Show the giant ariff lep lipil comand ital italy y plans lai flying in ma 35 oh ova power motors sacrificing high speed to gnat ri f carry united ted states tt will develop science along si similar lines at once THOUSAND gigantic Bar a aplan planes aircraft with r i 1 wing aspre spread d of 11 more 1 a 1 than 1 ani feet Z each rh carry try 1 ang ga a craw w of three men and it 2111 2 tto pounds 0 bum boina ris ing bt at adf night froni croul 19 1 9 mat angland landS B met east coast a arti a flight i gh commander eom roander tor for each 25 0 o ro hailo it his him raiders into to tile hie T V shaped hoped farm artion in which wild glase geee travel on tile the liae in and then a swift ethl across the miles that separate tile the lowre nearest t polar point of the english toast at I 1 from min the fill finanous kiel c canal I 1 the raw clodi of dropping dropp lne bomba bomb the edaili mt of fit jil 0 on the earth be beth beneath th the mk crack ot of antiaircraft at ft pins and the flash or of antiaircraft ft searchlights fled ad then a tar turn boat about IdAd aud a tor far home with selth tile the kill kiel carml canal and the german garma fleet t rum rion and a w wreckage biage 1 in the tearl i this is the picture which henry one ot of the governors ot of the am aero club of america he haa it BB inspection of the photograph and the mering prints of the new 00 horse power current trip trl plane lne the craft ft Is the biggest yet employed by germany or r the allic alllen and yet it la is less th than a n a fifth as n a big as the machine b I 1 italy aa has ha a under construction and ad or of which aich all 11 details are cor concealed willed except fd th eliat it 11 Is 19 to have motors gen sra crating ting between 3 and ad 3 horse potter paul oh one half the size of this mon man ster far tin A airplane birda driven drien by three non mo tora each h of GM CW horse home power Is at al readi read constructed true ted and news new of it its op P against again M B italy s austrian toes falls Is expected d dally fly ital Is new at the business ot of avla via tion two years ago she fhe had fewer ewer than mn min emp employed loved in the industry tolley today she one has thousands and ad on the tha authority of howard E coffin ef chairman tema of the aircraft production loard isnard bair has outdistanced her one ene allen and her allies in developing deol loping new types of I 1 aircraft maj it perfetta tl head bond of the itallia orl for as oil in the lin united led sturm states Is an a ardent adver adro cate te of the huge warplane and w accounts count is w which lil ch he has been able to colp gry this ts gortat government coment of polls baltan bucce a is in this bin kind d of construction have done much lamch to divorce aerial exper experts a here here frosa from the air allegiance to the im small 11 light tap of at c craft ft far the single fight er at the extra weight carrying capacity of f the great much machines face 1 fa the especial at argument meat in thell their favor and could a thousand such as am the caprone be con td t d manned armed and ad loaded tied with bombs experts cannot ee why by the d dream wo of destroying the kiel canal a and the german fleet filet might not at be to realized it we were till the entire thou than and d to combine I 1 la a single raid the present hore borse power capron lq a trl pline with two fuselages or itaf bodies thin and oil driven by three plat flat or OP isaetta t P reach lill motors motor any one of which has haa soffi sufficient clent bovo povo r to keep the antt agent afloat even ave were the them others to he be T the A machine Is of both the tractor mid and pusher tape for or two propellers are am mounted mount e it in front and one in 1 the rear mr the plane carries a BO ao called smiled useful load of 4 pounds which vi lills wilm assures ses fuel for or six hours to gother with ith a crew of three men three uns an and d 2750 pounds pound of bombs it lias ban a epco of close to in 85 miles drum an a ab alof tour bear and ad 1 la capable of climbing feet in 13 minutes feet in 27 minutes and feet fast in 57 67 min aftem te this seems slow law in com comparison prIN to the sip scads uble climb feet to in five off minutes cit or less but a is spit ply PF a living motor with sustaining 1 9 agolda barely sufficient chud to aport support athe star and a son gun the capreal to la som B big a as ft a trolley car its wing spun span an fa U more maia than teet feel