Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-20 | Page 12 | Big Guns Will Paly Only Minor Role in Wars of Future, Son of Inventor of Famous Flying Robot Declares

Big Big Guns Will PJ Play Only Minor o Role R le I In J Wars of f Future Son of Inventor Of Famous Flying ng Ro Robot t. t Declares I t tillerY T Too Expensive a as asit S it II Compared With Winged J I k Bomber He Says c l' l f. f Jt By RAYMOND J J. J CROWLEY f f- f Associated Press Writer NEW YORK K Nov 20 Big 20 Big guns scoffed d Elmer A. A Sperry Jr playa play phy a minor role in military tactics t of the future The flying bomb Is the thing Sperry who at 38 has the r MIJ of a II stripling stapling explained today hoW the robot pilot developed by his famous father lather with the admiring non son n helping will revolutionize war warfare var vartar tar fare if Ui the Ilie world is ever afflicted with another war war Meanwhile it is being devoted to peacetime uses uses The Eastern Air Transport today officially sets it to work flying air liners between New York and the southA south A A flying bomb or aeri aerial torpedo edoo Sperry perry declared is the cheapest way to o deliver a ton of explosive to an objective A gun bun is the most sive Say you want to destroy an ammu- ammu depot miles away A big gun c couldn't do it it but an aerial torpedo torpedo tor- tor cou could d. d You'd Y ud simply fit tit a cheap plane Mane with a robot pilot and some other gadgets and load it with sive Then one dark night it would take lake off oU by itself with another plane following controlling it by radio INSTRUCTION COMPLETE COl When the flying bomb reached the depot down it would plunge blowing e everything of off the map Then the I I human pilot pl o could fly back and si sit I down to breakfast b big g guns of the World war cost tremendous sums To get Big Bertha into place they had to use use hundreds hundreds' of men and strengthen and r railways to bear the weight Then after a few shots they had to g get t a new gunTo gun To do an infinitely bigger Job by aerial torpedo means means only the destruction destruction de de- de o of a cheap airplane and a afew afew few cw relatively inexpensive gadgets Sperry who is now consulting engineer engineer engineer en en en- for the Pc Gyroscope a com company corn corn- parry pany declared he W was lS tat talking ng not about a a vision but a a. practical thing Back in 1926 1920 William m I L. L Saunders chairman of the naval consulting board said the aerial torpedo invented invent ed by th the eld elder r Sperry who died in 1930 would have been used by the United Stales states to hit miles away during the World war if It the armistice hadn't intervened About Abou nine ye years rs ago in t tests sto for the army I the flying bombs struck targets 30 60 and 90 mil miles s away way with eRse ease I IThe The robot pilot an essential feature of ot such a bomb was developed through the years by the elder Sper ry P Perfected with the aid of the son it is in principle v very much like an another another an another other Sperry automatic pilot called by mariners Iron Mike which keeps heavy steamships plowing a true hue course for days through the sea I. I