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...Louis meet was spoken of among airmen as " the greatest in the history of flying." Three hundred airplanes crowded the field. The giant Barling Bomber amazed spectators by its size, when it arrived piloted by General Patrick* himself. The smallest plane was Lawrence Sperry's " messenger " - this curiously enough was caught in the wash of the giant craft and turned over without damage. The great Pulitzer Cup race was reserved for the last day of the race, but the events leading up to it were full of interest and excitement. Trophies and prizes aggregating thousands of dollars were awarded...
...squadrons and men. But perhaps the most effective British reply will be in the line of superior technical achievement. Spectators of the Royal Air Force pageant at Hendon, London, were given during the week a remarkable exhibition of the most recent military planes. Among other exhibits was a bomber equipped with a single engine of 1,000 horsepower, the most powerful airplane engine in the world, which can beat in speed and climb any bomber ever built. On the other end of the motor scale was the " Wren"-a tiny machine flying 50 miles an hour with only 3 horsepower...
...Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with a total of 2,400 horsepower, dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine...
England's latest giant bomber marks a step forward in the development of military aircraft. Hitherto military airplanes have differed from civilian planes mainly in their means of offense. Now the engines are enclosed in a specially armored cabin, immune to machine-gun fire, thus giving protection to the most vital part of the plane...
Officers of McCook Field, Dayton, forgot their triumph in adding endurance to their list of speed, climb and altitude records, on seeing the fatal crash of a heavily loaded Martin bomber. Their guests of a few weeks, Captain W. B. Lawson and Sergeant Bidwell, of Langley Field, Va., Sergeant W. H. Rowland, of Selfridge Field, Mich., and Hugh M. Smith, of the Bureau of Standards, left McCook on a flight to Langley. In the face of a head wind, Captain Lawson-a distinguished war pilot- could not clear a bridge across the Miami at the edge of the field...