Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-25
u. 5. PLANES
ON INCREASE
In 5. AMERICA
european Models Have
controlled Field
Over Long Period
But Fall OFF Now
By HAL WALKER
ASSOCIATED Press Corresnord.-

BuENOS AIRES. Oct. a5.MCP-
me United States aircraft industry.
I vigorous and effective methods,
: won an important place. in
LATIN Americas expanding market
ior airplanes.
Aviators sent to Argentine for the
purpose Of demonstrating machines
United States manufacture. have
ea'neo considerable goodwill and
maze progress in various South
american countries. AS a result Of
,neir work with passenger and COM
pat planes. civilian military ard gov
srnmental leaders have developed a
keen interest in air products from
the northern continent.
within a short time after the war,
European aircraft statesmen went
All over South America contracting
Tor the sale of planes which had
been used in combat or which were
nearing completion. As a result Of
TINS work, practically every country
became more or less stocked with
European air equipment for their
armies and navies, and it is only
within comparatively recent months
that planes from the United States
had any show south Of the Rio
Grande.
However. at the present time Bra
al. Argentina. Chile, Peru and Bo-
livia are all more interested, appar-
emily. in American than in European
commercial and fighting planes. The
American flier Doolittle's stunt fly
ing in various countries in recent
months has aroused favorable COM
ments in air circles Of Chile, Ar
g~entina and Brazil. One flight was
from Asuncion to Rio de Janeiro,
hundreds OF miles vel almost vir-
gin forest where not a human being
was seen, the first time any avi-
ator had attempted such flight
here.
The recent contract signed by the
Argentine government in the United
States FOR armed planes is believed
by observers here to be only the
first Of such contracts from South
America. British planes, in the past,
have been used in Chile. and French
in Brazil and Argentina.
There is a French army mission
IN Brazil training the Brazilian
army, as the United States naval
mission works with the navy, 50
that to place American planes IN
the Brazilian land forces seems q
difficult proposition. Both Argen-
tina and Brazil are. and always have
been, closer to the Latin countries
Of Europe than TO the United States,
and the South Atlantic flights OF
De Pinedo, Costes and lie Brix, and
Ferrarin and Del Prete did much 10
foster an appreciation for continent
al planes Of the latest models.
c. W. Webster, sales manager OF
Curtiss A~eroplane Export Corpora
ton, first made a trip in 1919, and
has made several trips since with
aviators demonstrating planes. Mr.
Webster believes that the American
plane will, eventually, be the sort
used in the armies and navies OF
South America shut it is now and
will be in the future a hard fight
against the Entertainments OF Euro
uean makers" he admits.
CAPTAIN Ralph O'Ne:ll was here
recently studying the possibilities
Of linking Buenos Aires and other
east coast cities with New York by
air mail, as a French company links
them with Paris and London by
plane and steamer. Doolittle. Wade
and McMullen working with Webster
have been demonstrating primarily
combat planes TO the armies and
nayies on this continent, but have
also brought TO the attention OF
civilian authorities the possibilities
~ commercial routes ard mail routes
like those in the United States, and
which these countries lack entirely