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Show tjewflyi;:g fielg IS STfiflTEO AT CIKO :j Airplane Factory Alio I Ia eluded in Plans at Broad-view, Broad-view, New Suburb CHICAGO, Au. t. (By A. P.) Wot has bm started on Teet (ovara ment mall flyln field and airpiam factory In Broadview, a ereetern suburb sub-urb of Chicago. It la expected the field will be In proper condition for lending and the five brio bulldlne which will bouee the factory and the pie nee will be complete ed by Oetobee according; to K. M. Barbour, aaslatant superintendent of aerial mall for the . eastern division. A small airplane factory le now In operation on Checkerboard field Jnst esst of the new alte but It cannot lurn out the planes for the ever (row-Inn (row-Inn mall service. The new factory which will be the largest airplane factory fac-tory under governmental control will have a capadlty of II planes a month. The machines It will make will be a modification of the Da Havtlanff and snd will b equipped with Liberty motors, Mr. Barbour aald. The field will be th manufacturing and repair headquarters for the whole eervlce. It waa aald. Experiments will be conducted bera for night flying ea that when tha service la called upon for eontlnuoua flights it will be ready ' for th emergency. Mr. Berbour em plained. The type of plane now need lande at such a terrific speed thst it Is dense roue for nlsht work In see there I a forced landing. It la honed -at the experiment etatlon syetem will , be devised for lighting airway aad perfecting a alow landing machine. |