The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-16
AIRMDNi.HOPE
|. TO.WRECK THE
KRUPP works
Dream 81 the Allied Aviators is
( to Destroy the City Of
tg { Essen.

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Merle Crowell in the current num-
Der OF the American Magazine quotes
man high among aeronautical au-
Ithorities" as declaring that the ex-
I.pected air raid on Essen, home OF the
great Krupp works, told of the other
day by George q. Robinson Of the
Curtiss Aeroplane Company on his re-
turn from England, Is almost an open
secret among those who know about
the aircraft orders with which tho
Allies are deluglng America"
Some morning. the quotation con-
tinues, "the world will wake up and
Essen will be only a memory. Every
British and French aviator is dream
ing of 1t; Germany senses 1t and Is
preparing as best 1t can to meet 1t.
Yet in the last year aerial attack has
SO far outstripped any possible de-
tense against It that | don't see what
can prevent the raid from going
through. The Allies are girding them
selves to see that It will 60 through.
Blnck Target In the Snow.
(. ut should be midwinter before the
tIAllies are ready. The aircraft will be
be modified at a point conveniently
near the German lines. | have q
pretty good idea where, but prefer
not to say. 1t is likely that the start
will be made on some dark night at
about / a.. IN. The distance will be
less than $50 miles and the planes
can make ninety miles an hour II nee
essary. Even in tho darkness the
black heart Of Essen will stand out
from the snowy country round about
like charcoal on q hearth OF yellow
tile. / don't think the night will both
err the aviators much. Most Of them
know the route to Essen as well as
blindfolded bicycle knows the an
giles Of the stage on which he is per-
forming.
what of the Germans is something
we don't know very much about
yet. OF course, they are making elab-
crate preparations. Essen is prob
ably crested with searchlight and
anti-aircraft guns, and many aero
planes must be modified there. Per-
haps there will be battle in the air
more spectacular than anything mil
itary history has ever known"
Dreadnought OF the Air.
The American Magazine says that
the Canada type of aeroplane is being
turned out for the Allies by the Cur
tiss factories at the rate Of five a day.
1.-THE general set Of the planes" 1t
continues, resembles that Of the orig
inal America. The America is fly
Ing boat; the Canada looks like an
armored touring car with enormous
wings-provided one can imagine a
touring car with body Of sixteen feet
long, capable of carrying two men,
two guns and a ton Of explosives. The
upper wing plane runs along eighty
five feet, eleven feet more than the
Americas. Set midway Of the lower
plano (which is a little shorter) and
hltched tightly to uprights is the cab
in. Picking out from it, fore and aft,
are Maxim or Lewis aeroplane guns
which can fire 500 shots minute. The
guns have full arc of fire. On each
side Of the cabin, where fuselages run
back to the rudder, is set 100 horse
power motor.
1.-THE wings are constructed OF Sc
lected woods and steel wire cunning
ly wrought together; in some places
they are foot thick. The ribs are
three ply gumwood within and two
thicknesses of birch without, all SOL
Idly glued together and reinforced
with the planes, like those OF all the
new brass tacks. When they are fin
ished war birds, can absorb shot and
shell with immunity.
Soon to Be Greater.
"By virtue Of the Sperry stabilizer,
which has contributed more to the
stability Of aeroplanes than any other
invention, the pilot IL he wishes may
disregard the controls and devote his
time to the gentle art OF dorpping
bombs. The stabilizer, with its little
horoscopes rotating at 10000 revolu-
tions a minute, looks after things dur
inc the bombardments. A bomb drop
ming device is hitched to the stabilizer
and by an intricate mechanical de-
vice the speed Of the machine, the
wind drift and the exact angle Of tho
plane from the horizontal are deter
mined with exactness.
"The Canada type will soon be sur
PASSED in It's own shops. Already
draughtsmen have prepared blue
prints for 'super-Canada, which
will have a speed of 12O miles an hour,
a wing spread OF 1875 feet, and an en-
CINE equipment Of four 100 horsepower
motors. Its carrying capacity and
armament will greatly exceed those