Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-02-22

are recorded 4,O19 hours and 231,520 miles of flight.
 (b) Training.
 R. M. As trained in the United States army 8,538; present attendance at R M. A. schools 2,835; graduates of advanced schools 3,242; total graduates given flying instruction 22,562; number of fliers, including pilots and observers trained abroad (to October g, 1918) 1900; number of mechanics trained at American schools 14,409; strength of the air service November 8, 1919, 18S,425. The air service was thus larger than the United States army at the beginning f the war. These figures do not in clude the air service of the United States navy or the United States marines.
 (c) Schools.
 Approximate number of army fly ing schools in the United States, 40; schools of military aeronautics, 5; balloon schools, 8; radio schools, 3; photographic schools, 3; air depots, IA.
 (d) Government control.
 \The United States government has now complete control of the building of airplanes and the training of avia- tors. It has under it's jurisdiction sub stantially all flying fields, aeronauti- cal schools, and plants of aeroplane construction of the United States.
 (e) Airplanes. On November 8, 1918, the approxi- mate number of airplanes owned by fthe United States army was as follows: Service or combat planes ...........S,228 Training airplanes in the U. s. 5,779 Training airplanes received from European sources .-...............:.. 5lZ Combat airplanes received from European sources .................-1,7 ,726
 The possibilities and significance of a continent, dotted with flying field, namely a continental air route should be brought before the public's mind so that they will realize the present day difficulties of aviation, what work has been done to overcome these dlf. faculties, the great importance of
 aerial maps, aerial photographs and
 aeroplane devices perfected by war
 conditions. Too much can not be said
 regarding the great importance o1
 aeronautical industries and the general
 development of aeronautics. The i'm
 mense effect upon commerce, science
 and the prestige of America in such
 development can not be too strongly
 emphasized. The great work done b!
 the government in aeronautics during the period of the emergency IS du'
 entirely to the wonderful co-opera
 tion of the great minds of the coun
 try and to the spirit of patriotism ant allegiance expressed by each citizel of the United States. At the same time that this forma tion of ships left for San Diego thre'
 other ships of a different type (Cur
 tiss JN6H's) are making trip iron
 Ellington Field to Little Rock, Ar kansas for a like purpose, that IS t' , assist in mapping aerial lanes ant , future continental routes.
 Cross-country work has always beel done as a final test for qualificatlol as a reserve military aviator. In tn , early days of the war these cross , country trips were seldom over sixt! . miles for a round trip. When tn , training fields of England, France am Italy became overcrowded and it de volved on the United States to in . augurate advanced training on hom 7 soil to it's own aviators. The first gov
 ernment aviation field in the countr. , to realize the necessity for advanced , cross-country training was Ellington !, Field, Houston, Texas. The schoo r was destined to be the only bombin,
 school in America and the larges ,and most efficient school of bombing
 navigation and gunnery in the world 3 In December 1917, and January 1918 3 the first advanced cross-country stag r in the country was inaugurated. Fou g triangular trips of approximately 15'