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Show WHAT WE ARE DOING. IN THE AIR. Having investigated the aircraft production pro-duction of tho United States, the Now York World says: The official announcement that a squadron of eighteen Do Haviland airplanes air-planes equipped with Liberty motors has flown over tho German lines and successfully carried out the first re-connaisance re-connaisance flight of American machines ma-chines is good news even if belated news. It ought to have been done sooner, but tho fact that it has been done sets at rest all the new crop of rumors to. the effect that the De Haviland plane was a failure and that tho aircraft air-craft program of the government would have to be changed In its entirely. en-tirely. The World has done a great deal of investigating on its own account of the aircraft situation, and it has always al-ways believed that in spite of mistakes mis-takes and delays, or even worse, tho expectations of the American people would finally be realized. Aircraft production has gone through the same kind of experience as ship production. Nobody now calls the shipping program pro-gram a failure. On the contrary, it is everywhere regarded as one of tho most astonishing and spectacular successes suc-cesses of tho war. .We see no reason for doubting that aircraft production will eventually duplicate this dramatic dramat-ic achievement. War work that is begun on sound lines is not likely to fail, whatever blunders and disappointments may follow incidentally. Wo hear no moro about a shipbuilding fiasco, or a war department that has stopped functioning. function-ing. After the wonderful work of the Amnnnon TTI II. - fit who used to sneer at their "broomstick" "broom-stick" training are discreetly silent. The time is probably not far distant when the aircraft program will like, wise have vindicated Itself. oo |