The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-12
Training Machine Require
ments to Be Fully Supplied
Within Two. Weeks
SOME EQUIPMENT
HAS BEEN PURCHASED
Same Standards Adopted as Those in
Use by Allies-Liberty Motors and
Material Are Now Being Shipped
Abroad

Abroad.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Within
two weeks the production of standard
lied training airplanes by the United
States Aircraft Production board will
be in excess of the requirements of the
thousands of recruits at the American
training camps Within the same pc
rod delivery Of advanced training
planes, which are duplicates of the bat
tie and scout planes to be used on the
battle front, will begin, and within
ninety days the output will meet the
requirements of the men in training.
These facts are brought out IN the
| first report of the aircraft Production
board of the United States, of which
| Howard Coffin is chairman.
According to the report Of the Air
| craft board, III June it required from
one to three weeks to deliver proper
/ " authorized contract to a manufac-
| turer after details of negotiation had
been settled. Today, only a few hours
are needed. In this connection the re-
port saws, 1.-the slowness of the Gov
eminent departments in paying for
goods delivered has been a contractor $
complaint of long standing. For sixty
days past. in the disbursement of mil
lions of Signal Corps account properly
presented has remained unpaid longer
than one day after the delivery of the
material.
In part the report saws: ''We have
seen and heard much Of the proposal
of 100000 airplanes to be provided BY
the United States within the next year
In country where one great industry
produces a million and half motor
cars per year the fabrication of ;
hundred thousand planes might seen
easy, but actual figures based upoi
three years OF practical experience il
: the war show that there are now be
tween forty and fifty men of the aux
iliarv services required for each activ
machine at the front.
elf this same ratio should be ad
: hered to in our service it would meal
; that some four million men would be re
quired in cur aeronautical department
on lbttlRh Sfii bttNtti Jul pulls U
Fdobarkation and the fighting front.
: Even though this number of me
: could be reduced by 80 per cent by il
: creased efficiency and standardizatio
the number required is still staggering
: Consider also the overseas transports
tion problem as related to material onl
!, aud without reference to personnel an
! its maintenance. The transportation {
!, finished planes, properly Grated, wit
! the necessary spares, accessories an
= equipment, is in itself a serious prol
!, lem in view of the situation in shi
- to''~age.
= The report sets forth that soon aftt
the board took up its work militar.
technical and industrial mission W;
cent to Europe, and as result a sever
fold policy of aircraft production II
this country was mapped out.
This policy provides for the estal
lishment of twentvfour training ST
tions, half Of which are in operatio
Coordination with the Allies, standar
F. ization in types, designs and materia
he was accomplished. A standardizt
at training machine was designed and a
n proved by the War and Navy Depar
he ments. The enlistment, equipment al
ne training of fiers and mechanics h
h been carried forward in strict accor
d ance with the schedule of needs recol
S mended by the joint navy and arm
lg technical committee
he Raw and semi finished materials,
er Guiding the new Liberty motor, are /
50 ing sent to the Allies Sufficient fgl
III ing machines to equip the American Q
. peditionary forces in France have be
n purchased from the Allies The Ali
10 will provide the American force wi
ed several thousand machines.
as 1.-THE last measure of the policy ca
ge for the completion and delivery at shi
al ping points on July l-next of as ma
machines, including combat and bon