The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-01-11

IN the bottom the fuSelage. by means of this
last gun it can defend Itself from enemy ma
chimes attacking il from below and behind po-
StiOn in which all other machines but the Gotha
vulnerable.
The Germans have been most ingenious in de-
signing their airplancs for maximum effectiveness
of gun tire. Their siugle-seatcd MbatrosS ID.
and u Ill Fokkcr ID. Ialberstadt Roland II. and
Ago ID have two fixed guns firing ahead through
The revolving propeller, and these machines are
able 10 carry 1000 cartridges for each gun Their
twoplacr reconnaissance machines Abaross.
Runpler Aviatik and l.. V. G.. have one fixed for
ward gun firing through the propeller and sec
ond lighter GUT on swivel mounted .Dehlno the
planes and friIg to the rear over an angle OF lSo
degrees The French have adopted this System
for TIE airplaes of similar type.
The most iIgenious armament. however, is that
of the new Pmo scout plane 1t is not acvis
able to bctra, the secret of this plane at present
but il IS pcrliSSihc 70 say that the single pot
controls five guns, all shooting ahead sllnultahe
ously and tat four of these are so perfectly
concealed tht even photograph does not snow
where they situated 1t is in reality hVe-
borrcled CintnE gun on wings. This machine Is
nov on its ay To America If indeed il has not
already arried.
Talk 70 yth the Italian aviators now here
about motos | found them deeply Interested IN
the new Lirrty motor. but none would venture
to express opinion about 1t.
az could ot Judge of its value said one or
them unit had taken ii up 1000 or loo'ooo
foot in thc r. and watched how il behaved there
,rba Eiot cnpany which has been making mo-
,ors oyer scc these first invented, needed
two whole ears of experimentation before 1t was
oh,e IN tul out a satisfactory airplane motor
Several tirts ii thought 1t had it; several times
u offered imotor that performed perfectly under
tbe most etcting laboratory tests but each time
II failed wen tested in the rarefed air of 10000
feet aboyeihe earth. After two years OF trial
tr., Fiat rOple produced the wonderful motors
NOW so eenSivey used The lsotta-Fraschin
company Id Il similar experience. We all ad-
miro the rfection of mechanism of the Liberty
motor anCwe all hope that actual flight VIII
proye :t tbe perfect as it looks, but no one
of us wou venture to give Il verdict on 1t unti
no had dn with it at all possible attitudes.
These mn all of whom youths who have
had thriue experiences in actual warfare. are
fond of CruSSing the probabilities of a flight
,cross thtAtlantic. Any of them would he
willing tn tempt it, but they disagree as to the
machine rst likely to he the first To make it.
So,oe say le giant CaprOn which would need at
leost "a hrs and probably 40 to fly from New
foundlandD Ireland (thc shortest route), while
others say ayome such machine as the :. V. a., az
il could Ike the flight easily between sunrise
and suuSc In the it would be like II
,iont cond relying the power of its wings to
sustain IL day and II night in flight in the other
case il wdt be Il gull or swallow relying
, on tcrrfc)eed to carry il over by daylight.