San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
NAME PILOTS
| FOR RACES At
KELLY field.
Aerial Demonstration to
Precede National Bal
loon Races.
ALL TYPES OF SHIPS
Only Kelly and Brooks
| Phets viii Be on
| Program.
ALL TYPES OF SHIPS

Pilots from Kelly and Brooks Fields
will participate exclusively in the
aerial show preceding the start of the
balloons, during the national race of
April 70. Twenty-Five pilots have
been selected, with thirteen alternates
and four parachute jumpers.
Planes used in the races have been
especially selected by aerial experts.
The Sperry Messenger, scheduled to
stage the first race of the afternoon,
is the smallest ship in the army air
service. and according to army jargon,
is built for messenger service, as its
name implies. The Sperry Messenger
is a single-seater and has a speed limit
Of approximately so miles an hour.
The second type, the Martin Bomb
er, is a dual motor biplane equipped
for night flying. 1t carries fuel sup
ply for five hours, giving it a cruising
radius Of about 200 miles. This type
plane was used for bombing demon
STATIONS in. 1921, when the German
submarine U-17 appeared off the vir-
ginia capes. during the time that the
cruiser Ostfriedalsland was sunk. The
Martin plane was used again by the
government for bombing in 1923; when
the American battleships Virginia and
New Jersey were turned over to the
navy to be used as targets, and were
sunk.
Has Many Aachievements.
The famous DeHaviland airplane
will figure in the third race. This is
British-built ship, created in Eng
land during the World War, and de-
signed around the American Liberty
r,n Tka E-r1,~L L.
for bombing and long-distance flying,
and for photography. 1t is 4 two
scatter machine.
complished in America by the De-
Haviland airplane, since the war. In
May, 1921, a DeHayiland won the
coast-to-coast flight from San Diego,
Cal, to Jacksonville, Fla, with Lieu
tenant Coney as pilot. This was
one-stop trip, and the flying was done
in two consecutive nights. Another
coast forecast flight was won in 1922,
by Lieutenant Doolittle, on Septem-
Der 8. The one stop Of this trip, was
made at Kelly Field. The gulf-to-
border nonstop flight was won by
this plane, when Lieut.. Harrison G.
Croker flew from Ellington Field,
Texas, to Selfridge Field, Mich. in
III hours and 55 minutes. The dura-
ton flight race was won BY Capt.
Lowell II. Smith and Lieut.. John
Paul Richter, at San Diego, Cal, and
Captain Ramey captured second place
in the Liberty Engine Builder Tro-
ply Race" at the Pulitzer Races in ST.
Louis, in 1923, at speed of 1877 miles
per hour over 200-kilometer course.
Who VIII Be in Races.
The fourth race features the s. z.
B plane, which was designed aud
built by the British during the World
War. This is strictly a single-seater
pursuit ship, and has to its credit the
greatest number of German planes
brought down by any allied pursuit
ship during the war. 1t was in this
ship that Major Bishop brought down
his q Hun planes, Major McCudden
his %, and Captain Bell his As. The
SEQ has speed Of approximately
100 miles per hour.
As the only after-war production.
the NIB ga plane, used in the fifth
race, is the latest American pursuit
ship. 1t attained a speed Of 14S
miles an hour around a closed curve,
n the Pulitzer races of 1922 and
Pilots selected to take part in the
airplane races include the following
men:
First race. three sperry Messen-
gers, Lieut.. Matthew +. Finn, A. s.,
l; Lieutenant George s. Rice, A. s..
2; Staff Sergeant Byron X. New
comb, A. s.. 3. Alternate pilots;
Lieut.. T. V. II. Kimble, 1 Staff Ser
geant Roy l.. Mitchell. 2.
SarArA
planes: Capt. /. L. Harvey, 1:
]. Garfield, s. Alternate pilots: Lieut..
r. 2; /, !. Patrick Il Lieut. R. A. Shave
Third race. five DeHaviland 4-B
planes: Lieut.. Lolita Smith. L:
Lieut.. L. s. Andrews, 2: Lieut.. r. II.
Biggs, 3; Lieut. Hex Mcclellan, A:
Lieut.. Thomas Brooks, .. Alternate
pilots: Lieut.. J. /. Morre, /: Lieut..
j. G. Taylor, 2; Lieut.. L. J. Carr. 5.
Fourth race, five SE-5 planes:
Capt. Paul Book, 1 (; Capt. A. NJ. Cuid-
ers, 2; Capt. B. V. Baucom, 3: Lieut.
= ID. Perrin. 4; Lieut.. j. $. Griffith,
;. Alternates Lieut.. ]. d. Corkhill.
l: Lieut.. r. FL. Clark. 2; Lieut.. II.
W. Long, 3.
Fifth race, six NIB ga planes:
Lieut.. c. F. Woolsey, 1 Lieut.. A. &.
2: Lieut.. r. L. Vaughan.
;; Lieut.. ]. B. Hsddon. 4; Lieut.. Z.
Il. Powers. o: Lieut.. l. $. Norman.
). Alternate pilots: Lieut. Clements
McMollen, 1 4: Lieut.. A. A. Kessler, 2:
Lieut.. H. NJ. Wittkop. 8.
Parachute jumpers will be: Master
r. W. Bottriel, /; Sergt.
). E. Davidson. ?; Corporal c. Z.
Conrad, s; Private ]. VI. Loge, T.