Show I AUTOMATIC AERIAL FLIGHT IS MADE I Plane With Heavy Load Without Guide Travels Mlles Miles By Associated Press FT WORTH Tex March Un der automatic control an airplane capable of carrying Q a heavy load and operated without a guide has made a trip of miles and landed within a short distance of the point It set out to reach Newton D. D Baker Balter secretary of war disclosed in an address address ad- ad dress here The device Batter Balter said is an automatic automatic auto auto- matic guide for airplanes and was Invented invented In- In vented In America When the armistice armistice armi- armi stice was signed the Invention had been So nearly perfected tha In actual test an airship without an occupant was successfully sent on a trip of over miles mUes he said An airplane went Out under control of a pilot without making making mak- mak ing a landing returning to its point of origin after locating the distant objective objective ob- ob for the test Then was sent out under automatic control another airplane to land at the designated point and It effected the landing so close to that point that had It been beena a shell it would have been considered a good shot Secretary Baker did not explain the exact nature of the invention but he made it clear that the war department considers it one of the most wonderful pieces of mechanism for tor wars war's destructive destructive tive purposes |