White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-25
Airplane Fleet
To Visit Pasco
July 80
All Star Cast of Pilots in
Forty Ships Touring
Northwest States

Out of the sky Wednesday morning,
July 80, at ten o'clock will come to
land on the Franklin County NUM-
cipal airfield at Pasco, the largest fleet
of airplanes ever banded together in
one troupe in the Pacific Northwest.
From forty to fifty planes will make
up the fleet and this will include a
stunning team of twelve planes. Three
from the army, three from the navy,
three from the marines and three civil
ian planes. They are to put on an hour
show that is said to be as good as
can be anywhere in the United States.
Four Stops Eastern Washington
The occasion will be the first an
nual tour of the Pacific Northwest
States Air Tour association. 1t will
stop at % cities in the three north
west states, Pasco being one of four
stops east of the mountains in this
state. The fleet will arrive here about
ten o'clock from Yakima and depart
four hours later for Spokane.
New motors, new airplanes, new in
struments, new designs, all showing
the phenomenal development of avia-
ton in the last two years will be brot
here. Each plane represented will be
of a different model and the group
will offer an opportunity for anyone
to gain definite idea of the progress
that has been made in airplane build
ing. They will be on display for the
time they are here and people will be
permitted to inspect them. The planes
will range from the huge trimotored
transports to the tiny moth. An am
phibian and tri-motored Fokker will
probably be among the entries.
Many Famous Flyers Coming
Among the famous flyers included as
pilots will be six nationally we'll known
ones, headed by Miss Dorothy Hester,
19-year old girl student of Tex Ran
kin's who was the first woman to do
the dangerous outside loop and the
upside down outside spin, another diff
ficult vancouver. Miss Hester holds
the record for outside loops for
women and in recent exhibition at
Kelso, she won first from seven men
pilots.
Edith Fotz, one of the seven wo-
men pilots in the United States to
1old transport licenses, and winner
n important air races last year, will
pilot light plane and give short
of stunning.
There will be Nick Manner from
Spokane famous for his refueling
light around the country in the "Sun
God" Manner will fly giant Ford
nonoplane in the TOUR
Tex Rankin. genial Texan whose
lrawl is known to every pilot in the
country famous for his three-flag
light from Canada to. Mexico, his
derbies, his outside
oops and his work on national COM
nittees for the promotion of avia-
ion will fly his own ship in the tour
nd will be one of the star perform
RS of the commercial stunning team.
Man Who Outlooped Rankin
Gordon Mounce, California pilot
Tho recently set worlds record for
utside loops with % in one flight,
as been signed to do outside loops
yer the airports, along with Tex
Rankin, whose record he bettered.
dounce is an expert stunt pilot also.
Walter Case, Varney Air Mail pi-
1t, whose blind flying exhibition
gently was praised by experts, will
lso fly plane with the other COM
lercial groups. He recently took off
rom the airport at Portland, flew
1ru several manoeuvers in the air
nd landed the plane without seeing
he ground since a hood was used
D cover his cockpit. An assistant
,as in the other cockpit in case of
n accident but he never touched
he controls once.
Charge to Finance Show
In order to, finance the proposition
will be necessary to charge an adj
lission of so cents each, the total
Expense for Pasco being $4,000.