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[[headline]] AVIATORS TO LEAVE CITY [[/headline]]

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died in aviation, but aviation does not halt. Nothing could shake the faith and determination of the army aviators. The officer aviators of the company are: First Lieut. B. D. Foulois, infantry; First Lieut. Townsend F. Dodd, coast artillery; Second Lieut. Walter R. Taliaferro, infantry; Second Lieut. Thomas DeWitt Milling, cavalry; Second Lieut. Joseph C. Morrow, infantry; Second Lieut. Joseph E. Carberry, infantry.
The public knows "Benny" Foulois, who commands the company, as well as the army, by name if not by personality. His fame is firmly established, his name solidly linked with those of the best known pioneers in aviation. He was flying airships before many of the "topliners" of the game today knew how a machine was operated. People read about Lieut. Foulois and the Wright brothers when flying was in its infancy. He likes the game from the ground up.
Lieutenant Dodd is a profound student of the scientific phase of aviation, a practical motor and structural expert and a pilot of extraordinary ability. A record breaking non-stop flight from San Diego to Los Angeles and back is one of his accomplishments. 
No kind of air craft or air conditions has any terrors for Lieutenant Taliaferro. When he returned to San Diego from a trip of investigation at the Hammondsport, N.Y., works of Glen Curtiss he found that a new Curtiss tractor had been received and set up. It was radically different from the propelled type of Curtiss biplane, but Lieutenant Taliferro got into it and flew off without the least hesitation. He flew high and long in this tractor, and made a fine record.
A more graceful and fearless flyer of aircraft than Lieutenant Milling does not exist. He is a New Orleans "boy." He set up a new American record last year when he flew from Texas City to San Antonio and back again. He has lately returned from France, where he investigated Europe's progress in aviation and learned how to operate monoplanes.
Lieutenant Morrow was formerly stationed with the Twenty-sixth infantry at Texas City. He is a skillful flyer, and is particularly successful in the operation of the Burgess tractor, a heavy and powerful machine that in the aviation service has the name of being a "bear." Like the other aviator officers he is a democratic, likable young man.
Lieutenant Carberry is restless on the ground, but perfectly content in the air. He is a natural born flyer, and makes steep banks, perilous dips and other breath-taking maneuvers in the air without a thought of danger. That is, he used to do it. The commanding officer caught him at it one day, and now he has to stick to straight flying, which is better than no flying at all.
EQUIPMENT.
The company has three Burgess tractors and six trucks for carrying the equipment and men in the field. Four of these, White tractors, were acquired during the stay in Galveston, and will be taken to San Diego. Captain Arthur S. Cowan is in command at the home station, and is ably supported by Lieutenants Kirtland and Patterson. The former was in command of the detachment in Texas City when the squadron "split" up, part going to the west coast school.
That it never rains but it pours is an axiom applicable to the aviation outfit at this time. Not only has it been sent back to school in the air and acquired needed transportation equipment, but the long delayed aviation bill has passed the senate. It will probably be signed by the president at an early date. It provides for an organization of sixty officers and 260 enlisted men. Officer students are to receive a 25 per cent increase in pay, junior military aviators the pay of one grade higher than their own and 50 per cent, and military aviators the pay of the next grade and 75 per cent. A large force of master signal electricians, first class sergeants, etc., all receiving generous pay, is created. Aviation in our army, for the first time in its history, is placed on a firm foundation, on which it is hoped to build a structure unsurpassed by any military organization in the world.