Show LEARNING FROM WAR american aircraft makers and do de si signers ners are learning many a lesson i from rom this war the planes sent to england have not been satisfactory that is they have no not t been comparable in effectiveness to the first class british and german ships A ai orie one british authority said the am make first class flying machines but third class fighting machines reason according to ahr english the american made plane have been inadequately armoree arid and under gunned and have had too many complicated controls tr distract the attention iop of nervous pilots confronted with the enemy these defects according to ott i claas are being corrected in the new ships there will be fewer blind sports more armor more guns and fewer gadgets also performance will be materially stepped up somo some of the american planes which have ocen publicized as mile a an n hour performers have under war loads ind war conditions done little better thin than it is taking takina time to ron kron the bugs out of 0 our newer type engines angine the british are now replacing acing their famous spitfire pursuit ships sith a new type which is supposed to exceed miles under full oad load is extremely maneuverable md and has an fast 1 rate of climb rumors say that the germans also have some new types of if which groat great achievements are expected german germa n problem is gas line iline german planes downed in england were found to carry gas of 50 30 octane content that is too poor a fuel to even turn over a modern knie american rican engine of the 1000 horse ower lower class industrial news review |