The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-25
Teach Science
! Of Naval Flying
Nays School Of Aviation
And Radio Largest and
Best in World.

CHICAGO. - Through the vast
buildings Of the navy's huge new
training school of advanced avia-
ZION, which cover 2l1l acres, swarm
more than 1000 young, athletic,
clean-shaven and clean-minded sail
ors Of the u. S. navy. specialists in
the most modern phases of aviation
nd radio absorbing scientific knowl-
edge Of naval flying mechanics,
writes Gene Morgan in the Chicago
News.
A few of the instructors and stu
dents are heroes of the war against
Japan in the Pacific. Hundreds of
these young tars have seen active
sea duty. But their lingo tinges
with terms which would be Greek to
the Bobstays-as they talk with easy
familiarity of power turrets, vac
Oum chamber tested carburetors,
hropeller-gun synchronization, flange
gasket mountings and suction regu-
>lating valves.
Marines Wear OverallS.
Even the marines - there are
about 400 aboard ship"-join the
bluejackets in green coveralls and
work long hours to qualify as metal
smiths. machinists, ignition experts,
carburation wizards, engine over
haulers and ordnance hooper-doop-
ers. They, too, are learning to be
part of the backbone" of naval avi-
alton, highly skilled maintenance
men without whose unfailing, expert
services the pilots are worthless.
A visitor to the school who was
shown the works" by the COM
handing officer, Lieut.. Comdr. Ell
mer L. Carlson, native Chicagoan,
and aides, soon gave thanks that his
service background was the infan-
Try. There are four miles of corri-
doris to be walked in the $4,000, 900
group of new buildings which the
Chicago board of education turned
ever to the navy last summer.
The visitor saw aerial bombs from
225 TO 1900 pounds being handled as
Q fictional furniture mover handles
the old baby grand. (No, they aren't
lOaded) He saw sheet metal work
ers putting red hot rivets on ice to
be kept as cool as sub-zero cucum-
bers until needed. He saw turrets
which looked like gigantic glass der
hies for stock tickers twirl around
and level their high-caliber batteries
Of machine guns on innocent onlook-
efs.
" Turret Begins TO Move.
In the power-turret department at
IN officers command a slim sailor
wiggles through a maze of machin-
cry and takes q position of solid,
fentist's-chair comfort inside the
kage mushroom cultivator.
The transparent turret begins to
fsvolve just as it might in a dog
Eight In the skies above the Solomon
Islands. Soon the glass enclosed
operator is virtually standing on his
head as he aims his guns at imagi-
aAry winged foemen.
Like the tubes of a horrendous
pipe organ of death we're the shin
ing steel bombs of various sizes
ranged along wall in an immacu-
Ate workshop. It was explained that
students in this section must learn
- bad airplane racks with bombs
While blindfolded.
Eight separate activities are in
eontinuous operation at the school,
which contains barracks for its stu
cent personnel, a spacious mess hall
which amply feeds hundreds at
sitting, a gymnasium, natatorium,
eeater seating 1900 and other facil-
Mes. The schools include "a" or
primary school for aviation mechan-
Es and metalsmiths: "B" school,
tor advanced training or highly tech
Meal six branches of maintenance
work; q navy teacher training school
Ter civilian specialists; primary and
advanced ordnance schools; radio
school for training radio instructors;
ground school for officers training,
and a cooks and bakers school.