By Maurer Maurer
Historians commonly agree that the delivery of yank air energy happened within the 20 years among the realm wars, whilst airmen within the U. S. military and military cast the airplane, the association, the cadre of management, and the doctrines that shaped a origin for the rustic to win the air struggle in international battle II. approximately each scholarly research of this period makes a speciality of those advancements, or upon the airplane of the interval; only a few works describe accurately what the flyers have been doing and the way they overcame the problems they confronted in growing air forces. during this specified, accomplished quantity, Dr. Maurer Maurer, retired senior historian of the us Air strength historic learn heart, fills this void for land-based aviation
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En route to Jacksonville, motor trouble on January 25 caused Major Macauley to land in tall weeds at the north end of Lake Okeechobee. Getting help, he and Staley pulled the damaged plane to the New River Canal and took it by barge to Fort Lauderdale, and from there to Miami to be restored to flying condition at the Marine base. Major Macauley and Private Staley resumed their trip on February 1. Shortly after they left Americus, the water temperature went up and the motor quit. In landing, Macauley hit a wire fence and the plane turned over, damaging the propeller, the radiator, and three wing sections.
Doolittle, for example. His uninhibited style of flying and frequent wrecks kept him in trouble much of the time with his commander at Rockwell Field. Colonel Burwell nevertheless gave Doolittle and two companions, Lts. Walter Smith and Charles Haynes, three Jennies for a coast-to-coast flight. 21 Another who tried the coast-to-coast flight early in 1919 was Maj. Theodore C. Macauley, Commander of Taliaferro Field, near Fort Worth. He and his mechanic, Private Staley, flew westward from Fort Worth to begin the transcontinental flight at Rockwell Field, on January 21, 1919.
Gen. William Mitchell, and Senator Key Pittman of Nevada. Captain Francis kept busy taking newsmen up in his Martin b ~ m b e r . ~ The newsmen were fortunate. Many people would have liked a ride with an Air Service pilot, but joyrides for civilians were prohibited. Pilots could take any member or employee of the Air Service, or any officer or enlisted man of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps as a passenger. If the President, the Chief Justice, or a member of Congress wanted to go, a pilot could take him.