Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-27
RADIO GIVEN PART
IN AIR BOMBING
Planes in Attack to Be
Equipped to Broad
cast "War."
by MARTIN CODEL.

When New York City is bombed" on
the evening of May 81 in simulated
attack by an Army air raider from
Dayton, Ohio, those that tune in will
hear all the narrowing details over the
radio. Plans are being made by the
Army Air Corps to broadcast an &C.
count of the event from the bombing
plane in the same way that descriptions
of President Hoover's Inauguration, as
seen from the air, were broadcast GER
the two national chains.
Another radio feature of the Army
aerial maneuvers is scheduled for the
afternoon of May Is, when a battle be-
tween the air forces of the blue" and
red" armies will be staged over the out
skirts of Cincinnati This will also be
broadcast over network of radio sta
tons.
The announcer will probably watch
the conflict, which will have all the re-
alistic trimmings of aerial warfare
except machine gun bullets-from the
same Fokker radio laboratory used by
the National Broadcasting Co. over
Washington on Inauguration day.
Radio Aboard Planes.
These are the public phases of the
radio plans for the war games. Radio
will be employed aboard all the bomb
ing and observation planes of both
forces for inter plane, ground-to plane
and plane-to-ground communication
1t will be the connecting link between
the commanding Office of the respective
fighting forces, between fliers and their
ground troops and between the fiiers in
the several formations.
The New York bombing" test is ex-
pected to excite the greatest amount of
interest among the radio audience. A
service plane is to leave Dayton about
noon, refuel in mid air over Middletown,
Pa, just as the plane Question Mark
refueled during It's record endurance
fight last January, and fly over New
York City at about pm. near the Bat
terry, 1t will drop two parachute flares,
each representing 1,100-pound bombs
Then it will turn back for return flight
to Dayton with one other mid-air refuel-
ing operation at Middletown. The
round trip, distance of 1914 miles,
will be made without landing.
The radio announcer will be one of
the crew of five in the plane, a twin
motored biplane of standard Army type.
He will discuss the significance of the
flight during the Is minutes he is ION
the air" and will tell the listeners about
the strategic aspects of the flight and
what similar forays might mean in war
time.
One Nom Combatant.
The flying radio laboratory Of the
Army will be the only -combatant
plane that will take off for the air bat
tie over Cincinnati at 2:30 pm, May 18.
Something like 200 planes will partici-
pate In this combat.
Opposing commanders will have to
display their own initiative with their
respective forces, for nothing of mill
tary character will be rehearsed or plan
ned and winner will be picked upon
tactical points. Umpires will accom-
pany each flight, they will report their
opinions regarding the outcome of the
combat. the damages inflicted and the
number of casualties.
The war" itself begins at midnight,
May Is. Two days earlier, the planes
of the opposing forces will be concen-
trated at Wright field near Dayton, and
at Norton field, near Columbus They
viii come from the Army bases at Lang
ley Field, Va; Mitchell Field, N. Y;
Selfridge Field, Mich; Fort Riley. Kans.;
Fort Crocket, Tex, and Rockwell Field,
Calf.
Most of the craft will be radio equip
ped, with both transmitters and re-
ceivers, although the fast pursuit planes
will probably not have radio aboard,
unless the diminutive Pancake" receiv-
ing sets recently ordered by the Army
are delivered from the factory in time.
Copyright, 1929, by North American News
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