Globe Flyers

General Mason B. Patrick, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Service, selected the officers who will attempt a flight round the globe this Spring. They are now at Langley Field, Va., learning every detail to the Douglas Torpedo planes, handling the latest navigation instruments, scanning world maps, studying the meteorolgy and topography of the route.

Major Frederick L. Martin, 41, native of Indiana, is in command. A graduate in mechanical engineering, with an overseas record in aviation, he supplise the expedition with steadiness. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, 31, of Santa Barbara, headed all the contestants in the endurance race from New York to San Francisco to New York in 1919, and made a duration flight last year of 36 hours, refueling in the air. He is good for a long pull.

Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson, 35, born in Stockholm, had seven years in internal combustion engineering before joining up for the War.

Lieutenant Leigh Wade, of Cassopolis, Mich., has crowded much flying and the Martin Bomber altitude record into his 27 years.

Lieutenants Leslie P. Arnold and L. D. Sculze, are able alterants.