Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-09-25 | Page 3 | Rodgers Wants Advisory Board

WI WANTS ADVISORY BOARD 9 Flier I el r Denies Denies Flight Plight j iwas W Was as Mismanaged e d r j 1 r J fy SA ISCO SerA Serl 25 a S AP Emphatic endorsement of an anad advisory advisory ad ad- air all board such such as that that c called R br President Coolidge to operate in 1 r jq junction with the arm army arm rind navy J 4 for the development of country's air all service was wasp p iM voiced by Commander John Rodgers Rodgers' 1 z at al a banquet tendered him and th the thet t ou members of ot the crew of or the It navy seaplane P 9 IN 9 No o. o 1 here last r f night r night The air all board which Com Com- Comi i nia ruler Rodgers recommended d would n not have the breadth of pOwer of ot t that st advised b by Colonel r William Villiam Mitchell I r i Commander Rodgers staunchly defended the navy department in its conduct of or the attempted San Pan an Hawaiian Francisco seaplane flight tio iA and In general In its h handling of ot naval air all affairs He flatly denied that he or any of his men had been I compelled lle- lle 1 against their wills and ni th better bette jUd Judgment m to to at stop non flight te to the H Hr r is Is is- lands The men men in the the naval naval air all serice ser vice ice as In other branches d do not next need pushing ahead so much muchas as they the need holding back declared Commander Rodgers This was was exemplified exemplified d in the ac no- notion action tion of ot the pilots of land planes lanes i sent out to search pearch for us and who disregarded radio instructions from I their commander to return to th their lr base when the fear arose that such seal searh b by land planes was too hazardous haz haz When pilots finally returned with fuel tuel tank nearly empty and their commander de demanded demanded demanded de de- to know why they they had not obeyed Instructions to tor return turn sooner soon soon- er they replied a ag one man that they had failed to receive his in In- In The air all ser service 1 is most Im important or- or tan tant and we should not leave its development for future generations We should do everything in our power to develop the science of or flying with both land and seaplanes sea planes This country should have bave havea a competent advisory air r board not because trio the th a army army- my- my and nav navy de departments departments de de- are not competent to supervise Su Supervise tu- tu aircraft development but so that in an emergency there will not be a flood of idle criticism di directed dl dl- at what come lom have ve have been pleased to call swivel eba a bureaucrats bureau- bureau era ts