Show ota ORDERS NAVAL AIR TRAINING denby tells plans for scouting from new design plane navy crews crew of the th future to be B As A skilled in Hand handling liag of aircraft at they are ar in operating great war Morr Moti tera washington abe tb battle fleets of the american navy of the future will have crews aboard who will be a aa skilled in the handling of aircraft a aa they are in the operation of the monster floating engines of war sr secretary of the navy denby discloses in a special article on fleet aviation published in the national aeronautical number 14 f aerial age the alie naval secretary calls attention to the general order recently issued ly by Ad admiraal mirial hilary P jones com ln in calef of the united states fleet calling on all officers to pule pate in clasa clas 8 on at aviation subjects subject IL this order Is regarded by secretary denby qs 91 highly significant it means he said in his aerial age article that fleet aviation Is in certain to have a very important effect in a future campaign one of the first duties which will be required of fleet aviation in future wars I 1 mr denby said bald will be to carry out over enemy bases it if we are to reconnoiter recon enemy naval bases base it must be done by airplanes flown off aircraft carriers at the present time our navy has but one aircraft carrier the langley which Is the remodeled collier jupiter by knowledge know ledie gained from the comparatively ively inexpensive langley we have been able to design an ett lelent type of carrier by remodeling two of the giant battle crul cru lere aers under construction st which were at first intended to be scrapped under the terms of the limitation of naval armament tre treaties atles under these treaties we were allowed to convert the battle cruisers cruiser saratoga and lexington I their speed which Is developed by electrical propulsion Is ID equivalent to 80 miles an hour on land tile the peculiarities of these ships are the completeness eness of radio installation for sending and receiving messages the elevators for lifting aircraft to and from the decks and the storage space below the cranes for hoisting outboard and inboard heavy recon reconnaissance nals planes the methods of ventilation and removal of exhaust gases from the smokestacks smoke stacks and the manou maneu ver ability of such huge ships in a sea way |