The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16
HOSPITAL A|RPLANE IS LATEST STUNT
 AT TEXAS SCHOOL
Cranked Up Every Few Minutes and Kept Ready for Instant Use
 Where Needed

Dallas, Texas. June f5.--A hospital air Love field aviation school It Is an emergency airship manned by a skilled pilot, with a physician in the observers seat and it is kept ready during all hours of flying practice to enable med ical help to reach 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 it's best speed as soon as needed. The pilot and the physician stay close at hand.
 Observers with field glasses keep a watchful eye upon the men in the air and the instant flyer starts falling, infor- nation is telegraphed simultaneously to the ambulance, the fire wagon and the hospital ship"
 ottentimes when a forced landing oc- CUTS it is in field distant from any road, and the ambulance can reach it only by travelling long and round about way. The hospital ship can save time not only by its speed, but also hy going direct to the scene of the accident.
 The ubiquitous evidence of prepara- tons for accidents is thoroughly approved by the young flyers and has no depres- sing effect on their spirits. Always dur lng flying times the ambulance manned and with motors running, stand on the
 dead hne' ready to start Forced land lngs sometimes occur, with occasional ac- cldents but most frequently the injuries 4I Irn f,Afe +.r.s..4 no terrors for the cadets They call them
 meat wagons"
 Adjutant Wyman has just announced that work in aerial wireless and aerial photography is being done at Love field now, special equipment being placed on the planes last week for these purposes.
 Another innovation is d traffic squad" composed of two or more machines which patrol the air during flying to see that the practicing aviators stay within the aerial bounds assigned them by their in- structors. As the training progresses and the men become more expert, there is a greater tendency toward flying far afeld to some of the dozen little towns 10 to 20 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 instructors dis courage these trips by penalties, but when flyer is having his cross country training, forced landings are inevitable and the towns which have the best repu- tation 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, will be well mixed, and a reprimand 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 to be made schools for ad- vanced flying and men will be sent to them direct from the ground schools but only after they have been put through it's fundamentals of flying and had certain number of hours in the air in 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 include acrobatic work extensive formation flying of the difficult military type, and cross country flying with advanced instruction in wire- less. aerial gunnery and photographic work