Evening star., 1928-12-15
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Delegates to Conference See
Latest Tactics by Three
Service Branches.

Flying from muddy field, which
spattered feshly washed landing gears
and tail surfaces, and through misty
skies, leading combat pilots of the Army
and Navy today demonstrated the latest
advances in battle maneuverS to visit
ing aeronautical leaders from nearly so
countries, who were guests of the Gov
ernment at Boiling Field and the Naval
Air Station.
Following an inspection of both mill
tary posts, the visitors, who are dele
gates to the International Civil Aero
nautics Conference, witnessed an aerial
demonstration by picked flyers from the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps, among
them several war aces. The demonstra-
tion covered the operations of modern
pursuit and observation planes, the pro-
lection Of observation planes from fire
attack and the use of scouting planes.
Lindbergh Leaves Field.
Just before the demonstration the
visitors were given a thrill when Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, clad in full fly
ing togS, emerged from the operations
Office at Boiling Field and pushed his
way through dense crowds to his plane,
which was warming up on the line.
He took off for New York, and soon
was lost in the haze to the north.
The delegates left the United States
Chamber Building, conference head
quarters, by bus and were taken to
the Naval Air Station for tour OF
inspection under direction of Lieut..
Con1dr. De Witt c. Watson, post COM
mandant.
After going through the hangers, as
sembly plants and machine shop, they
returned to the buSses and were taken
to Boiling Field, where they made
another inspection trip.
Approximately 35 Army and Navy
planes were drawn up in line extend
ing the length of the field. Delegates
then were seated in a reviewing stand
in front of the operations office.
Hunter Leads Formation.
The demonstration began at II
o'clock, when a formation Of three
Army pursuit planes. led by Capt.
Frank OD Hunter, took off for a for
nation fight and individual acrobatics.
The other two ships in the formation
were piloted by LieutS. EllWood K.
Quesada and j. Collins.
After 10 minutes the Navy put on a
rival demonstration with three pursuit
planes, flown by Lieut.. D. w. Tomlin-
son, one of the famous sea hawks;
Lieut.. AL j. Williams and Capt. T. E.
Rogers, Marine Corps.
Other flights were made by three
Army observation planes, piloted by
Capt. H. NJ McClelland, Capt. Ross
Hoyt and Lieut.. Newton Longfellow;
three Navy observation planes, piloted
by Lieuts. S. w. Galloway, w. G.
Tomlinson and G. w. Litch, and a
Navy scouting formation from Hamp-
ton Roads.
The Hampton Roads formation, which
flew here through clouds which blocked
an Army formation from Langley Field,
was commanded by Lieut.. c. G. Hal
pine.
This afternoon the visitors will in
spect the laboratories at the Bureau
of Standards, where large amount of
aeronautical test work is in progress.
They will board the steamer District |
of Columbia this evening and will leave |
at 10 o'clock tonight on trip to the |
laboratories of the National Advisory |
Committee for Aeronautics. at Langley |
Field, Va, tomorrow. Monday they will /
go to Kitty Hawk, N. c., to attend the |
dedication of two monuments marking |
the scene of the first airplane flight of |
December II, 1908. /