San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
BIC AERIAL
EXHIBIT FOR
RELIEF FUND
All Flying Fields to Co.
operate in Monster
Maneuvers.
NEFF MAY TAKE RIDE
Thrilling Exhibitions to
Feature November
Air Flights.
NEFF MAY TAKE RIDE

will cooperate to conduct at Kelly
Field in November the largest and
most extensive aerial exhibition ever
held i'm the southwest. The exhibit
ton will be given for tie benefit of
the Army Relief Fund. fund used
to aid and support the widows and
orphans of dead army men.
Authorities mt the three fields are
working on the theory that an aerial
demonstration for San Antonio people
must be exceedingly extraordinary to
be attractive. Consequently nothing
will be omitted TO make the occasion
Il thriller even for spectators TO whom
flying is no novelty.
The exact date for the big aerial
Saturday. Lieut.. Col. John III. How
ard. commanding officer ut Kelly
Field. wired the chief Of air service
at Washington Saturday requesting
that the exhibition be postponed as
late as November II, due 10 the
large amount of preparation that
must be made.
Civilians To Get Rides.
Probably the most outstanding fea-
ture. and one that will doubtless
prove most attractive. is that the Oc-
casion will afford quite n number of
spectators the opportunity TO take
their first airplane ride. 1t is PLAN
ned TO allow about two out of every
100 spectators 10 take 1J-minute
hop in government plane. Each
spectator will be given Il number, and
corresponding numbers will be put
into box. Numbers will be drawn
from the box. and spectators holding
a corresponding number will be given
a ride.
The only requirement will be the
signing of the usual release which
relieves the government of RESPONSE
bility in the event of accident.
Noted Pilots To Man Planes.
An added feature for the civilians
who draw "hOps" is that they will
get to ride with pilots of national
and world regulations. Among the
officers who will be detailed TO pilot
the civilians are: Lieut. Russell H..
Vaughan. who won the Pulitzer trophy
race at Detroit in 1922 and who
came near making daylight flight
from New York to San Francisco last
summer; Lieut.. John ID. Coriille OF
Brooks Field. who flew the army
Curtiss racer in the Pulitzer race
at st. Louis in the last international
air meet: Lieut.. Clements McMullen
of Brooks Field. who won the Lib
erty engine builders trophy race in
the last international air meet: Lieut.
Harrison &. Cocker. who last spring
made the longest solo nonstop hight
ever made when he flew from the
e.. i.n
der: and Lieuts. Ivan q. Norman
Of the Air Intermediate Depot. DEL,
mar II. Dunton, j.. II. Seller ana
]. \. Woodruff, all of whom MADE
the Porto Rico flight last spring.
All civilians who ride Will be taken
in DeHaviland and Nought planes.
Governor May Go Up.
Governor Pat NJ. Neff will be
given q special invitation TO attend
the exhibition. If it is so he can
come to San Antonio at that, time
Kelly Field will send Martin bomb
er plane to Austin to bring him and
his party here, should the governor
consent to travel by air. 1t IS plan
ned TO have Governor Neff draw num-
beers from the box for the specta-
tors. -,
Aviators from all three fields will
participate in the flying. which will
include every kind of formation and
every kind of stunt known to ava
ton. 1t is being planned to have a
sky writing plane ready to perform
that feat for the spectators. some
thing never before performed in San
Antonio. Two other proposed stunts
which have never been executed IT
San Antonio. include dual "pul
Off parachute jump and steady
flying test. =,
The latter stunt is probably the
most UNIQUE in that three planes AT
tached to each other by a cord vii
take off together. fly for a few min
utes and try to land without break
ing the cord. This act was success
! fully performed recently Mt McCool
Field. Ohio. by two planes, but i
has never been tried by three.
The dual pull off" parachute juml
will be made from a Martin bomber
| A parachute jumper will be on eacl
| wing of the ship. release the para
chutes while still on the wings ant
allow them to pull them off.
Many Committees Named.
A large number of committees com
posed of officers from the three field
| have been appointed to attend TO tn
| different phases of the exhibition.
meeting of all the committees wa
held Friday afternoon at the win
operations office at Kelly Field. an
! another meeting is to be held Monda
| afternoon to formulate more definit
plans.
The committees who will bandl
the exhibition are: Program commit
tee, Mai. S. W. FitzGerald, execu
tive officer Tenth School GrouI
Kelly Field; Capt. Charles b. |
Bubb. assistant wing operations off
Ger. Kelly Field: Capt. Paul Z
Book, Brooks Field: Lieut.. Dale '
Gaffney, adjutant Third Attac
Group, Kelly Field: and Lieu
Lewis A. Dayton, adjutant, Air II
termediate Depot; concessions con
mittee. Maj. Oscar Westover an
Lieut.. ED. Jones, Kelly Field; mus
committee. CAPT. Walter +. krau
adjutant Kelly Field: tickets an
posters committee, Maj. Ross
Rowell. Maj. w. b. Duty. Capt. Mo
ris Berman. Lieut.. Byron +. Gate
Kelly Field Lieut.. Lewis A. DaytO
A. j. D., Lieut.. X. Il. OFT and Lieu
II. G.. Davidson. Brooks Field: ira
, fic, parking and military police con
mittee. Capt. ii. G.. Houghland, Lieu
Thomas Chapman and Lieut.. Z.
Williamson, Kelly Field; pilot
graphic committee. Capt. G. f. Cliff
and Lieut. K. r. Cronau. Kelly Field
charge Of flying committee. Ma
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