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Show 3, HERO RESU ! EXPERT GIVES VIEWS Lieutenant Lorenzo Snow Foresees Universal Use ! of Airships. j ! Interest in aeronautics soon will be- come universal. First Lieutenant Lo-1 Lo-1 renzo Snow, of the army air corps, who ' is visiting: Joel Nibiey. believes, ldeuten-j ldeuten-j ant Snow is a son of the late Lorenzo j Snow, president of the L. P. S. church. . V. hon the armistice was sipned he was I commanding1 officer at one of America's two flying fields in lnpland. the Tang-nere Tang-nere airdrome, near Chichester. Lieutenant Snow supervised installing the enpines in the ill-1 ted dirigible balloon bal-loon of a rubber company, which exploded explod-ed and crashed into a liank lobby in Chicago Chi-cago recently, with the loss of several lives. Had the blimp been filled with helium, which, though not quite so buoyant buoy-ant as hydrogen, is not inflammable, there would have been no danger of explosion, ex-plosion, he declared. The new gas is a result of exhaustive experiments by the L nit ed States which will make dirigible opern tion safer. Lieutenant Snow at present is stationed at the Mount Cock experimental aviation avia-tion field near Dayton, Ohio, where, he savs, experiments with new types of twin machines, equipped with the best guns and bombing devices, are being made constantly. New feature flying also occupies the station. He says America is at present giving attention to the production of aeroplanes, and eight new types are being perfected, with the aim of supplying future commercial com-mercial and military needs. Lieutenant Snow looks ultimately for all mail to be carried by aeroplanes. He savs a great development in commercial and individual fields will take place soon. Lieutenant Snow enlisted in the air service a month before war began. At that time he was connected with Dr. Hale of the Mount Wilson observatory in California, who, he says, was responsible for getting him detailed for special duty with the national research aeroplane council. He went into training at the first ground school, established in June hv the I'nited States at Mineola field. N ew York, and with forty -four others finished the work July 4, 1!' 17. He was sent to Selvidge field to act as instructor, instruc-tor, as flying schools were beig organized. or-ganized. With the organization of flying fly-ing fields in Texas he was sent as instructor in-structor to Ellington field, near Houston. In June, 1IUS. he was sent to Fiance, where he conducted the night flying school on the channel, and soon after with the organization of America's two i flying schools in England, he was sent to take charge of one. He pays only Handiey-Paige and de Haviland airplanes j ate used there. He returned to America in December, lfJlS. with the first returning return-ing division, on the Mauretania. He is now engaged as an experimental engineer engi-neer of the army. He expects to re-enter civilian life soon and is working on plans regarding the production of aeroplanes, i lor which today he declares there is great j demand. |