Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
AVIATION
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

| backbone of the force will be the
light cruiser divisions, composed
of the nine light cruisers which
have been commissioned under
the new building programs. These
are the Trenton, Marblehead,
Richmond, Memphis, Detroit, Gin
cinnati, Milwaukee, Raleigh and
Salt Lake City, and each cruiser
carries its own complement of OBJ
Servation planes, which are
launched by catapulting.
The destroyer SquadronS will
participate, led by the cruiser
Concord, and comprising three di-
visions of six destroyers each, or
10 vessels in all.
The aircraft squadrons partici-
pating will be accompanied by the
aircraft tender u. S. S. Wright,
flagship of the squadrons and will
include VT-9S torpedo and bonn
bardment plane squadron from
the Wright, VP-85 partol plane
squadron from the Wright, VO-2S
observation plane squadron from
battleship division No. 2, VJ-2S
utility plane division No. 2 from
the Wright, VS-5S scouting plane
squadron from light cruiser divi-
sion No. 2, VS-6S scouting plane
squadron from light cruiser divi-
sion No. 8, and VS-7S scouting
plane squadron from the cruiser
Concord.
Picked Squadrons to Go.
Against this force the Army Air
Corps will send squadron from
the first pursuit group, Selfridge
Field, Mich; squadron from the
second bombardment group,
Langley Field, Va, and a squad
ron from the ninth observation
group, Mitchell Field, N. Y.
These three SquadronS are to be
based at Trumbull Field from
May "a to May %. The Army will
concern itself only with defending
Long Island Sounds coast line
and will work in cooperation
with the fixed coast defense es-
adjustments under direct COM
mand of the commanding gen.
eral of the 1st Corps Area.
The exercises are expected to
stress the use of aircraft in coast
defense for observation purposes
and to call attention again to the
Army's need for q new type OF
long-range reconnaissance plane.
Two experimental planes of a
type designed to meet this need
now are under construction and
may be completed during the
Summer. They will be of revolu-
tionary design and may open a
new phase Of military tactics in
the air.
The Army and Navy also are
expected to put on a tactical Of
fensive against New York City
during the course of the New York
Air Show May 8 to 10, approx
mately 70 planes OF various types
and the Navy dirigible Los An
geles and the new all-metal Navy
dirigible ZMC-2, sometimes re-
ferred to affectionately as the
"tin bubble" or the flying tomato
can"
New York Show.
The brunt of the mission is to
full on the Mitchell Field observa-
ton group, which will send three
SquadronS of 40 CurtiSS Falcon
observation planes over the city.
These sQuadrons will be the, 5th
Observation, Capt. Edwin J. House;
Goth Observation, Lieut.. Frederick
w. Evans, and list Observation,
Lieut.. John A. KaSSe.
The Navy will send IS Boeing
fighters to New York on an 300
mile flight from the aircraft car
rier u. s. S. Saratoga, which will
be stationed at Hampton Roads
at the time, according to plans
announced in New York.
A program honoring Army and
Navy aviation pioneers Is to be
held as a part of the New York
show and will bring together
ranking Government officials in
military aviation. Among the
group going from the National
Capital will be Rear Admiral Will
liam A. Moffett, chief of the Navy
Bureau of AeronauticS, who has
Just returned from three months
in London as a member Of the
United States delegation to the
London Conference for the Limita-
ton of Naval Armaments; F. Tru-
bee Dawson, Assistant Secretary
of War for Aeronautics; David S.
ingalls,, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy for Aeronautics, and Brig.
Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, first
Army pilot, and now chief of the
Army Air Corps material division.