Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-13
TERROR OF THE AIR
Americans Now Making Battleplanes
That Surpass All Others.

Americans Now Making Battleplanes
That Surpass All Others.
American production Of new. fast,
thorough up-to-date model Of fighting
plane, that has been tested on the bat
tie front and found to beat anything
the Germans have produced, has be-
gun.
This Is the new rs. E.-5" type.
whose production by the Curtiss Aero
plane works here has been offered by
the aircraft production to take the
place or the ill-fated Bristol that
was found to be useless and scrapped.
The 8. E.-5 is battle plane, and
has passed the experimental stage. Its
production will be rushed through on
the basis Of what is in fact a Chinese
COPY"
This model is q British plane, per-
fected by Major General Branckner.
head of the equipment division Of tho
British war ministery, and Sir Henry
Fowler, the man who reorganized the
Royal aircraft factory Of England.
The Royal aircraft factory is the mo-
ther of the 8. E.-5. It has given ex-
ceptional service, and an exceptional
account Of itself on the fighting front.
Abroad it was equipped with the
ls-Royce and the Sunbeam motor.
Here 1t will take the Liberty.
This type of plane was constructed
to take high-powered motor like the
Liberty-(435 horsepower). In this
respect 1t differs from the Bristol,
which proved a failure when powered
with the Liberty, because 1t was de-
signed to take an engine of only 1875
horsepower.
The S. Els was designed in advance
Of the production of a motor Of 435
horsepower. But the Liberty motor
was designed AZ time to use with such
a model.
In the same way the British Royal
Aircraft factory is now at work on a
still newer fighting plane, to be fitted
with a motor Of as yet unknown horse
power, but which must be as high as
500. Nobody has yet designed such a
motor:and perhaps it cannot be pro-
duced, but England proposes to have
a type Of plane that can use it.
The s. E.-5 was developed in the
same way In advance Of the designing
and perfection Of the Liberty motor.
The Curtiss plant departments,
which were devoted to the Bristol ex-
periments, have been cleaned out: all
the "small-part" factories are busy
grinding out small parts Of wood and
metal for the new S. E.-5. The first
part Of the assembly work-that Of
the fuselage-will begin in few days;
the beginning Of complete plane as
sembly In about two weeks, and in a
month. quantity productions will be
we'll under way.
All that the plant needs to do Is to
copy part for part and screw for screw.
the model already set up. No expert
mental work will be done at all-the
factory Job Is mere reproduction in
quantity.
It may be expected, therefore. that
the output Of the battleplanes Of this
type will be going over seas within q
reasonably short time, to supplement
the supply of D. H. fighting planes al
ready being turned out by other plants.
What is more important, this new
type is known to be equal or better
than any fighting plane the Huns have
80 far produced. And its production
will be additional to all other aircraft
production, since 1t Will use merely the
equipment and workmen who were en-
gagged on the experimental production
Of the abandoned Bristol, Of which
only % complete machines were ever
produced.