Show FISKE GIVEN AERO CLUB MEDAL tho the board of 0 governors of the aero club of america have awarded tho ilia gold medal if tile club to hear admiral bradley A U S N retired for hit his invention of oc tre c tor ter pelle tJ alle on oil 10 ima walh wits MIS used 11 sed effectively during tile war announcement Is also nindo made of ilia receipt of 0 A letter from admiral bibko uliah abuys among other things 5 to he awarded the gold medal ot of tile aero club of oc amelica Is BO an honor that la Is exceptional because the standing of the aero club Is exceptional but though hough tile ho lit standing anding of tile ho aero club Is high the effective work which it carried on oil throughout the war la Is not fully appreciated by tho the nation for or tile tho reason that its work war unofficial and ana therefore ther eforo not recognized offic officially lally bilco many another unrecognized fi agency gency however its influence was potent and profound acting as tho X fi rk 3 W or of aeronautic progress aero gave tion lion to tho the count country ry of the possibilities of 0 linval and military aeronautics in bisted that thoo possibilities be utilized and demanded that congress con greis appropriate uch nuch bums of money as 03 would enable tho the government departments to fi utilize those possibilities completely ind and th ih time enormous Enoria ous were thed made but cis as congress delayed milking making them until after yve we had actually entered too the war ivar the appropriations came too late to permit american aeronautics aeronautic to do CIO fig much effective work as it could la in winning it 10 admiral flake concludes by a tributo av W the patriotism an aas a intel cinto 0 of the press in air mutters |