sentences:  Ira C. Eaker, an aide to Assistant Secretary of War for Air F. Trubee Davison who had also been on the April mission.Their mutual interest in air-to-air refueling led Eaker to forward it to Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, Chief of the Air Corps.Both Fechet and Davison approved the project on the condition that it demonstrate a military application and not just as a publicity stunt.