Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-15 | Page 10 | Annual Contest for Army Aviation Cup

ANNUAL CONTEST FOR ARMY AVIATION CUP Washington, Jan. 14. The official report received here today of the recent aerial reconnaissance survey at San Diego by army fliers in their annual contest for the army aiatlon cup, shows tbat Captain Dodd and Lieutenant Fitzgerald, who composed the winning team, reached an altitude of 4000 feet and that while they were observing the "Invading enemy'' they flew at n height of from 2500 to 3000 feet. The "ln-aders" consisted of troops borrowed from other branches of the service. The report shows that only fifty -five minutes were consumed by the air scouts from the time when they first observed the "enemy" until they landed at the reporting station. The invaders were scattered at several sev-eral points in a triangular territory Bixteen miles on a side and a rough and broken country where the elevations eleva-tions varied from little above sea level to 2500 feet Lieutenant Henry W. Harms, of the Ninth cavalry , now at Douglas. Ariz . has been detailed to the army aviation school at San Diego to tako the course there. Cf