The sun., 1918-12-01

against travelling II punctured by a
shower of bullets. The cloth lifted at the
punctured edge, travelled and ripped,
That has all been remedied. When the
war ended we were using the entire
chemical output of eight factories
costing S7,OO0,OO0 20 make dope" OK
clusively for al-planes. We were using
100000 gallons OF dope" a month
Four or more coats so on each wing
More than eighty factories We're
making tools for airplanes only can
you conceive OF this industry stopping
suddenly because the war has ceased?
Air Programme speeded Up.
Or take another fact to show GUY
speeding up programme. When an
airplane was completed II was tested
by Government fiiers. II satisfactory
it was taken partly apart packed.
Grated and shipped across seas to tDc
war. Two hours from It's arrival n
De Haviland was uncrated and pu;
together, to the mounting of its fight
ing guns, It's compass, its anerod, is
speedometer and all the other para
phernalia going in the pilot box or
cockpit.
One big machine requires one freight
car for its main body or fuselage and
one nat car for each of its wings to
re transported to the flying field. These
are the Mluretanias and Leviathans
OF the air of which we were permitted
TO hear nothing because OF the war
muzzle; but now the muzzle is off,
When the war began we Thought
eighty miles an hour a breathless
pace. Then we went UP to loo miles
an hour. Then an engine trium-
phantly attained from 1871 10 lao an
hour-not counting the wind This
was the engine used on the most 81
the fast fighters on the front Lately
though it has not yet been announced
an engine called the Kirkham has
been achieved good for l6l miles an
hour, not counting the wind,
Had to Pay for Knowledge.
! 1t may be said that these fastest
| engines were best adapted for the
| fighters, yet they can be used for the
/ heavy bombers and reconnaissance
machines as we'll. It is, however. for
| the heavy type that the famous Lib
! erty engine is best adapted, and when
you consider that hombers and passen-
ger traffic planes must always be
| heavy types, that characteristic is
nothing against the Liberty. The mis-
I take was in trying 10 put a heavy en-
/ gine in a light flier.
| 1t shook struts and planes and wood
! layers to pieces like card boxes. Thai
was really the reason-and nothing
/ else-for the Cancelling OF Spad anC
/ Bristol orders with Liberty motors
/ The Spads and Bristols were al
right. So were the Liberty motors
hut the heavy engine didn't fit the
light type OF airplane-that was all
The Government had TO find tina
out and 10 pay for the finding out
just IS the great munition manu-
facturers had 10 find out about gauge!
accurate to the thousandth part OF al
inch when they first began manufac
turing ordnance and shells for thu
Allies in 1915. 1t is telling no secre
to say that in 1915 one OF the big
gest munition plants had to scraI
$1SOOO,OOO of shells in less than sil
months. SO we have had to scraI
a lot OF airplane experiments and Il
pay for tho sCrappinG; but that stag,
of development is past. We have on
dear!y bought knowledge. Now ",
are going ahead full stride.
TO go back to engines. When M
engine goes at the rate OF almost 15(
miles an hour It is good for 2h miles
minute. When 1t gets up TO 16,
miles an hour 1t is approaching tn,
three miles a minute class. ana design