San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-17
CROKER To
|. FLY IL IN
BIC AIR RAGE
Lieut.. John X. Cannon Will
Be Alternate Pilot for
Racing Plane.
VAUGHAN IS COMING
Worlds Record for Closed
Course Is 204 Miles
an Hour.
VAUGHAN IS COMING


School Group, Kelly Field, received
orders Monday TO proceed to St. Louis
by rail in the capacity of alternate
pilot for the Veryville-Sperry racing
plane to be flown in the Pulitzer
trophy race in st. Louis on October ).
The Pulitzer trophy race is the feat
ure event of the international air
meet to be held in st. Louis on Octo-
Der 1, 2 and 3. During the three days
eight races will be flown, the Pulitzer
trophy race to be the last on the
schedule. ~. -
Other Kelly Field pilots who will
take part in the races at the inter-
national air meet either as direct or
alternate pilots are: Lieut.. Paul &.
Wagner. Lieut.. W. T. Larson, Lieut..
Harrison G.. Crocker. and Lieut..
George II. Beverley. Lieutenant Wag-
ner left Kelly Field several days ago
by air for st. Louis and will fly an
NB1-A observation plane in the third
race of the meet. Lieutenants Croker,
Larson and Beverley were at Langley
Field. Va, participating in the recerJ
bombing maneuvers off the Virginia
coast. and went direct to st. Louis
from Langley Field.
Croker to Fly To.
Lieutenant Larson will also fly an
NRl-A observation plane in the third
race of the international meet. while
Lieutenant Croker will fly the IA
nous tt plane in the fifth race of the
meet. Lieutenant Beverley is an alter
nate pilot for the To in the fifth
event.
The fifth race will be of particular
interest as the To, one of the entries
of that race, and its pilot, have both
made significant history in the aerial
world during the past year. The t.,
a huge monoplane equipped with two
motors, is the only airplane in which
a nonstop flight from the East TO the
West coast was ever made. Lieuten-
ants MacReady and Kelly of the army
air service performing this renowned
feat last spring when they flew from
New York to San Francisco in slight.
ly over ~ hours in the t.. Lieuten.
ant Crocker, the pilot to fly the IT,
in the international race, has the rec
ord OF making the longest nonstop
flight of any single aviator in the
world. Lieutenant Croker flew from
the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian
border last March in an especially ar
ranged single seated DeHayiland
plane. His flight was the longest nop-
stop flight ever made by single
aviator. The plane he used was the
same one built for Lieut.. James III.
Doolittle of Kelly Field. who flew
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast
ON one-stop flight in September.
1922. The ship had the front cockpit
taken out, the space being used for
additional gasoline.
Have Record to Beat.
The Pulitzer race will be flown over
triangular course slightly smaller
than the course used at Detroit last
year. The Detroit course last year was
90 kilometers to each side. The time
made last year over the triangular
course was POS miles an hour. that
speed being made by Lieut.. Russell
II. Maughan, who has just been trans
ferred from McCook Field to Kelly
Field for duty. This year it is expected
that speed of 30 miles an hour will
be made over the triangular, or what
l. known as 4 closed course.
The rate of 205 miles an hour at
tanned by Lieutenant Maughan at De
troit last year still stands as the
worlds speed record over a closed
course. The worlds record over a
straisht-away course is 236 miles an
hour.
Filters Here Going.
There will be n large number of
Kelly Field officers who will fly from
Kelly Field to st. Louis during the
international air meet, but n definite
list of those who will go has not been
compiled. The chief of air service is
DESTROYS of ms many air service Off.
Gers as possible attending the races
ct st. Louis. Maj. Horace NJ. Hick-
am. commander of the School Group
at Kelly Field, will be ono of the off.
Gals at the air meet, having been
designated as the officer in charge of
FLYING.
Capt. Charles r. B. Bubb. assistant
wing operations officer at Kelly Field
received orders Monday TO proceed by
air to Washington. d. c.. so as to ar
rive there not later than September
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II was also announced at Kelly
Field Monday that Mai. Harvey r. 8.
Burwell. wing operations officer of
the field, will flv to Maria during the
maneuvers of the First Cavalry Di-
vision to be held there early in Octo-
Der. During the maneuvers he will
act as aerial observer.