The Washington times., 1922-06-10
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BUSY MAPPING
SKY Highways
Regular Patrols Are to Be Es-
tabIished All Over the
United States.

tabIished All Over the
United States.
Universal Service.
The airways section Of the
Army Air Service, under the gen.
eral direction Of Maj. Gen. Mason
M. Patrick, chief Of the service,
has begun work on system of
aerial highways which will ira.
verse all parts Of the United
States. 1t Ii anticipating the day,
which II believes near, when the
continent will be crossed In two
days flying instead Of five days
by rail. .
Plan Regular PATROLS. :
The highways are to be regularly
patroled and the landing fields in.
spected, and will eyentuate In q net
work Of airways which will include
thousands OF emergency landing
fields In small towns as auxiliaries
to the terminals In the larger cities
on the transcontinental lines.
The first district to be patralled
is bounded by Mitchell. Field on
Long Island. N. Y; McCook Field
at Dayton. Ohio, which houses the
engineering activities of the Army
Air Service: Langin Field at
Moundsville. w. Va; Boiling Field
at Aanacostia, d. c., across the
river from Washington, and Lang.
ley Field at Hampton. Va.
Among fields later to be included
In the patrol and inspection system
are the Fairfield intermediate De-
pot at Fairfield, Ohio: Aberdeen
Proving Grounds, Aberdeen. Nd:
Carlstrom and auxiliary fields ut
arcadia and other points in Florida;
Chanute Field. Rantoul. ILL.,; Scott
Field. Belleville, Ill; Kelly and
Brooks Fields at San Antonio. Tex:
Ellington Field. Houston, Tex: Ma.
ther Field, Mills. Cal; Crissy Field.
Preside. Cal: March Field, River.
side. Cal: Ross Field, Arcadia, Cal;
and Rockwell intermediates Depot
at Coronado. Cal.
Later still the patrol is expected
to be extended to the foliowins
fields In the Philippine Islands:
Clark. at Pampanga; Kindley, at
Fort Mills; Camp Nichols, and Camp
Claudio. at Ritual, and TO the
Hawaiian Islands and Porto Rico.
After Mexico IL officially recognized
by the United States q fleet of army
planes win fly from the Texas bor.
der down through Mexico, Guate.
maia, Honduras, Salvador, Mica.
ragua, Costo Rica and Panama 10
France Field at Christobar In the
Canal Zone.
Route to Canal Zone.
BY this route the United States
will be In direct communication by
airways over registered landing
fields with the Canal Zone, either
for commercial or military pur.
poses.
Although Mexico probably would
permit American planes to fly
through it's country now. the Army
Air Services project is being de-
layed by the State Department
which fears to establish a precedent
following which Mexican troops
might reciprocally cross over parts
OF Texas between northwestern and
northeastern Mexico In military
operations. And army planes consti-
tutes an armed military force in
military reckoning.
The patrols now beginning are to
be bi-weekly at first, the air ranger
SoNSA"B Sohic Ikai Vi tnc route edCn
day. Army aviators will inspect the
condition Of landing fields en- route,
and make reports to tho Army Air
Service. These reports will be made
available for commercial as well as
military aviation.
The National Aeronautic Associa
ton and the Aeronautic Chamber Of
Commerce will make use Of these re-
ports in regular bulletins to com.
mercial fliers. In this way many
accidents due to bad landings viii
be prevented.
Weather conditions also will he re-
ported upon. the planes being equip
ped with radio. and radio control OF
the planes will be experimented
with. New instruments and i'm.
provements Of existing ones will be
tested for the McCook field labora.
tories.
Linked with this work. eventually
will be the reserve flying corps bs.
ing developed by the army air serv.
ice. Squadrons are in process Of
organization at various centers In
the nine districts Of the United States
constituting the nine army corps.