| Show ENGINE BUILT LIKE A WATCH fast modern airplane may readily cost coit from to and wears wean out quickly the engine 0 of your motor car weighs from COO to 1200 pounds or more it will average from 20 to 80 horsepower rt r the lowest sais says a writer in colliers Coll lerp the now new airplane engines run less than three pounds per horsepower end and the finest of them two pounds or less airplanes have been bounds built ailt with air cooled engines lor for short distance fast scouting whose engines weigh less than a pound and three quarters per horsepower they mastbe must be battle Ute literally rally ai aa an old advertisement verti used to say built like a watch I 1 at present a high powered airplane engine of the best type say to horsepower cannot be purchased for much less than and the whole airplane a big one may readily cost to you can readily see why uby the construction of only airplanes as 03 in En glands program would easily equal for a total expenditure for men and camps and hangars and repairs and nad wai wastage tage more than half a billion dollars A fast modern airplane has an avera nver 1 age life of only about two or three hundred hours of active service say two months at the outside this means that to keep airplanes on a battle line you have to be able to build per month or diore more the cost would b be almost unthinkable that Is why warfare in the air for any length oi of time would bankrupt the world and that in turn Is why warfare lit in thi the air means the end cfall of all warfare |
