The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-04
The Automatic Safety Aeroplane and Manufacturing Co.
OF Ardmore, Oklahoma

capable of carrying thousand pounds or more
OF explosives in addition to several machine guns.
1t is almost daily occurrence to read in the
newspapers, aviator lost his life at training
camp There has been great loss of life among
avlators in the course of training in America and
abroad
When is such waste of human life to stop?
Is American genius with all its great and splen-
did achievements incapable of finding a way? Is
no one to challenge the fate which the world has
called inevitable? The aeroplane up to this time
has offered no protection for its occupants. The
modern passenger train has steel coaches for
safety. The transatlantic liners have sufficient
lfeboats for all on board, SO that they may have
an opportunity to the lives of their passen-
gers in the event Of shipwreck at sea.
Almost as if by the guidance of an all-wise
Providence the great crying need of safety for
the aviator was seen by the inventor and a way
to solve the problem was made clear by construct
ing an aeroplane with system of two parachutes
connected with detachable seat. description
of which is follows
The aeroplane is equipped with two para
chutes one large and small the small para
chute is carried in tubing in the fusage, the
large one is placed in a container on top in
side Of the plane. The small parachute is forced
out of the tube by means of spring and is auto
matcally opened in the direction in which the
plane is travelling. When the small parachute is
opened and trailing along behind the plane it Of
fers enough resistance to pull parachute out of
the plane which is large enough to carry the
weight of Both parachutes are connected
together and also attached to the aviator's
seat which is detachable. The opening of the
large parachute the seat to be disengaged
from the plane. The aeroplane in dropping down.
ward leaves the aviator who is strapped to his
seat and also attached to the parachute to come
down through the air in perfect safety. The
safety device is constructed that in the event
of an aviator becoming unconscious at high alti-
tude the parachutes automatically detach the
aviator from the aeroplane.
While think it conclusive that the aero
plane industry will exceed that of the automobile,
in order to arrive at the magnitude of this propo-
stion. wish to state that there at the pres
ent time than four million automobiles in
use in the United States Now when you consider
the fact that practically all the automobile fac
tories are at present devoting the major portion
of their time and facilities to the manufacture of
aeropane aeroplane parts, you can see what
the immediate future holds for this industry.
We estimate that our aeroplanes will COM
mand from ten to twenty per cent better prices on
the market than those without the safety equip
ment, which would net plane costing five
dollars, in addition to the manufacturing profits
This, based on fifty thousand aeroplanes would
net Company fifty million dollars
AS to the demand for our machines if YOU
were a prospective buyer and had to choose be-
tween two machines essentially the same in every
particular with the exception of the safety equip
ment, would you allow an additional cost of from
ten to twenty per cent to outweigh the consdera-
ton of absolute safety with the one. as against
almost sure disaster with the other?