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Show 1940 TO SEE HUGE SUB-STRATOSPHERE PLANEJN SERVICE 'Attains More Speed with Safety Through Reduction of Friction In Air and On Ground NEW YORK With the recent launching of a giant new air -transport built to streak through the sub-stratosphere with 36 pas-(senges pas-(senges at 210 miles an hour, science has scored another great vic-l vic-l torv over friction. And the conquest of friction is the first essential 'to transportation progress. In the air or on the ground, the tinge airliner, which will soon be 'In service on the world's air lanes, Mts down friction's resistance ' torce to a minimum. In the eternal quest for speed .and size, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Cor-poration, pioneer builders of aircraft, air-craft, have achieved another notable no-table advance in air transportation. Their new 38,000 pound ship has been built to fly in a strata of air where wind resistance with its resultant re-sultant speed-arresting friction Is least effective a strata 20,000 feet up, nearly 4 miles from the earth's surface. This will be made possible by pumping artificial ir pressure into the cabin, maintaining main-taining the same atmospheric conditions con-ditions within the Bhip as though H were flying at an altitude of 4.000 feet. To pull the massive airliner through the sub-stratosphere will t, two huge 14-cylinder Wright tuble-Row Cyclone engines equip-with equip-with 15-foot. 3-bladed Curtiss propellers. To keep the power plants running smoothly, many of the fast-moving parts have been equipped with Timken roller bearings, bear-ings, as has the ship's landing gear and tail wheel which take up the shock of landings as the airliner descends onto airport runways ai a rate of descent of up to 800 feet per minute. These bearings, especially espe-cially built for the purpose, almost eliminate rolling friction, enabling the transport to get under way and take off quickly, even in small airports, air-ports, with a full load of passengers pas-sengers and three tons of mail and express. The new ship couples safety with speed to an extent previously unheard of. A new safety device, the Curtiss-Wright "Tell-Tale" panel, pan-el, keeps a constant check on about 50 of the major instruments and controls used in operating the ship; and other new features eliminate of the control's which now occupy oc-cupy the attention of pilots in most transports. This greatly reduces the possibilities of "pilot error." |