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Show Plan Schools To Train Aviators Establishments to Promote Aviation to Be Scattered From Coast to Coast Now York, Jan. 30. Preparations for establishing training schools for nvlntors nt New Yc,rk, Chicago. Bus-ton, Bus-ton, Newport News and Augusta, Me.; Detroit, Los Angeles and Scat-, tlo nro being made by tho Aero Club of America it was announced tonight. Funds already havo been provided to assure the training of 200 men, It was stated. More than $200,000 Is reported to hnvo been raised throughout tho country to ndvanco tho work. A group of men In ll'lnols has underwritten under-written $r.0,000 of this sum to pro-vldo pro-vldo training for 100 aviators. Wv. C. Roblticon of Grlnncll, Iowa, holder of the Aniorlcnn endurance record, Informed tho club today that ho would undertnko tho training of one olllcer from tho inllltlii of each Mato. It Is proposed to establish an aviation avi-ation school In New York In charge of Lieut. Raynnl C. Boiling, commander com-mander of tho New York nntlonal guard aviation detachment who already al-ready has twelvo men under training. train-ing. Tho Aero Clubs of Now England and tho Northwest havo announced that they each havo threo aeroplanes ready for training purposes. |