Show ok alle 1 ilk ok t va government to be active force in development of aviation for commercial purposes by LLOYD ALLEN special staff correspondent co sale ou ifill bf 0 r nipper pe billon ONDON ONT H here I 1 ID england t the 1 aircraft t 1 makers 95 I rs are busy LRI B night highl pral and do day betting ring in ready for unit that great boom in I 1 ahe E u airplane business that mint la hi going g ing to wine come just ju t us as soon so as the pence treaty Is signed america it ft 1 Isgen g B cialli 11 agreed forms form th the a most moat fertile field tor far the develop iman ment of commercial a lotion c P pasach get ger traffic and freight carrying at least ono one british concern mar II andley page libed limited I 1 ed Is i willing to co I 1 operate ope cut with american manufacturers lord weir we i v the I 1 I 1 a british air minister mi allter expects the parliament to I 1 consider fit and n d paza pass a coda ad of rules the first L laws of the I 1 air that have been prepared ter by the leading me men J in the all ablation atlan 1 in dullary the next bat step will be the formation ot of an international alving convention by a committee that will probably be appointed by the peace car conference ference it will be appreciated lord weir he has just joel declared that until this convention Is signed and this thia domestic legislation becomes op operative ketive there gave no can bo be no flying at all either Intel Inter nation ally or in this country in the Parea meantime time there them arm are at least BOO torn men mid end women working bag wery day he hare in ID the airplane and ad airship factories and the british air mini try is expecting to remain la in business as part of the government with some rome I 1 changes eg perhaps but still bull as ma an active force to promote aviation in peace times th this Is only I 1 1 y part of the preparation I 1 that bat la b being g made here or for widespread passenger rn traffic effic and rapid transportation ilo n of real mall I 1 b by y I 1 me means of airplanes T the is a a user other P reparatory preparatory effort that 1 Is now under way Is the marking 0 ona it through europe and alin aila ot of baterna th onal alroma that will pro prove most meet procurable for the era em of aerial passenger traffic ank som to mine come Paris fl London eLondon line sure sum it seems a settled fettled fact that one me of the I 1 first routes that will see 1 air 11 trend traffic 1 Is the load london parts paris trip across the erg eng 11 Is ch channel muel now requiring at least maim 1 to reactor fourteen hours hear airplanes on military missions our dur log ing the past few months he have been taking pa passengers and dOl vering them at par paris I 1 in m two hours hour and ad there them Is no bessan to believe that civilian see ger t truffle nine win will not he be carried on the same q quick ick sc schedule hedle possible before t the h early a iv summer bummer months the tare fare w will be b a high it at first later when more am rom machines are enable available and competition becomes a factor tt it will be possible to fly t to paris at treble the cost cast of load land and no water transportation say any 35 or een Is lesi the first charges the fare now under consideration tor for the first aver flights will be approximately 75 15 a sum that will prole prohibitive to all except travelers a Is members ot if the british oil air ministry is are confident the american liberty liberta mo me tor ter win will take a prominent part in corn core merceal 1 bati here in england a lieutenant colonel at the rise air ministry said bald we are am naturally rally food fond of the R rolls ils royce rayne en an ic e alne we know nevertheless that the liberty motor 1 Is a fine piece of workmanship and that it ft co can be p produced due ed much more rapidly than the rul rolls 1 bay royce engine which be hag some in thine ing like two thousand separate parme parts W we 11 were 1 mighty might glad to get liberty for the bombing machines that wrought so much havoc behind tho the gennen lines ties because it was waa impossible to saw rolls bull buy royce eimm rapidly byr H y ry j 9 ja X Z 4 c 2 ro 8 a fa bif lip se elp Y C 70 7 0 Z r OW 71 A JJ W r IMF f I 1 VZ V fi gg N i yc y y g 3 I 1 zt a x c I 1 LL 21 L yc 0 enough and mainly because the lil motor did it ita work vork well especial ly IF the modified engines that came info being after the original liberty motors had been tested out cut it seems certain that the giant types of aircraft rod and dirigible balloons bal loona must be paulind utilised to perform per Corin the major work of peace t time 1 a it ying flying I 1 have just visited the works marks of handley page limited x where hem the lots larg car machines in ID great britain are am being pieced today at almost net n the same rate of speed as during wartime 1 9 here and in the air ministry I 1 heald tho the tremendously interesting story of M mr handley page who nh had early in the war a vision of the kind of airplane that wim was needed