Arizona republican., 1917-08-05
THREE THOUSAND PLANES ORDERED
 BY GOVERNMENT

The first unit of 5000 training air planes on which thousands of Ameri- can aviators will be trained for battle service in Europe, has been ordered and will be belivered before January l, 1918. After long investigation of the airplane industry during which all the various makes of airplanes were inspected, a machine was adopt ed which is considered to be the best built in this country for training pur- poses.
 It is the Standard Model J'' pre- liminary training tractor, built by the Standard Aero corporation of New York and Plainfield, N. J., and was designed by Charles H. Day Machines of this type have been in use for some time, one of them, driven by Peter c. Millman, making the record time in the Mineola, L. l., to Philadel- phia Pa. flight last December. This flight was conducted by the signal corps aviation section, stationed at Mineola and the Standard machine made the pest showing of those talk ing part
 How the Model J" was chosen as the official training machine for the alrmen of the army, was told by Har- ry Bowers Mingle, president of the Standard Aero corporation
 Tt was simply a queAion of get ting the best machine for the pur- pose he said, and the experts went into the subject as exhaustively as possible before making their decision. Their first choice was the training machine of another manufacturer, which was to be equipped with the Hall-Scott motor. Later it was de- veloped that this machine would be at the best only an experiment and the experts visited our factories at Plain Held There a thorough examination was made of everything during which copious notes were taken of our meth ods, equipment and personal. Short ly after they announced that our ma chlne had been chosen, and this was Ioilowed by the order for at least 5000 Of them by the first of the year. This was impossible for any one plant at the present stage of .thN air craft industry and the experts were able to meet the situation through their intimate knowledge of the rel sources of the country By consulting thelr records it was found that there were several plants available for the manufacture of these machines The hign standard of work done in these pants and their equipment showed them to be able to meet the national demand As a result, the Dayton wright Aircraft company of Dayton, Ohlo, The Fisher Body corporation of Detroit, Mich, and Wright Martin Air craft corporation, the Pacific Aircraft company and two other companies Will all manufacture these machines The Standard Aero corporation will build 50 per cent of them All these companies will build the Standard Model J' and their work will be done under the supervision of the Standard | Aero corporation.
 | me question of motors was settled m much the same manner. The Hall
 scott motor will be used on all these tralnlng machines and the Hall Scott
 Englne company will be assisted in ! meeting the demand by the Marmon Motor company
 All the parts of the machines will
 pc standardized Every part will De interchangeable so that it will be DOS sible to keep the machines in renair | no matter what breakage may occur during the training. We do not ex- | pect there will be much breakage, be- cause the Model J is built to with
 stand rough usage. Many of the parts | TOT all the machines will be built | under our direct supervision In ad- | aition to our two factories in Plain
 llelo' we have two plaining mills. twc
 other factories one in Philadelphia
 ana the other in Gloucester, N. J. | ana Jewelry factory in Newark, N
 J., where the small metal parts for
 the machines will be made All these
 pants will work for all the companies
 building the Model y and the com panles will assemble the machines ant
 turn them over to the government ir
 completed condition.
 Every company building these air
 pianesls striving it's utmost to turl
 out the best work possible and it is | expected that these training machines
 Will graduate the best airmen-the conquering airmen of the war" | AS soon as these 5000 airplanes ar,
 dellvered, thousands of others will b,
 ordered, until there are enough fol