The Nome daily nugget., 1918-03-08

The marvellous new Caproni Italian triplane Is the most powerful bombing and gun carrying aeroplane ever built
 Small types of this plane have been received in this country and are in use in American aviation camps. One of them, recently started from the avia- ton camp near Norfolk, Va, and carrying fifteen passengers, remained in the air six hours, a new record. The machine flew in the face of northeast storm off Hatteras. The ten passengers with Captain Riznati say that the machine did not rock as much as an automobile rounding curves of good country road The same plane latter made Q short flight carrying twenty-five passengers.
 The big Caproni triplane is more powerful than the Italian planes now in use in the United States. It has three 700 h. p. Fiat motors. Details are kept secret, but the three motors
  front which pull, and one in the real which pushes Each engine Is indcpen- dent of the other. If two stop, the plane can still keep in the air with the power of one motor.
 This machine carries 4,40Q pounds, which permits carrying fuel for six hours, Q crew of three people, three guns, and 2,750 pounds of bombs It has a speed of eighty miles an hour It climbs 3,250 feet in thirteen min utcs, $500 feet in twenty-seven min utes, 10000 feet altitude in fifty-seven minutes.
 A smaller 600-h. p. Caproni machine, with three Isotta- -Fraschini motors and three propellors, two tractors and one pusher, climbed to an altitude of a mile and quarter in 14 minutes and 35 seconds; 10000 feet in 35 minutes; 13,0O0 feet in 70 minutes.
 The new American Liberty Motor" the American engineers have devised, Secretary of War Baker says, is the most remarkable invention since the war began. Ex-President Roosevelt was a passenger at the Mlneola avla- ton recently In one of the tests and flew 100 miles an hour. The Liberty motor is expected to develop a speed in the air of 130 miles an hour.
 It's extraordinary feature is that il is made of many parts, like an automo- bile. It can be standardized, man. ufactured in vast quantities and put together by any good mechanic In the tests made by the War Depart ment parts were sent to seventeen different machine shops in Ohio Con- necticut, New York and New Jersey The parts were duplicated by machn- isth who did not know what they were making. When these new parts from many different machine shops were assembled, they made a comp'ct, motor. which ran perfectly.
 When such motor Is broken on thu war front, or develops flaws, the de fective part can be taken out and re- placed and the plane thus quickly TO paired.
 This will bring the endurance of th' aeroplane nearer to the standard O the automobile. Hitherto the average life of a war aeroplane, costing tl0.OO' to sl5,O00, has been about seventy two hours in tho air. The flight of ar aviator, whether bombing, artiller! spottlng, photographing an enemy trench or reconnoitering, is usuall! about two hours. An oeroplane. s' costly to build and 80 difficult to trans port. thus has had an average life Il war of thirty-six flights of two hour each.
 The Curtiss Company has also de yised q triplane air cruiser. Th' twin-motored Hardly-Page biplane an' the new three motored Gallaudet sea plane also give promise of great possI bilities for long distance aerial raids
 It is only 4eo to 800 miles from drea Britain to Keil, wilhelmshaveH an Uelisoland. It Is less that 300 milo from the war front in Flanders to tn chief German munitions depots at Els sen, where 10000 men are employed i munitlon works covering more tha 100 acrea--a large target for n2Vla