it stand 21 feet 1 in the air and ad it I 1 Is nearly early GO 50 fee feet long th the only af aircraft which completes with it t in size to la the british handly page machine which with two min ay a Bol Boyc motors carried 27 pase gers and has a wing pral ot of 98 feet and the and Ga galaudet made 1 in till coun club in try if the huge Cini curtess this air it aulber fear with which blitch it we was hoped hope d to cross acme the bea before im this the war star to turned it the thoughts 0 of aviators into other her ch channels ita is 1 a possibility a as a long distance bomb carr caring carri inK ng machine for its boat body could be dropped and its III weight carrying ability increased thereby the a new three thre motored carld gall gallaudet will seaplane s ale also A enters colors the cadegon category of long distance raiding machines and la is suitable lul table tor for either bomb dropping or torpedo I 1 launching chim other american manufacturers a are at work on giant models model but as yet details of these have not luen been announced lim long distance bombing raids are by eta no no maima a an city but they luey haw have at al ways waya been conducted with out only y a few airplanes of limited carrying capacity alch carried only a few hundred pounds of bombs besides the fuel need ed ad tor for the journe journea among the historic bombing raids for several reasons la Is the raid mid on on an june 15 1015 1915 it was conducted by 23 twin motored caudron in w olmom in charge of C de I 1 ker illas and dropped close to 50 large bombs on Carli ahree of the ma blue did oot at return they had to load land and were captured but the dona dam igo age to a karlsruhe carlsruhe Carls me was serious in the very cry first bombardment of set sofia on april 21 1916 a wide single gri avla tor for started fioro Sam mild flew to sofia dropped f four combs bombs and ad p procla stations announcing the capture of a and d returned to this exploit was vas repeated by single aviators antom from flow time nine to time lime then on Sti september dember 15 1918 1916 it was waa repeated by tour four aviators aviator who left at 6 SO 20 and arrived over ever foffa at 8 40 they dropped their bombs many of which were view effect effective ill and ad returned they tied had crossed the brilan mountains at feet with out trouble and had bad accomplished what hat no an army could not haw have done the only limitation was that the airplanes airplane airas as we a too fe few I 1 in number to win a flecha decisive vi victory atory in every raid in the balkans only four or fie airplanes participated among the most remarkable long distance bombing expeditions were the raids on an an and ad munich by capt captain de beauchamp and lieutenant t do dan court on september Sept embt r 24 an and november 18 1018 1916 which alch have bee been repeated since by other aviators ahe I 1 be raid mid on accomplished on mo may y 27 1915 in which 18 28 airplanes ton took part also involved a flight of bout about miles it wa conducted B success fully and only one al alphia airplane phim we was forced to land mail and submit limit to capture an AD other classic waa mom the bombing rall raid on the mauser works at oberndorf Obern dort on a oc e tober 12 1910 1 in which a french fr h bomb amb ing equa equation dion and a still hb bombing or squadron participated pitted escorted lor b L la fayette fieg corps tighten fighters these are only duty a tew few of scores of such raids in all these theme raids the aviators future had bad to fly from ft ill ali to limle seven her houra continuous 1 ly under most flying conditions having to protect themselves st with loan insufficient talent arma A night raid aid to in urge large w well armed w would old be easy la in comparison and so safer r dark darkness facilitates airplane iral work at close range because the aviator alator ran can fl fly clo closer to in his him target little increased era sit d danger sigr of 0 can counter t r attacks but with largely augmented lanct d effectiveness surprise 1 Is made ad more mom P possible and half balf of the thick attack am may y be accaro accoro I 1 before enemy emony searchlights car re can locate lacem the raiders as A targets f tor the antiaircraft guns gons in a raid mid ot 1 2 QUO 00 or more mom 9 giant at airplanes 1 ril i lmos tho the task talk of the deford lem would d be rendered bueres angly beyond all proportion to tile the difficulty now new export aril in rs