July 9 1923 | Aviation Week

A Proposed International Aircraft Code

Commission of Jurists Drafts Rules Making Aircraft Conform To Established Usage of Warfare

U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

Secretary of War Weeks formally announced on June 26 that Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Chief of Air Service, has duly qualified as an airplane pilot at the age of sixty years. “We used to hear that a man more than thirty years of age should not attempt flying, but General Patrick has won his wings at twice that age,” said Mr. Weeks, who was obviously proud of the achievement of the Chief of Air Service.

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

The New York - Newport Air Service was officially inaugurated at 10:10 a. m. June 27, when the Loening Air Yacht “Grey Lark” piloted by George Rummill and carrying Grover Loening, president of the air line, Richard Watkins of the New York Herald and Dwight Perrin of the New York Tribune as passengers, left the New York terminal of the service bound for Newport.