The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
Army .AeropIane
 Shows New Lines
Wright Planes Support Mono plane Body Driven by Renault Motor and
 Single Tractor

New York, May 9LThe War Depart ment uncovered for the first time the lines of the latest aeroplane, built to its specifications at the New Grand Central Palace yesterday. when the Of warlike and peaceful air craft, all in readiness for the opening of the International Aeronautic Exposition today.
 The governments interest in avia- tion is shown in the presence in the city of Rear Admiral Hugo Oster- haus, of the Atlantic fleet, with his staff. The Admiral will deliver an address opening the show at pri- vate view for the guests of the Aero Club of America this afternoon. The doors will not be open to the public, however, until o'clock this evening.
 Brigadier General James Allen, chief Chandler and Lieutenants Henry H. Arnold and Thomas Dew. Milling, of the army's aviation squad, will rep resent the military at the coming aero meet in New York on Army Day, May 13. Lieutenant John H. Towers. one Of the navy's aviators, is already here and Captain Washington I. Chambers Lieutenant T. G. Ellyson, officer avla- tor, will be here next week.
 Howard w. Gill, holder of the Amer jean endurance record. had the task of assembling the new military aero- plane, which was not quite cOmplet- ed last night. The aeroplane is the product of the Burgess & Curtis Con- designed by w. Startling Burgess tc lift the heavy weight of material re- Quired for military purposes, besides fuel and oil for four hours flight, and to support an observer besides the pilot while traveling at fortyfive miles or more an hour, or climbing two thousand feet or more in ten minutes.
 While built under the Wright pat. ents the machine is a wide departure from the standard type of Wright bi- plane. It is, in fact, combination of the Wright planes and warpine system of control with a graceful such as has been applied with, suc- cess to several European biplanes, mo- tably the Voisin Crench) and the Avro Rritish) A foreign motor, the Renault, has also been required by the government for the first time.
 Another wide point Of departure from the Wright model is in the use of a single tractor screw in place o1 twin propellers. The tractor and en- zine are directly in front of the pilot and in the center of the machine just ahead of the wings, as in the mono plane type. The tractor is more than nine feet in diameter. as against eight and a quarter feet in the Wright ma chine.
 Pilot and observer sit within the body, one behind the other. There are levers giving dual control. The body is nearly square in section and about twenty-four feet long. The Wright rudders, two vertical and one horizontal tandem, are preserved with slight change, the two vertical sur faces being divided by the body into two panels each.
 There is muffler on the sixty horse power motor. Beneath the en- zine on the outside of the body is a tiny dynamo about six by ten inches supplying the current for the army wireless apparatus within the ma chine, Three fuel tanks are also in- side the body, beneath the seats, and contain fifty-two gallons in all.
 The wings have a spread of forty two feet, little less than the Wright but there is on each a panel of about five feet in length that can be remov- ed, giving a reduced surface.
 The body is graceful in outline, ta- perfng toward the rudder and round ing upward at the front. It is a wooden frame, covered with aluminium cloth. g9