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MILLING, T. DEWITT, BRIG. GEN. USAF. - BIOG. FILE - FOLDER NO. 2 ITEM NO. 5A


SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM


Lieut. Maurice Love, who was taught to fly by Lieut. Lahm in 1912 in the Phil [[good guess]] was killed September 1913 when he crashed and killed himself while attempting to qualify for his Military Aviator's rating.  In November, at San Diego, Ellington, who had received his flying instruction from Frank Coffin and was instructor for Lieut. Hugh Kelly, was flying a Wright airplane with Lieut. Kelly as a student - [[crossed-out]] glided [[/crossed-out]] and was gliding onto the field about 75 feet high - the engine was put on full power, the plane dived and crashed killing both airmen.  Tise undoubtedly was due to a stall, having lost altitude from a flat guide.


The Mackay trophy, which had first been competed for at College Park in 1912, was won in 1913 by First Lieut. Joseph E. Carbury for a flight of [[crossed-out]] of more than [[/crossed-out]] on the morning of December 30 in a Curtiss airplane with Lieut. Sideel as co-pilot.  This, again, was a reconnaissance mission which he carried out successfully.

By December [[crossed-out]] 193 [[/crossed-out]] 1913, the accomplishments of aviation [[crossed-out]] l [[/crossed-out]] by the Signal Corps were e [[?]] about as follow: Since the purchase of the first airplane in 190 [[crossed-out]] 9 [[/crossed-out]] 8, 23 others had ge[[?]] been bought, nine had been destroyed in accidents and 15 remained in service - 11 officers and 69 [[crossed-out]] 1 [[/crossed-out]] enlisted had been killed in airplane crashes - 7 in 1913 - on the 1st of Dec. 13 remained 11 officers [[crossed-out]] qua. as pilots [[/crossed-out]] and one non-commissioned had qualified as pilots and 9 students were undergoing instruction.

It was determined that the old flight performance tests prescribed in 1912 for the award of the Military Aviator's Certificate should be made more difficult since the machines had improved.  New requirements were drawn up and published on 27 October 1913 to be effective the 1st of January 1914.  Under the new requirements, reconnaissance flights up to 100 miles k and dead-stick precision landings from 1500 feet altitude [[crossed-out]] waxs [[/crossed-out]] was required.  Ground school instruction in the proper use of maps, navigation problems, airplane instruction reports, controls, left angles, air pressure, travel on wings, gasoline, engines and accessories, engine troubles, and remidies, met [[crossed-out]] i [[/crossed-out] erology, photography, etc., were established.  Mr. Grover C. Lowning had been employed by the Signal Corps as aeronautical engineer and he established


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