The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-13
AMERICAN FLYING CAMP IS ONE
 OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD
Liberty Apanes Are Being Tried out and Are Declared To Be Fastest and Best Armen Are Trained Here For All Kinds of Flying Maneuvers, Quentin Roosevelt Was Former Commander

very skillful at acrobatics, and he must be beaten at his own game
 Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt was in command of Field No. while he was here, and the car of the late officer stood in the hangar with group or flyers about it paying tribute to the splendid qualities and daring of their late leader. His good humor was re- called 'by the name he had given his car, Doc Yak and the doctor with his flowing whiskers was painted in flaming colors on the side of the car
 This is the field on which forma- tion flying is begun, in squdrons up to IS machines but usually with five. The squadron flys in V-shape, with the commander at the apex of the V, carrying a streamer which signals the commands. A fleet of IS machines was starting as we passed, and an- other had just come after two hours in the air, ending with figure eight, Q difficult evolution executed by Crossing the control so that the rudder serves as elevator and the ele- vator serves as rudder. At night this field is lighted by powerful search lights, and night flying goes on from 10 o'clock until daylight.
 On the combat and acrobatic fields, Nos. and g, scores of machines were in the air going through their fighting evolutions or dipping and looping. The combat airplanes carried camera guns, novel device, combining a dummy machine gun and photo graphic camera. It looks like a gun, hut as the trigger Is pulled, the cam era takes a picture of the target showing just what would have been hit if a shot instead of a Tense had 1 blazed ahead.
 It was over the acrobatic field that the real wonders were going on, ir the vertical virage, spirals and wing slips. Spectacular as these seemed to be, each had it's use in the fighting game. The "virile" is that dizzy l head-first tumble, and the chief thing 1 Is not to do it but to undo it and come out of it. It has its uses toe in deceiving an enemy into the beliet | that the aviator has been hit and is l tumbling, then as the enemey is of guard, attacking him suddenly as the aviator comes out of his headlonG
 dive. One of the flyers made foul viriles as we watched.
 Tt is dangerous only when nea
 the ground" said the escort "Higl
 in the air there is comparatively m danger for there is plenty of time t.
 set your levers so that you're sure t, come out of the virile."
 1 Others were doing the spiral, an
 other form of head-first dive excep
 that the car is always under contro
 whereas in the vrille the control i
 lost until the aviator succeeds il
 emerging from his fall. Often tn
 machines seemed to stop suddenly
 turn over and then glide away il
 the opposite direction right side up . One of the best maneuvers for es
 cape from dangerous fight is tn
 vertical wing slip, as it is the fastes
 means of losing altitude and gettin
 below an unequal combat. When a,
 acrobatic maneuver misses or is bad ly done 1t is a pancake" or a "bar rel" There is as much lingo [ the aviation field as there is to tn baseball diamond.
 Leaving the field we passed a crib
 pied aviator limping on crutches. "He has had 9 crashes" said tn officer which Is about the record But he goes back every time and he eager now to get in his machin
 again. And that Is the spirit of ever , man here, to be ready for comba and to beat the Boche."