Biggest Field

"Much air has passed through the slipstream," said Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis last week, "since the Wright Brothers flew a weird contraption over the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, N. C." As he spoke, Secretary Davis was standing on a rolling plain in the Miami Valley, near Dayton, Ohio. Hard by was the scene of the Wright Bros.' later efforts and perfections in flying. Secretary Davis was there to dedicate 4,500 acres lying around him--gift of public-spirited Daytonians to the U. S.-- as the army's biggest flying field and official materiel headquarters, to be known, in honor of the contraption-builders, as Wright Field./- When completed, Wright Field will be the world's most complete experimental air centre. It supplants McCook Field, which closed officially in June. McCook, also near Dayton, named after a fighting Ohio family, was the army's central engineering and experimental field during the War.

/-Part of the site, used during the war as a training field, was previously known as Wilbur Wright Field, in honor of the brother who died in 1912. Orville Wright, aged 56, is hale.