re polling raids of a few flyers the searchlights and ad antiaircraft guna ow themselves be made the object awde of attack and largely incapacitated the risk of ill overy in night at talk could old be reduced further al ae cording to experts expects by the use of el at icer I son on ali airplane bine motors at present the coarl roaring a whirr of the motor can be heard for far hundreds of 0 feet fact and almost the hum bum of a motor can be ba picked up by the powerful microphones with which all of the combatants are ara equipped and which magnify the slightest sound silencers are not used bemuse because of the weight they add to an aircraft hot but some experts expects contend that this weight la is more than counter counterbalanced balanced at present by tile the excess fuel which machines machine must carry to enable them to fly high and ad to maneuver to avoid detection as long as 6 pass possible le far progress calmba has been a md made I 1 in uthe the art ot of aiming and dropping bombs to the point where accuracy m can be resealed assured in night work according ac corill off to A statistics tati gathered by sir mr woodhouse the bombs now most tn in use ue at are bombs of 18 16 pounds weight 66 56 pounds pounds pound and ad pounds with iab a few of fi pounds or more says mr ill Wood woodhouse housse once bomb dio di bopping opping ping from heights can boniv be approximately I 1 ay accurate it ca can be made more accurate by the employment of efficient t bomb lights eights A few feet of the older aviators have learned by 10 long 9 practice to drop dp bombs accurately without sights but as a general rule on one can be in more accurate aret eith the sight eight the than vilt without hoort it one difficulty acm remains s in the use of airplanes by night and the faven inventive faculties s of the combatants combatant spurred on an by the exigencies of the war our are rapidly or overcoming at coming this the problem 1 Is to pon provide ide light tor for flying operations and ad for far marking aircraft in right flight I 1 in england gr in the early daya dabs of zeppelin raids the casualties r resulting alting to pilots who oho went want up at night to attack t k abrl uns lias morat ere very high because of f two mo things thing the insufficient A number and ad badly lighted landing places mail and the lach ark of 13 lighting devices a on the machines on one a occasion j 15 pilots pat went want beld up and ad 12 11 had bad A accidents ts on loading landing but these films call conditions ool h have be been changed A pilot who ulm finds himself in trouble left aloft and ad compelled to land ad he has only IF to fire fl bis bin I 1 arm to have bum at leat lct one a me aerodrome drome within gliding gilding distance brill stiv illuminated so that he may land ad 1 in I 1 fets la 1 addition to the verai pistol night flying era craft t are re equipped with ill a parachute flare which Is fired md electrically film the pit pilot of 1 me seat t 0 on release recall the flare falls a con DID of hundred handled feet fact julda and wi now downward do word castles a brilliant u light over the expanse of about a quarter of amile a mile holt hit a loading landing lights 1 aie I another d device deile employed these are fastened beneath the wings which aid in ID rolle reflecting ct the light downward wh when they hy have been ignited electrically electric atrie li similar to motor car 1 head lights light are am BITO also used and ad flying dwi mom now have navigation lights lightf ema comprising p alig a tall tail light and ad a light a on each cacti wing tip showing wing white head ahead breen on the am starboard rb 0 a rd and red on the pa port ti side do pa potter r f for arthus these lights la Is generated I 1 in a small an 1 dynamo driven by ady a miniature propel propeller with these devices to aid night g fly tan ing experts here look forward two to ch time 0 alien lic raids raid may my be ba made ad on t the ho gar germon fleet beat suit and milson submarine ma bas basea b by big squadrons of giant flod ad the rm opinion Is gaining strength that in such raids do lies hess the 1 I 1 on of the present 6 C boat beat prill pat 11 how hew york tort times ti soft billy my s a sport ln pro prophet h but a don t make much money B Q I 1 adly e ever r a winner jimmy proudly i my pa paa A p prophet b too he a a weather prophet and spots the winner every time ile he al was elm prophesies a bad summer loni don S sketch ketch |