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These Lots are centrally located, being
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Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold fcr $1200.00
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TRAINING AVIATORS
IS IMPORTANT WORK
American Aviation Center, Isso-;
doun, France.—This American fly
ing camp is the largest in France
and is said to be greater than any
other in the world.
A flying field of 36 square miles,
the area of an American county,
with nine separate flying fields on
which American aviators advance to
the stage of flight combatants, and
airplanes—Liberties, Nieuports, Cap
ronis, and all the others with offi
cers, instructors and newly equip
ped aviators swelling our squadrons
each month—these were some of the
main features of this vast aviaton
ground.
As The Associated Press corres
pondent entered one of the fields
a big gray machine rose from a
nearby field with a loud droning
noise.
“There goes a Liberty airplane,”
said one of the officers. It was
one of the fast—increasing number
now coming, and every flight was
watched with keenest interest and
growing enthusiasm by those who
will put it to the supreme test on
the fighting front. Only one opinion
! was heard among these men, that
it was the biggest and fastest ma- j
| chine of them all. It was doing
wonders in quick ascent, and besides
' straight-away flight it had been put
through all the intricacies of aero-1
batic flight and had been pronounced
equal to the whole range.
Crops of aviators were lined up
as we arrived, preparatory to taking
the air. They were lithe, stocky,
young men, like two football elevens,
about to take the field. The flying
grounds stretched off for miles—
nine fields of four square miles
each—all clean-cut stubble fields on
which the machines could light with
out shock. Above them circled
countless planes, singly and in squad
rons, drawn out like wild geese,
looping wid diving and in all the.
evolutions of flight, with groups of
acrobatic planes over to the right
making headlong spirals, wing-slips
and reversements.
In the foreground rose a city
of barracks, one-story pine shacks
100 feet long, not very highly orna
mental, but 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 line.
“We went from field to field to
; note each stage in the development,
i of combat aviators. Generally speak
: ing. it was explained, there are
l three distinct branches of this avia
tion for warfare: Chase and combat
working which most of the fighting
■ occurs, bombardment of enemy
forces, camps and towns, and scout
ing or reconnaissance work for pur-;
. poses of observation of enemy acti
vities. It is for combat and bom
bardment that the training is done!
i here, and of those going forward
j monthly about four-fifths are com-^
j batants and one-fifth bombardment!
| pilots.
“These are the’ 'grasshoppers,'
said the captain as we came to field
No. 1, where the initial ground
work and theory of flight begins,
j The grasshoppers were diminutive
machines with just enough horse
power to jump over the ground a/id
occasionally rise ten feet. The men
j call them taxis and roulers. They
: were skipping about singly and in
; squads. Two were having a race
across the plain, and one taking a
dive, hurried its nose in the ground.
This was the circus part of flying,
at the start, but there was plenty
of very practical work beside, with
motor instruction, gunnery, trap
shooting, rifle range and machine
gun firing. Small dummy enemy
airplanes dotted the field as targets,
j and the bounding grasshoppers took
their shots and were rated by the
watching instructors.
On the second field the aviators
had left their grasshoppers and were
in a double control machine accom
panied by an instructor. They were
getting the “feel” of the machine in
! actual flight, and if the rudder was
! not manipulated deftly the instructor
was there to make the correction.
| And is was necessary here to learn
how to come down as well as to go
up, and to come down at a definite I
j point. Small numbered flaps marked !
I the landing point of each machine, ■
i and the descent must be made close
| up to this flap.
| 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 15-meter car, it
| was famous for its dragon body, 1
with flaming scales and tentacles
and great red eyes. Here on this1
field the aviators entered single- j
control machines, without an in
structor. and for the first time took
j their own risks.
On Field 4 it began to develop
whether the aviator could qualify \
as a combat airman, or for bom-1
bardment or scout observation. He
: was now in a fast machine with a
wing surface of 18 meters and was
beginning to make dips and hair air
maneuvering. He was being ac-'
customed to all types of machines. I
There was a fleet of one of these,
strange types drawn across the plain.
Their chief novelty was in having
ball-bearings on all their mechanism, i
giving a hair-trigger response to the |
slightest touch.
“If you sneeze, you loop the loop” j
was the way the officer explained
the delicacy of this mechanism.
Progress is rapid now that it is
evident what the flyer can do. He 1
enters a very fast machine at N'o. 5, j
with 15-meter wings capable of mak
ing 120 miles an hour. Some of
the men drop out of the training at
this point, as it has become evident
that they lack the deftness or get
faint at the height or the heat of
the motor. The rest go on to Field
Xo. 6. where they begin pursuit
work and some of the early stages
of acrobatic nose dives and slips.
“There is nothing freakish about
these acrobatics”, said the officer,
“for they are one of the most es
sential parts of combat aviation. To
be a chase and pursuit pilot one
must be able' to out-maneuver the
enemy aviator; to make quick turns
under fire and get above your ad
versary or on his tail. One or the
other will be out-maneuvered, and
the fastest man wins the game. The
enemy is very skillful at aerobatics
and he must be beaten at his own
game.”
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was
in command of Field Xo. 7 while he
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was here, and the car of the late
officer stood in the hangar with a
group of flyers about it 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 flow
ing whiskers was painted in flaming
colors on the side of the car.
This is the field on which forma
tion flying is begun, in squadrons
i up to 18 machines but usually with
five. The squadron flys in V-shap,
j with the commander at the apex of
the V, carrying a streamer which
signals and commands. A fleet of
15 machines was starting as we
| passed, and another had just come
! after two hours in the air, ending
with a figure eight, a difficult evolu
I tion executed by “crossing the con
[ trols” so that the rudder serves
as elevator and the elevator serves
| as rudder. At night this field :s
lighted by powerful irchlights, an
, night flying goes or from 10 o’clock
until daylight.
On the combat and acrobatic
fields, Xo 8 and 9, scores of ma
chines were in the lir going through
their fighting evolutions or dipping
and looping. Thj ;ombat airplanes
carried earner guns, a novel device
combining a dumm/ machine gun
and a photographic camera. It looks
like a gun, but as *he trigger is
pulled, the camera takes a picture
of the target, showing just what
would have been hit if a -hot in
stead of a lens had blazed 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 the fighting game. The
•‘vrille" is that dizzy head-first
tumble, and the chief thing is not
to do it but to undo it and come
, out of. it. It has its uses too in de
ceiving the enemy into the belief
that the aviator has been hit and is
tumbling, then as the enemy is off
; guard, attacking him suddenly as
the aviator comes out of his head
long dive. One of the flyers made
four vrilles as we watched.
i "It is dangerous only when near
the ground”, said the escort. “High
in the air there is comparatively
no danger, for there is plenty of
time to set your levers so that you
are sure to come out of the vrille."
Others were doing the spiral, an
other form of head-first dive except
i that the car is always under control,
whereas in the vrille the control
is lost until the aviator succeeds
, in emerging from his fall. Often
the machines seemed to stop sud
denly, turn over and then glide away
i in the opposite direction right side up.
One of the best manoeuvers for
escape from the dangerous fight is
the vertical wing-slip, as it is the
fastest means of losing altitude and
getting below an unequal combat.
When an acrobatic manoeuver misses
or is badly done, it is a “pancake”
or a “barrel". These is as much
lingo to the aviation field as there
. is to the baseball diamond.
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