The Mena weekly star., 1917-08-16
RK BEGINS ON
 VAST AIR FLEET
T~;nlane. with Speed of 100 an Hour, to Be Used as ,aeI-To Profit by Allies
 Experience.

r,,,ep by three 700-horse power
 eanable of carrying q mili- .zzs Lad of more than four tons, S,- s.ss .ounds. and with a maximum
 of 100 miles an hour !!
 Raw of such great battleshiAs or surrounded and protected by ..a rim of even swifter and much '.s.,ler battle planes
 hot the biggest and most impoT- ....., certainly the most spectacular of .E .h e present war plans of the Unit eI tes are built around such a yis- '.s Writes Henry M. Hyde in the Chi ,szo Tribune.
 8',tb the signing by President Will K. of the bill appropriating $64O,- sz.AoO for building, equipping, and ,...:.Aine an enormous navy of the air, .I., plans took a big step toward rss;izati0n.
 1nge triplanes of the power, speed. .1; weight carrying capacity described '.=x. been built and now are being 'szs.,d in Italy. Triplanes of the same ,,..s considerably smaller than the uz.s giants but still of great size and Avn. now are in actual use in Italy.
 he Italian triplane, driven by 900 sasse power Caproni engines, for in- ..*1ee. will make military load of 1sre than three tons to a height of ..-}h et In OK rnfnnfaS
 Defeat of U-Boats Seen.
 he fact that these great machines ..<4 s40OOO or more each will not pre- 4<s their being built In large numbers Is3fhe United States, once the neces- s|r figs. dies, and special tools are 2pleted from the models furnished E the Italian government.
 $sany experts see in the creation of < Rect of such big airships, together 4i.h five or six times as many small
 Biting planes for their protection. the
 Ay certain method of defeating the Ssbmarine peril, of destroying munI- I|1n plants and military and naval ||ses, and of swiftly driving the Ger |dzn army back behind the Rhine.
 'The program for which this vast Izproprlation has just been made,'
 )d Howard E. Cofiin, chairman of the
 eraft production board. must be 3Fried out with a promptness equal |5 that of congress in passing the bill. Nhatever crimes may later be laid at #r doors, that of slowness in accom- #shment must not be one of them. #e are ready to go ahead at once" q Airplane Samples Coming. &"Within two weeks" went on Mr. gbfin, samples of many airpIanes 1kw used by our allies on the Euro Man battle fronts will be on exhibs- 1pu In the temporary building erect a for the purpose at the rear of the Smithsonian institution. There they bay be examined and studied by the of the United States. Tn the matter of aircraft, as in oth- A military matters, we have ceased D think nationally. Every step will )e taken after conference and in full poperatlon with our allies
 We are in daily conference with tpresentatives of the British. French, lnd Italian flying corps here in Wash Igton and decision practically has 'een reached as to the exact part to 'e played by each of the allies in win hng the war in the air.
 Sour factories. of course. will have Fe advantage of copying the latest |ad best types of airplane engines l~olred in France Italy and Eng Gnd. Nor have our own inventors |nd Designers been idle during the past iig years. There now are engines of . ee.y American design and inven- ica which weigh only two pounds to he horse powef
 Three Training FielHs Ready
 Whatever may he the difficulty Os An'ng out Immediately In tue United stcs the swift and delicute fighting 'fhts of .he latest type, we already fe mamfaeDring in large numbers IFS Nhich ire fitted for the traia- ag Of utr pilots and observers.
 fhree of the 24 big aviation fields .hicil we hall build for training our eW air al1:ly already are completed. Ra inc work of instruction is under gay.
 ihe public, generally, flas siilasi lea of the immensity of these great lnining camps for blrdmen. Camp fhhnr Wright, for instance, located ear Dayton, O., home of the immortal aNent0r of the heavier-than-air flying iaehhne, covers tract of land meas ring two miles by four miles. Its engars stretch unbroken for dis- ance of two miles. These buildings 'ii house IA bipIanes for the use of ne embryo aviators. The United 'tates will be the great training camp UT avlators for all the allied armies"
 one may get faint idea of the al- lose incredible expansion which Is aoposed in the air branch of the mfl- lary and naval arm of the United ''''es forces by considering that while V" mere are only few more than ny commissioned officers in the avl- sion section of the signal corps of ae army, 1t is proposed to increase lO q total of 10000 officers and
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