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contracts will cali for complete equip
ment for the atrplanes purchased, In
cluding radio, machine guns, spare
parts and spare engines.
The attack plane purchases viii be
Of considerable importance from the
standpoint Of tactical training, since
they will represent the first quantity
acquisition Of new planes Of this type.
The present attack planes Of the Army
are Of obsolete types. The new type
attack planes are nearly 10 miles per
hour faster than the old. and are Of
radically different design.
While the order will call for only 30
planes. only two more than the require
they will make possible very valuable
work in training and working out Of
tactical problems impossible with the
present obsolete types.
It has not been indicated how many
types Of bombardment or pursuit planes
are to be acquired, but all those pur-
chased will be Of the new high-speed
types recently developed.
The Air Corps will benefit in other
ways from Public Works Administration
ALLEGATIONS. Considerable new work Is
to be undertaken at Air Corps posts
in many parts Of the country. Work
called for under new contracts Of this
character includes paved aprons, run.
ways and drains for Barksdale Field,
La, $184,747; paved aprons, rtnways
and drains at Pope Field, N. c., $24,-
$40; four double commissioned om-
GERS quarters at Hamilton Field, Calf,
$4,000: 13 double non-commisSioned
officers quarters and garages at Lang
ley Field, Hampton, Va, 1921 ass; con-
crete water storage tank at Maxwell
Field, Ala, $1,000; road paving and
658; oil storage building at Randolph
Field, Tex, $4,689; incinerator building
at Selfridge Field, Mich, $4,775; "a Of
ficers' quarters at Barksdale Field, La.
s424 300; ordnance and chemical ware
house building at Hamilton Field,
Calf, 1900; grading and oiling at
March Field, Calf, $4,000; Air Corps
barracks at Maxwell Field, Montgom-.
cry. Ala, $122,285; two field ofdcers
quarters and six double company ON
GERS quarters at Middletown Air Depot,
Pa, $169, 100, and addition to gasoline
fueling system. Patterson Field. Ohio
s11 1876.
Larxe Contracts Awarded.
Contracts have been awarded by
Pan-American Airways for new high
speed land and long-range ocean air
transports which will cost $3, $50 900 and
construction work now Is in progress IN
five manufacturing plants IN four
States.
The new planes, among them IL
high-speed land planes OF two OF the
latest designs and IL new htgh-speed
marine transports, including six giant
four -motored flying boats capable OF
scheduled transoceanic service, Will be
used on the 30,0o0-mile Pan-American
system, which now extends from Alaska
to Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Aires.
The contracts are part Of program
Of expansion amounting to more than
IS 900 900 which has been undertaken
by the Pan-American system as its con-
tribution to the national recovery pro-
gram. The work includes, In addition
to the acquisition Of the new Tying
equipment, the expansion OF the sys-
TENS great international marine air
port at Miami, terminus Of lines to 81
countries and colonies Of the southern
Americas.
All of the new airplanes have been
designed or adapted to use on SPECIFIC
portions Of the international routes OF
the great American aviation system.
| The new land transports, all Of twin
engined types capable of speeds Of
nearly 200 miles per hour, are to be
put into service in Central and South
America.
The big flying boats and six new
type high-speed amphibians will 60
into service In the Caribbean area and
on the long coastal runs, with posi-
bility that the boats may 60 into trans
| oceanic service in the not far distant
| future.