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JOIN ARMY AIR SQUAD 

Lieuts. Arnold and Milling Sent to Wright Camps.

EIGHT OFFICERS IN CORPS

Field at College Park Being Prepared for Advent of War Department Aviators.


[[pencil written]] Apr 23 11 [[pencil written]]

Two more army officers were yesterday added to the flying squad and ordered to report to the Wright camp for training. They are Second Lieut. Henry H. Arnold, 25th Infantry, and Second Lieut. [[[underlined]] Thomas De W. Milling [[/underlined]]] of 15th Cavalry.

After their training is completed the will be eight officers who will be qualified aviators. They are Lieut. Benjamin D. Foulois, now on the Texas border with one of the scouting aeroplanes; Lieut. Frank Lahm, who was trained as an aviator on the first machine bought by the army, but who is now with his regiment, the 6th Cavalry; Lieuts. Beck, Walker, and Kelly, who were trained at the Curtiss camp at San Diego this winter, and Lieut. R. C. Kirtland, now on duty in the chief signal officer's office here, and especially charged with the preparation of the field at College Park, Md.

  There are other officers who can be detailed to the work as they are needed, and the plans now are to keep the training camp at College Park busy whenever the weather is fit for flying, so that in all probability a large number of officers will be qualified aeronauts before the summer is over.

Busy at College Park.

  The work at College Park has been moving slowly, but there are now signs that something is doing. Those familiar with the ground will recollect that while it was generally level it was by no means smooth. There were gullies and hollows, stumps of a few trees and grass was mostly broom sedge and weeds. All of the uneven part of the field is now being plowed and graded. After it is rolled it will be put down in grass and eventually will be like a big lawn.

  The work of preparing the ground has been completed for about two-thirds of its length at the northern end of the field.

One hanger has been built on the ground already by the National Aviation School. It was announced yesterday that the school machine, which has been delayed in delivery, would be at the field on Monday accompanied by an aviator from the Curtiss school at Hammondsport.
  The army will put four hangers on the edge of the field at the start. It has not yet been determined whether they will be built by contract or put up by the quartermaster's department.

Wright Machine Ready.

There is a Wright machine packed and ready for shipment to Washington whenever the house is ready to receive it, and besides the Curtiss machine the army is now using on the border there will be another ready for delivery in Washington whenever the army is ready for it.

   The Rex Smith machine is already at College Park, so that in a few weeks there will be flying going on there practically all the time. It is intended to erect a water tower for fire protection. The army has an option on renewing the lease for ten years and at the end of that time it may be purchased and made into a perfect aviation ground unless by that time flying has become so common that these is no longer any need of a flying camp.