Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-22
AeronautiCaI Reserve May Accept
Local Mems Aviation Map
as Standard Guide
AERIALISTs MAY MEET HERE
Upper Stratum of Southland Re-
corded by Official Balloon
iSt of the Aero Club
Associated PressJ

NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.-DetallS OF
the United States Aeronautical Re-
serve, an organization of persons In
terested in aviation which aims to ad-
vance the eeroplane as an engine of
defensive and offensive warfare, are
being rapidly completed at national
headquarters here. The staff Of Off
GERS when completed will include a
commodore, a chief of staff, a general
board, five vice commodores to head
the five geographical sections Of the
country, a captain of each state and
territory and a corps of air scouts.
The membership enrolled since the
scheme was launched at the Harvard
Boston aviation meet now reaches a
total of 5000 persons. Governor Albert
w Gilchrist of Florida has been Sc
lected as vice commodore of the south
ern district; Mayor John r. Fitzger-
aid of Boston as vice commodore for
New England; Russell A. Alger OF
Detroit as vice commodore for the
middle states; John B. Ryan of New
York as commodore and Clifford B.
Harmon as chief of staff.
The list Of captains for the states
and territories will be given out in
few days.
The main work Of the reserve will
be to establish q body Of men trained
in aviation and ready to take the field
as volunteers In time of war.
The new work Of the United States
Aeronautical Reserve Is expected to
have headquarters in Los Angeles,
where a great deal of the aerial ex-
perimental work will be carried out
Already plans are being perfected in
New York to transfer considerable ex-
perimental work here for the coming
winter. 1t is probable that the winter
Headquarters of the aeronautical re-
serve will be transferred to Pasadena
Immediately after the close of the
aviation season in the east in No
vember.
MAKES STANDARD MAP
A standard military aviation map
worked out in Los Angeles by H. w.
Slotterbeck and others is likely to be
adopted by the national reserve. 1t
has already been taken up in Canada,
where military aviation Is assuming
an important status.
The Los Angeles aerial map, al
though distinctly q novelty In map
making adopts recognized STANDARDS
so that it may be easily understood
by any person experienced in ordinary
map reading.
In reality 1t comprises two maps
where one is ordinarily sufficient, as
vertical height in the air above any
contour. One map shows the ground
distractions and horizontal distances
together with landmarks prominent
from the air and phases likely to in
duce or affect currents. The other
gives a vertical view, showing air
tracks, routes Travelled and purely
aerial features.
In making the maps the conven-
+ionoIo oP tha hvdroPraDhic survey
used on the pilot charts, the symbols
of the geographical survey and the
signs used by the weather bureau are
ali utilized. With few, additions,
such as air current roses, vortex
marks, strata layer thicknesses and
normal current contours, the maps are
we'll standardized.
Each aerial map is also an air pilot S
chart and may be used to make a rum
ming record of a journey. 1t indi-
Gates the depth of air strata under
normal conditions, the influences OF
Irregularities in the contours and
ground cultivation and the presence
of dangerous swirling conditions.
The official pilot of the Aero Club OF
California has already charted prac-
tically all the "air" around Los An
geles between the Malibu section and
Santa Ana and as far east as Ban
ming. During the winter a committee
of the club will aid him in making
aerial maps Of this section, which Will
be hung on the walls of the club
rooms, 107 North Spring street.
An offer Of the use of this system by
the United States Aeronautical Re
serve has been forwarded to Clifford
B, Harmon, chief of staff, by the Pa
ciflc coast member of the national
council of the Aero Club of America.