingo to tIn- avia
tion field a there is to tin l * < ball
diamond.
Leaving tin* field, we passed a ‘ rip
pl'd aviator limping on c rutch* "ll<*
has had twenty-one crashes." said the
officer, "which is about the* record.
Hut h** goes bac k r\cry time*, and he's
eager now to get in his machine again.
And that is the spirit of every man
here* to be ready fur combat and to
beat t h** boche "
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