Show r I A Armada ada to Soar Sar Where S t First Plane Tried Wings S A y DAYTON Ohio Dec 10 AP The little pasture Orville and Wilbur right conducted their early arly experiments In flying years ears ago i is the tile nucleus for the greatest center of aviation activities in the United States now in the final stages of materialization Completion of a few buildings and the removal remo here hen from Washington t n noC of oC the headquarters Is of ot the United States army ah alt corps are all that are needed to bring the most gigantic gigan gigan- tic time peace-time undertaking In the history of ot aviation to fruition Air corps officials say it will be accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac- ac by July 1 1927 movement of certain sections from McCook field to the new field will begin in NOW ACRE ECCO-ACRE TRACT The Tile little e pasture has IJas J grown gro to a acre tract which includes the tue new Wright tickS field and the Fairfield Fairfield Fairfield Fair- Fair field air Intermediate depot Wright field which was given to the tile war department by citizens of or Dayton and surrounding territory ranks today among the largest of ot the tile governments government's s military y projects AI All the engineering activities now at McCook field and all alt the tile activIties activities of of the supply division at Washington will be transferred to v Wright ht field where they will operate op- op crate erate under one head Under a new alignment of functions In the air corps the engineering and supply divisions are fused In jn the tile material division which is made up Uj of the engineering procurement and field sections TO DO ALL TESTING The fhe engineering section will be responsible foi or all nit l ai and anti development work including testing The Tue procurement section will have ha charge of ot purchasing and production and the field service service- section will direct the supply and maintenance of field leId units and the disposal of and salvaged eq equipment Tire repair and supply depots at Middletown l Pa Ia I Fairfield 0 O San Antonio and San Diego the storage storage storage stor stor- age depot at Little Rock the 1 than er depot at Scott field Ill Iii and the district procurement offices at New r-ew York Akron Seattle and Santa Monica also will be su supervised supervised supervised su- su from Dayton HEADQUARTERS GROUPING Removal of the supply division headquarters here from Washington Washing Washing- ton is in Itself a revolutionary step and the tile air corps Is the first branch I of oC the army to thus sever its procurement procurement procurement pro pro- service from army head head- quarters The results of the move are expected expected ex ex- peeled to be far reaching The prime factors in the project were economy and efficiency Wright field will cost the g gov government v- v more than 5 ac according according according ac- ac cording to the program originally outlined Already 1500 has been appropriated and the work is being pushed by a small army of engineers and workmen hangars will Two huge provide housing facilities for airplanes An An immense laboratories building is being being- erected An administration building final assembly and machine machine machine ma ma- chine shop propeller testing equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment warehouses power plants and other buildings dot the field When the field Is completed not a wIre will appear above ground The striking feature of the field will be the acre shaped cross-shaped landing field It is a grass blue-grass- covered tract over which one can ride at high speed n n an automobile automobile automo automo- bile bUe with the smoothness of a paved highway I |