The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-15
ARMY & Navy TO
EXHIBIT AERIAL
EQUIPMENT SOON
Air Craft, Signal Lights and
Bombs Features of Pan
American Exposition.

.
have an elaborate exhibit at the first
Pan-American Earonautics EXPOSE
ton to be held in Grand Central Pal
ace. New York, February to Is,
1917. Among the departments to be
represented are the War Department,
the U. S. Army, including the aviation
section, the U. S. Navy, the Bureau Of
Standards, the Weather Bureau and
the us. ,Geodetic Survey.
Last Tuesday, a committee repre-
senting the Aero Club, the Pan-Am-
erican Aeronautic Federation, the
Society of Aeronatuic Engineers and
the International Exposition Com
pany, under whose joint auspices the
Aero Show is to@be held, visited Wash
ington and interviewed the executives
of the various departments. In the
party were Howard Coffin, chairman
of the show committee, who is also
active on President Wilson's Naval
Consulting Board; Augustus Post Of
the Aero Club Of America and Rioh
G. Hollaman, President Of the Inter-
national Exposition Company,
The results Of these interviews were
most encouraging. Lieutenant-Col-
onel George D. Squ.er, chief of the
Aviation Section of the Naval Corps,
will be present with his staff of ten
or more officers from Washington
throughout the week at the Aero
Show and will have charge Of, the
Aviation Sections exhibit.
The War Department and the U, 8.
Army exhibits will show the various
methods now employed on the Euro,
H. F@,n ;,&o
ton of air craft. Far example, at
signal explosives and illuminating
bombs which are dropped by aero
planes just prior to making Yano-
ing at night, also the bomb cradles
and dropping devices, drifting ball
looms and fuses" used for the pur-
pose Of Illuminating the enemy's OPP
erations when winds are favorable,
ETC. Then too, there will be shown
the regular equipment Of aviators,-
clothing, protective armor, the new
airman's helmets and other modern
army equipment, while one of the
most interesting displays will be the
exhibit Of anti-aircraft and rapid fire
guns.
In the Navy Department display
will be various instruments required
for hydro-aeroplane navigation, also
charts, maps and many other inter-
esting things. There will be a record
ing station at the Navy booth as well
as at the Army booth and officers will
be in attendance to lecture on the Of
ficers' Reserve
DR.. C. F. Marvin, chief of the
Weather Bureau at Washington, will
install a most complete exhibit Of that
bureau which is Of vital Importance
to aeronautics. There will be kite
balloons, kites for observation in
higher attitudes, the various instru.
ments used, several models of the
s'balloon sonde" (sounding balloons,
hydrogen-filled) for exploring and
taking records in very high attitudes
Charts of air currents, which are Of
vital Importance to aeronauts; baro-
graphs for registering graphically al
titude records; aneroid barometers,
statiscopes for registering the rising
or falling Of balloons when in flight;
charts of the path of storms and
cduds, together with many other in
teresting and important features,
should make this display one of the
most interesting at the exposition.
The U. S. Geodetic Coast Survey
Will De In charge or Dr. e. Lester
Jones, Superintendent of the Survey.
The Pan-American Unions exhibit
will be under the direction of John
Barrett, director-general OF the I'm
ion, and some interesting features of
this will be the opportunities for aero
nautic exploitation in South America.
The advantage Of aerial craft over
railroads in surrounding the ranges
of the Andes-the vertical railroad''
as it is called-will be cleverly illus
trated. @ .zs.s1.i~.
Considerable additional space for
the exposition was contracted for dur
ing the past week, and among the in
teresting exhibits just arranged is
that of Joseph A. Steinmetz. the in
ventor of the new method of enabling
aeroplanes to land on ships at sea by
means Of the clever Steinmetzl trailing