East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-10-17
AIR PALACE. PLANNED
BY UNITED STATES FIRM
RY CHARLES e. HUGHES
international News Service Staff
CorrespOndentD

international News Service staff
Correspondent.)
PASADENA, Cal, Oct. IA series
of airplanes designed fOr commercial
or business purposes, ranging from q
passenger biplane for short trips
to a sumptuous air palace in which
fourteen persons may take an extend
ed trip through the air, is announced
by local aircraft company as its line
of types for 1922"
The engineers of the concern have
been working since leaving the army
service to develop strictly commercial
types of aircraft, AS a result the com
pany has issued catalogue of 1922
types, and intends to adopt the policy
similar to that of automobile manu-
facturers, of developing each year a
series of improved types and announc-
ing an advanced line for the following
year.
The styles of 1922 airplane models,
according to the concerns announce
ments, have numerous novel features.
A poor mans airplane, which has a
comfortable cabin for five persons
costs but S16,500 and will fly $50 miles
wllnout stoping for additional gaso
line. This is the smallest of the trans
port types. The largest is a huge
freighter with four engines having a
total of 1900 horsepower. In betW cen
in the up-to-date Zine" of next years
airplanes are cabined craft which will
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500 pounds to two tons of freight at
eighty-five to one hundred miles an
hour.
Perhaps the most interesting of the
fourteen kinds of airplanes described
in the price list are two models of "air
cruisers de luxe" These are elab-
orately fitted out. one of eight per-
sons, and the larger. which is named
the Air Palace" for earring fourteen.
Each has the luxurious fittings of
fine yacht, with added comforts for
camping in the mountains or making
long auto tours.
The Air Palace" has complete cleo
trical fixtures for cooking, warmth
and other conveniences, including
shaving or curling ones hair while in
the air, 1t has a complete outdoor
camping outfit, which is stored in the
fuselage Of the airplane back of the
cabins
There are two cabins, one for the
pilot and the engineer, and with a
special place for the air commodore"
rs the owner is called, and the other
for guests, with third or smaller
compartment for luggage and access
sories. The "air commodore" may di-
rect the course of his aircraft from the
upper cabin and at the same time con-
verse with his guests, or he may pass
from one cabin to another, This sort
of airplane, all complete with engines |
having 500 horsepower, sells for
$45 900.
Another type of craft listed in the
1922 air catalogue is a line of am
phibians," which are airplanes with
special alishting gear so that the ma
chine may descend with equal facility
On land or water. 1t has wheels
our or more-like a regular land
)lans, but also has boat hull. This
ype is expected to be very popular, II
nce there are many sections where
Tights will be made over wooded or
lilly country in which there are no
uitable landing fields, but where
ivers or lakes will offer excellent and
afe alighting.
A Southern California "amphibian"
ir line Is already projected, with
'asadena's landing field as one ter
minus. Avalon, Santa Catalina Island III
$ a second, and Big Bear Lake, which
at 1000 feet altitude in the Sierra II