Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-09
PLANE EXPOSITION
TO Be HELD HERE
Show to Be Conducted Dur
ing Pan-American Trade
Conference.

Selling the opportunity of display
ing its wares before the delegates to
the third Pan-American Commercial
Conference and to the annual con
vention of the United States Chamber
of Commerce the first week in May
virtually the entire American aero
nautical industry will be on both fly
ing and still exhibition at Boiling
Field from May l to 6, under extern
sive plans now reaching the formative
stage by a special committee APP
pointed by the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce of America, Inc, under
whose auspices the exhibition will be
held.
Denominated the "Ail-America Air
craft Show of 1927" the exhibition will
be staged with the cooperation OF
the Army Air Corps. Bureau OF Aero
nautics, Navy Department: Depart
ment Of Commerce, national advisory
committee for aeronautics, National
Aeronautic Association and the United
States Chamber Of Commerce. Porter
Adams, president of the National
Aeronautic Association. IS chairman
of the washington executive commit
tee, Headquarters Of which are located
at 1923 II street.
Display is Important.
The forthcoming display is regard
ed by the aircraft manufacturers as
of vital importance to the expansion
OF the industry, as they will have the
opportunity of placing before the
Latin American delegates the value
and efficiency of American aero
nautical products to offset the vigor-
Gus campaigns now on foot by Euro
pean manufacturers.
British, French, German and italian
Reronautical firms have made inroads
on a territory logically American, not
because of superior equipment, but,
according to well-informed sources,
because of prejudices against Ameri-
can products. Furthermore, the
American aircraft industry has been
in a none too stable condition to con-
duct extensive sales campaigns in the
countries to the South, whereas for
eign competition has invaded the area
with skilled war pilots who are DEM
onstrating the planes.
While selling the idea that Ameri-
can aircraft products are best to the
Pan-American delegtSes, the manufac-
turers also will be in a position to
place before the leading business men
in the United States, as represented by
the Chamber of Commerce delegates,
the extent of the somewhat scattered
industry. Included among the dele
gates win be a large group of rail-
road presidents, who will have a first
hand meeting with American CONNER
cial airplanes.
Demonstrations Planned.
Should the pan-American flight
reach Boiling Field, its destination, on
Sunday, May /, the exhibition will be
formally opened in its honor. Other
plans which have received the tenta-
tive approval Of the committee include
= special demonstration for the rail
road presidents, whom Secretary of
Commerce Hoover has indicated he
will invite to the field Wednesday, May
4. On the afternoon of Thursday, May
8, SHOW" will be staged for the
Chamber of Commerce delegates, and
on the following morning another dem
onstration will be given the Pan-Amer
lean representatives.
While these two shows" will be
somewhat similar in character, that
for the foreign visitors, it is under
stood. win be expanded somewhat and
probably will be augmented with
flights OF Army and Navy military air
craft OF a spectacular nature. Ar
rangements for night flying also are
being worked out.
The still exhibition will occupy
hangers six and seven at the field
which have been turned over to the
aircraft show by the Army Air Corps.
During the progress OF the demonstra-
ton. virtually all military work at
both Boiling Field and the Naval Air
Station will be at a standstiIls An il.
Illustrated catalogue describing in de-
tail the various exhibits, win be dis
tributed.
Two Committees Named.
The two important committees ar
ranging the greater part OF the show
are: Exhibit committee-Maj. w. G.
Kilner, executive officer of the Army
Air Corps. chairman: Maj. Harvey B.
s. Burwell, commanding Boiling
Field; Lieut.. Comdr. Homer c. Wick,
commanding the naval air station;
Comdr. Eugene E. Wilson, Bureau of
Aeronautics, Navy Department; Capt.
Halbert E. Payne, Atlantic Aircraft
Corporation; Arthur Z. Nesbitt, Capt.
G. Allen Schwarzwaelder, quarter
master officer, Boiling Field: r. P.
PARROT, A. r. r. Horn and c. G.
Peterson, managing director OF the
show.
The flight committee is headed by
Temple Joyce, test pilot of the Cur
tiss Aeroplane e Motor Co. and is CON-
posed of Maj. S. w. Fitzgerald, Army
Air Corps; Maj. Clarence NJ. Young,
chief Of regulations division, De-
pArtment of Commerce. bureau Of
aeronautics: DIR. George W. Lewis, d.
rector of research, National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics; Carl +.
Schory, National Aeronautic Associa-
ton: Lieut.. Ralph A. Ofstie, Bureau of
Aeronautics; Maj Burwell, Comdr.
Wick and Mr.. Peterson. Willard w.
Gatchell of Washington, is executive
secretary Of the Washington exec11.