The Detroit times., 1914-06-19
GERMANY WILL
LEAD WORLD In
AVIATION SOON
THAT Nation Is Making Rapid
Strides In Its Effort To
Guido The French
GOVERNMENT ASSISTING
EFFORTS OF SCIENTISTS
IAN Impetus Has Been Given To
Flying BY Appropriation of
30 Million

BERLIN, June 1.-THE completion
by Zeppelin OF his twenty-iifth Zen
pelin cruiser, the celebration OF the
one hundredth successful aerial voy.
age of the military Zeppelin LIS"
by officers and crew. the two hundred
and fiftietb trip into the clouds a few
days ago by the passenger Zeppelin
Victoria Louise" Of the Han. burg
American aerial line, together with
he capture OF record after record by
German aeroplane pilots and manu-
facturers is once more attracting the
worlds attention to Germany's rapid
strides In conquering the air.
Rule Germania in the Clouds
promises to become as traditional in
the history OF the air as Rule Britain
mia" on the seas. From the very
start well in the lead In number,
size and development OF it's cruisers
bf tho air--both military and pas.
senger-the gigantic Zeppelin and
smaller ACKNOWLEDGMENT is now
putdistancing France in the numuer
of aeroplanes and trained pilots and
IS taking away from the French their
bong held supremacy in flying.
That the United States, through the
Wright brothers. gave the world the
FIRST flying machine" that could fly.
takes such little interest in the de
Nelopment of aviation in comparison
with Europe, Is incomprehensible to
aviation experts on this side of the
atlantic. Three things have been
largely responsible for the strides
Germany Is making in the clouds
IThey are Government support and
Encouragement for military purposes,
the offer OF substantial prizes for the
manufacture OF the best aeroplane
motors and for records in flying, anu
the keen desire TO Guido the French
in everything.
An appropriation last year by the
OF about $50 100000 for a large aerial
feet OF Zeppelins and aeroplanes for
the army and navy, together with the
necessary flying fields. sheds and
aerial harbors. gave a tremendous inn
petus to the manufacturing OF motors
and aeroplanes. Until very recently
German aeroplanes were driven by
French motors, IL was believed thai
only the French could make these
| high class motors upon the depend
ability of which the safety of the flier
hangs. Today the German aeroplana
Is made in Germany throughout
THE records that Germany has torn
from France we're won with German
motors. II was the kaiser himself
|yho personally offered prize of 49,
|500 for the best German aeroplape
motor The new six-cylinder 100 and
50-horsepower Mercedes motor,
Through the new worlds records esq
|tablished by machines equipped win
1T has proven itself second TO none
A national flying fund OF Sl.000,000
raised by popular subscription, which
|offered large prizes for records by
German pilots in, German machines
was the impulse that drove Germany
|past France In one short year. To
day the Germans hold the altitude
record, won by Guide Linnekegel, who
also established new record for
reaching a great height with one pas
senger Bruno LANCER, a German
|captured the endurance record from
1.-THE French by remaining in the air
|l4 hours and 90 minutes and then es-
tablished still greater record Of is
hours For the first he was given
an honor prize Of $4,000 and for the
second feat $4,000. Karl Ingold, also
German. notched II up to l6 hours
and 90 minutes. Stoeffler, German,
covered 200 miles in long distance
flights. Robert Thelen, German, as
cended to 5000 feet with four pas
sengers in his machine and thereby
captured from the French another
record Lieut. Hesse few from Han
over to Berlin--1s5 miles-in one
hour.
Germany has now about $50 trained