1930

January 8—29 At Selfridge Field, Mich­igan, a flight of Curtiss P-1C Hawks under Major Ralph Royce departs for Spokane, Washington, to train under sub-zero flying conditions; he receives the Mackay Trophy.

APRIL 6 Army captain Frank Hawks flies 2,860 miles from San Diego, California, to New York City while piloting a glider that is towed by another aircraft.

APRIL 12 At Mather Field, California, Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf guides a flight of 19 Boeing P-19 fighters, 95th Pursuit Squadron, as they climb in forma­tion to 30,000 feet, a new altitude record.

APRIL 21 Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, accompanied by wife Anne Morrow, fly a Lockheed Sirius from Glendale, Cali­fornia, to Roosevelt Field, New York, covering 2,530 miles in a record in 14 hours and 45 minutes.

June 20 At San Antonio, Texas, Randolph Field is inaugurated as the Army’s newest flight training center for primary and basic pilot instruction. In this capacity it becomes a cradle of a generation of airmen who fight and win World War II, and subsequently serves as headquarters of the Air Educa­tion and Training Command. For this reason is regarded as the “West Point of the Air.”

July 28 At Kelly Field, Texas, instrument flying is added to the regular curriculum at the U. S. Air Corps Advanced Flying School.

NOVEMBER 6 In Washington, D. C., President Herbert Hoover awards Cap­tain Edward V. Rickenbacker the Congressional Medal of Honor he should have received in 1918, had the paper­work not become lost.

NOVEMBER 9—16 From New York, Captain Roy W. Ammel pilots a Lockheed Sirius Blue Flash 2,700 miles to the Panama Canal Zone in 24 hours and 35 minutes.

NOVEMBER 16 In Washington, D. C., Major General James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps, releases his annual report, which reveals the strength of the corps at 12,032, including 1,226 officers and 378 cadets.

December 30 At Roswell, New Mexico, Dr. Robert H. Goddard’s fifth liquid-fuel rocket rises to 2,000 feet at a speed of500 miles per hour.