Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-25
GERMANY FOR
AIR SUPREMACY
ny MILTON BRONNER


land and temporarily driven off the
sea the Germans are convinced therG
Is d great future IN the alr-ano
that they are going to prepare LOT
it, ,4
IA the windows of the former great
shsbtfnS companies are prominently
dlAniaved the time tables of the daily
services by airplane between Berlh
and the rest of Germany, with con-
6ettions for Copenhagen, Holland
and England. d, e..
On the news-stands you will find
such magazines as Der Luftweg
(tgThe Airway') and others, all de-
voted entirely to aviation topics.
Officers. Organized
You pass a. big comfortable house
out Of which soTdierl% .cfEps ff9me e,
oaYsScsal sar1 Athatt Isl the ;S;yell.Ae {,
CgeApfsSG ermany, ;one''of a NUMBER
Of shs+6rgapiE5.ations. :,
5tfnakes q point Of hay19s lectures
supjscts.. All sfi'5rmeg, flag officers Of
the German military and naval ava
ton corps are made welcome. On
every Tuesday there are reunions OF
such officers.
Again, you pass the office of one
Of the big German insurance COM
pas,aes and you learn that the princi-
pal ones of Germany have formed an
air pool for the purpose Of insurlng
all kinds of flying craft against loss.
The combined capital of the com
Danies is four hundred million marks.
All this means that in spite of
the restrictions the Treaty of Yer
sailles sought to place upon German
aircraft plans, the people Of this
empire are nevertheless making rapid
strides for supremacy of the air.
Only one nation rivals Germany in
the air and that is France. We with
our boundless wealth are hopelessly
behind thhe Germans. So is England
Airpl&ne Facilities
At the close of the war Germany
had 48 factories employing 1896
men in the construction of airplanes
and dlriglbles.
Under the treaty provisions these
factories have been forced to stop
making such things, so they have
been converted into plants for max
ing wagons, agricultural implements,
etc.
Nevertheless, the technical direc-
tors of these old-time aviation plants
are still at work and many still have
their scientific bureaus in operation.
Also such firms like Zeppelin, AL
batross, Junker and Fokker are still
in existence as airplane makers.
The tendency in German aviation
work has been to develop the giant
aeroplane and the seaplane. This is
especially true of three types.
FIRST Enlargement OF aircraft
by increase Of power, brought about
by multiplication in the number of
motors which are arranged in the
wings
SSEC0ND..-t Enlargement of all
cfafF4aByginerease tfs b6Wsrr brought
aboss ny fAea, multiplication ms the
anssf ms0SY SssEsfch arg arranged
hsthss htrsl fsssrags ore Body and
DESIGNED to. drive elor more propel-
lops5 throueKo thea medium -of shafts
or gRSaFEig. X Sea- 1nl~ ~
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Fk real aasasS daily fight service
the two greatest companies in Ger
many are the Deutsche Luft Reederei,
which is connected in business way
with the Hamburg American Steam
ship company, and the Sablatnig
Luftverkehr, which is connected in
a business way with the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamhip company. a
The Deutsche Luft Reederei on
Nov. t26 finished it's -millionth
kiioneter of accomplished fights, OF
over 26 times around the earth.
AT present there is regular daily
service which starts at Dresden,
through Berlin, Brunswick, Hamburg
to Dortmund and vice versa. There
is also regular service from Bremen
to Amsterdam, connecting with the
Dutch service to London.
The Sabalatnig has a regular daily
service from Berlin through Bremen
to Munster. The Lloyd Ostflug runs
q daily service from Berlin through
Danzig to Konigsburg. The Rumpiel
runs one from Berlin through Leip.
zIg to Munich. The German Luft
Lloyd runs a service from Berlin tc
Magdeburg and another from Ham.
burg through Magdeburg to Breslau
Ihen there are number of smaller
runs.