The Washington herald., 1912-11-03
Land Machines Are Going to Augusta, Ga and Hydro
planes to Be Sent to San Diego, Cal.-Of
ficers Loath to Join Aviation School,

With the cold weather rapidly ap-
proa ching. the members of the Army
Aviation Corps at College Park and
Washington Barracks are looking for
ward to their removal to winter quarters.
The chill autumn days make flying far
from pleasant This is especially true
of members of the Hydroaeroplane Corps.
as a ducking in the Potomac is not TO
be relished with the mercury at the
present mark.
The land machines are TO be sent TO
the winter camp at Augusta. Ga. about
November Is. the College Park avistors
leaving a few days later. The hydros
are to be shipped to San Diego. Cal.
about November 20. the officers of the
Hydroaeroplane Corps leaving at the
same time.
During the last month Il number of
changes in personnel have taken place
In the corps. Lieut.. Foulois. one of the
veterans of the school. has been forced
to return to his regiment under the four
year detached service rule recently en-
acted by Congress. Lieut.. Kelly also
has returned to his regiment, owing to
injuries. The unfortunate accident on
September 2s. in which Lieut.. l.. c. Rock
well and Corp. F. s. Scott lost their
lives, created still another vacancy.
To fill these places three new officers
have reported for duty at the aviation
school. They are Lieut.. L. H. Brereton.
Lieut.. Chester ]. Goodier. Seventeenth
Infantry. and Lieut.. Lorencall, Coast
Artillery Corps.
Lieuts. H. H. Arnold and Thomas De
Witt Milling have gone to Fort Riley.
Kans., taking with them Type
Wright biplane. and will take part in
the maneuvers there.
Applicants Arc Few.
flights as passengers officers stationed
at Fort Riley. 1t Is the intention of the
government to endeavor to interest army
officers in aviation. as applications for
admission to the aviation school are few
and far between. The two fatalities
during the season here. in which four
men lost their lives. have had a dis
effect upon applicants for ad-
to the school. The fatal acci-
following within two months of the sim
liar fatality in which Lieut. Leighton W.
Hazlehurst and Al L. Welsh. a profess
sional aviator, lost their lives. has cast
a damper on the ambitions Of would-be
members Of the army school. At the
time Of the death of Lieut.. Rockwell ten
army Officers had filed applications to
lame tne dVldSlon course. Wltnln week
after the accident nine had asked leave
TO withdraw their applications.
One OF the reasons assigned for the un-
willingness Of officers to risk their lives |
n the effort to master the air is that |
he remuneration Is not commensurate |
With the danger involved. Members Of
he army aviation school receive no more !
,ay than they would II they remained |
With their regiments, and many are un-
willing to assume the greater risk with
'ut proportionate increase in salary. !,
1t IL to overcome tAis and to place
lviation in the United States Army on
he same plane with that in the Euro
'ean military that Capt. Chandler is
extending every effort to impress upon
Congress the need OF a larger appro-
'riation for the maintenance of the army
chool. In this Capt. Chandler has the
cooperation Of War Department OFF, !
ials, and 1t Is likely that satisfactory
esults win be attained when the next
Irmy appropriation bill goes into effect
That army oficials frown upon anything
'pproaching the sensational In army