Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
Jam IN AIR TRAFFIC
EXPECTED MONDAY
ON PLANES ARRIVAL
Military Discipline invoked to
Prevent Crashes Among
70 Craft in Parade.
CIVILIAN PILOTS PUT
UNDER RIGID RULES
Dirigibles to Join Army and Navy
Craft in Inaugural
Aerial Circus.

Washington is expected to experience
its first serious aerial traffic jam next
Monday, when military and civilian air.
planes and pilots will come here from
all parts of the country to pay tribute to
Herbert Hoover in the first aerial In
auguratlon day parade in history.
TO guard against collisions between
5he 70 or more aircraft which will be
IN the air over Pennsylvania avenue at
one time, all civilian flyers in the Dis
trict of Columbia will be placed under
rigid military discipline, and violation
Of the regulations set up for the coming
week end will result in suspension of the
offending pilots flying license, it has
been announced by the War Depart
ment, acting in cooperation with the
Department of Commerce.
Visiting civilian pilots will be required
to land and keep their airplanes at Boil
ling Field and will be required to register
themselves and their planes at the field
operations office. From Saturday
permitted to fly over the District of
Columbia without having clearance or
ders from the operations Office. The
strictest rules will govern the taking
eff, flying and landing Of the planes
during the various aerial parades and
flying shows to be held Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday.
Dirigibles to Take Air.
The military lighter-than-a forces
of the Nation will be represented by
and two smaller Navy and two Army
non-rigid dirigiples These five dirigi-
hles will be under command of Comdr
Charles E. RoSendahl, commanding Of
tlcer of the Los Angeles.
The first and one of the most famous
of the pilots expected to arrive here in
advance of the general concentration of
planes will be Capt. Albert w. Stevens,
one of the leading aerial Photographic
experts of the Army Air Corps, who,
with Capt. ST. Clair STREET.. holds the
world altitude record for two persons.
Capt Stevens is expected to arrive at
Boiling Field tomorrow afternoon from
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in a spe-
cially equipped Army observation plane,
from which he will make an official
Photographic record of the inaugural
proceedings by day and night from the
air. He will be piloted by Lieut.. John
D. Corkilie.
Order of Arrival.
A majority of the civilian planes are
expected to come in Saturday and Sum-
day and the Army and Navy contingents
will arrive here Sunday and Monday.
The movements of all heavier-than-a air
craft, including privately owned planes,
will be controlled by an Army Air Corps
board composed of Brig. Gen. Benjamin
d. Foulois. assistant chief of the corps
Maj. Horace M. Hickam, Air Corps rep
resentative on the Army general staff
Maj. Ira Longanecker, chief of the Air
Corps information section; Maj. Howard
G. Davidson, commandment of Boiling
Field; Lieut.. Eugene B. Bayley, adjutant
OF Boiling Field, and Capt. Harold M.
McClelland, chief of training and oper-
atoms.
An aerial demonstration will be held
by Army and Navy combat and OBJ
servation planes from 2 to 3 pm. Sat-
urday. Visiting civilian flyers are re-
quested to time their arrival at Boiling
Field SO as not to interfere with this
demonstration. Civilian planes should
arrange to land at Boiling Field before
80 pm. or after $3.50 pm. on that
day. it was stated at the War Depart
ment. Commercial oil and gasoline
trucks will be stationed at Boiling Field
to refuel the commercial planes, and no
Army fuel or oil will be available for
this purpose.
Sunday many more arrivals are ex-
pected The Army board has ordered
that there be no flying here Sunday
except that necessitated by arrivals and
departures for points outside the Dis
trict. No passenger hops" will be
permitted.
Draw Numbers Monday.
On Monday all pilots Of commercial
planes will meet in the gymnasium
hangar at Boiling Field at $3.50 am. to
receive final instructions and to draw
numbers for their positions in the two
parades of that day. The first parade,
by commercial planes alone, will begin
at GAS am. The pilot drawing number
will take off at that time, followed
at intervals of one minute by the other
pilots in accordance with the numbers
they have drawn.
The Army board has requested that
it have authority to assign vacant seats
in the commercial planes to important
personages, to be designated by the
board
After all the planes are in the air
and have assembled III tne order or
their numbers the first plane will lead
the column over the city. After the
parade. the planes will land in order
at one-minute intervals, preceding
planes taxing clear of the field before
the next one lands.
The second commercial airplane pa
rade will be held at 2:30 pm, these
planes also passing in review over La
fayette Park After this parade, the
commercial planes will return to their
parking places at the north end OF
Boiling Field, and no more flying will
be permitted that day.
On Tuesday a public exhibition of all
types of Army, Navy and commercial
planes taking part in Mondays parades
viii be held at Boiling Field. The
planes will be labeled to show their
types, use and capabilities. From IL to
/ 80 pm. the commercial planes will
be permitted to carry passengers on
short flights over the city free of charge
No paid flights will be made, and the
passengers to be flown will be selected
from the crowds attending the exhibit
ton.
A joint Army-Navy flying demonstra-
ton will be held from to pm Tues
day, bringing the four days of aerial
demonstrations to an official close
After 3 pm. visiting planes will be
cleared for their home stations.
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