GERMAN AEROPLANES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 5

GERMAN AEROPLANES.

PLANS TO LEAD WORLD. As a result of recent conferences between scientists, designers, constructor and engine-makers, an organised “push” is to be made by Germany to beat every other nation in the production of giant aircraft, built throughout of lightweight metal alloys, for long flights on globe-circling routes. Problems Germany intends to solve without delay are the reduction of structural weight and the lessening still further of the resistance a fast machine offers to its progress through the air, as well as the simplification and better arrangement of powerplants in huge multi-engined craft. The new plan, devised to. bring success quickly and cheaply, is as follows: A fresh research in laboratories, embodying the testing in wind-tunnels of many tiny models. The building of man-controlled gliders, in which German “wind-flyers” will make descents from hill-tops, reporting upon the behaviour of new wings and controls in actual flight, and checking laboratory data. The building, at a cost of "about £IO6O apiece, of little motor-driven craft, which will bo exact replicas cn a very small scale of huge projected craft costing many thousands. Accommodating only a test-pilot, these models will be nut through exhaustive mid-air tests. The final construction —embodying all lessons learned - with wind-tun-nel shapes, gliders, and motor-driven models—of vast machines, for prolonged flights above continents and oceans.