Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-01-02

rey de HaVilland, an early experiment.
n. This combined something of the
lselage Of the 1910 Breguet. and a lit.
e of the Newport tail, but the detail
esign was Mr.. de Havilland's own. 1t
as lightly constructed, and with q 20.
orsepower Renault engine its per.
was very good. 1t wa the
hines through all the series of E. e. s,
i the r. e. and S. e. series.
The Curtiss Flying Boat, 1912
A notable development of 1912 was
10 Curtiss flying-boat, the first Amer.
AN contribution TO development since
re Wright's first efforts. Mr.. Glen
u~rtiss, who won the Gordon-Bennett
zee at Reims in 1909 on a primitive hi,
lane, chiefly by personal skill, sue.
eeded in getting off the water in 1911
18th a similar biplane fitted with Il cen
al pontoon. float.
This machine he developed into a
ydroplane boat. with wings and EN-
inc above it. From this have come
Il the big flying-boats of today, and
is the forerunner of the big passen-
er-carrying ~ocean.going liners of the
Iture.
The Short Scaplane, 1912
Another kind of sea-flying machine
anne to maturity in 1912, for, after
luch experimenting, the Short Broth
rs of lIaStchurch produced a seagoins
lplane with twin floats instead of the
rdinary under-carriage. This, with a
} horsepower machine to get off or
light in a real sea, and now with 800
orsepoWer or more, it is able to face
most any sea in which a destroyer can
naneuvre.
Later Seaplanes of this type have
lunched torpedoes successfully against
nemy ships, have patrolled steamer
mes have escorted conveys, have sunk
upmar1nes, n nave bombed enemies
'Ver 100 miles from the sea. These were
ne f~orerunners Of the small fighting
}eaplanes, having developed both up.
wards n downwards as regards size.
me rma Taube-type monoplane
tlso came to maturity in 1912. 'Taube"
means Dove. The Taube wings are
wept back and turned up at the ends
Ike those of q pigeon, hence the name.
h originators of the type We're Her
EN- Wells and Erich, in Austria in 1909.
The Twin Caudron, 1915
Various experiments We're made be-
ore the wa with airplanes. with more
han n engine, and though several
we're designed in 1914 and afterwards
made good, the first to fly with success
vas h Twin Caudron, with two no
horsepower lie Rhone engines. 1t may
therefore, fairly claim to be the first
win engined machine.
Closely following the Caudron came
The huge Handley Page biplane Of 1916,
which at first had two Rolls-Royce en-.
zines of $50 horsepower each. Like
everything else during the war they
since one up, and the power, like
prices, is now far higher. One of these
machines in 1916 TOOK a pilot and 20
passengers to a height Of 1000 feet and
in 1917 another flew from london to
and then bombed Constantine
pic.
The Newport, 1916
A noteworthy small machine of 1915
was the Newport, with the h. D. and
later n ITO h. p. lie Rhone engine.
f,rnxyaJ ~, n.-,nllo.+
the Sopwith Tabloid" 1t was not
able for the curious V formed by the
i%nterplane strut. There is only a single
spar to the lower wings, so that it is
a Ia plane than a biplane. The
copied this single span scheme
in their Albatros single seat ~"chasers"
of 1917.
AS to the machines Of 1917 it seems
we'll to point out the most remarkable
performers.
The sopwitia Gamer; the spad, de.
by NJ. Bechereau, formerly of
the D~eperdussin company; and the AL.
batros. D. III type. are all obviously
OF the 1911 Newport and
thels12 D%eperdussin and the 1912 Son
with Tabloid.
The de Havilland 4, built by the Air
craft Manufacturing company, Qltd.)
and designed by Captain de Havilland,
as he is now; and the S. E. 5, built and
designed by this successors at theRoyal
Aircraft factory i both equally OBJ
viously descendants of the b. q.
The Bristol Fighter built by the
British and Colonial Aeroplane com.
of Bristol, 70 the designs OF Cap.
tain Barnwell, a pioneer of flying in
Scotland, who built a machine of his
" in 1909, shows traces OF the 1912
biplanes, modified by the design.
own famous aBristol Bullet" Of
1914. Ss
The Gotha Bofnber--famous or infa-
according to ones point Of the
caudron and Handley Page twin.en-
gined machine. Italy's vast three.
engined 1000 horsepower Caproni tri-
plane is q thing apart.