Arizona republican., 1917-10-16
BIGGEST SCHOOL OF
 FLYING IN WORLD

Thousands of young men are being taught the game of flying and fighting in the air at Kelly Field adjacent to San Antonio, Tex. This training ground is rapidly being made the larg- est aero field in the world. The gov ernment is constructing buildings and making improvements to the Kelly Field a cost of more than million dollars. It is now the largest govern ment flying ground in the United States, and when the present plans are finished it is stated that there will be nothing to compare with it in' magni- tude in the world. Accommodations will be provided for more than forty thousand army flyers. These will be divided into squadrons. each to consist of 154 enlisted men and nineteen com missioned officers. To each squadron there will be assigned twelve airplanes, or "aeroplanes tas the official com munications still>style each craft. The squadron has also twenty-three motor | trucks. twenty -four trailers. one motor car. two repair trucks and six motor cycles. Its weapons consist of twelve ! machine guns, 154 rifles and l73 pistols
 The organization is officered by | major. captain and two commis- | stoned officers, each for a supply sec tion. engineering section and twelve l aero sections, making nineteen in all | The personnel also includes the fol- l lowing: Four master signal electri- l clans and one sergeant major, one first | sergeant, two clerks, one truck master and sixteen mechanicians with the grade of sergeant, first class. Ranked as sergeant there is an assistant truck master, mess sergeant, supply ser geant, mechanic. photographer, chauf- l feur and eleven mechanicians. There are also thirty three cOrporals, six | cooks, thirty mine privates, first class; and a medical department of four. Twelve of the mechanicians are rated as sergeants, first class, and six rated as sergenats belong to the two aero sections.
 1 Four of the first class and five ranked as sergeants belong to the en- | gineering section. The sections in the l squadron are the headquarters sec tion, supply section, engineering sec | tion and twelve aero sections. The !! disposition of the corporals is four to the headquarters, eight to supply, three to engineering and eighteen to the aero sections.
 One of the interesting and import ant features of this great training camp for army flyers is the machine shop where the airplanes are not only repaired, but are being rapidly con- structed. Many skilled mechanics are employed in this work. These men are not oNly capable of building ma
 chimes. but they are experts in flvino as well. &xf3
 An examining board meets regularly and examines applicants for commis sions and the applications are numer-
 ous. Flyers also come from the ground schools which have been opened at many places throughout the
 United States.
 It is assured that one of the at
 fractions that winter tourists will find
 in San Antonio the coming season will
 be that of flying men over and around
 the city. Already myriads of airplanes
 are often seen performing various
 kinds of feats above Kelly Field. One
 day recently great flock of buzzards
 was noticed to apparently join in the
 maneuvers that were being conducted
 by the flying machine men. These
 birds went through evolutions that
 were being enacted by the airplanes and their reuarlsa hle actions u-are