Show PLANS PERFECTED TO BOMB WARSHIP I No Land Planes to Be Utilized Utilized Uti Uti- I in Attack WASHINGTON May 27 Four 27 Pour marine ma ma- marise rise rine corps Martin bombing planes will wil willbe l b be ho used to test the ability of lan land ei d planes to bomb warships in the problem I lem against the radio controlled battleship battleship bat bat- batI I Iowa off the Virginia capes o on n j i June 28 the navy department announced announced an an- na after the war department ha had a d served notice that no army land type e airplanes would participate The army however will use Usa seven seaplanes an and d four airships Decision to withdraw its land plane planes i I was wag reached it was understood because e I the war department did not consider t t advisable to use th them m unless the Iowa a l was within thirty mil miles s of of shore Naval Na Ni- ay val vat members of the Joint army navy y committee in charge of the experiments expert ments are said to hold that the tests to be oe of value should I be conducted a least ast sixty miles from the coast i Under the conditions of the n the Iowa controlled by ra radio io from the battleship Ohio five or six miles mUes distant d.- d. tant will be from fifty to miles mile s off shore and steaming toward lan Ian land d when the air for forces es will be sent out u Some details ils of the mechanism bv by u which the tine Iowa is controlled we were made public The apparatus consists consist of a stan standard ard radio transmitter aboard the control ship and a receiving aerial on the Iowa with special ra radio I I ers era amplifiers and relays for converting converting convert convert- ing lag the signals into a form that will control the Iowa's steering gear engine throttle and fuel oil valves The of- of I j facer in charge of the Iowa stationed on the bridge of the Ohio will have charge of the controlled ship which will have no no one on board boar By a gyroscopic compass the Iowa may may may-be be set on a given course and by a a. special radio signal the vessel may be stopped The control system which is Am American in design can be bo shifted to air craft I |