Evening star., 1930-05-24
Squadrons Pass in Review
Preceding Curtiss Marine
Trophy Race.
THUNDERSTORM KEEPS
DIRIGIBLE IN LAKEHURST
Glider Launching From Los An
geles by Lieut.. Barnaby Is Only
Program Cancellation.

The National Capitals greatest aero
nautic event began this afternoon with
the arrival of 10 squadrons Of Navy
combat planes from the Battle Fleet at
1880 pm. The squadrons passed in
review at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton and began landing at I o'clock as
the first event in a program leading
up to the Curtiss Marine trophy races,
scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock.
The squadrons, under command OF
Capt. Kenneth whiting, chief of staff,
aircraft squadrons, Battle Fleet, left
Hampton Roads Virginia Naval Air Sta
ton at 10 o'clock and met over the
Indian Head naval reservation at 1915
o'clock.
On Time to Minute.
On time to the minute, they passed
over the Capitol at 1880 o'clock, headed
west to the Washington Monument and
turned north to Chevy Chase. They
then flew down the line of Connecticut
avenue to the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
tion, where they passed in review before
Navy officials.
lie IlISt ScCtiOli VI tkAC ACuAAAi6 oAAoA-
ron landed at the Anacostia station at
l o'clock, followed In rapid succession
by the sections and divisions OF the
various Squadrons.
Early visitors arriving at the station
this morning were treated to the spec
tacle Of score of racing planes making
their final warming-up flight over the
20-mile course which Is the scene this
afternoon of the greatest flying COM
petition held in this country.
Thunderstorms Halt Flight.
The flight of the Navy dirigible Los
Angeles to participate in the show here
was called OF late this morning because
Of thunderstorms between the National
Capital and the Naval Air Station,
Lakehurst, N. J.. where the airship
o glider launching made from the Los
Angeles by Lieut.. Ralph s. Barnaby
and to have an airplane attached to
the airship in flight by Lieut.. Comdr.
Charles A. Nicholson.
q, Hundreds. Of spectators were on. hand
at Anacostia before noon and officers
at the station believed that they would
have 10000 visitors on hand for the
races. Hains point and the Army War
tors
Forty minutes has been allowed on
the program for the landing of the 10
squadrons of combat planes from the
Battle Fleet When the squadrons visit
ed the National Capital recently, 140
planes were landed and parked in 80
minutes, at the rate Of nearly five planes
per minute. Such landings on single
field call for the greatest precision and
minute previous agreement.
At /: 40 pm, the program listed
one of the outstanding features of the
day, a combat demonstration by the
famous VB-1 light bombardment squad
ron from the U. S. S. Lexington. This
squadron is composed Of ID Boeing
single-seater fighters led by Lieut..
Comdr John II. Chapman and is known
throughout the flying world as the Red
Ripper" squadron.
Terrible Form Of Attack.
The squadron was prepared to demon-
strated for the first time on the East
Coast two of the most modern and ter
rible forms of aerial attack, developed
by the Navy for use against enemy
ships at sea. These are the diving bonn
bardment attack and "three-way- at
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