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Show FUGHTPLftNNED foval Aviators to Attempt One-top Voyage to Hawaii. any Salt Lake Men Attached At-tached to Service During Dur-ing the War. jyiowinit the 'success of the recent ..js-Atlantic flight tho navy depart-'n depart-'n is planning a flight across the ;'f,e from San Diogo, Cal., to Hawaii .' the Philippines shortly after the "4 of the year, according to Ensign if Rohrbach of the U. S. S. Aroos- ji who was a visitor at the recruit-"' recruit-"' jffice in the Keith emporium yes-j.jav. yes-j.jav. The Aroostook, which was a itelayer during tho war, has been iited to San Diego and has been as-:-ted to duty with the naval aviation :15Ch in connection with tho flight. .Yjtenant Commander Mitcher and Vjtcnant Fry of the Bureau of Naval -rations in Washington, have also assigned to duty at San Diego to r:,are f'la"3 for the flif!ht. ;jii;n Rohrbach stated that with the jiled(fe gained in the flight across It Atlantic the pilots in the Pacific fchi should be able to make the dia-H'C dia-H'C of 7000 miles with but one inter-irtiatc inter-irtiatc stop for fuel at the Aroostook, th will be stationed midway be-men be-men the two points, thus making the :i'anco in two non-stop flights of 3500 sCei each. jailer Planes to Be Used. ; The type of plane to be used in the titific flight will be the F. 5 L., which I patterned after the famous N. C. type t is considerably smaller. Naval exits ex-its claim that the smaller plan.3, to lichwill be added increased provision r storing fuel, will be better suited to I long distanco flight because its fuel t'iimption is considerably less than It of the N. C. type. Test flights ihtbis type were made recently from i Xortli Island naval station in San ipo to San Pedro and return. Tho ire flight of 275 miles was made Ihout a stop and it was declared en-tk en-tk satisfactory. Tho F. 5 L. has two I horsepower Liberty motors and car-I car-I a crew of six men two mechanics, it, assistant pilot, navigator and rt-less operator. Kaval aviators stationed at San go will probably pilot the planes tho Pacific flight. It is planned use all five planes of the F. 5 L. le at present stationed at North ai. icruits Needed. n calling attention to tho needs of i aviation service during tho present vi for navy recruits a list of the ilt Lata men who served as officers-4th officers-4th tho naval air force during the war issued yesterday by Lieutenant, kior grade, W. J. Walker, who is in lit Lake to get recruits for the flying vice. lAmong those mentioned are tho fol-frsign fol-frsign Slnnlicn L. Kerr, former stu- dent and athlete at the University of Utah, now flight instructor at San Diego, who was commended by the assistant as-sistant secretary of the navy for saving sav-ing the life of a comrade in a Beaplane crash at the California station. Lieutenant, junior grade, Harold J. McNulty, former automobile Balesman, now assistant communication officer at San Diego. - With most of the other naval fliers from Salt Lake Lieutenant McNulty received his ground school training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ensign John Breckon, University of Utah athlotc, who saw service with the North Bombing groups at Dunkirk after his preliminary training. Lieutenant, junior grade, Ottinger Romney, at present coach of the East high school football team, who was with the ordnance department of the naval aviation brancTi. Ensign Norman Godbe, who enlisted from Dartmouth and became a flight instructor at Key West, Fla. Ensign Jack Badger, who was made an instructor on the H-16 machines after af-ter he had passed through his ground and preliminary flying training. Ensign J. Leo Meehan, who served as aerial photographer with the North Bombing group in France and Belgium. Ensign Harold Fisher, who served as gunnery instructor and later as patrol pilot near Hampton Roads, Va. Lieutenant Walker said yesterday that there are, in addition to these officers, more than 100 enlisted men who served .during the war with the naval ' air forces. |