Show 10 CUDA Rodgers lodgers Gives Summary of Events of Mile Mile Jaunt From W Washington WASHINGTON March 19 11 AP Commander Commander John Rodgers assistant as assistant assistant as- as chief of the bureau of I aeronautics appeared today in hl his newer role of ot honorary reporter of the Associated Press and turned in n his first story in In which he discussed dis dis- discussed cussed his airplane flight concluded concluded concluded con con- yesterday esterday from Washington to Cuba and return It was wa the first reporting the aviator had attempted attemPt d since he was given a complimentary place on the Associated Press staff staf after his narrative of the memorable flight of bf the seaplane 0 PA iv No o o. o 1 from the west coast to Honolulu Summarizing events of his mile mlle air ar Jaunt to lo Cuba and return Commander Rodgers stressed the fact tact that naval seaplanes in preliminary pre pre- bombing tests of off the south Cuban coast had registered 50 per cent hits the possibilities of ofa ofa ofa a New York-New York Orleans air route and the activities of the Pensacola Pensacola Pensacola Pensa- Pensa cola Fla naval air school in preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring for the anticipated expansion slon sion in that branch of the service INSPECTION FLIGHT The object of the flight Commender Commander Com Com- Commander mander mender Rodgers said was to In Inspect Inspect In- In aspect a- a bureau of aeronautics property property prop prop- rop- rop erty along the the Atlantic coast to witness the target practice now being held by the fleet airplanes off oft Cuba and to visit the Pensacola school With Lieutenant L. L W tV V. V Curtin in another plane Commander Commander Com Com- mander Rodgers hopped of off from Washington accompanied by Chief Chie Aviation Pilot June on February 27 27 making an average of seventy- seventy five miles an hour on the hour fifty-hour trip to Cuba and return The only onry mishap of the entire journey occurred at Brewton li tn Sn southern Alabama when Lieutenant Curtin made a forced Ported landing In a amud mud hole due to a loose propeller During the extricating process with will the al aid als t of a team of mules one of the animals kicked the planes plane I and slightly damaged the wing SEAPLANES MASSED At their their Cuban destination Commander Commander Commander Com Com- mander Ro Rogers gers' gers and his colleagues colleague s found fourd the airplane tender Wright s anchored Inside the barrier reef a at t bay with twenty four r seaplanes anchored about her The Th e seaplanes w which are daily carrying g on bombing and torpedo practise are to be bethe the target of a surprise attack by a division of battleships battleship t approaching from Panama vex next week I The task of the aircraft willbe will willbe willbe be to attack the surface craft in force using using- torpedoes Due to the success in the preliminary tests the commander related the airmen allmen are ver very hopeful of good results At Pensacola the sea and air faring reporter declared a class of fifty student aviators Is to be graduated graduated graduated grad grad- this morth mouth and and class t r t is ls assembled r rea ready a Ty y to start training draining while five captains also are taking the course course preliminary to o assuming e commands AID TO STUDY Commander Rodgers believes conditions are ideal for operation of a mail and passenger air airline line between New York Tork and New Orleans Orleans Or- Or leans eans an approximate straight line Une Between those two cities titles cutting through ugh nearly nearh all the larger cities In n between He also pointed to the advantage of a seaplane i route from Baltimore to Palm Beach Deach Fla and Havana and the aviator likewise commended air all travel as a means of learning earning geography g |