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Above Above A A Vickers Vickers Vanguard Vanguard aerial troop transport capable of carrying two twenty-two men and two pilots Below Below Below-A A Vickers-Vernon Vickers troop transport capable of carrying twelve men and two pilots A squadron of these carried a Bri British ish for force into n Mesopotamia j brea breaking g up a native rebellion in half an hour I S i. i S r I I T S T F Jr 4 Y p Y Troops boarding a Vickers aerial transport Br DT MILTON ULTON NEE AEA Service Writer LONDON Oct 2 Aerial Aerial transportation transportation transportation trans trans- of troops loaded with m machine machine ma ma- chine guns and accomplished safely swiftly and comfortably Its It's no longer a theory It Its It's s an anI I accomplished fact England has done donA it I The war and air all ministries dont don't dontI beat the bag drum about It They I dont don't advertise It But the feat has been off so many times I now that the war-making war powers Power of Britain no po longer look upon It as asan asan asan an unusual thing As soon eoon as airplanes were ere built which flew safely to Paris fr m Lon or and vice versa carrying Cl six or eight passengers the airplane men and arid the army got busy with pencil and paper and began planning planning plan plan- ning ping troop carriers Theoretically there was nothing to prevent the dream beir beir- carried irto execution The paper theories are often hard to carry Into actual fact In the case however it It was d done ne easily The great Vickers company constructed constructed con con- airplanes that could carry twelve pas passengers passenger engers and two pilots And the the- army bought them so Promptly that England was able to give wild tribes in ir Mesopotamia the surprise of their lives I REVOLT WAS VAS SHORT I Natives were Vero rebelling against British authority and were making thom themselves elves very troublesome They felt safe safo because there were no railways railways railways rail rail- ways In the territory where they were on the rampage and motor transport was difficult If not all allbut allbut allbut but impossible But one fine morning two big squadrons of ot troop-carriers troop came roaring Into the desert country country country coun coun- try with a a. company or so BO of veteran tio-j tio 0 v inky luey had plen- plen try of machine guns with them That particular rebellion died In about thirty minutes For army authorities all over the world It opened a new vista The troop carriers are not only I in deserts and plains where there are no railways but likewise are arc of ot enormous potential value Ina in ina ina a war such as the last great one There were many Instances where the allied Jine was waa thinly aid jid by troops and where it was next to Im Impossible impossible im- im possible to reinforce them quickly account on of congestion on the railways railways railways rail rail- ways and the roadways An ample supply of troop-carrying troop airplanes would have mado the difference be between between be- be twe tween n victory and defeat Encouraged by success of ot the th V Vernons and Vickers Interests have turned out the biggest troop-carrier troop ever evel manufactured and operated successfully It is known as the Vickers Vickers Vanguard It carries two ty-two troopers and two air pilots Its power Is supplied by two Royce Rolls Condor engines each of ot horsepower Its type is 19 that of ofa ofa a twin tractor biplane It has an enclosed cabin for Its passengers passengers passengers pas pas- which looks very much like the of a London bus with the addition of a washroom for the tho tra travelers CARRIES 24 MEV EV i. i The over all length Is 53 63 feet and the height 17 feet teet 3 inches The machine machine machine ma ma- chine Itself plus the water she carrice carries carries car car- ries rice weighs 1091 pounds It carries carries carries car car- ries a a. load of gallons of ot petrol and 18 gallons of oil In addition to the weight of or two pilots and 22 troopers It carries pounds of baggage and pounds of sundries So that Ir all when loaded the weight Is Js nearly nine tons The machine Is made In the main of ot spruce and elm The full tull maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum speed is about miles an hour ho The minimum Is 47 It can cruise a total of miles This big type of or machine has not yet been I used by the army One of ot them Is shortly to be tested Ir Jr r. r the passenger passenger ger gel company by the Imperial Airways Airways Airways Air Air- ways company Theoretically there Is 11 nothing to prevent the building of ot airplanes carrying to troops but aeronautical aeronautical aero- aero I nautical authorities here dont don't think It will ever be attempted To begin with one huge machinot machine machin of ot this kind would cost as much a as 10 of the Vickers Vanguard type If tr anything gets out of whack with such a huge machine It Is a serious loss If It anything goes wrong with ono one or two of or the smaller machines there are still the other eight or nine to give active service to the arm army jr |