The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-03


The third AND final story appears
IN THE DAILY MONITOR toxsor-
row.
ny DEVON FRANCIS
Assssla&sA Prsss AviaAisa natter
ONEW YORK. Jan. -When
Roscoe Turner, the elder states
man Of American air racing,
won the big-money Thompson
Trophy, Event at Cleveland In
1898 by running his I 400 horse
power engine wide open for .
solid hour, he helped peg Am
erican aircraft power plants ~
the worlds best.
Flushed, tired and more than
$40, 900 richer for his hours toll,
big Roscoe TAXED his silver
monoplane to the line and cut
the switches.
"Wide open, all the way" he
announced, amazed.
Forthwith mechanics tore
down the engine to see what had
happened to It,. Airplane en-
gineg were not meant 70 take
that punishment. Its interior
looked almost % good % the
day II came on the factory pro-
duction line.
Criticism Of American 7 war
planes, In comparison with those
Of Germany and England, can
not be made on the counts Of
speed or engine dependability.
Criticism can be more Justly
leveled ut our engine produc-
ton. That Il both Americas
strength and weakness in the
race for air rearmament. We
have the worlds best radial, air
cooled plane engines, but our
current production will equip
only 600 TO 700 combat planes
Z month.
The engine "bottleneck" will
be relieved appreciably' by late,
spring or early summer.
But what that will mean In
terms Of greater. American air
power remains for determine
ton. Much,of our production 10
destined for England. PreSi.
dents rule-of-thumb' divisiou
Of our war plane output equally
between our armed forces and
England has been revised. &
The, greater part Of the out
put Of some warplane factories,
and al Of that Of some factories,
Is going Ia England ~ fast q Il
comes Oh. The assembly lire. That
Il IN keeping with the policy Of
all aid 1lhprt Of. war.
IN the next ave or six months
two major engine factories and
their branches, buttresUed by q
trickle Of production from auto
mobile factories now toolipg up
to make plane engines, are ex-
pected to be turning out $780,
600 horsepower . month.
h terms d units, thst q the
eQulv11eut gof 5000 engines Of
1000 hprSepovWsr Gnch. That
would equiv. every uD0nth, $500
airp3aneB @of IN typ9g bomherA
patrol plapes, puJ1nlte md Oh
servatjon pllnss-including the
.'aparst' which % Win sech] o.
der. s:&
Z Ga American snaipss tvsn
moro than o. Au,ofjcon air
planes y going - d1psnd =
good part The malntau1nee az
BrttiGh bombing .postor. On
them Win - prsdisatoa III fa-
turs of Asnerican aif power.
This = why:
Speed sand Qb.coEtying abil-
ity q W1rplaueg axo fSdnctiUkt
Of desio1 wing -loe4lne and
power leading. No nofion 1Aas .
copyrlshy On doslep. Our lats6t
pursuits 1or s5Eanlp1e, Cory
many O. sthe best features of
British and 0efman pneyulto.
Wing-Iooding Ensqpe ~ rsaa.
ton between IT, w1is11t @ q
plane snd I'll VIM aroG -&l,s
hfghet TIE .WolyAk tt 1d61og tie
plane. PoWUr-lo aAinI sqoldo Ne
relation between ~ t)611ht q
IL plano and H. jnsine hoese-
power-$he lower H. wsiSht,
The Snst9 thG plano.
Desiun,s ma Swinur loodlng can
b ch6nvod q tlsGf p1oosnro 20
IL engines, but % III armed
setvicoD unolne doman1S Sbr biG-
gse alrpaonsU an1 higher apeedS,
Il q ~ enel4e msnufaceufern
who ~ ~. NJ % ~ suplr-
ior poe1ogInancos q osR o1EUeu1t.
IN III todial-Gl,npoa1, ale-euol-
ID I'D ~ ,cth1r paS5en ~ hoon
able - depeuoeh Amesjbqn -
glpss - dspGndability ah6 pev-
% OUTPUT 49,
The tWo lsadlng r1dial engine
unnnufneoarora ~ Pratt 9
whitney dlvisloa g - Uhited
Aircs9H Coro. 81 - Wri0ht
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