Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-06
STORIES OF THE WAR
ses Plane Trainino in italy.


 Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 American admiration for Italian efficiency and hospitality is one of the sentimental facts which has developed here since the establishment of an American Seaplane Training Camp, in Italy, on the edge of an inland lake by joint aprf 0'-fel>- of the navy de- partment of the two nations.
 We cant s,.y enough nice things about our Italian friends from any point of view explained the American commander of the students. Their efficiency is only equalled by their ca pacity for friendship. Their hospital ity is unbounded. They don't seem to be able to do enough for us"'
 'sThis is certainly no place for boob fliers," declared one of the young en- signs s,Nsho, having obtained his brevet at BSRsacola, Florida, has come down here With group of others to learn the Italian water machines" The Italian instructor pilots are all crack men and the Italian machinists are the most competent crowd I have met. They have the sixth sense, all right. They can detect defective motor when the machine is two thousand feet high and flying at eighty miles an hour. When man learns to fly here he can fly anywhere in any machine" The training camp here is one of the many dozens that have been establish ed all over Italy in connection with Ita1y's ambition to conquer in the air When Senator Pic. Foa complained ir the Italian senate that there were SC many aviation camps in Italy that ground useful for grain cultivation was being unduly occupied, he was not very far wide of the mark.
 For the past two years Italian off cers have been insisting that victory would come only through the air, and these camps are the result of the effort in that direction. According tC Commissioner General of Aeronau tics, Chiesa, Italy today has 40,0OC men. in various branches of machine manufacture.
 That American aviators are al last coming into Italy first for train ing and later for fighting is a subject of satisfaction to all Italians and par. ticulariY to the Italian Aviation Corps As a mark of Italy's pride at hay ing Americans to train, one of the l navys most distinguished air ma chine officers was instructed to build the camp. He is technically in charge or the camp, with an American com mander to control the training of tht 1 American students.
 The work of turning out men fol active service either as observers ol l pilots has gone on rapidly The bif problem is to keep the men flying, t( l give them the practice necessary tt make an all-around man. Thirty hours in the air is generally required for each man. This seems like a smal amount of time until it is realized tha this means at least 120 flights of i minutes each and that it is not al easy to give each man as much as on flight of 15 minutes a day. Flying fl like farming. It is regulated by tn, weather. Seaplane flying is quit difficult, but in >seaplane flying tn landing cannot be made without dan ger if there is mist hanging over tn,
 water or if the waters surface i mirrorlike. since in either case tn f1ier cannot judge distances and ii nosing preliminary to landing he ma, hit the water too soon, drown him self and wreck a valuable machine Further, every cendition varies ac cording to the type of machine bein used