Evening star., 1927-05-05
c. OF c. DELEGATES
TOGO ON FLIGHTS
Navy and Marine Flyers to
/ Perform for Aircraft Dis
e
! play Today.

Navy and Marine airmen from the
Anacostia Air Station and Brown
Field, Quantico, Va, will bear the
sbrunt of the aerial entertainment fea-
lure of the all-America aircraft dis
play at Boiling Field this afternoon.
Prior to putting on their aerial
acts, delegates to the United States
Chamber of Commerce convention,
who were scheduled to reach the field
at Q o'clock. will be taken on flights
in the Ford three-engined all-metal
Ship, the Stins0n "Detroiter" the Buhl
lair sedan, the Fairchild folding.wing
cabin monoplane and other ships de-
Veloped primarily for commercial use.
Under the direction of Lieut.. Comdr.
ID. {. Watson, acting commanding
officer of the naval air station. and
Lieut.. Rutled%e Irvine, operations
officer, a program of exhibition flying
will he presented between $50 and
4:30 o'clock.
A feature OF: the exhibition will be
the performance OF six Marine Curtiss
pursuit ships. recently obtained from
The factory b,. the Quantico flyers.
Their high-spe%d acrobatics win be
augmented b. two more Curtiss
fighters from she air station. Plans
were afoot tsday for three live
parachute jun as from the all-metal
Ford plane andsfof a torpedo dropping
demonstration Gin the river by a
Douglas torpeGD plane.
Pilots Sto Participat.
Participatine$pilots are: From Guam
tico, Mai. c. "a. Lutz, commanding
Brown Field; "Capt. l.. +. Bourne,
Capt. Francis N. Mulcahy, who just
returned from Nicaragua, and Lieuts. |
w. L. McKittI .rl1, George H. Towner
and Lawson 4. Sanderson. Lieuts |
James ID. Barnssr and William G. Tom
hnson. from TIE air station, will en-
gage in combaA tactics over the field.
Lieut.. S. W& Galloway will fly the
Douglas torpGio plane and Lieut.. |
Ernest w. LitTh will pilot the Ford,
from which Az alton Chief Machinists
Mate J. T. Clal ke, of the station and
two Marine erljsted men from Guam |
$ico will make live jumps
Military authorities last night |
estimated 1900 persons and $500 |
automobiles wSe at Boiling Field and |
the Naval Airs Station for the night |
flying exhibitisa-the largest crowd |
that ever visved the Government |
reservation aftsr nightfall
When they lSd gotten into the two |
fields, between \ and o'clock, Capt. |
James Wilson, commanding No. II |
precinct, was appealed to by the |
automobiles to. cut off the ingress of |
automobiles ar. mastering his avail
able policemen; ne diverted hundreds |
Of automobiles Sack to the city. He
was assisted hE police of No. pre-
cinct, who hanged the stream of auto
mobiles near tl'e Anacostia Bridge.
Crowd Surprises Officials.
Officials of tho display, the police
and military ay( naval airmen were
astounded at ,e large number of
persons who Hhtained entrance to
the field, as Won as the hundreds
who Were unab to get in with their
cars. Many Il llomobiles, prevented
from reaching 3 e field, were parked
and their occISants made the re-
mainder of Che journey from
Nichols avenue&nn foot. only to find
that the active$ $;Dart of the demon
stration was oT"c
Barring errorx3us reports of what
would be und@faken at the field,
the exhibition stas just what the
printed progran:.. of events called for
viz: "Demonstg alton of night light
ing equipment; $Aight flying demon
stration by theEsNavy." From some
source which G. a.. Peterson, manag-
ing director of e display has as yet
been unable to Z race, the announce
ment was madd that there would be
night parachutec jumping and a COM
mercial airmals would fly upside /
down across ths' field at an altitude
of so feet. in ;sSdition to the other
activities. =
Flood Ligsxs Turned On.
The flood lighy Of the Sperry, Gen.
eral Electric, kB. T. and Westing-
house Companie were turned on in
rotation, as the bower facilities were
unable to accom- 4odate the more than
two billions of candlepower which
ell lights repre- Ented. In the light
flooded field Lid%ts. George r. Hen
derson, Tomlinsen and Litch of the
Naval Air Statiog took off and landed
IN Curtis "HavH K" and Vought 10 |
land planes
Owing to the lNggy condition Of the (
neId IN front the spectators, the |
naval airmen " Hre forced to employ |
the southern p;N and to land and |
take off close to he Navy side. When |
the flying starteE at o'clock, under /
the supervision Lieut.. Comdr. Wat.
son and Lieut.. 1'vine, there were no |
spectators on thu Navy side. Before |
1T was concludt2, however, automo-
biles bound for Ikolling Field had been
diverted to they Navy side and the |
roadway leading einto the station was |
crowded. Each{ airman made two |
landings in the aighted area and the |
demonstration Was over at about |
o'clock.
Prior to and differ the flying thou |
sands or people Aled through hangers
z and 8, where the aeronautical in.
dustry's products are on exhibition.
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