The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-15
Transatlantic Round Trip BOmberS End U. s. Isolation
Foster Lono-Ronoe Planes, Developed
 In America, Moy Be Turned Against Us
BY THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Service MnItaFy Writer

PLANES COULD RECRoss OCEAN. VIII have range to bomb Europe and fly back"
 That headline is an epltaph scraw- led blackly across the old, old, conn fortable American credo: "They can't bomb US"
 It foreteils the end of our security against Europes wars, for Q plane that can "bomb Europe and fly back" can reverse the process.
 Announcement that the problem of non stop transatlantic return flight has been solved by American aeronautical engineers means that many almost equally pressing prob- lens are raised for the Army and Navy.
 how to apply the discovery--which they had foreseen--to our defense problems, but must keep It's secret from falling entirely Into the hands of other nations. It has, partly, al. ready. Indeed, Britain knew an iiii- portant element of it months ago and Germany Is believed to be ex- perimenting along lines that will presently place the same weapon in her hands. MODELS SHOWN A YEAR AGO
 The American discoveries that will | make 1t possible for airplanes with Q full load of passengers, cargo or bombs or fly to Europe and return without stopping to refuel, are logi. cal developments in aerodynan1ics.
 4 chosen few Americans saw the foremost Of them demonstrated in the wind-tunnel at Langley Field Q year ago, when . .'stream-lined wing," that cut air.resiStance by two.thirds, waS shown.
 And every motorist knows that when his engine gets too hot itl can't climb hills. By method called "flnning," airplano engines can now Do cooled 50 as to increase their efficiency three times over And these engines will bo better synohroniged, cowled and fuoled than ever.
 Result: ships ablo to cruise farth. or and faster $500 miles on hour) than any yet known. So says the National Advisory Committee for Aeronauties in its report to Con. gress. PLANES FoREHADoW
 GREAT CHANGE
 The report was released just now, presumably, for It's effect on the "isolationist" Congressman who do not believe the United States can Do attacked. Tho Army and Navy believe that between the reports lines the initiate vision can descry coming changes in military aviation that perhaps are as profound as those which followed tho fflonos | plano or tho Fokker gun.
 Forseeing these changes, both | services already have done much with big bombers which may prove pilot models for what is to come. And while possession of them makes HemiSphero defense easier, that ad. vantage may Dc mere than counter- balanced when other powers develop | the same sort of long-rango planes which for instance, would allow Germany to attack Canadian air. dromes.
 This was one cause behind the attention now being given to anti. craft defense for this country, for which the Army has lately formed special staff under Drigadior General Jamos D. Ohaney.
 Their job will Do to plan to pro. teet this country from cir attack through c single organization for co.ordinating anti-air. .craft guns, pursuit planes, aircraft warning service and oil other branches, They | will have eventual headquarters ct the new Northeast Ar Base, Wegts over Field, Holyoke, Mass, in the area most vulnerable to and nearest to Europe. AIR CHIEF
 SOUNDS WARNING
 Not yet can Stroamiined wings fly bombers from Europe to our shores and back, non.Stop-nor from our shores there; save for sacrifice flights, the new planes must Do pro. tected by new-typo convoy fighters. Tn this problem our Air Corps is now working-but 50, presumably, are those of foreign countries.
 Today's headlines mean the time Is in Bight---a year or two off-when more writing on the wall will Do appreoiated-the testimony Of Major General Prank M. Andrews, chief Of the Army's General Headquarters Air ForeeI
 "ThiS Is no figment of 6 Jules Verne imagination --aeFonautieal de- velopments will make of the Allan. tic Ocean an English Channel"