The Newark journal., 1919-05-22


IgaEEgA URN. ltaly-Here in Turin, which
|aa.MA was headquarters for the American
a. "a SS air service in Italy during the war,
ra'2zHzYY.s.sPA there are many American aviation
a |Ia officers who believe the Caproni air
I'D EAE plane is the highest type of giant
hA-lNb aircraft developed during the great
Etsss1ssss.ss ..sssssss5s war.
s:.=zr1-=- Glannt Caproni the Italian engin-
VINO is the genius responsible
for the Caproni 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 working with Gaproni planes: Caproni
has perfected machine that will carry something
like 1900 pounds of weight five hours fuel supply
and with Liberty motors American made, climb
5000 feet in six minutes. With giant machine
like this Italian aviators making plans to fly
across the Atlantic during the present year.
They may cross from Africa to Brazil or may
attempt the North Atlantic fight. They realize in
Italy, well as in France and England and Amer
lea, that the first machine to accomplish the At
lautic flight will win ianrels eternal, and you can
take it 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
Il very high appreciation Of the glory they will
achieve, because like Americans, they are people
that love TO accomplish the seemingly impossible
for the sheer joy of doing It.
While big Caproni planes are being tested out
in the north of Italy in the attempt find ma
chine sound and perfect for the gruelling test 1t
will get flying overseas. the Capron plant at Milan,
an immense institution, is finishing its first com
mercial airpanes. which have comfortable cabins
for the passengers. The interior of an ar-cabin
as completed in the Caproni works, looks very
much like the inside of a finely finished street car
~ t..
If you had visited Milan during the winter you
probably would have the first Caproni pas
senger plane. co0horSepower affair capable of
carrying Il persons making its trial flights over
town. The Caproni works are in the outskirts of
Milan-and the Milanese are justly proud of the
accomplishments of G.8nni Caproni.
I 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 a few score yards take the
air in a stable fashion that goes a long way toward
reassuring the amateur making his first flight
Worldwide Traffic Predicted.
Passenger and frelght-earrying Caprons 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
ishing touches are being put on machine that
will carry - passengers. This is the middle-siZed
plane. The large machine-the type that will at
tempt the Atlantic flights monster. 1t is capa-
De or persons ana It's CuplI
IS being made as comfortable as a Pullman car
with padded chairs and handsome veneer finishings
for the walls
The largest planes are fast. They can make 100
miles hour when going at top speed. And 1t is
expected that longdistance flights they will
make the fastest railroad trains seem slow means
of travel.
Caproni believes that within very few years
the world will be covered with air lines through
which passenger planes Will fly and over which
sQuadrons of high-class freight carrying machines
will transport mail and certain kinds of freight, nj
rates that compare favorably with the charges
made by the railroad companies for performing the
same service.
Islands, 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
league OF nations to handle matters of internation
al interest such as freedom of the seas and free
dom of the mir, the manufacturers of arplanes will
have the chance TO get ready for international fly
Ing.
Capron like HahaleyPage in London and like
the French and American leaders in the aircraft
business feels that most predictions about the fu
ture of aviation more or less modest, when you
stop to compare the promises of the aircraft manu-
facturerS with their actual accomplishments during
the
When the started, longdistancc flights
virtually unknown. Just soon 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 previously
been considered impossible When the ended
the allied nations, including America, were
pletng an aircraft building program that would
hayc put such a fleet of bomb curriers' in the mir
hat Berlin like Mannheim, CoLlen. and The Rhine