Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-19
LIBERTY MOTORS
DEFECTS CURED;
ON WAY To ALLIES
BRITISH EXPERT MAKES RE.
QUEST FOR THOUSANDS, AND
FRENCH, BEFORE SCEPTICAL,
BEGGED THEY BE SENT SOON.

WASHlNGTON, May lS.-Libefty
motors MAY first reach the fighting
lines in France driving French and
British scouts. Urgent requests from
the Allied governments for early de
livery of the engines have been re-
ceived and are being met.
Shipments have already been made
Great Britain, and there are intims-
tons that General Pershing approved
diverting additional motors to meet
French and British requirements, even
if further delay to production of Am
erican scouts results.
The British government. it is said
after careful investigation of the en-
CINE by a special expert, sent over
for that purpose, has been pressing
steadily for some thousands of motors
to be delivered for use in British ma
chimes. The French experts, at first
somewhat doubtful of the Liberty, are
now asking for and will receive en-
gines by July 1.
The difficulties with overheating al
legged in a letter from Louis Cammen
read in the Senate to make the Liberty
motor useless are declared authora-
lively to have been overcome. Radia-
tor trouble was encountered, particu
larly when machines which had been
operated successfully in northern lati-
tude were taken south for tests.
These have been corrected, it is
stated, and the lubricating system Of
the engine improved to the point VIII
no further trouble on that score is
anticipated.
To support their view that the day
of delays in aircraft production /;
over, officials point to the fact that la 1t
month saw Liberty motors delivered in
hundreds, and the present indications
that the output will be more than
doubled this month and steadily in
creased thereafter The output last
month, so far as known here, was
greater that that of any foreign motor
with the possible exception of one 1870
horse power type used in France
No high power motor, approaching
the Liberty $50 figure, was within
sight of the American output. 1t was
to reach that end in quantity produc-
ton, it was declared, that the Liberty
was designed.
Another phase of the dispute about
the success of the Liberty motor
promises to be settled soon by actual
trial. That is its ACCESSIBILITY for use
in single-seated fighting machines.
Two machines of this type-one sea-
plane-have been designed and built
in this country and will De ready for
final trial at an early date. They rep
resent the first efforts ever made seri-
ously to place such high power OH
the single-seated short-winged speed
machines.
The Difficulties facing designers in
building Liberty fighters is to get them
hack to ground safely it Is explained
There is no question as to the eff,
cheney of the motor involved. The
problem is one of wing surfaces, am
gle of attack in flight to insure stabili-
ty and of low speed which would per-
nit safe landings.
The best foreign fighting craft, like
the Spads, use from $50 to $50 horse
power motors Their light weight
makes it possible for the small wing
surface to hold the machine in the
air at a comparatively low rate OF
speed, decreasing the danger of a
landing smash-up. In attempting to
use the S00-pound Liberty for this
work, the safe minimum speed of the
craft increases and the difficulties OF
landing safely increases proportionate