Evening star., 1927-05-02
GOOD WILL FLYERS
DUE HERE TODAY
Eight Pan-American Aviators
to Be Honored on Arrival
at Boiling Field.

The eight Pan-American flyers. on
the threshold of completing their 49,
524-mile flight from San Antonio. Tex.
to Washington by way of Central and
South America and the West Indies,
will leave Langley Field, Hampton.
Va, where they arrived Friday. at 8
o'clock this afternoon for Boiling
Field. where the highest representa-
tives of the worlds nations will for
malIy welcome them home.
Flying at reduced throttle, the air
men will stretch the ordinary one
hour and a half flight from the Vir-
ginia. base to Anacostia to nearly two
hours, and, barring unforeseen devel-
opments, win be ready to touch their
wheels down on specially assigned
area in front of the presidential stand
and Hangar No. 4, exactly at o'clock.
Owing to the latcness of the hour at
which the airmen will land. it is eX-
pected that a crowd numbering sew
eral thousand persons will be on hand
to welcome the birdmen who were
charged with using the airplane TO
spread a feeling of goodwill between
the northern republic and the nations
south of the RIO Grande.
:. Planes to Escort Flyers.
Although they will be accompanied
by nearly a score of airlpanes from
Langley Field, including planes carry
ing Assistant Secretary of War +.
Trubee Dawson and Maj. Gen. Mason
NJ. Patrick, chief of the Army Air
Corps, the Pan-American flyers will
stand out in a separate and distiDc-
tive formation as they arrive over the
field, for the escorting ships will have
received the signal to draw to one
side.
Only the aerial messengers. of good
will and Mr.. Dawson and Gen. Patrick
will glide to a landing in front of
the President, more than 1000 dis
tinguished guests of Secretary of War
Davis and the general public. The
escorting planes will have made prepa-
rations To land on the south end of
Boiling Field. Then, according TO
plans for the reception, Mr.. Dawson
will present the airmen to Secretaries
Nellogg and Davis of the War Depart
ment, who in turn will introduce them
to President Coolidge.
The airmen at Langley Field were
visited yesterday by MIR, Dawson, who
was flown to the Virginia base by
Lieut.. Lester J. Maitland. his aide.
Mr.. Dawson vas accompanied by the
14-year-old son of Maj. Gerald c.
Brandt, executive officer in Secretary
Davis office.
Program for Early Arrivals.
Large numbers of persons were ex-
pected by officers at the field as early
as o'clock, but for those early ar
rivals il was not TO be a question of
waiting for three hours with nothing
to do AS , o'clock the all-American
aircraft display, participated in by the
leading members of the aeronautiCal
industry, formally opened its still
exhibits in two hangers. revealing for
the first time anywhere in this coun-
try the accessories necessary to fly
ing. from minute engine and airplane
parts TO models of airports and land
ing fields.
Shortly after 4 o'clock the United
States Army Band, under the direc-
ton of Capt. W. J. Stannard, will
givefa concert. which has been timed
To conclude about 4:30 o'clock, when
President and Mrs. Coolidge are due
to arrive. Their arrival on the field
will be greeted by the presidential
salute of II guns by battery of Field
Artillery from Fort Myer.
Three pilots on duty here and three
airmen from Langley Field, Va. fly
ing fast Curtiss pursuit planes. have
arrangegd Il special demonstration of
more than 20 minutes duration for
the spectators while awaiting the ar
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