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complete servicing and overhauling of
airplanes will be installed.
The field is to be lighted and equipped
for night flying within the near future,
Maj. Horton announced, after which
application will be made to the Depart
ment of Commerce for Glass A rating
for the airport, which is the highest
rating granted by the department under
the provisions of the air commerce act
Field In Good Shape.
"The field already is in splendid
shape" Maj Horton said There is a
small ditch across a part of the field
We will lay drainage pipes in this ditch
and level the field over It, The entire
open space Is under heavy growth of
Kentucky blue grass, which makes an
excellent turf for landing. The field is
perfectly drained and remains firm
even under the heavy rains of the past
month.
The property is readily accessible,
the metropolitan branch of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad passing within
two city blocks of one boundary, the
Rockville pike skirting another side and
the street railway line from Georgetown
to Rockville passing close by the field.
The location and physical condition
OF the field convince me that we can es-
tablish there an airport for the National
Capital which will be second to none
In this country"
Maj. Horton said that he expects to
establish a model flying school at the
field before Winter sets in. Only the
most experienced of instructors will be
employed. he said. applications having
been received from number of former
Army and Navy pilots and instructors.
Selection of chief pilot probably will
be announced within week or two and
the purchasing of planes and equipment
will follow as rapidly as possible.
Will Give Complete Course.
I'VE intend to offer a complete course
of instruction, which will include so
hours OF actual solo flying" Mai. Hor-
ton said. I'VE will graduate our STU
dents only when they are able to pass
the license requirements of the Depart
ment of Commerce. Glasses will be
conducted TO train students for the
various types of licenses issued by the
department. from that of private pilot,
which authorizes the flyer to pilot his
own plane for his own amusement, but
not to carry passengers or freight for
hlre, up to that of transport pilot, the
hlghest rating given by the depart
mCnt
There is a great demand TODAY for
capable transport pilots to fly the big
transports and passenger planes re-
CURED for the intercity service, which
is opening the greatest field of useful
ness for the airplane. We will concen-
trate, therefore, on the training of
pilots of this caliber."
Maj. Horton is widely known in avia-
ton circles and Is pilot and radio ex-
pert. He discovered the basic method
OF radio communication between air
planes In flight and ground stations as
early as 1910, when the science of air
navigation was in its infancy. On Au-
gust q, 1910, at the Sheepshead Bay
race track, in the presence of Army Sig
nal Corps officers from Washington. he
conducted the first successful transmits
sion of radio message from a flying
plane TO ground station.
Is Radio Expert.
Maj. Horton has been interested in
radio telegraphy for more than a quar-
ter of century. In 1903 he engaged in
radio telegraphy experiments from
building to building in Cleveland, and
two years later he was in Denmark
collaborating with Valdamar Poulson at
Copenhagen in the development of the
present continuous wave radio system.
The results of his Sheepshead Bay
experiment were made public by Maj.
Horton for the use of the Army, re-
sulting in the science of airplane COM
munication reaching high state Of
development even prior to the World
War, in which it became OF supreme
Importance In connection with artillery
fire regulation from the air
Mai. Horton. now or the Aviation
CORPS reserve list. recently returned to
duty at Boiling Field as a pilot and
ra diO pXDert