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Show BUILDING OF NAVAL OF REPORT1; i - rr j Successful Work Is Due to j Consistent Policy, Says Admiral Taylor. y Atftci. J Pi-cm.' Washington, rc. r suc-t .of th navy In t;vlij Itt Wmrtlrn1 aircraft problem Im ftUrtl.uWd to th policy conalatrntly followed of makf this work . conform to rrcnlar naval practice. Ttfr Admriii, Ivld W. j Taylor, chli f ronntruetor. In hin n Inu&l prport mad public recently, says liilrcraft production has ben landltl Uek other deportment! itchnicl questions, and doaplt the great expansion ex-pansion of forces iiecensary, "direction "direc-tion and control of aircraft queattona hava tr-in cart J for by officers fa miliar with the m"t.iode of I ha naV7 department." VI villi. n." A Jm Ira I Taylor cofc-tlnura, cofc-tlnura, "hava thua baan aula to carry nn thalr naval work under the noat - fnvorahla si.wJH.onsi Tlita poilay baa drmonetrated 1ta aoundnaaa. Tha) typ-w of aircraft o vale pad for production pro-duction hava proved eiiccesfoL rhangaa hava bn a minimum and hav baan adopt-nl only with a view to lmpruvruaiil" , TYPIS ARC AMERICAN. A a tha raport waa prepared prior tm tha r-aaaatlon of hostilities, K doaa not , jen Into dtall on any part of tna building- oapratiofia of tha navy. Am to aircraft, however, It ahowa tha both typ of aaaplanaa uaed by tbo navy ara "fundamentally A mar lean" Improved In deatgn on HrltUrt exprl-nee. exprl-nee. In October production of th twa main typi waa In exceas of r jutrrmnte. Ifrfvalupmant of balloons for navaj purpnaaa alao ovntN under Admiral Taylor'a bureau. Ilia raport ahowa that milch experimental work wu dona with typa of parachute, an nlttcr of the rooatrtio corps hav-Injf hav-Injf dnppd from an alrahip In fllrht and fmm a kits balloon to taut tha da-atgn da-atgn adopted. Tha Mm off 1 car alao urcemtfully tried out a naw typo of parachute "carrying (ho basket of tha kUt balloon and Ita occupants." PLAN FOR SIQ OUTPUT. I Tha original plans for tha naval (aircraft factory at tha Philadelphia, yard called for 100 email machlnao j Biitiuttlty, the report aaya. In January, 1 91 8, howavar, tha navy's requlrsj-; requlrsj-; merit wara auddanly expanded aaS tha plant waa converted Into an aa-ianibiinr aa-ianibiinr cntar with four tlmoa that irhparlty. Tha orlartnal program maxl mum waa raarhad laat March and tho aicpannion work haa now alao baan coinplatd. . Almtral Taylor givaa no datails aa to tlta whip construction. Aa to tha datroyar program, bis moat slgnlfl-Irunt slgnlfl-Irunt statement la that tha gf-ra- mant owned plant at Hquantum, Mass., , ia to ba continued ss a permanent adjunct of the navy. |