to finish the get ger maun mams and then become the servant of peace time mode neda giant machine Is ready the new I 1 tour fear engine handley ran ley page machine the kind of mft craft I 1 that hot flow flew tiofil it england to radio india can I 1 carry barry live five tons t of freight lo in addition to one thou then sand gallons of gasoline no N craft of this thin tp ape has yet bram been assembled in america the handley page machine that made a number ot of successful emrol flights in the united states during the war at ts is a no engine craft and had bad a earning rr pretty capacity of to two t tons this new machine which was to have estried haddad a load of thirty pound landia bombs had the w war ar lasted anted another other month win out comfortably accommodate sixty rm egme it great fuselage 1 la GO 00 feet from pi lots war scat to the tip of the tail and ad the two tan monstrous cl wings ge are one huu hum and twenty seen feet long g the a en glass mounted in pairs one behind the other old and a pair on elther cither side of no the drivers comin odious a seat t ea each de veto celop three hundred an and d fifty horse power foundeen foun teen hundred horse power 1 in all 11 them that Is a runway from tip to tall larger larger th alinn mhd the usuna scout plane old and in the enormous tall machine blue go guns bialles bial were to have been barri 1 installed led the wheels of 0 which there are four b beneath th the main body are am shoulder high to a tall tail mum man it if the atlantic Is crossed by airplane cur turing 1 na 1919 mr handley page believes ii as this is the me machine re achim that will burh the trick it no was in the walls smaller handley pago page IS the a in ano 0 engine machine that MIJ maj gen W G 11 balmond accompanied by a british airmen airman flew from cairo to in di dla the whole whilo journey from cairo to in karachi india aca occupying awing chitty six sir hours hear actual fi 9 time haudley while A h I 1 the handley page company he has so let far led in 11 the building of 11 inner giant airplanes other concerns concern are am known to be working on similar tapes bipes some or of which have hava actually been flown with 1 I 9 cheo hen there Is in Is a mystery plane an eight engine plane now building in one ot of the most reputable plants in eng bus load land that la Is expected to carry a greater load lend than the biggest handley page in the course 0 of a few weeks the new set eat mammoth will be flon fionn med and it if it wines comes up to expectations of the design ers em it will carry try a load ot of fifteen tons its wing ving spread Is one hundred and fifty feet rod and its speed will be ninety miles an hour hear when I 1 saw mr MI handley page at his factory office the other evening he emphasized the feet fact that commercial aviation far from being ft a dream for the remote future Is in now virtually a an accomplished feet fact sees see big future in america he believes that america will be the tha nation in which the commercial airplane R will come into general use wry very soon ile he looks look forward ford with great anticipation to a visit to the united st state a tes and perhaps while then there will in co operate perot with some of the leading OR ding manufacturers manufacture a mr handley page Is the english man 0 who be preached ph P h ed and pleaded tor for th the construction of giant bombing air planes places during those first years year of the war when the attention of every ever war we ties ring nation was sn directed toward the building ot of the lighter strictly cum corn bat bar machines ho he ls Is the father of the big plane idea id a 0 and ad always insisted that tho the wars end bud could be hastened by giving the rhine rhin tim t im and ad berlin itself ft a dose of at the same terror run hun airmen gave london beelin escape waa narrow it nod bad the war lasted another month the brit ish handley page VI planes would have reached had the get german capital instead wo we may expect aspect to see in america borne of the machine that were built to bomb berlin flying quit dur ing tha early ray elminer mouth months 1 a berle saries ot of com record rd breaking trips tr making addist nn an effort to capture the distance and ad weight 01 is records for the tha world we can rise also expect the handley page emit daft to fly in non stop atop trips trip fr from cities on an the eastern etc seaboard beard waste westward rd to mhd chi chicago and st louis carrying tons 0 f freight in the be mean meantime the handley page company has arranged to for the thad a of if a passenger and freight car arving air too line between paris and ad los lon don arton in r ranee the farman aviation company has just announced its late anteo thin of br branching inching out into the strictly it field it by the be time the penn peace trolly 1 la sign ed ad and ad an 11 international aviation art am agree acut has been reached wo we may ernect pact to see at least a score ones of the big term table companies advertising tor for pa acre |