Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-02
AMERICA FIRST in AIR,
a, is AIM OF ASSOCIATION
National Aeronautic Group Claims Share
in Increasing Number of Airports
Throughout Country.

of it's kind in the country. This com.
mittee consists Of: Orville Wright.
chairman; George w. Lewis, director
of research of the national advisory
committee for aeronautics; Maj. Clar.
ence NJ. Young. director of aeronau-
tics, Department of Commerce; Brig.
Gen. William +. Gilmore, in charge
of Wright Field. Dayton, Ohio; Brig.
Gen. Frank p. Lahm. in charge of
can Field, Tex; c. T. Ludington of
Philadelphia. Glenn L. Martin. de-
signer of the Martin bomber; c. G..
Peterson chief engineer of the Wright
Aeronautical Corporations; B. Russell
Shaw; f. p. Warner. Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy for Aeronautics:
| Comdr. Newton II. White, u. s. N.
and c. +. Schory, secretary of the
contest committee.
This committee recently gave care
full consideration to the question of
extended flights over water and took
the following position in this impor-
tant regard:
THE committee considers it neither
desirable nor feasible to interpose any
severe check upon individual initiative
in the quest for new records and the
attempt to accomplish any demonstra-
ton of the possibilities of aircraft. It's
members have agreed, however, that
all such attempts should be surround
ed with such restrictions as may be
necessary to insure that the pilot and
other members of the crew are thor
| oughly qualified physically. mentally
and by training and experience. for
their undertaking. and that their air.
plane, it's power plant and it's auxil-
larry equipment have been chosen and
tested with due reference to the task
in hand. The imposition of restric-
lions designed to insure such fitness
| and flying equipment and competence
of personnel should be indispensable
conditions precedent to the sanction.
ing by the National Aeronautic Asso-
citation of any contest or individual
flights involving long oversee aerial
passages.
Has Headquarters Here.
1.-THE committee does not feel that
| more direct control is required, as it is
satisfied that responsible public opin.
ion will not approve of the conduct
or any events not surrounded with
those safeguards necessary to win the
sanction of the National Aeronautic
Association.
"The contest committee appreciates
thS CFiuCht HESS VI IHS w dT
Department, Navy Department and
the Department of Commerce to CO.
operate in such mea sures as may be
necessary to enforce restrictions laid
down in the conduct of such events,
and will as matter of course, avail
itself to the fullest degree of such co.
operation in it's relationship to any
events which it may be asked to sane.
ton in the future"
In addition to the local chapters of
the association. it maintains the ma
tlonal headquarters in Washington,
where it maintains complete aelG.
nautical library for the use of it's
members, and where it publishes the
Monthly Review, pertaining to the as
ISOLATION.
The increasing number of airports
throughout the country has largely
been due to the efforts of the asso.
citation, and much of the favorable
legislation passed during the past Is
months has been the result of the as.
sociation's efforts over a period of
years.