Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-23

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nt-landing system, composed
at Washington Airport.
The Government now has at Wash
ington Airport a Weather Bureau
station which provides 24hour service;
an airmail Office operated by the Post
ONCE Department; airways teletype
circuits serving the Weather Bureau
and the Department of Commerce
airways organization; and an elab-
crate remote-control system operating
the radio-range beacon station at
Hunters Point, Va, and the airways
radio communication station near
Silver Hill, Md. Approximately two
thirds of the instrument landing Sys-
tenn has been installed.
It Is true that transferring Of the
equipment would not represent a great
cost, but it is indicative of the en-
barrassments resulting from the
makeshift manner of treating the
problem here. The Government has
put up no buildings at the airport,
the Weather Bureau. airmail, teletype
and remote control radio installations
being in quarters provided by the
airport management.
The radio-range station at Hunters
Point is located so that it serves
Washington Airport adequately and
also serves Boiling Field and the Ana
costa Naval Air Station. 1t is very
close to the proposed Gravelly Point
airport site. The location Of the air.
ways communications station is less
material. The present station at
Silver Hill, Md, can serve any other
airport in the Washington area
equally as we'll without any change
other than the transfer Of the remote
control unit.
The Anacostia Naval Air Station is
going through a big Shake-up in its
oficer-personnel as the annual trans
fers of officers from shore to fleet
duty and vice versa take effect fol-
lowing the termination Of the feet
maneuvers in the Pacific.
Lieut.. Comdr. Ernest w. Itch and
Lieuts. C. H. Lewis, D. S. Cornwell
and D. S. MacMahan already have
departed from the local station and
Lieut.. Comdr. J. B. Anderson, aero
logical oficer, has been transferred
from the station to the Navy Bureau
of AeronauticS.
Lieut.. Comdr. Knef1er McGinnis,
leader of the massed Navy fight from
California to Hawaii, which estab-
liShed a new world seaplane distance
record, is to take over the post of
executive officer at Anacostia on July
/, succeeding Lieut.. Comdr. William
K. Harrell, who goes to sea.
Lieuts. E. c. Even, William V. Davis
and william A. Moffett. jr., are to
arrive here from the fleet for duty
at Anacostia about July /. Lieut.
Moffett, son of the late Rear Admiral
william A. Moffett, chief of the Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics. who died in
the Akron crash, just missed being
here with his brother, Lieut.
George H. Moffett. Lieut.. George
Moffett, who has just left Washington
after serving as aide to Rear Admiral
Ernest j. King, successor of Admiral
Moffett as chief of the bureau, will
report for duty in one of the carrier
squadronS.
Lieut.. r. o. Minter has reported at
Anacostia for duty as Astrological Off
Ger, succeeding Comdr. Anderson, and
already has left the station tenn
porarily to attend course of instruc-
ton for aerologiSts at the Naval Air
Norfolk, Va, this Summer
Lieut.. Comdr. Ralph A. Ofstie, for
mer chief of the flight test section
at the AnacoStia Naval Air Station,
will arrive in Washington by COM
airline from the West Coast
on Wednesday for about a month of
temporary duty in the Navy Depart
ment before leaving for Toxic. Japan.
where he will serve as assistant naval
Ofstie will be the first naval
aviator to hold this post.
Oficers and men OF VJ-7MR, local
Marine Corps Aviation Reserve squad
ron at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton, are hard at work preparing for
the annual active duty cruise of the
squadron to the Naval Air Station,
Cape May. N. j., July 19 to August 2.
Every man in the squadron will be
required to report to the Metropolitan
Police Departments pistol range be-
fore July 10 to qualify with the small
bore rife before going to camp. Free
and fixed machine gunnery from the
squadron's planes will be O feature
Of the cruise.
VJ-7MR, commanded by Capt
James E. Webb, U. S. M. G. r., was
organized at the local air station in
1892, and now has 7
officer pilots and IS enlisted men en-
rolled.
Two Of the enlisted men of the
squadron now hold civil pilots licenses
IF the Bureau of Air Commerce and
SIX Oh the IleIl nave SCuQcQC 1lC6I1SeS
for civil training. william Wimbush
holds a transport license and Sergt. |
Afford Kicks a private license. The
holders of student licenses are First
5ergt. r. M. Richard. Corpls. G. H.
and T. D. Thorne and
Pvts. F. r. McLeon, ]. D. Dalzell and
P. v. Reed.
The Marine Corps Reserve aviation |
department. at Anacostia now is select |
ng an initial class of candidates |
lnder the aviation cadet system which |
S intended to built up Reserve |
strength. The first candidate is Will
lam Hausri1an of indianapolis, a |
graduate of De Paw University.
-Four Eastern Shore landing fields.
N the general vicinity of Cambridge,
Nd, have been abandoned and warn
Ings issued to all pilots that they are
Tow reported as unmarked and no
onger maintained for the use Of air.
craft. The fields are:
Chesapeake Air Ferries Airport, two
niles east of Cambridge.
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