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Show RECORDS BROKEN j BY ALLIED AIRMEN' On October 10th lnoro .than 350 airplanes connected with tho American Ameri-can forccn uoar Verdun, France, lm n bombing .expedition, dropped on Gorman cantonments about thirty- j two tons of explosives, thus nccom-l plishlng ono of the biggest bombing exploits of tho war. I Ono of the large bombing planes of the Allies recentlly carried a full sized upright piano from London to Paris. While It Is not unusual for airplanes to carry dead weight loads 'much heavier than tho weight carried In this Instance, the actual transpoi--tatlon of suh a ponderous, and unusual un-usual object serves to illustrato very vividly the lifting power of the lat-. est bombing planes. It Is said that, during the pat three months the airplanes of the Allies have made' 249 raids on tho principal Germaa war Industries !a (the Rhlae valley and have dropped about 247 toas of bombs on strateg-i strateg-i Is points. These" raids hare not only I resulted In the destruction of many munition plants, poison gas factories, factor-ies, railway trains, etc, but they. I have had a wide spread effect lade isafiraltslag the morale ot the German army and people, tad as a result, It Is said that large, numbers of public meetings are, belag held la German cities near the border demanding that all aerial warfaro shall cease. Thus Germany seems to bo 'getting stern retribution for her ruthless air! raids on English and French cities. I Vlhln ho latst few days two remarkable re-markable alrplano speed records have beben made In this cauntry one In whlh a flight ot 2C0 miles, between Mlneola, L.I, and Washington, D.C. was made In two hours and three mln ' utes by Major-General Wllllanm L. j Kely, head ot the Division ot Mllll-tary Mllll-tary Aeronautls, and the other In which the trip from Dayton Ohio, to . Washington, D.C, (a distance of, 430 miles) was made by Caleb Bragg, with wi-th one passenger, a civilian, aviator In a' DeHaviland plane, In two hours and fifty minutes or at the rate of ap proximately 134 miles per hour. The' plane In ihls latter Instance was equipped with Liberty Motor, which thus demonstrated Its remarkable effl clency. While It is not. unusal for airplanes to travel at high speed (for comparatively short distances, the malntalnaaee of a speed ot 134 miles per hour for suh a long distance dist-ance coaslUtues the most remarkable (hlgh speed long-hlstance flight on record. ' I With the rapid present-day developments dev-elopments ia airplane speed and en idurance we are Jusctfled in expecting expect-ing every shortly a successful transatlantic trans-atlantic flight. Homever the announcement ann-ouncement iB.a number of dally jpap-'ers jpap-'ers through out the county a few days ago that such a trip had already al-ready bbeen successfully made between be-tween Newfoundland and Ireland seems to have premature although the alleged trip was described with much dotlal in Fllylng for August, 1018, the artlclo being accompanied accompan-ied by several Illustrations, including includ-ing a map purporting to show the exact course tefken in tho alleged flight. While tho account may have been written In good faith, It boro th earmarks of a hoax1 since It conveyed convey-ed tho Idea that tho entlro trip of more than 2,000 miles wasmade, without wi-thout a single stop for fuel or oil In a De Havlland plane (Which has a very milled carrying capacity))) when to make such non-stop trip would Involve the carrptng ot from five to six thousand pounds of gasolllne and oil and would require a greater lifting capacity than that of even the largest bombing planes of which there .are any authentlo records. re-cords. While it isentlrely possible to fly over mentioned, It will be necessaryat necess-aryat least until Improved motors and fuel are available for any .plane undertaking the trip to make. . at least one or two stops for gasoline and oil: and any accounts of trans-Atlantlc trans-Atlantlc flights alleged to hare been made without any such stop may well be regarded with skepticism. |