The Washington herald., 1920-07-12
ENEMY PLANES
sAROUSE ALLIES
Experts Fear German Air
craft Will Surpass Whole
World.
INVENTIONS RESUMED
Teutons Contend Flying Es-
f. sential as ,Transporta-
: ton Means.
INVENTIONS RESUMED
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. Paris. July l1.-Fears that Ger
many will come back" through a
! daring and impregnable position In
I aerial navigation have been ex-
: pressed in both the French and Eng
lish press following the discovery by
allied commissioners of newly de-
{ veloped powerful German planes
: built entirely of metal. Warnings
! have been sounded from time to
; time that Germany was preparing
! for a greater air supremacy through
the perfection of these planes,
adaptable either to military or COM
mercial uses, and official notice was
taken in the chamber of deputies In
a speech by NJ. Flandrin, under sec
retary for aeronautics. At the same
time the Excelsior. the French pic
torial daily, issued a full page or
pictures showing the new designs
complete, constructed of a light
metal called duralumin.
Keep Treaty Terms.
In accordance with the Versailles
treaty Germany must not only sur
render all aerial military equipment
but she must cease all production of
planes for military uses. NJ. Flan-
drin explains that Germany had de-
veloped these advanced models at
the signing of the armistice, but
that the delivery of them to the al
ued governments along with other
war material was unsatisfactory.
Work may have stopped on these
planes" NJ Flandrin stated. but
the actual prcgre IS of experime nta
ton on products and designs for
construction is still one of the great
est activities among the scientific
men of Germany and especially in
the research Laboratories Of the uni
versities.
Germany hopes. without doubt.
to rebuild her sir feet, and this
neet will have the incontestable ad-
vantage of being composed of the
very best and most modern types.
They will probably baptizc il tha
commercial aerial feet or the
civil aerial fleet but when one
realizes the facility with which an
airplane of peace can be turned
Into an airplane of war. it is easy
10 see at the bottom Of this project
only a menace and a warning for
the other nations of Europe.
AII-MetnI Planes.
The planes have been built after
designs by the German Professor
Junkers, in both monoplane and bi-
plane models. In the air they ap-
pear more like birds than any other
type of machine. There is not a
strut or a wire support and the in
terror of the wings are REINFORCED
by light metal tubing. In this
space is kept the tanks for oil and
fuel and replacement apparatus.
The monoplane propelled by a
i60-horsepower engine reached a
height of $500 meters carrying a
load of six passengers. The same
plane with a 1S5-horsepower engine
carried eight passengers up 1000
meters and it's speed was 160 kilo-
meters per hour. Both in these bi-
plane and nonoplane designs the
French and British experts say the
Germans are far in advance of the
other countries.
Followers of English aeronau-
tics lament the fact that develop
ment of aviation has been arrested
since the armistice. and one writer
In the London Times describes the
new German metal planes in an at
tempt to awaken interest of Brit
lsh designers. The writer takes
the position that England should
hold no grievance against Germany
for aiming at aerial domination,
since commercial flying is the her.
itage of all countries, but he warns
Of the seriousness of continued ap-
athy and Indifference toward the
already advanced German designs.
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