Evening star., 1926-10-31
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Legal Adviser for the United States at the
Congress on International Aviation.
Lieut.: Col, o. r. c.

~. sa+berine of material and the production
of planes for all branches of the air sel'loe rs
Premier Mussolini in recent report says
eat the present time the Italian Army All
Service has 4019 efficient engines, Zoo eihciens
airplanes IA aviation fields completed anu io
being completed. All of this material Is 10 oe
used. My program calls for 72o ne" i'l'o.-le'
and the formation Of the groups lnto ""s
For this program sum or zeo'Ooo'oou ~ ~. ~
the fiscal year 1923-24 Is necessary
million lire of this sum will be made 1mme0ldte
ly available which. with the 7S,OOo,ooO IRE SUI
available for the current fiscal year. piopos
to employ for the execution OF my program O.
once The aeronautical constructing lnous'ly
must be organized and put on d nrin ioo'i"e Nv
the same time
feel that aviation owes great zeal III
Italy to the spirit of the Fasclsti. Anu, Wy .i
wav this is no secret Ku Klux Klan af1alf, OUT
is simply a compact organization OF ltahahs'
and particularly of young Italians, VINO are
willing to put the welfare of their country ABOVE
anv personal consideration. They are panoeo
together and organized and controlleo' ho' "
overthrow but to maintain the establlsneo gov
ernment of their country.
T think have never been more tnrllieo ny
any parade than was by that march OF young
patriots have never seen In human races
more intense loyalty and burning enthusiasm
than in those of these Italians. Among tnem
rode a young, One-armed soldier OH hoiSeoa.h
Lieut. Iglori on whose breast was pinned the
Italian gold medal of valor, the highest award
of his government for bravery on the neio OIL
action. 1t has very rarely been conferred upoii
one who lived to wear it.
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Of men versed in practical aviation, 1t wouio
ba hard TO find one more interesting that Signor
Caproni who came down from Milan and caned
to see me in Rome. He is the most modest OF
men, speaks fluent English, has visited America
and is thoroughly conVersant with air ueVelop-
ment throughout the world. He was especlaiiy
interested in discussing developments or the ar
service in America, and spoke with unfelgneo
enthusiasm of the successful achievement OF
our own flyers in crossing the Atlantic with
the NC fleet, and world record achieved py
Cen Mitchell. Signor Caproni is no idle Vlslon-
ary. for he is not only an inventor, but an
actual producer of successful airplanes.
ITALY, he said, being a very small and very
mountainous country, would necessarily neeo
to develop large carrying planes to carry on
communication with distant countries. Hemmed
in as it is by uneasy and unstable natlons on
the land side and with the Mediterranean, over
which it has no large domination, on the other,
Italy has need of air, and 1t is not surprising
that it's thoughts turn skyWard.
Caproni said he was working new giant
Noypane which would not be radically dferent
from the triple tandem tr1plane Whlch ne con-
structed several years ago, except that it would
be larger and more effective This giant ar
craft will be 72 feet long, the body V-shaped
in appearance; the bottom divided into 10 air
tight compartments, with seating capacity
of 100 passengers arranged along the center
corridor, which runs the entire length or the
cabin The plane will be navlgated much as
one of the large ocean liners, the pilot con-
trolling the ship from the bow 1t can be
steered either from the inclosed cabin or from
the exposed "brdge." The motive power is
supplied by eight Liberty motors-a tribute to
Notwithstanding a total Of 5000 horsepower.
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