New Britain herald., 1918-08-29
fl1t to the point of pro,

nght to the point of pro-
 DIS point that Mir. Ryan
 experimentation now in
 effort to find types of
 kEht be placed in Quan-
 Eff found successful.
 1.-Two weeks,' MT. Ryan
 Alts of these months of
 kad study and design,
 Fin tests at Dayton at
 hines that are new as
 k4facture is concerned
 the $. Els, which
 9ne, a single-seated
 ESnf@ it have been
 from England
 Aade in this country
 tines in them they
 md are now being
 lays we will decide
 14ine will go into
 or not.
 of the English
 Akine of about the
 &6ey use in it in
 Brought over here,
 made, machines
 nd they are being
 now being tested
 $troit by Captain
 Nfficer, who was
 <4lesign machines
 rty spgines. Three
 Rsof that type have
 # very promising
 last two other types
 Ire being flown that
 zHt Advisable to give
 kSe they are not so
 & feel satisfied that
 3Arough. We do not
 StgSwe have five types
 Szth only three. These
 &S that can be made in
 Npf course it will take
 fe to get them into pro-
 8&fle work of design has
 &Dn Now we are using,
 the general supposition, HTican designers of reputa- l2r1 week the Pomilio fE, an Italian family of air designers, have come to this f1 They have a number of very ~6tiIe types of machines in use in fe Italian army. They were very Successful designers and builders or hirplanes ia Italy but they sold their business to the Anseldos' the big munitions people in Italy, and they have come over here. They have come to the United States to design planes to fit our engines and are es- in Indianapolis and are at work. They brought about thirty de- signers and workmen with them. 
 idea of the scope of preparation that is being made to put us in production on planes that will fit our engines. The types of plane that we are build ing are fixed by the engines that we are going to build, for, after all, en- zines are the limiting factor.
 we have increased the orders for Liberty motors from 22,500, when tbis bureau was formed to approximately 5O,OOO-that is the Liberty 12.' We have ordered large number of Lib erty '8's which were developed and set aside temporarily for the '12's' when the larger and more powerful engine was decided upon. We have contracted for some of the very best foreign en- zines such as the Hispano Suiza mo- tor. We are going into quite a large 
 building shops in America with that engine Our engine program is a large one. We are giving every inducemont to engine builders who are at work on these things and they have to be sc- lected carefully because it is not every engine builder, no mater how success full he has been, who can build high powered aeronautical engine
  Production Equals Expectation. we are fully up to the expectations on motor production that we had in Under present conditions it is impos- sible to. obtain quality production of a new motor in much less than @ year whereas 8 new plane can usually be produced in about six months. The Papere plans has been flying for thirty days but we are not going to say any thing about the performance of a given plane until it has given such perfor- nance that we can talk about it. We cannot wait for war conditions to test machines. We have to test them under all conditions we can supply short of war and depend upon it to pass the final tests.
 I've are not afraid of what we can accomplish, but we are not going to make any promises or predictions" When MT. Ryan was asked whether the eight-cylinder motor had been per fected he replied: '"There are numb Der of Liberty 8s in production" Asked as to the purpose for which Liberty 8s were being made. Mr Ryan answered: That is to be de- termined. It is a 250 horse power engine, and it is an engine in between the 180-horse power Hispane motor, which we are building in large quan- titles, and the Liberty 12, which is a