Republican farmer., 1918-07-05
AMERICAS TREMENDOUS PART COMES NEXT YEAR
So States Major General Brackner Comptroller General of Equipment for British Air Council Says More
 Planes Built, Sooner War Will Be Over.

they filled in spIendidly in our great emergency. The Curtiss JN4 and the Curtiss OX5 motor made the most re- liable of machines from the start.
 'I must mention the Curtiss flying boat for we have depended largely on the flying boat to keep down the sub marine, Your navy is cooperating in a great naval programme with the British Grand Fleet. Your flying boats are patrolling the coasts of Great Britain and France and just before I left England I saw the latest you are sending over and they were doing splendid work indeed.
 You must always expect a certain amount of bad luck in the production. of a fighting plane because changes are 30 frequent and 1t is largely a work of experiment as 1t goes along. Here in the Curtiss plant you are soon to build the SE5 which has been de- veloped at the Royal Aircraft factory. The SEES Is a better and faster fighter than anything that the Germans have | been able to send against us. We ask you to build lots of them and build them fast"
 General Brackner said that during the recent German offensive before Amiens. the British concentrated all available fighting planes on the mar row front, At one of the critical hours, he said. 240 planes were sent against the Boche waves in what he described as mad dog'' fashion. These planes flying low broke up the Boche attacks" he said, "a massed attack that would have been fatal had 1t succeeded"
 Allied air supremacy is being held up to the present. He cited the known destruction of 1So German airplanes and the fall of 92 more out of control during April. And in one week in March when the fighting was at it's fiercest, the Allied aviators brought down 1S2 German Flyers and sent SS others tumbling earthward out of con- trol, The Allied loss that week was A.
 Sir Henry Fowler, who was a jour neyman mechanic for seven years, is the man who reorganized the Royal Aircraft factory. I've are bit weary of the war over there" he said but we're going to see the thing through with all that we've got. We feel thankful that the great United States Is backing us up; that you are the kind of people who are doing as much to win the war as the man in the front line.
 Tt Is heartening to us to meet your spirit. We met 1t first in Broadway New York. We find 1t here this morn ] ing In your Curtiss shops. This Cur, ] tiss plant Is one of the finest, one o1 ithe most perfectly organized that
 have ever been through. We have been very grateful to the Curtiss or ganization In the past and we are glad that you are the people who are going to build the SE5 along with the Bristol.
 , Victory is ahead of us. We car
 have entire confidence in America al
 regards aviation needs"
 After the visit to the North Elm. wood plant, the British officers wen l to the Churchill and the Austin stree l plants of the company. Tomorrow they will be in Detroit to see engine 7 production and then will go to Day
 ton, Ohio. They return then tt l.. Washington and thence to England = where their services are greatly need l ed