New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1928, Page 14

"fiu'hhuukflmem | s An Hour With Special Plane Uul. A. J Williams Must Exeeed Long-Dreamed-of ’-»Md_'h Bring Speed Title Back to This Country. ANK J. CARMODY) | eanic and other forms of | distance flying unquestionably hn\e‘ provided 1927 with its aerial high- | lights. The result has been that| speed flying, . Heretifore one of the Lrightest spots in the aviation pic- tare, hae been pushed into the back- sround, so far back, in fact that the | omplete: shattering of all existing “peed records has attracted but rela- Mark Reached v significant to the nd the engineér, act that general interest in how far rather than how fast an ravel, that the 300 m peed which looked so d ngly theoretical not so long ago al- eady has heen reached Major Mario de Bernardi. Ttalian speed ace, fiving the lttle Fiat-powered Maccehi plane that failed him in the Schnei- der Cup raceg of 1927, but which wom the same evemtgn 18226 is the first human being te travel through space at such & speed. The dream bf the aviation en- thuslast thus has come true, and in dofng so. it has made more difficult the task of Lieut. Alfred J. Wil liags of the U. & Naval Air Serv- icawho ie rapidly getting his spec- iall§ built plane ready for an effort to ‘Bring the ~aerial speed record back to America. Lieut. Williams' task was nat an easy one after Flight Lieut, S. M. Kinkead of Great Brftain whirled around the pylons at Lido for one lap at 289 miles an hogr during the Schneider Cup rages. Now. it is that much more ' 1ificnlt as a result of Major Ber-| iardi’s accomplishment. Confidence in Willlame Fellow flyers and friends of Lieut. | Williama are. confident that he will redouble his efforts to exceed the | record of Bernardi as long as he can satithe neccssary backing, and there 1s small chance that those who have s0 enthusiastically supported him to date wil drop out just when the fun | cets keenest. Tmmediately after it became known that the little ship | | Two 12-cylinder, " foot of wing surface is called upon | | to carry about twenty pounds of the | | fixture, the speed has tiny blue and gold racer. Thi ! motor is the largest ever built. As a matter of fact, the engine in the plane personally designed by the navy's fastest fiyer is two engines. water-cooled, V- type plants have been placed. bot- om to bottom, to form a 24-cylinder -type engine with 1,250 horse- power. Both engines of course, have a common erankshaft. To look at the trim, splendidly | finished Mttle ship convinces that it is all engine. TIts dimensions indicate how easily this impression | grows. The ship has an over-all length of only 22 feet, 9 inches. while the span of the upper ring is 29 feet, 10 inches. Each square | craft’s weight which is 4.600 pounds when loaded. The variation from | this figure when the pplane fis equipped with landing gear for land | use is slight. | Certainly the ship looks more than 300 miles an hour if any racing | plane ever did. But, of course, here is another case of looks not | counting. It already is unofficially | credited with a speed of 275 miles | an hour, but when this mark was made, there remained many details to be ironed out. | Reviéw of Record A flash-back over the records made in the Schneider Cup races gives a great deal of hope to those who are pulling for success in Lieut. Willlams' venture. During the 14 vears in which the race has been a | gained 236 miles an hour. In the first event run in 1935 France was victor and | | the average speed was 45.25 miles The next year it went to Then, for five years there was an hour. §86. ! no race because of the war., In 1920, when the event was resumed, a gain of 20 miles an hour over the 1914 mark was established. Since then it has increased vearly, | ! as indicatted by. this chart: Year 192 would not be in readiness to repre- | 1° sent the United States in this year's Schneider trophy contest in Italy, ) Liewt. Willlams announced his in- tention to convert the ‘special plane int@ & land érafi-—a mere shift from pontoons to whecls—to make an cffort to travel er than any hu- man being cv : gone before. The Schne s and the 300- mile record of Bennardi have | brought out several points that are | thesubject of ‘animated discussion | in ®viation circles. Most prominent | ameng thesc are the relative '"""“1 of the monoplane and the biplane | the :sphere of speed. In this year’ recérd, shattering events, mono-\ plapes have been victorious. Uses a Biplane Lieut. Williams' racer is a biplane. | 1t follows the general Amencau pragtice in Ligh pre#sed most pursuit an army and h or Major Bernardi's achlevement in ying 300 miles an | ONCe- howr is the more significant in con- | nection with Licut. Williams' record' breaking plans, is something that canf be settled only by actual flight. | The whole thing, to many, rests in. the engine and not in the faet of the: planc having.'one or two wln:' One advantage is given to the bi- | plage by ncarly everyone s its ter mancuverability, due to its ter fusclage. Maneuverability. ubflnulh, 18 no small item .when it comes to turning around a pylon| mapking'a race course. But here, 104, the difference is not very great. There is novhln; in the way of engines of 1927 record making plapes that can be compared with that which poweras Lieut. Williams' een the airplane's year in speed as well as in everything else. There are many believe that one of the climatic ' achievements is just around the cor- ner—a speed of mor ethan 300 miles an hour. reatest year! 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