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Show GREAT ADVANCE IS MADE IN AVIATION Development Within the Past Ten Years Is Discussed by British Brit-ish Expert. LONDON", Oct. 26. ( By the Associated As-sociated Press.) No other development In human history has shown such remarkable re-markable results as has flying in the last ten years, says Lord Montagu of Beau-lieu, Beau-lieu, a British scientist and aviation expert. ex-pert. "When the Wright brothers visited Europe Eu-rope ten years ago," he said, "the airplane air-plane engines were of twenty-four-horse-power. Today they are of 750-horsepower in some cases, and the airplane's carrying capacity has increased from about 126 nounds to three and a half tons. "Ten thousand feet was then the highest high-est flight. Today we are doing 26,000. And, while forty miles an hour was then the highest speed, today we are approaching approach-ing 1G0. "The British army in France began with only thirty-six planes. I may not give the number today, but It Is huge." Ixmg flights to and from America, for, instance would be possible after the war, Lord Montagu said, adding that he himself him-self hoppd some day to fly to India. For long-distance flying, he continued. . It would he necessary to evolve a silent engine, en-gine, for the public would not be willing to take lengthy trips in noisy airplanes. |