The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-26
Defense Council Reports on
Program for 10000 Fliers
and $4,000 Planes
LIBERTY MOTOR is
REGARDED AS MODEL
Greatest Automobile Factories Supplied
with Machinery for Turning Them
Out - All of the Parts Are Inter
changeable.
changeable.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 26.-The Amer
lean military air program calling for
10000 aviators and $4,000 planes is
declared by officials Of the Council Of
national defense to be making very
satisfactory progress.
Ayiators are being trained in flying
in this country, Egypt, Canada, Eng
land, and France, and General Persh-
ing. through the commissioning Of the
American members of the famous La
faycttc csquadrille Of the French army
now has q number Of famous aces, all
Americans. who have brought down
many German planes while serving for
army, and who constitute the nucleus
Of The great force Of American avia-
tors this nation is planning to put
on the fighting front as soon as posi-
/ bic.
4 statement summarizing the progress
made with the airplane program 20
date was issued today by the Council
of National Defense.
! Last spring. SAYS the statement,
"the aviation corps had less than -OO
\ airplanes Of all degrees of service abil-
( itv. Now fleet of 10000 planes is be
/ ing built. When war begun there were
seventy five aviators. \ force of
| 10000 aviators is being trained. The
| total personnel of the old flying corps,
! ground workers as well rs flyers, was
/ 1000. The total principal Of the new
living corps IS 100000.
Before any real fighting plans
could be turned out a new American
/ industry had to be created. This is
/ the great task that has been quietly
accomplished in the last five months
| When the aircraft production board
/ started its work only two companies
( manufacturing airplanes were in opera
tion in America, and the machine,
they had been making for the allies
were of type 5crviceable only fol
practice 1hehtsrEF
"The first move Of the board was
to stop negotiations for the use OF
existing patents and to set men al
work designing 4 new airplane engine
which should comprise as many Of tn,
good points of the different patents 4.
these men cared TO use. In a week
twenty experts working together hat
evolved the Liberty motor, wnic!
Secretary Baker has called the great
cst achievement Of the war so far.
FThe Liberty motor is model %
standardization. II is built with fou
cylinders, or with eight, or will
twelve. and the same parts are inter
changcahlc for all three Of the differ
cut sizes The greatest AUTOMOBILE
factories in the world have been pro
: yidcd with the machinery necessar
for turning ont these motors-thc fac
, tories that have Supplied the Unite
, states with it, 100000 automobile
8 whcn all tho rest Of the world get
: along with only 100000.
- ut has been necessary all alon
: not to interfere with the supply o
. raw materials, particularly spruce, an
S of certain completed airplane par:'
TO the flying forces of the Allies.
: I'm return for these materials til
. Allies are giving us the rich benefit Q
1 their experience. For months youn
Americans have been in training fc
;. our air corps on the flying fields G
England and France. On 4 doze
!. and more of new flying fields in Am2
lea veteran fliers from the wester
|. front are helping in the preliminai
/ training of our new aviators