GREAT AIR “CIRCUS”
AMERICA CELEBRATES FLYING JUBILEE DISPLAY AT SAN DIEGO Pour hundred planes from the United States Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps were to take part in a massed flight display at San Diego, Cal., last month. Pursuit, battle and observation planes, giant bombers, seaplanes and flying boats were to take part in this spectacular ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first success-
ful flight in a heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk. The airplane carriers Langley. Saratoga and Lexington sent a quota of 240 planes, counting a few front the navy field. The army was to be represented by groups from Kelly, Rockwell, March and Crissy Fields, and the Marine Corps participated with its Falcons. The new San Diego municipal airport was dedicated at the same time. Among the stunts the army promised was the simultaneous dropping of six men in parachutes from a Martin bomber. The new aircraft carriers, not yet fully tested by the navy, are being watched with tense interest by two groups in the navy—the conservatives, who still place their faith in the big battleship, and the “moderns,” who argue that a fast, properly equipped aircraft carrier may be a match for several dreadnoughts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 456, 11 September 1928, Page 7
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