| Show A I 1 lai aiesi I 1 8 f f m ri S JL H 1 I j s 4 v 41 KI intelligent ab able bodied DI man who be be has I 1 lived ived a nor ann A mal and twentieth century life fe can figure r out for bearn if certain ortall things thing about in an air plane plana even en though gb he has Wc n never ever ft flown own or h baa even eve ex 17 one the man who hag ban placed bull bell it flown a kite ridden adds a bicycle sell sail ed ad I a bot boat and ad driven an automobile talons known enough to pass judgment oo 00 airplane prepositions like these vibration means strain and went wear find and tear nor projections mean malit resistance toce to the air increased vibration and reduced speed any acy part not I a lifting sour face roeana means decrease dec reaha to ID efficiency the a Il lighter lible the airplane a III the greater the speed with mith the same mine engine power the greater the speed the line greater the file airplane a all adamd efficiency elency so the average man will glie really ready assent to the proposition that moo me oplaine like the stout bawl entwine ug as pic bared 18 a distinct advance on the f fa ml liar biplane the germans have base been making ex re efficient airplanes along these th con new lines did they get the idea from america 1 V ell there has bell been a story atory that ecat certain VIA plans were stolen 1 during the war or anway the he american stout st t flaming batwing we was secretly 1 IB process of con construction triesta during the war the following ya liamin 9 information I 1 concern cogeer ing IDE the me stout batot balg ing 1 la tent at out at by the people interested 1 in th the machine making at allowance A ounce for pardonable so en th tam avia fasin it see seems likely that it t promises to revolutionize aeronaut lecon s it tic to william B stout an A american america ind engineer formerly a member of the aircraft tone force in wash ington belongs the honor of producing nn all air machine wholly new 1 in 1 its conception that promise placid to revolution ize im aeronautics by a fitting olava denee deals mr mir stout was waa materially assist annat ed in developing hin bis remarkable an ma chine by orville wright TIA the as new echla machine we was one a of the secrets of the war we since ties perfected it is about to be flown from detroit to new ew york id aad I 1 its coming sight flight will be the fir first public pit bill demonstration of a the new I 1 idea aich which seems devillen devilled de to change the design end ad mant mastrati construction rati of the its heavier thou than air machines with all the recent disclosures of the giant german which that country hit hag dei developed eloped largely since the armistice it Is gratifying to know that the type orith rated in AM amur 11 lea and ad was A first constructed at t D dav ton by william B stout ad under ads whose supervision the mastery ship was as built the aar or department has baa just re leafed ad of the german corom developments of internally trussed wings wings made its with all the braces blame and strength inside build to BO that nil 11 the aarts of the wings lifted these theae ships some of them with wings four feet thick hick were war A considered by the find ana our or allies the last word la ja plane rim con t tl details of the stout bowleg batwing hoor however an abow that work was waa in progress on this plane early 1 n the war aorl period and it I 1 Is even possible that photographs grab b A that from a I 1 to tain portfolio in transit sort earla I 1 n the war may y have he got into DD enemy Y head hands I 1 c Ns na e 0 as a best baste of their later development the stout start monoplane plon is nothing thi A but a 2 giant wing with all 11 the machinery trussing of et cetera in the wing whig the engines are set into the leading edge the th A passengers hum are between ben so an the surfaces of if the wing sun akin and or ev cry part that 1 Is exposed to the air Is do designed 1 I all to lift the central part pact of the wing Is thick and abd of long chord the tips thin and an slow in tact the hip follows iran more closely the butterfly than tie the bird in its plan view dow and gives more surface within 1 smaller I dimensions than biag be hitherto hem been thought possible for this reason and on account of the pe peculiar e utter drassin trussing g inside all formed of at many plied venters veneers t the he plane Is much lighter almost it half t the 1 met weight ah I 1 in fact of previous sh of the worm same wing jag ment area T the 0 large tg e ab ship p waa a s first flown at t biff iff annl D dayton y t i in t the be spring p 1 g of f 1918 and d machine was used for to research A tin and ad develop development ent work town toward it later later mod mail els 1 at present beveral 1 commercial archd types of ships A are to being designed ad or are am on the way may and some c enormous mae planes intended for military use the ick and aiala wing 1 la no not only trained framed up entirely of veneer an cor but in the surface as well sell Is formed of this or ex tr triv tremelt iv tough and waterproof mate ate tin rial th the veneer case on tiie the surface amima Is in three ply and only one twentieth of an inch thick the th wings tug or are strong enough hom however so that a one I 1 can walk n nil 11 them as I a sidewalk though this ship had square feet of wing 40 square fret feet more than our bet best army twos two seater cater fighter it v etched Is less the than half as an much 1550 1 pounds in feet fact a as against 3 for the arm machine it wait waa built at the same time with twice the strength feet factor r each wing I 1 la supported on an either side aide by at nine spars over any t two of which are am six strong alf enough to support the ship 1 should the I whom others be im shot at anav the longest largest spars spara with a act of 20 2 feet weighed but seven eve and ad a half aou f pounds and supported in test over a ton per pair w without br breakage I 1 abage sixty ourn men can a be supported on AD each win wing of this thin m machine ilam without unduly stress ing A the A I 1 pints a aud and th there TO is n no a one A place on the ll 11 ship hip that can an break and moss cause accident w without there being being many others equally as at strong g to take it ita place th the A trpe la Is fitted to nour mauv use with W ith thick wings it ran can carry it a weight eight equal ala 1 1 lo 10 it its own at express speeds speedo with wings thinned down domb tor for speed it has tested in the 0 ind tunnel to a belble speed of roller miles per hour wind tunnel testa test on the roost most re cent at ship hip show th the plan to have a colling cel ling of 0 3 felt feet with a ht little I 1 Is horsepower motor ond ad a ell climb aid at of f a mil mile a in two and ad a half minutes minute A AM speed t d of miles 11 A an h hour our 1 Is p possible ible aft with h the same engine that 1 in other slilla hip but 70 T the I 1 radiators ill ito this p pull in into the a jag ings when aum ium cold altitudes ads are am reached and ad the be lical beat from them Is utilized millard to warm rm the passengers and the pilot in the large tape pe even the lending gear la IS pulled into the wing abelo hen the ship is oft off the ground in griea creasing ing its ita speed ten miles calls a an hour A new ship of this tape pe head being laid I 1 down has a spread of feet a wing depth of 7 feet at the center and has within will it a comp compartment nt for or mull mall bombs or passengers as the line ea caw may b be this thia cable cabin being SO 30 feet long 6 feet id ghigli and 8 feet wide this ship far or military wort work can carry a too ton and a halt half of bombs bomb I 1 can fly is ten hours bours at a wood speed of miles an hour hoar drop I 1 its load and come came skipping home at miles tin nn hour horr to land at a slow tate rate of 45 in a amell field it if necessary recent german ships of the inter nally 1 IT trussed wing tape are carr carrying 2 20 0 pain passengers Ingers at ill miles allea an hour boar th the stout hip promise s to double the performance of the liest best german planes piano much credit 1 la due to the aircraft board for far starting the world on thle this ps leple before the war mr me stout start was chief engineer of the air r craft civill di division vIll for a prominent motor 0 r finor car company and it Is well known as an engineer in automotive laboratories in A detroit where hem the entire experimental work rork is being handled over one thousand nil men were a en I 1 in disk making the indifferent different par parts of this machine A A and ad it WIB so go skill kill fully handled that no one roan man outside outride of the inventor linew knew where the dif lerent parts were to be used it was guarded by the ati government t as an a state secret |
