The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-11
FAIR PALACEv IS PLANNED BY
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Fourteen Persons Can Take Extended Trip 1922 Types Announced for Trade Channels.

Pasadena, Cal, Oct. 11-A series or business purposes, ranging from five passenger biplane for short trips to a sumptuous air palace in which IA persons may take an extended trip through the air, is announced.
 The engineers of the concern have been working since leaving the army service to develop strictly commer- cial types of aircraft As a result the company has issued a catalogue of 1922 types, and intends to adopt the policy, similar to that of automo- bile manufacturers, of developing each year a series of improved types and announcing an advanced line for the following year.
 The styles in 1922 air plane models. according to the concerns announce ments, have numerous novel features poor mans" airplane, which has a comfortable cabin for five persons costs but s16,500 and will fly 25O miles o1ine. This is the smallest of the transport types. The largest is huge freighter with four engines hav- ing a total of 1,600 horsepower. In next years airplaneS are cabined craft which will carry five to twenty per sons. or haul 500 pounds to two tons of freight at S5 to 100 miles an hour. The "Air Palace has complete electrical fixtures for cooking, warmth and other conveniences, in cluding shaving or curling ones hair while in the air. It has a complete outdoor camping outfit, which is stored in the fuseIage 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 lair commodore,'' 9 as the owner is called, and the other for guests, with a third or smaller compartment for luggage and access sories. The lair commodore may di- rect the course of his aircraft from the upper cabin and at the same time converse with his guests, or he may pass from one cabin to another. Fms sort of airp1ane, all complete with en- zines having 500 horsepower, sells for $45, 900. a Another type of craft listed in the 1922 sir catalogue is line of lam phibfans," which are airplanes with special ahghting gear so that the ma chine may descend with equal facility on land or water. It has wheels four or more-like a regulation land plane, but also has boat hull This type is expected to be very popular, since there are many sections where flights will be made over wooded or hilly country in which there are no suitable landing fields but where rfv- CTS or lakes will offer excellent and safe a1ighting.
 A Southern California "amphibian'' air line is already projected, with Pas adena's landing field as one terminus; Avalon, Santa Cattlina Island, as a SeSOilu ana BE Bear Lake, Wn1ch IS at 1000 feet altitude in the Sierra Madre range of Southern California, as the third point.
 Safety Features Included.
 Several novel features especially worked out to provide greater safety in flying on commercial schedules are incorporated in the new airplaneS. One is a removable engine unft by means of which an engine can be taken from a machine and a new one installed in less than @ half hour. The designer has gone on the theory that a commercial airplane should no more be asked to run on one engine over a long stretch of territory than a loocomooOtive is required to do. He has planned to have engines changed at a division point while the passen- gers are at lunch, so that an airplane may proceed on schedule with new and well-tested engines and a. conse- quent greater safety. In the mean time the used engines may be thor oughly oVerhauled and put in chape for another trip.
 Fire Hazard Watched.
 Another feature of this "line of ships is a serious effort to get rid of the menace of fire while in the air. The engines are placed so that no fumes or gas, may reach the pilot or passengers, and both motors are in closed in metal cowling with a fire door which can be closed instantly to permit use of fire extimguiSher. An Interesting novelty in the new type or a1rplaneS Is the aplllty 10 1Oio the wings so the machine may go into a hangar. or airplane garage, less than 24 feet wide. The airplanes are equipped so that they may be lowed with wings folded and run past traffic on city streets or highways. They can thus be brought up to, a hotel for load of passengers, whisked out to a flying field and in five minutes have the wings spread and locked and be off in flight These arplanes are ire Quently lowed through, PaSadena's s streets and along highways to the | most desirable t-take off," which may be in a field several miles distant.