The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-19
D. . ..
Outline Of Campaign Proposed
BY the Aircraft Board Of Ma
tional Defense Council Stag
gering In It's Tremendous Scope
UNITED STATES WILL TAKE
OVER ALL TRAINING WORK
Part Of Our Task Will Be To
Supply the Training Machines
While Our AIies Are Making the
Battle and Pursuit AeropIanes
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w ASHINGT0N, June is -
Plans for still further in
creasing the tremendous SUPERB
GRITTY Of the Entente's flying corps
over that Of the enemy, and CIV
ing Allied armies in the field full
control Of the air have been com
pleted BY the air craft board d
the National Defense Council
which has been in session here
for weeks.
While much Of the details Of the
plan Is still being held a military
secret, enough has been allowed
to become public property to out.
line the scheme proposed In al
Its most vital features from the
standpoint Of the civilian. The
plan contemplates giving the A.
lied air squadr0ns such a superi.
GRITTY Of men and machines thai
they will completely crush all
German opposition and be abk
to patrol the air for at least fift
miles in the rear Of the Teutonit
armies, making II Impossible for
the German generals to execute
a surprise attack upon the Ell
tente armies, and also rendering
II possible for the Entente to holf
the German forces blind re-
garding our own doings.
The first step in the develop.
ment Of this plan, II was said las
night, will be the creation Of great
training bases behind the lines il
each Of the Allied countries. Here
the American aviator to be viii
be trained In his work by the fly-
ing men Of the Entente, who have
learned through three years Of
actual war conditions, He vii
be first taught the simplesart d
flying and later, should he shoH
ability will receive instruction II
the many tricks that are used ir
aerial battles. a.-,rA.aE.
The United States will take over the
task Of supplying the training machines
while the work of turning out the great
battle planes and the swift flying hawks
OF the air, the pursuit planes, Ike the
little Neuports the French have made &c
famous, will be left in the hands Of the
British and French manufacturers. The
chief reason for this step, IL was said
here last night, is that the United States
is well prepared to build the training
machines, having been engaged Iii sup
plying the Entente with these maehines
since the war broke out, but that we
have no plants that are capable Of being
started At once TO the work of making
the swifter battle and pursuit planes
Such policy, il was pointed out last
night, will result in enormous expansion
In the aerial forces of the Entente
which will give US the full control Of
the air 80 necessary in modern warfare.
The plan indeed eontemplates driving
the Germans out Of the air altogether
and the keeping of constant air patrol
for fifty miles back of their lines. b y
That IL will cost enormously is freely
admitted. The original appropriation
for the aerial service was seventy five
million dollars, but If the plan as pro
POSED by the aircraft board is adopted
by congress, it will mean the expendi.
ture of sixty million dollars immedi.
ately and the eventual spending Of a
billion on this one item.
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