Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1927, Page 12

iCZECHS FEED FIGHT PL - INTO RESTLESS BAL . Lieut. Coi. Davis Finds Flow of Aircraft Going Into Trouble Regions of Europe. ' By Lieut. Col. W. Jeflerson Davis. Note—This is the second of a geries of four articles giving Col. Dar: pressions of th mercial aviation in Europe : status of radio there. During the Sum- er he. attended iniernational aviation and radio _conferences abroad. le flew 90,000 miles in E: Mrs. Davis and I, touring FEurope by airplane, attended a music hall performance in London at which the star attraction was a monologue ar- tst, the British version of Wi Rogers. He got his bi & bit of foolery in which it appeared he thought Silesia was an actress. This happened to be a sophist aundience. A large part of Western | rope probably has somewhat the ame idea about Silesia. Experiences like this began to outline the prob: lem of Southeastern Europe as we had never glimpsed it before. In Cen- tral and Western Kurope, where the economic life is being vevitalized, and | order is gradually appearing out of | the political chaos, there is little reali- zation of what is happening acro: the Transylvanian Alps. The gangster nations of the Balkans are still brewing trouble. European statesmans o far as this situation is concerned, is something like picking a sore. Possibly the great new eco- nomic forces unleashed by industry and science may some drain the Balkans of their wars and hatreds. We made some inquiries, but they were not altogether reassuring. Extending from southwestern Mon- tenegro to northeastern Rumania is a line of demarcation between ancient feudallsm and modern industrialism. Northwest of this line there is in- creasing economic unity, with a corre- sponding lessening of political dissen- sion, furthered tremendously by the development of commercial aviation under - the leadership of Germany, with its great Luft Hansa system. Southeast of this line they are de- wveloping and using aircraft. Medieval statecraft has found them powerful | and useful weapons of war. Prague, we found, is hecoming the great commercial entrepot to the | Balkans. We flew from Paris to Prague in one of the graceful French *“Rluebird” Farman _biplanes, via Strasbourg. This is the main line of | the great French colonial route to | the Near East. and continues from i Prague through Vienna, Budapes Bucharest and Constantinople. Fighting Planes for Balkans. Ships carrving passengers and en- ss of state make the journey from Paris to Constantinople | oj, comfortably in two days—about one- third of the time required in railroad These colonial routes are reaching out everywhere from Europe and Africa. One realizes that here are significant beginnings in buildine new empires and reshaping | old_ones ting the international aireraft exhibition at Prague, we were con- firmed in our previous ideas of just | what kind of aviation development | is going on in southeastern Europe. | Czechoslovakia, to be sure, has go in for commercial aircraft, but th does not mean what it does in France and Germany. It is commercial avia tion in the sense that Prague finds | it good business to feed fighting | planes into the Balkans. The entire | emphasis of the Prague exposition was on militar; The pany which swift, waspish doing a flourishing business in put- ting Balkan animosities on an air footing. The Czechs have been par- ticularly successful in engine desizn and construction, and have won Il lof the Wright engine in the Bellanca STATES as the length of life of an engine is one of the determining factors which throw the balance on the right or wrong side of the profit ledger in com- mercial aviation. Usually an engine has to be overhauled after 300 or 400 hours in the air. Until the recent development of the Wright Whirlwind motor by the American designer Lawrence the Czechs thought they led the world ing power and dependabil- r engines. The performance | plane, establishing a new record for | sustained flight in April, caused in- tense interest throughout Kurope. One of the best designers in Czecho- | slovakia admitted to me that he be- lieved the American radial air-cooled motor would replace the old V-shaped water-cooled engines, and that this would be the one great aviation en- gine of the future, For purposes of comparison, one might group Czechoslovakia with the Balkan states, so far as aviation de- velopment is concerned—particularly in its absorption in the development of military planes. On opposite sides of this dividing line there are interesting contrasts to be observed. Germany, paying indem- nities and stripped of her lishment, had to find new sourc economic life. Money which otherwise might have gone into armies and fight- ing fleets for sea and air was turned to the production of new wealth. The healthful and stimulating effects. of this were immediately felt. Not only greater German unity, but the begin- nings of new international amity were the results. Similar commercial activity in the ailr on the part of France, England and Italy brought a mew conception of European fraternity in economic life. Technicians of all these coun- tries contributed vastly to this result, in teaching the lesson that a war plane was one thing and a peace-time plane another. German scientists, with their end- less capacity for patient research, emerged from their laboratories with priceless discoveries. They are now deep in the problem of economical fuel. There is every reason to believe they will find it. Is it not possible that the genii of world peace will come out of a test tube instead of a diplo- matic conference? On the other side of the dividing line are Se Rumania, Bulgaria and Montenegro, hetween the Black Sea and the Baltic. Rich in natural resources, with land, water power and in abundance, they are divid- v high mountain ranges and an- ivalries and hatreds. If they have learned anything from the great war, no one has been able to discover it. In each case belliger- ent nationality appears to have been intensified. And Czechoslovakia is feeding them fighting planes and bombers. Fortunately, the Balkans lie in the pathways of the great colonial air On the plane with me from to Prague was a great French industrialist on his way to the Balkans to search out mineral and water-power concessions. s kind of penetration, T be- vhich will pacify the Balkans, if | anything will. My hope, as I re- turned to the air and got a more re- assuring bird’s-eye view, was that world aviation would develop so rapid- ly that the Balkans, being biit a minor detail of a great world pattern, in- 2vitably would be pacified and civilized. (Col. Davis’ next article will tell of the experience of his wife and himself | in Vienna during the recent riots, and of their escape by plane.) Copyright. 1927, in All Countries by North A wspaper Alliance. “The PALAIS ROYAL G STREET AT ELEVENTH—TELEPHONE MAIN 8780 Not Since May, 1926, Have We Had Such a Sale! 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