Problems of military and commercial aviation in China will be studed during the next several months by Major Ernest W. Dichman, assistant to the president of United Aircraft Exporis, Me, and former Chief of the Aeroplane Section of the United States Army Air Corps, who has arrived in Shanghai from the United States. Major Dichman proposes to formulate a programme of aircraft development for the Chinese market, based on hig study.
Trained as an electrical engineer, Major Dichman became interested in fying during the Great War and listed as a fying cadet in the then Aviation Section of the US. Army Signal Corps. He subsequently tended ground school with the Royat Flying Corps at the University of Toronto and received further instruction at Talliaferro Field in Texas. Selected as one of a group of twenty American affeers to study aeronautlcal engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed a special course and was sent to France in 1918, shortly before the Armisto
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