Evening star., 1940-05-26
Aviation Show Opens Today
At New Boiling Field
National Forum Of Air Leaders
Will Stort Tomorrow

Coinciding with the opening of a
great national defense program
which is expected to tax every
branch of Americas aviation in
dustry to its maximum. the National
Aviation Forum, which will open
formally at 9 am. tomorrow, PROM
lses to rank as one of the most i'm
portant events of its kind in recent
aviation history.
Federal military and civil aviation
leaders will join outstanding figures
in American aviation in a, three-day
discussion of air defense and such
matters as pilot training, air trans
portation. aeronautical research and
industrial expansion which should
clarity many of the most important
aviation issues facing the country
today, it was pointed out.
A four-day national aviation ex-
hibition, in which more than 100
manufacturers of aircraft, engines,
accessories, instruments, and ma
chine tools; airlines and other
operators, and Federal agencies are
represented, will open at 3 o'clock
this afternoon at new Boiling Field.
Both off, tfn giant new hangers
have been given over to the show
and military aircraft of all types
have been staked down in the open,
where they will be on view.
More than 600 visiting military,
airline and private aircraft are ex-
pected to visit the local Army field
during the next three days. Every
type OF airplane from the smallest
private-owner model to the largest
ocean clipper and from the primary
military trainer to the latest four
engine bomber will be on view.
Registration at willard.
Today's pre-forum program will
begin at 9 o'clock with the registra-
tion of delegates at the Willard
Hotel. The delegates, confronted
by photographs of 100 of the most
attractive airline hostesses as they
register, will ballot and the winning
hostess, relieved of duty by the air
line employing her, will be flown
here at once to reign as queen of
the forum exhibition.
The Boiling Field program will
begin at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
with a glider demonstration by M.
Georges Abrial, founder of the glid-
ing schools of France. The glider
will be. towed off behind an air
plane piloted by Vincent "Squeek"
Burnett, national and international
aerobatics champion and Civil
Aeronautics Authority instructor to
the civil pilot training program unit
at the University of Maryland. Cut
ting loose above Boiling Field, the
glider will be looped and put
through other acrobatics in an un-
usual demonstration by one of the
foremost European experts.
The exhibition, opening at )
o'clock, will continue until 6 o'clock
this afternoon. Tomorrow, Tuesday
and Wednesday, the exhibition will
be open from to IL pm. Begin
ming at 3 pm. tomorrow, special
bus service, with airline hostesses in
charge of the busses, will be oper-
ated from the Willard Hotel, forum
headquarters, to the field.
A model aviation meet sponsored
by the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton and Air Youth of America, will
be held between the old and new
Boiling Fields from 3 to O'Clock
this afternoon. The program inv
! cludes events for gasoline-engine
and rubber-band models, model
gliders and non-f1ying scale model
competition.
Open to Public.
Boiling Field will be. open to the
public without restriction from 2:30
to 6 o'clock this afternoon and from
to II pm. through the remainder
of the forum period. Because Of
military operations, it will be closed
at all other times.
Today's program will close with a
radio forum on Aational defense,
to be broadcast by the Mutual
Broadcasting System over a Nation
wide hookup from the Willard Hotel.
TOl uAoEC1hCIo Will NC mdJs 0CIA.
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Corps; Rear Admiral John. u.
Towers, chief of the Navy Bureau of
Aeronautics; Robert H. Hinckley,
chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority and personal represents
tive of President Roosevelt to the
forum; Col. John H. Jouett, presi-
dent of the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce; DR.. Vannevar BusA,
chairman of the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, and Gill
Robb Wilson, State aeronautical di-
rector for New Jersey ana president
of the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton. Ernest Lindley, Washington
columnist and editor of Newsweek,
will act as chairman. The broad
cast will be open to delegates to the
forum and questions from the floor
will be invited.
Tomorrow will be observed, as
private flyers day" and the van.
guard of an expected total Of 500
privately owned aircraft u expected