Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
AVIATION SCHOOL
FOR LOS ANGELES
INSTITUTION WILL CONDUCT
AERIAL EXPERIMENTS
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IDEAL FOR
AIR NAVIGATION
Promoter Believes Such an Enterprise
Would Attract Attention OF the
World to Angel city-Motor-
drome offered for Purpose

The immense amount of advertising
given Los Angeles by the Aviation
meet will be continued permanently
through plan entirely unique in the
world of aviation If the plans initiated
yesterday by Frank A. Garbutt are
carried out. Mr.. Garbutt proposes TO
have endowed, under the name of the
LOS Angeles School for Aerial RE
search" an institution for making au-
thoritative experiments tending to aid
aerial navigation. These experiments
and tests, which are to be carried out
by the best men obtainable, will not
| be kept secret, as is now the case with
most aeronautical achievements. IN
stead 1t is Mr.. Garbutts suggestion
they be published and made available
! to the entire world.
In this way a final result regarding
aeronautical engines or propeliers or u
determination regarding upper air cur
rents might be wired all over the
world, and in that case Los Angeles
would get the benefit.
Mr.. Garbutt believes the ideal
climatic conditions existing here, to-
gether with an adequate equipment,
would attract aerialists and inventors
of note, while the research work un-
dertaken directly by the school would
aid in making this section the undis-
puted center of advancement of aVia-
tion.
The following letter regarding the
plan was yesterday addressed by Mr
Garbutt to Mayor Alexander, and
similar letter has been sent to the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce and the
Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation;
Big Opportunity Offered
'I have been impressed with the
tremendous opportunity for establish
ment at Los Angeles of an institution
which might be recognized throughout
the world as authoritative in connec-
ton with the advancement of naviga-
ton In the air. There Is certainly need
of some center where research work
in this connection may be carried out,
and such center should bring ex-
perimentalists from all parts OF the
world If established on high enough
standard.
such a work would contemplate the
establishment OF testing plant, de-
signed and constructed in the most
scientific manner for the purpose OF
conducting a systematic research on a
practical scale. The plant should be
equipped with instruments OF pre-
cision and testing apparatus, large
portion of which would have to be
specially designed and built.
"The data obtained from an ex-
haustive series of experiments when
properly tabulated and prepared would
be of inestimable value to the world at
large, and such q work could not fan
to be of great benefit to Los Angeles.
Outside of the work done by the late
Professor Langley and Sir Hiram
Maxim, to which are added the expert
mental work of the French govern
ment, results of which are kept secret
by their war department, there mas
been no systematic attempt to gather
the data necessary for an intelligent
advance in the science of aviation
Would Benefit City
"As there is no adequate plant OF
this kind in existence in the world, or.
so far as we know, even contemplated,
it's establishment in Los Angeles would
have the effect of fixing the attention
of scientific men from all over the
world on our section, while expert
mentalists and inventors of the better
class would be practically forced to
come to us to test out their various
theories and obtain data for con-
sistent development, The carrying on
of these Investigations and the pub
fishing of results would occupy the
attention of scientists and trained OBJ
servers, sand our contributions 10
science along these lines would demand
and hold the attention of the entire
world"
No such plan has been as yet pre-
scented in any other part of the world,
but that 1t may be given great In
fuence>in aiding the development of
aircraft is not doubted by local au-
thorities on the subject. The Aero
club will cooperate on the plan. The
aviation building of the Los Angeles
motordrome, with machine shop, flying
ground and other equipment, represent
ing considerably more than $4,000, viii
be at the disposal of the school II TINS
is deemed the best site.