The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13

statistics Tor the nrst nNe montns VI
the present war how that the total
disablement. including killed. wounded
and missing. was less than 3 per cent:
six aviators were killed by the enemy.
five were killed accidentally. Ave
wounded and five missing. II has also
been estimated that as n scout one
aviator IL worth more than 1000 cav
alrymen.
American manufacturers have re-
peatedly been urged to Increase their
output of standard a~efonautical
motors by representatives of Euro
pean Governments Henry Wood
house. editor of FIUin9. announced re.
Gently that i've orders for l.oOo aero
nautical motors each were going beg
ging IN this country because no con-
Germ was in a position to guarantee
reasonably prompt delivery. The con-
tracte were offered 10y a foreign Gov
eminent. The best delivery obtainable
was January I. 1916.
An allied industry to the manufac-
turc Of acroplanes. that of making
aeroplan ne parts. also has had a dis
tinct boom since the war began. New
concerns have started all over the
country to supply. manufacturers
with parts they are not equipped 20
build for themselves. The Aviato
Manufacturing Company, Inc. is n
Of these new parts building concerns.
Its office is at 1926 Broadway, New
York. and it's factory NJ Hartford.
Conn. The Aviato company s~pecializes
in lightweight aeronautical radiators
and Is turning out $50 Of them q
month.
A very reasonable estimate made by
Henry Woodhouse. editor OF Flying.
| places the number Of aeroplane COM
| panies now in the United states AT
! forty. OF this number at least ten
concerns are actively engaged in turn
ing out machines on order. The
others are demonstrating new types.
II Is also estimated that the United
| States in all its factories Is building
at least ten aeroplanes a day. and
that by far the largest percentage or
these are shipped to Europe for use In
the
The beginning Of the war found
many concerns without facilities to
build aeroplanes in any great number
and without money To spend getting
orders. This is attributed in the main
to the lack of support given the aero
plane industry by the United States
Government.
For a case in point me man now
demonstrating at the Hampstead avia-
ton field has spent SOS 900 in de-
veloping his machine. During the
last five years he has built several
machines-standard machines. ma
chimes that will fly and do good work
and during all this time he has
never been encouraged by a single
order. One or two Government orders
and the Government would have got
its moneys worth-would have he,ped
patch over the rough places of these
five years. His case is hut typical.
This In the condition ~ the United
States navy's flying corps: two ma
chimes in actual condition 70 fiv and
hat a dozen more ont of commission
with only five now being huiit. Th
United States army has Jared better.
The army flying corps has a dozen
a~eroplanes. several If them % the now
tractor hiplane type that the allied
nations are demanding for their fiers.
There is one thing that the United
States has to thank the European war
for. and that is the development Of
American a,roplano factories. II the
United States should 80 TO war Ameri-
can concerns are now in a position ~
, deliver ten aeroplan"s n day to our
army and navy. This rate Of output
could he more han doubled in two
months.
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States would need every machine its
factories could urn out. but the ex-
perts also add thai IL is not n be ey
!. pected that the present picayune poi
icy of the I'nstcd States in regard n
a~eronau,ics will he altered unless
actual warfare forces the ISSUE.
To get together n nucleus OF a
United States aeronautical reserve and
to demonstrate to America the supe-
), riority and practical usefulness nj
, American made ~aeroplanes he Aero
Club Of America Is taking active steps
to promote a national %aeroplane com
! petition to he he'd for ninety days TIL.
I summer In all parts Of the United
States and % raise a fund for an aero,
nautical reserve squadron by popula,
subscription.
In Frame and Germany IN 1al2-i:
popular subscriptions to form an aero
nautical reserve Melted s1.222,aSa an,
I S.S0S,626 respectively. Several thou
! sand dollars has already been giver
. 10 the fund hcirr raised by the Aer,
. Club here, and Glenn n Curtis ha'
{ given a $1,000 nving boat fun,
p equipped and has agreed % train ~
aviator from the New York State Ma
itional Guard 10 operate II.