The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-05-02

tnefc are many American aV1atlOn
officers who believe the Caproni air
TX plane Is the highest type of giant
MDNI aircraft developed during the great
\1I1<65fa war.
y@7 Gianni Caproni the Italian engin-
who is the genius responsible
for the Capron plane, has no hesitancy in giving
the Wright brothers and Doctor Langley of Amer
lea the fullest credit for making and developing
the first practical airpanes and states frankly that
he was kind of pupil of the great Americans.
Here is what Caproni has developed from the
American planes invented by Langley and the
Wrights according to American officers in Turin
who are working with Caproni planes: Caproni
has perfected machine that will carry something
like 5000 pounds of weight, five hours fuel supply
and with Liberty motors, American made, climb
5000 feet in six minutes. With giant machine
IKE this Italian aviators are making plans to fly
across the Atlantic during the present year.
They may cross from Africa to Brazil or may
attempt the North Atlantic flight. They realize in
Italy, as well as In France and England and Amer
lea, that the first machine to accomplish the At
lantic flight will win laurels eternal and YOU can
take 1t for granted that the Italians fully apprec-
ate the value of the advertising they will get If
they cross the Atlantic first And they have also
a very high appreciation of the glory they will
achieve, because like Americans they are a people
that love to accomplish the seemingly impossible
for the sheer joy of doing 1t.
While big Caproni planes being tested out
a
chine sound and perfect for the grueng test it
will get flying overseas the Capront plant at Milan
an immense institution. is finishing its first com
mercia airplanes, which have comfortable cabins
for the passengers. The interior of an air-cabin
as completed in the Caproni works. looks very
much like the inside of finely finished street car
except that 1t Is somewhat more crowded together
If you had visited Milan during the winter you
probably would have seen the first Caproni pas
senger plane, 6OO-horsepower affair capable Of
carrying u persons, making its trial flights over
town. The Caproni works in the outskirts of
Mlan-and the Milanese nre justly proud of the
accomplishments of Gianni Caproni.
l talked with Americans who have been taken
up in the Caproni planes They declared the big
machines start off slowly without nerve-racking
Jars and after running few score yards take the
air in a stable fashion that goes long way toward
reassuring the amateur making his first flight
Worldwide Traffic Predicted.
Passenger and freightcarrying Capronis are be-
ing built in three sizes The first type which is
the one that has been flown repeatedly Milan,
is the smallest of the three In the shops the fin
ishlng touches are being put a machine that
will carry % passengers. This is the middle-size
plane. The large machine-the type that will at
tempt the Atlantic flights monster. 1t is capa-
bic of carrying 100 persons and its passenger cabin
is being made comfortable Pullman car.
with padded chairs and handsome veneer inishngs
for the walls.
The largest planes are fast. They can make 100
miles an hour when going at top speed And it is
expected that long distance flights they will
make the fastest railroad trains a slow means
If travel.
Capron believes that within a very few years
the world will he covered with air lines through
which passenger planes viii fly and which
squadrons of highclass freight carrying machines
will transport mail and certain kinds of freight at
rates that compare favorably with the charges
made by the railroad companies for performing the
same service.
Islands, now isolated from the mainlands of the
world, will be easily and regularly reached when
the regime of air traffic gets under way Caproni
declares.
While the peace conference in Paris creates a
league of nations to handle matters of internation
al interest such as freedom of the seas and free
dom of the air, the manufacturers of airplanes will
have the chance TO get ready for International fy-
ing.
Caproni, like Handey-Page in London and like
the French and American leaders in the aircraft
business. feels that most predictions about the fu
ture of aviation more less modest when Won
facturers with their actual accomplishments during
the
When the war started, ong-dstance flights were
virtually unknown. Just as soon as the value of
aircraft was realized, every warning nation got
busy building machines and previous records were
smashed almost daily. During the aircraft ac.
compshed time after time what had preyiousIv
been considered impossible When the war ended
the allied nations, including America, were COM
pletng an aircraft building program that womb
have put such fleet of bomb carriers in the mir
Il at Berlin like Mannheim Coblenz and the Rhine