Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1919-04-17
FLYING C|RCUSEs
Of FAMOUS ACES
To TOUR CITIES
wARLIkE DEMONSTRATIONS TO
BE GIVEN BY siRDMEN OF
THREE NATIONS
DURING LOAN CAMPAIGN
Exhibitions Scheduled for St. Louis,
Louisville, Memphis and Little
Rock In April.

The greatest flying program the
United States has ever witnessed Will
be offered in connection with the com
ing Victory Liberty Loan. Demonstra'
ton Of the flying art as developed
above the %battlefelds Of Europe will
be given to approximately fifty of the
leading American cities by the most
celebrated aces of the United States,
France and England.
Three flying circuses made up OF
American, French and British aviators
and flying American planes and cap
tured German Fokker planes will tour
the United States. giving aerial sham
battles and performing aerial acrobat.
ics over all the leading American
cities. under the direction Of the Blu
reau of Publicity Of the Victory Loan
Organization. Frank r. Wilson, d.
rector. The actual flights will be
under the direction OF the Military
A%eronautics Branch Of the War De-.
partment. with Captain Leon Richard
Dol In charge.
German Fokkers.
Fourteen German Fokker planes
captured by General Pershing's men
have landed at Newport News and will
be shipped at once to Washington and
turned over to the Treasury Depart
ment for the period of the Loan Cam.
paign. These German planes are all
in flying condition and will be used in
all Of the demonstrations during the
loan. The best types Of American
planes developed during the var will
be demonstrated to the American PEG.
pie to show what has been achieved
as a result of the generous response to
Liberty Loan Campaigns.
Among the cities to be visited are
st. Louis. Louisville, Memphis and
Little Rock, in the Eighth Federal Re.
serve District.
A flying squadron made up Of Ameri-
can, French and British flyers will
tour each Of three districts beginning
April 10th. The eastern tour will be-
gin at Mineola, Long Island; the mid
die western tour will begin at New
Orleans and the far western tour at
San Diego. Each squadron will be
carried In a special train of eleven
cars, travelling al night. Nine end
door baggage cars will be required to
carry the seventeen airplanes in each
squadron. Each train will be pre-.
coded by an officer, who will select
landing fields and make arrangements
with local Liberty Loan committees
for the entertainment Of the flyers.
The names Of the six great British
flyers are not yet known. However,
the United States Government has
been informed by the British Govern
ment that six of the best British flyers
developed during the wal will be here
In time for the tours. The delegation
Of eight French flyers has already left
France for the United States. One
of the French flyers has a record OF
forty.three victories ove German ad'
versaries. Another made 179 bomb
ing trips owe German lines.
Photographs of the Signal Corps will
accompany each squadron. They will
take war photographs Of each of the
American cities visited. The general
program to be followed in each city
visited ill be as follows: Two Amer
ican scout planes will rise to DROP
Victory Loan literature owe the city
Four German planes will then attack
these two American planes in the air
Four American planes will then drive
off the German planes and the flyers
will give demonstrations Of aerial
acrobatics. Parades will precede the
flights. Citizens will be able to see
the planes unloaded and set up In the
morning and knocked down for ship
ment after the flights.