The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-02
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lzIatOrs II nAttle lbese American
Cities During Loan Campaign.
Aaroplane activities will be re-
snmed within a feu weeks. The
celebrated aces OF the United
States, France and England will get
into action and engage In combat"
raids" andl Photographic work over
American =. The Military Aero
nautics BfTH n of the War Depart
ment has planned the greatest fly
Ing program the United States has
ever witnessed and It will be offered
a. one of the jgreatest spectacular
events Of the Victory Liberty Loan
Campaigns. A squadron made up of
ers viii ton. ych Of the three sec
lions of the Gaantry, eastern, middle
western and western, and give de-
monstration Of the flying art as de-
veIoped over the battlefelds of
Europe.
Necessity of aerial acrobaties and
the long course OF training a flyer
nas to go through will be demon
strated In aerial sham battles. The
aYIators viii show that a stunt"
vii sometimes enable q flyer es-
cane an enemy's machine gun fire,
md at the same time place himself
n q position to get IN good shot.
Fourteen German planes, the FOX
Ter type, which were captured by
General pershing's men have been
landed at Newport News, Va, and
will be shipped to Washington and
turned over to the Treasury De-
partment for the period of the Loan
Campaign, to be used in the flying
exhibition. The Fokker was the type
o. plane used by Germany for COM
bat work.
The program to be followed in
each city Is as follows: Two Ameri-
can planes will drop Victory Liberty
Loan literature over the city. Four
German planes will suddenly drop
from the sky attacking in turn. the
two American planes. Four Ameri-
can planes will be doing patrol duty
N formation. and come to the as
aistance of the two in distress, driy-
Ing off the German planes. AL OF
the flyers will then give an exhibition
Of aerial aerobatics. The stunts"
viii include the tail-spin, barrel
roll. falling leaf, zimmerman turn,
side-siip and loop.
The British government has IN
formed the United States government
that SIX Of the best British flyers
developed during the war will be
here in time for the tours during
the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign.
Eight French flyers have already
left France for the United States.
One of the French aviators has re-
cord of forty-three victories over
German adYersaries Another made
one hundred and seyenty-nine bomb
Ing trips over German lines. These
men will be distributed among the
three flying circusea formed The
actual flights viii be under the dlree-
ton of the Military Aeronautica
Branch of the War Department With
Captain Leon Richardson in charge.
= Photographers Of the Signal Corps
Of the army will accompany .ach
squadron On its tour These men
viii take aerial photographs Of all
Of the American cities visited. The
plates will be dropped from the
aeroplanes by parachute and hur-
RED reproductions made for the
benefit of the residents.
L is planned to give flying demon
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cities during the Victory Liberty
Loan campaign. The eastern tour
will begin At Mlneola. Long Island !:
the middlewesarn tour will beg nj
New Orleans. and the western iOur
II San Diego Zach squadron + =
be carried in special train Of
eleven cars. travelling at night
Nine end=do0r baggage cars VII Be
required n carry The seventeen
aIrplanes in each squadron An
officer will precede each train 10
select landing fields and to arrange
With local Victory Liberty Loan
Committees for the entertainment Of
the flyers.
This exhibition viii demonstrate
70 the American people the best types
Of aeroplanea developed during the
been achieved as a result Of their