Show MM DESTROYER CREATED BY CU CURTISS By The Telegrams Telegram's rams ram's Sl Ne Service NEW YORK Oct 14 A A Zeppelin destroyer is 18 being tested at the Curtiss Curtiss Cur Cur- Aeroplane company's flying grounds In Buffalo N. N Y Reports of ot its performance say that it is the most remarkable machine ever built for pursuit and Zeppelin chasing Victor Carlstrom Caristrom the long ong distance record holder was the pilot and tested the aeroplane under all conditions remaining remaining remaining re re- re- re in the he air for tor more th than n an hour and landing with ease The aeroplane Is ia a tractor tripa a and was developed In answer to the demand for an aeroplane which could leave the ground overtake and destroy de stroy a raiding Zeppelin The new machine made a maximum speed of miles an hour and throttled down until it made 45 miles an an hour This is blY the greatest difference between between between be be- tween the high and low speeds of any machine now in use Both th th British and the Fr French Nieuport Nieuport Nieuport Nieu- Nieu port pursuit machines make about the same high speed but cannot be throttled throttled tied down clown to much Jess less than 65 to 70 miles an hour thus making it difficult difficult difficult cult to land without breakage The chief feature of the new trio tri plane model is its ability to climbS climb It has ascended feet in ten minutes or at the rate of 1000 feet a minute It left the ground after a avery avery avery very short run and climbed at an angle nearer the vertical than any of the other fast machines yet devel |