South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-19
HAVE HOSPITAL
A|RPLANES NOW
Flying Machines Able to Get
to Injured More Rapidly
Than AmbuIanCeS.


Dital airplane is the latest innova-
tion at the Love field aviation
school II is an emergency air
ship manned Dy q skilled pilot. with
physician in the observers seat
and il il kept ready during all hours
Of flying practice TO enable medical
help 10 reach "a fallen aviator.
The hospital ship" is always
ready for instant use. That there
may be no delay, the emergency
machine is "cranked up every t.
minutes so that the engine may be
kept warm and ready TO produce its
best speed as soon as needed. The
pilot and the physician stay close at
hand.
Observe rs with field glasses keep
watchful eye upon the men in the
air and the instant a flyer starts
falling. information is telegra phed
simultaneously TO the ambulance
the FIRE wagon and the hospital
ship"
Can Save Time.
Oftentimes when a forced land
ne occurs il is in a field distant
from any road, and the ambulance
can reach it only by travelling d
long and round about way. The
hospital ship" can save time. not
only by its speed. but also by going
direct to the scene of the accident.
The ubiquitous evidence Of prep
arations for accidents is thorough
Is approved By the young flyers and
has no depressing affect en- their
spirits Always during flyinS times
the ambulances manned and with
motors running, stand on the dead
line" ready 10 start. Forced land
ings sometimes occur. with coca
sional accidents. but most frequent
Iy the injuries are not serious. so
the ambulances have no terrors for
the cadets. They cali them meat
wagons
Adjt Wyman has just announced
that work i'm aerial wireless and
aerial photography is being done
at Love field now. special equip
ment being placed on the planes last
week for these purposes.
Another innovation is traffic
squad" composed Of two or more
machines which patrol the air dur
ing flying to see that the pracucing
aviators stay within the aerial
bounds assigned them by their in
structors. AS the training pro-
crosses and the man becomes more
expert there is greater tendency
toward flying far afield 70 some Of
the dozen little towns ten 70 twenty
miles from Dallas The landing OF
an airship is an event in these towns
and the aviator who lands is feted
and made much OF. The instruc
tors discourage these trips by pen
alties but when a flyer is having
his cross country training, forced"
landings are inevitable and the
towns which have the best reputa-
ton for hospitality get numerous
visitors
Now the traffic squad will patrol
the air. the boundaries Of the train
ing field except for those engaged
lat stunts or cross country flying,
will be well marked. and repri-
mand will be due for flyers who
pass out Of bounds
Reports both from Love field and
Call field at Wichita Falls are that
both these camps are 10 be made
schools for advanced flying and
men will be sent 10 them direct from
the ground schools. but only after
they have been put through its
fundamentals Of 7virg and had
certain number of hours in the air
i'm some of the other schools Then
they will come TO Love and Call
fields and receive their training in
stunts and in war duties. These in
clude acrObatic work, extensive for
nation flying of the difficult mill
tary type. and cross country flying
with advanced instruction in wire
less, aerial gunnery and photo
graphic work