The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
U. 5. PROJECTING ENORMOUS FLEET
 |OF AEROPLANES
2,OOO a Month Included In Expanded Program of
 Aircraft Board.

Washington, June 21-The United States Government is making plans to turn out engines for battle planes at the rate of Z, 1000 a month, and will be prepared to deliver the first consign- ment by November, according to in- formation obtained yesterday from re- presentatives of the Aircraft Produc- ton Board of which Howard Coffine is chairman.
 Tn the meantime training planes will
 be turned out in great numbers to
 supply the camps in Europe and the; United States. Within a comparative ly short time, if Congress grants the
 proposed appropriation of, $500, 0,000.-
 000,t it is hoped to relieve the British
 and French factories from all work
 except the making of the highly spe- cfalized fast fliers, which are capable of 140 miles an hour or more. Fac tories in this country, eventually will also turn out that type of machine. ! The heavy battle planes which Arn- erican manufacturers now propose to produce will be capable of a speed of from 110 to 120 miles an hour and will be used for bombing and other 1 fighting within a short distance of the lines of the allied armies
 The plans were discussed in detail today at conferences between MT. Cof-
 fin and General George o. Squier, who | is in charge of the army aviation program. They are urging Congress
 Ito grant the big appropriation and | they have the support of the Presi- dent. After a careful investigation of l the industrial situation in this coun- | try they have come to the conclusion that the output of America will be l limited only by the amount of money l which is placed in the hands of the | men who are pushing airplane pro- gram. Manufacturers of automobile l engines are ready to respond and turn their plants over to the government without protest. In fact, at this time Il some of the plants are at work de veloping their manufacturing facilt. ties so that they may be devoted te the construction of afrplane engines. | None of the officials was willing tc | discuss the cable dispatch from Paris expressing doubt that America would
 be able to turn out aeroplanes and aviators on the large scale contem' plated. It is known that the Ameri
 can aviation experts are anxious tt have French f1iers come here to aid il
 the training of student aviators. The.
 are supremely confident, on the oth'
 CT hand, in the ability of the man
 hood of the United States to meet tht
 emergency. The promises whicf | they have received from big manu facturers of automobile engines hav' gone far to assure them about tn,
 countrys ability to turn out the ma
 chimes. It may be that under thu present plans few complete aero planes will be sent to Europe, as sucl shipments would require much greate tonnage than 1t would take to sent the separate parts.
 The opinion has been expressed b, American aviation experts that tn battle plane program of 2,0o0 l month can be increased to 5000 o l4,OO0 within a reasonably short tim I | if conditions in Europe necessitate il The. impression that the United States I with all of it's great resources wa prepared only to build training lane | was declared to be erroneous. s A statement issued yesterday by tn \ Aircraft Production Board read:
 : .'The American automobile indus o try is the most highly organized an o the most extensive ot it's kind in tn e world, and the same system of stand
 ardized parts and quantity productio
 of machines which has enabled tn ', United States t2 have three and . rsalf millions of automobiles on tn i. road where all other nations togethe ,, have less than a million will be turr : ed 10 the making of aircraft. F'urthe
 than this, other manufacturing plant l. can be used for turning out parts i II quantity. Portions of cash registe . plants and typewriter factories ca : easily be turned to the manufactur
 of small steel parts. The cylinder
 of the motors can be forged and boi IS ed out in quantity by the munitior e plants now making shells, but th o relative number needed will not 1T ., terfere with the production of shell
 "The whole answer to the proi
 lem before us is standardizatiol
 American development of the airplar