Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having assembled the greatest peacetime air force concentration in U. S. history at Dayton (TIME, May 25), early last week the Army prepared to move its 672-plane armada toward Chicago. The fleet was to attack a mythical foreign horde which threatened the south end of Lake Michigan. But before the armada could get its wheels off the Dayton airfields, a real enemy pounced upon...
After an emergency meeting in the dead of night, Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of Air Corps, and his assistant, Brigadier General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (in command of the maneuvers) set the armada's schedule back 24 hr. Particularly was this irksome to Secretary Davison. His guest and fellow-observer at the Dayton concentration was his fellow-Yaleman, close friend and sub-cabinet colleague and rival, David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York...
When the weather cleared in the midwest, the Army armada gave Chicago its delayed spectacle: close formation flying, aerobatics, mass combat and attack operations. Then the show moved to its culmination in the East. With only two minor mishaps-one plane forced down, one damaged while landing-the fleet crossed the Appalachian highlands and settled upon five airfields near Manhattan...
...larger cities of populous New England, the War Department is undoubtedly giving its pilots much training in group flying. It is a question, however, whether this obvious benefit is sufficient to offset the subtle internal poisons produced by the sky-wide and handsome inctics of the air armada. We are not grateful to the government for yesterday's little circus. The Dartmouth...
Segments of the green snake came from Mitchel Field, N. Y., from Kelly Field and Fort Crockett in Texas, from Crissy and Rockwell Fields in California, from all over the country. When the armada assembled at Wright and Fairfield Fields in Dayton, it became a dire aerial weapon capable of firing 2,000,000 shots a minute or loosing 100,000 Ib. of bombs. Its title: The First Provisional Air Division...