Evening star., 1918-06-16
HOSPITAL A|RPLANEa
LATEST INNOVATION
Machine Used in Emergencies on
Aviation Field-Always Equip
ped for Service.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex. June ia hospital
airplane is the latest innovation at
the Love Field Aviation School. II is
an emergency airship manned by
| skilled pilot, with a physician in the
observers seat. and 1t is kept ready
during all hours of flying practice to
enable medical help to 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 twenty 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.
Observers with field glasses keep
watchful eye upon the men in the air
| and the instant a flyer starts falling
| information is telegraphed sfmulta-
neously to the ambulance, the fre
wagon and the hospital ship"
Hospital Ship Saves Time.
Oftentimes when a forced landing
occurs it is in a field distant from
any road. and the ambulance can
reach 1t only by travelling a long and
roundabout 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 prepara-
tions for accidents is thoroughly ap-
proved by the young ffiers and has no
depressing effect on their spirits. AL
ways during flying times the ambu-
lances, manned and with motors run
nj OF ND ~
to start. Forced landings sometimes
occur. with occasional accident, but
most frequently the injuries are not
serious, so the ambulances have no
terrors for the cadets. They call
them meat wagons"
Adjt. Wyman has just announced
that work. in aerial wireless and
aerial photography is being done at
Love Field now, special equipment be-
ing placed on the planes last week for
those purposes.
Traffic Squad an Innovation.
Another innovation IL traffic
SQUAD" composed of two or more
machines which patrol the air during
flying to see that the practtcing avi-
ators stay within the aerial bounds as
signed them by their instructors. As
the training progresses and the men
become more expert. there Is a
greater tendency toward flying FAR
afieid to some of the dozen little
towns ten to twenty miles from
Dallas. The landing of an afrship is
an event in these towns and the avi-
ator who lands is feted and made
much of. The instructors discourage
these trips by penalties, but when a
flyer is having his cross-country
training forced" landings are in
evitable and the towns which have
the best reputation for hospitality :
get numerous visitors.
Now the traffic squad will patrol the
air. the boundaries of the training
field. except for those engaged. at
stunts or cross-country flying. with
be well marked. and a reprimand viii
be due for liers who pass ont of
bounds.
Two Schools for Advanced Flying.
Reports both from Love Field and =.
Call Field. at Wichita Falls. are that
both these camps are to be made
schools for advanced flying, and, Bfepr
will be sent to them direct from ther
ground schools, but only after they
have been put through its fundamen-
tails of flying and had certain num-
Der of hours in the air in some of the 4
other schools. Then they Will come
to. Love and Call fields and receive
their training in stunts and in war
duties. These include acrobatic work,
extensive formation flying Of the diff
fcult military type, and cross-coun-
try flying. with advanced instruction
in wireless. aerial gunnery and pho
work.