Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
DAWSON TO TAKE
| FIRST PLANE TOUR
10, 600 Mile Inspection Trip
Win Begin Wednesday in
Army Transport.

Flying in the Arny's fastest trans
port airplane. q cabin nlonopiane witt
cruising speed of las miles per hour
r. Trubee Dawson. Assistant Secretary
- War for Aeronautics, will leave
SsoiiisS FIELD shortly after dawn Wed
nesday on a 10.000-mile aerial inspec'
ton tour Of Army Air Corps activities
the War Department announced las'
night.
The plane will fly from the Atlantic
TO the Pacific and from the Mexican
border to Canada. Capt. Ira @. Eaker
Army Air Corps. will be at the con-
trolls and Mr.. Dawson will be accom-
panied by his executive oficer, Maj
Delos G. Emmons, and his assistant
Hans J. Adamson.
Leaving this city Wednesday morn
gomery, Ala, in time to inspect progress
on the construction of the new All
Corps Tactical School at Maxwell
Field that afternoon. The next day the
party will fly to Galveston, Tex, with
q luncheon stop at Shreveport, La. In
Shreveport, Mr. Dawson will confer
with chamber of commerce and other
officials on preliminary details for de-
velopnlent Of the new home base for
the Sd Attack Group. At Galveston,
present home Of the attack group, Mr.
Dawson will inspect planes and per-
sonnet OF the group. commanded by
Mai Davenport johnson.
San Antonio Inspection.
From Galveston Mr.. Dawson will be
Gown to San Antonio, where he will
Point of the Air" and the older train
ing schools at Kelly and Brooks Fields,
command of which has just been as
sunned by Brig. Gen. Charles H. Dam
forth, new assistant chief of the Air
Corps.
From San Antonio the group will ny
to San Diego Calf, where an inspec-
ton will be made of the air depot and
9TH Bombardment Group activities at
March Field, near Riverside. Calf, the
home Of the West Coast Primary
Training School of the Air Corps
From March Field the plane viii be
flown to Sacramento, Calf, where the
party win thank local officials for the
cooperation given by them in connec-
ton with the Army Air Corps maneu-
vers at Mather Field last April At San
Francisco Mr. Dawson will examine the
site selected for the 7th Bombardment
Group in Marine County. On this in
spection he probably will be accompan-
led by Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, COM
manding general Of the 9th Corps Area,
and Col. Frank p. Lahm, corps area air
ofiicer and former assistant chief Of the
Air Corps.
Inspection at Seattle.
Mr.. Dawson next will be flown to
Seattle to inspect progress on Air Corps
contracts awarded to the Boeing Co.
After brief rest In Seattle the party
viii ny to Nogales, Ariz.. by way of Salt
Lake City. In Nogales MIR. Dawson will
address an American Legion convention.
At st. Louis he will inspect Scott
Field, the center of Army lighter-than-
air experiments He also viii visit the
Air Corps Materiel Division at Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio, where Brig. Gen.
Henry c. Pratt has just assumed COM
mand. He then will fly to New York by
way OF Buffalo and back to Washing
ton
The plane to be used for the trip is
an ali-metal "Fleetster," built by the
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation and
powered with a 600-horsepower Pratt e.
Whitney engine. In this plane Mai.
Gen. James e. Fechet, chief of the Air
Corps, recently new with Capt. Eaker
from the National Capital to Muskogee.
Okla, between breakfast and lunch.
He also made a round trip between the
National Capital and Omaha, Nebr., in
. single day In the plane.