Americus times-recorder., 1919-11-02
TO BUILD GIANT
PLANE HERE AT
PRIVATE PLANT.
Bremen Quits Negotia.
lions With u, S.-To
Mine Own Bauxite

Americus is to. be the site of the
plant for the erection of the first
Remembering giant passenger
carrying airplane.
That was definitely announced last
evening. by ex-LieGt. J. D. Bremen,
of Souther Field, who stated that he
had ended negotiations with the gov
ernment for permission to use Sou
ther Field or any other field, and was
arranging for the erection of a private
plant here. Application was made by
him Saturday to Secretary Perkins,
of the Chamber of Commerce and
fair association, for permission to use
a portion of the fair grounds as a site
for the plant. At the same time it
was announced that he had taken an
option on 40 acres of bauxite ore
property near Andersonville, with the
intention of digging ore and manu-
} featuring his own aluminium, large
quantities of which are to be used in
the giant plane.
Tuesday of this week Mr.. Brennan
will leave for Baltimore to complete
details fer going ahead with the en-
terprise. He held papers showing
that he has at his disposal $5,OOO,-
coo for the building of the first plane
and the beginning of manufacture of
the great craft on commercial scale.
The backer of the enterprise is veal
thy widow and her son, who have long
been interested in aviation, and, hav-
ing had noted engineers check and
re-check the Brennan plane plans,
have assured him and Sergeant Dem
ing, joint inventor, that they are
ready to finance the enterprise.
To Build Fleet OF Planes.
eve intend to build fleet of these
planes," said Mr.. Brennan last
night. "My plans have been check
ed by number of the greatest aero
nautical experts in the country and
have been found fawless. That is
why these people are willing to back
the enterprise to the limit. The wo
man, with whom have become very
we'll acquainted, wrote me letter
which have just received inclosing
clipping concerning the govern
ment's purchase from. the British of
the biggest dirigible airship in the
world. She expressed the fear that
some of the plans of my ship had been
stolen, I having sent 43 complete sets
to the government, and that this ship
embraced some of them. However,
her fears are groundless, because this
dirigible is dirigible purely, while
our ship is plane. Besides, last
Thursday I received from the govern
ment patent office at Washington ten
separate patents upon our plane,
which cover every exclusive phase of
it's construction. So we are safe in
that respect, and there remains moth
ing now but to go mead with the
construction.
Refused To Listen.
"The government has refused to
listen to building the plane here, but
has suggested that arrangements
might be made for its erection at Nc
Cook Field, Dayton, 0. Well, so far
as the government is concerned, /
am through. | remember the years
| of difficulty encountered by Brown
ing, the machine gun wizard, who nm
allv had to sell his inventions to Eng
. land; and the bungling of the air SER
vice in air craft building during the
war. | don't want to start under any
. government restrictions, which might
. kill the whole enterprise at the whim
of some incompetent officer. And
believe me, there is bunch of in
competent ones in the service. Where
some of these fellows that call them
selves engineers learned their math-
ematics l don't know. / finally de-
cided it would be dangerous to tie up
under any such conditions, and that
. the only safe way to start building
these planes was to go at it independ-
emily as private enterprise.
, "The location here is ideal we
have the best climatic conditions in
, the world for airplane construction,
with open weather the year around.
Besides, we are right at the source
of supply of aluminium, which will be
the principal material used in the
: building of these planes. IL we can
get started successfully, this, Of
t course, would be the site of the per-
manent factory which would build
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