Evening star., 1937-02-07

IN 1884 by III Army DOMOdTOmeLL air
planes. He established refueling bases
and temporary operating bases for the
formation.
In March, 1929, Hoyt established
what then was an outstanding record
in a double dawn to dusk" flight
between Washington and San Antonio,
Tex, completing his round trip at
Boiling Field in the teeth of a Co.
mile gale which lifted his plane of
the ground and blew it away after
his first landing. In August of the
same year he blazed 4.500-mile trail
from New York to Nome, Alaska.
A native Of Michigan. Col. Hoyt
entered the Army as Coast Artil-
leryman, acting for time as an in
structor in telephones, fire control,
ing as applied to the military service.
He began his aviation career in April,
1918. He is rated as both an airplane
and airship pilot and as an aerial
observer.
Boiling Field at about the same
time will lose its engineering officer,
as a result of the transfer to Maxwell
Field of Maj. Aubrey Hornsby, who
Is scheduled to report to his new
post June 26.
DURSUIT aviation will be the sub
ject for discussion at the Feb
ruary instruction session of local Army
Air Corps Reserve officers at 8 pm.
Tuesday in room 1857, Munitions
Building
The name of the instructor has not
been announced. Capt. Jack c. Hodg-
son, operations officer at Boiling Field
and instructor to the local Air Corps
Reserve, has received orders transfer
ring him to Rome for duty as assistant
military attache and as assistant mill
tary attache for air, with additional
duty as assistant military attache for
air to Greece. He will take the usual
course Of preparatory duty with the
General Staff. War Department, before
leaving for Europe.
The problems concerning the most
effective use of pursuit aviation have
been greatly increased during the past
few years by the tremendously in
creased speeds of bombardment and
attack aviation and by the greatly in
creased range of the bombers, which
requires their operation on long-range
missions as independent units capable
of self-defense as we'll as offensive
power.
EFFORTS are being made to have
the Soaring Society of America
qualified legally as an educational Or
ganization, so that it may be in a po-
sition to receive subsidies which will
be non-taxable.
The society, we'll represented in
Washington, Is the only national body
in America sponsoring motorleSS fly
ing. 1t is working in competition with
the great European -oaring and glid-
subsidies and which are regarded as
invaluable adjuncts to national avia-
ton DEVELOPMENT.
During the past week the Soaring So
ciety held its annual meeting in New
York and planned to make the eighth
annual soaring contest, to be held next
June at Elmira, N. Y, the largest yet
held in this country in the number of
attending pilots, prizes to be awarded
and, If possible, in outstanding glider
and sailplane flights.
Harris Hill, Elmira, has been made
into the finest glider base in America
as a result of q $4,000 improvement
program, just completed. Competing
pilots next June will find cabins in
place Of tents, large administration
building replacing small temporary
structures which hitherto have housed
soaring field offices, a new glider
hanger, a newly paved road to the hill
and q smooth-rolled take-oH runway
1000 feet long. There Is large con-
crete swimming pool and running
water at the cabins.
Donald Hamilton Of this city Is
national secretary Of the society and
a member Of its board of directors.
A THOUGH ships have been oper-
ated across the seas for hundreds
Of years, yet today when the weather
closes in the captain orders the ship
to proceed at five knots, he stays on
deck night and day and he Is tremen-
dously concerned about his response
bility, it Is pointed out by Jerome Led
erer, national authority on aviation
insurance.