Airmen To Watch New York.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1912:
Army's Use of Aeroplanes in Coming Attack on the City.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.— Three aeroplanes will assist the regulars and militia in their attack on New York City. They will be shipped from the Army Aviation School at College Park this week to Connecticut, for use in the manoeuvres of the regular soldiers and the State militia of Delaware, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, which begins on Aug. 10.
    It was at first planned to ship the new Burgess-Wright war biplane which is being tried out at Marblehead. Mass., by Lieut. Roy C. Kirtland and Lieut. Henry H. Arnold, but, as the new machine has
not passed the Government altitude test, it was decided to ship the Burgess from College Park.
    The old Wright and the new double control Curtiss machines are the other two machines to be sent. An automobile aeroplane truck used by the Signal Corps also will be in the equipment taken to Connecticut. Tents to be used to shelter the biplanes have been made. These will be stretched on the manoeuvre fields.