Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-10-02 | Page 29 | Pilots' Test Curbs Air Fatalities

PILOTS' PILOTS TEST CURBS AIR FATALITIES To prevent flying firing accidents due to physical unfitness of the pilots officials daLe of the army my navy and marine marln corps have turned to physical culture to produce the type typo of men best fit t- t ted ed to meet the exacting conditions o othe of the air sen service Ice says an authoritative article In the October issue of Physical cal Culture magazine Citing the war time mortality o of flyers it Is declared that thit ninety ou out of every er e hundred killed died following accidents caused by improper handling of planes Today the number of avoid old avoidable able deaths In military aviation ha has been reduced from that total of 9 per Der cent to a figure of between een 20 an and 30 per cent the Investigator asserts a Among the authorities quoted by En En- Ensign Ensign sign Eustace L. L Adams himself a 1 navy flyer during the World war ar arRear are Rear Admiral William A A. A Moffett Moffet I chief of the bureau of aeronautics navy department Malor Thomas De De- DeWitt Witt chief of war clans olans t division o of 1 army aviation a and Major E H H. Brain Brain- Brainard ard officer office in charge of marine corps corp aviation Reading their opinions and the dc de- de of the tests by which th the government aviators aviators' fitness to fly 1 Is tested nested j you ou will wilt understand why so 20 few fe fatalitIes occur among anong the pilots plots of ou our I armed forces