The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-18
AIR FACTOR IN
FUTURE WARFARE
France Believes Peace of World
Lies in Hands of Science.
FLYING EGG LATEST NOVELTY

The popular French war ace
Charles Nungesser. is preparing to tr,
out the formidable new egg-shape ma
chine which he has been building II
secret.
Designed to attain the highest speed
ever registered and equipped with 9
! 700 horse power Fiat engine, the ma
chine is at first destined for scientific
research. Nungesser Is an admirer OF
and an experienced pilot in motOrless
aviation. While he has always expert
mented with gliding flights in an ordi-
nary airplane with locked propeller,
! he has already made ample study OF
| currents at low attitudes In slow NOV
ing machines, and his aim now Is to
see how the air acts at high attitudes
when swept with an object covering
close on 800 miles an hour.
II. as Nungesser believes. the air In
such cases becomes more rigid, and
thereby affords greater security to air
planes. he considers the future of fly
ing lies in exceedingly rapid machines
able to attain great heights.
That he will successfully beat all
existing speed records he has no doubt,
but he takes little notice of this, for,
as he remarks: ANY one can have
the speed record If they can find ma
chine made Of strong and resisting
material and in which 1t would be pos
sible to place one or more 1000 horse
power engines"
Equipped With v-Shaped Wings
Nungesser has introduced novelties
In the flying egg such as the emplace-
ment of the wings and their fabrica-
ton. Silk cloth and canvas have been
done away with and the two small but
heavy wings which fit the egg-shape
cockpit are entirely made of wood SO
interviewer as to afford the necessary
resistance when travelling at great
speed.
To afford greater stability to the
practically tailleSs monOplane the
wings are drawn forward V-shape at
an angle OF 1870 degrees The Fiat en-
CINE is placed In the fore part of the
machine and drives an all steel pro-
peller. High above the engine steel
cupola has been erected to shield pilot
and observer Or mechanic. The cock
pit is composed entirely Of interviewer
wood several inches thick with cir
conference of one inter and a half,
and at the rear is huge rudder close
on three meters high and a half
meter wide. The rising and lowering
rudders have been done away with at
the rear of the machine and Instead
have been placed on the wings at
cockpit The usual stabilizing alerions
at each extremity of the wings have
not been moved.
If experiments are successful Nun
gesser hopes to transform 1t either In
to a large and comfortable passenger
carrying machine or else into deadly
army chasing machine. The French
few pilots to drive a chasing machine
equipped with a 37-millimeter gun
firing through the propeller. He be-
lieves he will be able to put one Al
gun as well as four ma
chine guns in the flying egg"
Hopes to Invent Cheap Plano.
Nungesser has other ideas which, If
they develop successfully, would make
him leading figure In aeronautics.
One of his cherished dreams Is to
make aviation so cheap and popular !
that in not too many years to come |
the sky will be covered in flying ma
chimes. To this purpose he has also |
built a small amphibious machine |
which he Is also to test soon on the
Seine in Paris The first Of this kind |
Of airplane was built in thirty-six days,
and it is intended to turn them out |
In series and standardized.
Aviation as the chief weapon of any !
future war continues to be q topic Of |
great interest in Paris. When Lieut.. |
Pilot H. Chretien says that the future |
peace of the world lies not in the |
hands of diplomats and politicians, but
Of the scientist who can obtain the |
most perfect mastery of wireless "
orations, he has large auulence. :,
H. Chretien has just issued pam
ohlet warning France and the rest Of
he world that there is very grave !
LANCER Of future air mastery by Ger
many. Although the public has been
getting used to such warnings since
he armistice, M. Chretien's booklet
,ears the stamp Of approval of mill
tary and air experts like Marshal
Voch, NJ Flandin, former under sec
'etary of state and president of the
Zero club of France; M. Andre Mi
helm. patron Of all air progress, and
General Messed, commander Of the
Ninth French army corps.
According to Lieutenant Chretien the
world will some day see a huge battle
,lane, pilotless and conducted solely
" wireless from a base off possibly
900 miles. This planes control may
ven be linked in such a way that
rom one series Of vibrations a veri
able armada Of planes loaded with
igh explosive bombs, DEATH dealing
ases and incendiary compounds, may
e sent from Berlin, and when hover
ng over Paris, by merely pressing a