The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
0UR AIRCRAFT
 WAR SURPRISE 1T0 THE WORLD
Plans Made In Secret Plants to Turn Out
 Many Machines

Washihgton. July 19.-The Ameri- can programme for fighting from the air is to be the biggest, sensation and surprise of the world-war. All plans have been made in secret and all in dustries necessary for the production Of aircraft on an unprecedented scale modified,
 The budget of ss4o. 900, ,0Oo for the great aerial fleet needs only to pass the Senate and receive the signature of the President to launch the great war move of conquering the air and carrying the war to Germany.
 Credit for the state of prepared ness. in which the United States finds itself is due to the aircraft produc- ton hoard of the Council of National Defense. which has placed the indus tries of the country in a position where they Gan turn out fighting aircraft in such enormous quantities that. as stated by Senator Wadsworth of New York. -once they take the air. nothing within distance of fifty miles, meas urfng back from the German lines, will be safe against attack by the aero planes of the aIlies.''
 One of the. great achievements of the aircraft productions board is the perfection and standardization of. a motor.
 This wonderful feat. which experts of the British, French and Italian fly ing corps. predicted 1t would take at least six months to perform will4 be accomplished in :. one-sixth of that time The. first motor will be manu- factured within thirty days from the date on. which the work started.
 This motor will. be equal. if not the superior Of any employed by. the ma tons now at war. and has been SC standardized that Its parts can be made in hundreds {. of factories throughout the country and assembled atz different plants as rapidly as need ed and up, to any number required,
 All manner of Hn1otorso designed by friendly. nations were examined in de- ; tail and. compared with the American n1otors.f Reports were received from one shundred and twenty-five of the foremost technical .s experts e'ofi the country who are now in Europe,. and will remain to keep, the. aircraft pro- duction board advised s-by cable o1 every improvement of motor or type of plane. any innovation in fighting aircraft and of any defects that may ibe- developed by actual experience ir flights. manoeuvres or battles in the air. < fs
 Then the men foremost in every branch of the motor producing in duztry of the United States were sum. moned to Washington for a consulta. ton with Howard E. Coffin. head ol aiferaft production board; Genera. George o. Squter, chief signal officel of the United States Army; Rear Ad. I rnirai David ", Ta5lor. Of the Bureau of Const<uction of the Navy. and other members of the board.
 .. The result of this secret conference was the perfection, and standardiza. ton of the motor for the fighting. air craft with which this country hopes to bring speedy and victorious close to the great war. ana the mobilization of every industry capable of making any part Of the motor
 Similar tactics were pursued in the adoption of designs for the aircraft to be used by. the army and navy, and the mobilization of industries for thei1 manufacture. The greatest secrecy is being preserysd about both the motor and the type -of aircraft, and in order to preserve this secrecy debate will hf limited to the general terms of the $s4o,ooo,eoo appropriation bill in the Senate,
 The Aviation bill will not be con. sidered in the Senate this week The Food Control Bill has the right o1 way and will not be voted upon unti Saturday Hearings will then be con ducted by the Senate Military Affairs Committee on the aviation bill. It ii handled before the War Revenue bill Eaid the alr fleet measure will bs is brought in-