The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-13
AMERICA PERFECTS GREAT
 ENGINE FOR WAR PLANES
New Motor Good Type Used n Foreign Fight ina Machines Breaks All American Altitude
 Records Baker Claims

pendence Day the perfected engine was sent from a. Western city ln special express car. The journey was made in 21 hours, and four young men guarded the engine en route to Washington and personally attended to its transfer from one railroad to another.
 With the need for speed as an in- centive, tools for building the first engine were made even before the drawings were finished, on the as- sumption that they would be correct. Parts of the first engine were turn ed out at 12 different factories, To- cated all the way from Connecticut to California. Thirty days after the as- sembling of the first engine prelinl- in formally accepting the engine as the best aircraft engine produced in any country.
 Both the flying and altitude tests of the new motor have been gratify- | ing. One test was conducted at Pike's Peak, where the United States aviation engine performed satisfac- | torily at this high altitude. One of I the engines. in an airplana, broke the American altitude record in 8 recent 1 flying test. The new engine amounts prac- tically to an international model. It
 embodies the best there Is in Ameri-
 can engineering, and the best fea- l lures of European models. so far as | it has been possible to adapt the lat
 terto American manufacturing meth l ods.
 l The two engineers most directly l connected with the production of the
 United States aviation engine had before them not only the blue prints
 and models of the most successful en- l zines the war has produced, but also every available American suggestion Men skilled in the invention of mo- ltors, both automobile and airplane
 advised these engineers; who were
 charged with, the duty of providing I rapidly and unerring1yf a motor which would embody every essentia. l for wartime use. Non -essentia complexities were consistently dis carded by these engineers. The re- suit was a composite design of maxi. I mum power, minimum weight, grea1 slspeed capability and adaptability te ! quick production.
 | 'The standardization of parts ma
 terially simplifies the problem of re- I pair and maintenance. Spare parts I will be promptly available at al times. Even the cylinders are design, ed separately. It is possible to builc the new engines in four models
 ranging from four to 12 cylinders and under the standardization now
 worked out an eight cylinder or 2 LIZ cylinder model can be made
 using the same standard cylinders
 pistons, valves, cam shafts. and so on
 This will make the question of re 1pairs back of the lines a compara Ftively simple matters. The parts 0 wrecked eight cylinder or twelve cyl finder engines will be interchangeabl land a new engine may be. assemble' from the parts of wrecked machines rThe standardization of the ney
 engine does not mean there will be n < change in it during the war. Ther
 will be continuous experimentation a
 new types and Improvements develo at the front and new ideas>ar bor 'st of the war emergency. If the en zine can be. improved it will be i'm proved, but as the motor stands toda lit is one of wonderful success an produced under dramatic circum lstances.
 : tThe production of the Unite
 States motor will be carried on al ! most entirely in a new and. expandin industrial field. ,3 With the completion of final test of the rnotorLtests which, satisfie
 and gratified both expert engineer and army officers-progress aIread has been made toward organizing ir dustry for the manufacture of tn
 new machines and deliveries will be gin within a comparatively shor