New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-23
Stations Wanted at Sandy
Hook and Other
Nearby Points
No Filters or Machines
Committee Suggests Ways to
Overcome These Two
Great Problems

4 basic plan OF aerial defence sun
able for the thirteen naval districts OF
the United States. but dealing speeihc-
ally with the Sd District, Of which
Rear Admiral Nathaniel r. Usher is
commandant. has been drawn up by the
Advisory Committee on Aeronauucs'
This committee composed Of promi-
nont civilians, engineers, aviators' IN
vontors. naval officers. etc, and headed
by Alan R. Hawley, president OF the
Aero Club Of America, has been ior
several months conducting an investiga-
,ion in cooperation with Admiral Usher'
The report was accepted by Admiral
Usher last week. Since then it has
becn nrinted as a Congressional docu-
ment and so made public
Ton aeronautic stations should be
established in the Sd District the re-
mort says, with flying equipment Of each
station varying according to Its du''es'
Each mi. is expected to cover ABOUT
ooo miles a day. to spot submarines
assist destroyers. find mines, convoy
ships and perform the other uu''e' "
the naval air service
Like the British Service
III. dpiios Of the naval air service
arc based on that Of Great bTltaln, io''
as the report points out, there - az
nrcsent no air service IN tne ou 40 80,
b;strict or in any other OF the thirteen
',a,.ol districts" The report cites also
tbo fact that Great Britain increased
IN number of her aeronauucaI ha'dl
stations from the eighteen she ndu az
H. bccinninc of the war TO 100. ana
tbe+ Germany and France each nave
7, - proposed to establish the sta
,;ons at Sandy Hook. Montauk Point
Raw Shore. Fort Washington, AmiIy-
viIie Ocean Beach, y. j., Barnegat Bay
Rockawav. New Haven and Southamp-
ton In some cases, such as Bay Shore'
Port Washington and Amityvllie, part
~ equipped stations already exist
There are two great problems; now IN
American military aviation. ne! ar
first. the training of men, AND seconu'
nrodnction of aeroplanes. The report
avDleine that hundreds of men have
volunteered for the Naval Reserve butt
owing to the fact that the one MAYA!
aviation school at Pensacola is full they
cannot be trained. As soon as school !
are available these men can be taught
"There is practically no trained per
sonncl available" says the report, Dut
II will be possible to get. 10 start, at
least twenty civilian aviators, profes-
eional and amateur, who have had some
experience in flying. although no eN-
nSrience in actual naval operations or
in the operation Of twin motored aero
planes. There also can be had ABOUT
twenty students who are about TO com
plete their preliminary course IN the
operation Of single motored seapianes'
About 200 more students, mostly col
lege men. who have joined the Aerial
Coast Patrol units, will be under train
ing in the Sd Naval District WITHIN TWO
months, several large training camps
being established at private expense
Must Train Whole Service
"Tbere are no dirigible pilots or
observation balloon operators available,
Int there are a few civilian experts TO
take charge of the ,raining. 1t Will
therefore be necessary to train the en-
tire personnel Of the air service, which
will COMPRISE for the Sd District about
$50 aviators and aviation instructors
thirty balloon pilots and thirty balloon
operators; also as many observers as
there rc'pilots and operators