Show WASHINGTON Nov 2 Twenty Twenty aeroplanes aeroplanes aero aero- planes at are needed for the United States government service says General James Allen chief signal officer of or the army In hi his annual report made public last These aeroplanes should have been on regular practice at different points In Inthe inthe the country throughout the year ear continues con con- General Allen Alien They should be present In camp camps of Instruction for regular regular regu regu- lar troops and organized twenty aeroplanes aero planes would provide but two for tor each camp o of instruction To operate this number would require at least twenty specially learned officers as pilots In addition to this each machine ma ma- chine must carry at least one observer which experience has shown will leQuire re require le quire much training and actual practice before the usefulness of ot the hea heavier heavier- vier- vier than air machine is attained General Allen gUlen deprecates the fact that although tI the e United States was the first nation officially to recognize the aeroplane aeroplane aero aero- plane for military purposes it has not kept pace with the world In the d develop development ment of military aeronautics Aero Equipment Ins Insufficient Summed up the aero equipment of the United d States army consists of one small practice dirigible balloon one Wright aeroplane and three small captive balloons bal bal- loons says sas the general The signal corps has only one lieutenant and nine enlisted men on duty in conn connection with aeronautics aeronautics aero aero- and the chief signal officer says that until the corps is Increased by legislation legislation leg leg- it would be Impossible to furnish more officers and men for the training demanded in General Allen combats the officially re repeated repeated re- re assertion that the United States because of its isolated position is not likely to b become come Inv involved iri in war and that therefore the most economical procedure procedure pro pro- in aerial navigation is to walt wait until until un un- til other nations have determined upon the types best suited to military pur pur- f poses thus shifting the expense of ot experiment experiment ex ex- and development to foreign countries CO f. f Experienced military airmen cannot be created after atter war Is declared he says and the demands of this new service service ice undoubtedly will wJ require higher qualities qualities ties of training Judgment and courage than any other branch df f tho military military- service |