South Jersey Aviation Club — Navy Night

EARL A. CRYNE. MAJOR U. S. A. R. PRESIDENT 106 SOUTH 27TH ST., CAMDEN, N. J. South Jersey Aviation Club Camden, New Jersey October 3rd, 1927. TO MEMBERS AND GUESTS: Friday, October 7th, 1927, is to be known as "NAVY NIGHT" at the South Jersey Aviation Club. We are inviting all those who are connected with the aeronautical branch of the United States Navy who reside in South Jersey as guests of the evening. The speaker of the evening will be Commander Whiting, United States Navy, attached to the "U.S.S.Saratoga". Commander Whiting was one of the earliest submarine officers. On board the "U.S.S.Shark", in 1909, he and Commander Ellyson tossed a coin to see who would be the first man to be shot from a torpedo tube. Commander Whiting won and was actually shot from a torpedo tube from a submerged submarine by compressed air in order to find out if it was possible to save lives from a disabled submarine. This was featured in all of the newspapers at that time as one of the most daring feats and tests that was ever accomplished in submarine work. In 1914 Commander Whiting was assigned to aviation. During the World War he took the first Naval Aviation Unit overseas and was in command of the U.S. Naval Aviation Station at Killingholme, England. Later he was made Executive Officer on board the Navy's first airplane carrier, The U.S.S. Langley, and while so assigned was the first officer to be catapulted from her decks in a torpedo airplane. Commander Whiting is now engaged in the preliminary organization of the U.S.S. Saratoga, one of the two modern aircraft carriers which are being built for the Navy at the Brown Boveri Corporation. He is the Executive Officer, being second in command of this mighty vessel, one of the two largest and most powerfully propelled to be built for any nation. Commander Whiting will have with him that evening the official photographer from the Brown Boveri who will show in conjunction with Commander Whiting's talk, moving pictures taken from Aircraft Carriers such as the U.S.S. Saratoga. The meeting will start promptly 8:30 P.M., by Commander Whiting, so please be on hand early. The meeting will take place at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building, 308 Broadway, Camden, N.J., and this will be an open evening, SO BRING THE LADIES. EARL A. CRYNE, Major, Air Corps Reserve, USA, PRESIDENT. [signed:] Earl A Cryne USE THE U. S. AIR-MAIL BOOST THE CAMDEN AIR-PORT