AEROPLANE OF THE FUTURE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10996, 17 July 1914, Page 5

AEROPLANE OF THE FUTURE.

The aeroplans of the future will bear about as much relation to the aeroplane cf the present aa the eagle doe?. t« the tomtit, said" Major W S Branoker, of the Military Aero uaatics Department cf the War Office, in a lecture a‘ the University of London. Unlike nearly all other great inventions, it is the misfor tone of the aeroplpno that it has had to'jj.rove its military capabilities inI*advance 1 *advance of its commercial uses “The tims has gone by when any nation can hope to gain advantage from its geographical position. Switzerland useda no navy, but she needs afreplace B ’. Great Britain, owing! to t jo Chennai, has hitter to needed but a E-mail army. Aero planes have rlmos-fc abolished the military advantage cf the Channel. France la? wakened to the fact (bat she lias been equalled, if not passed, in aeroplane design, and also in nninhere- Germany, by virtue 'of slow, methodical work, very lavish expenditure, and the sacrifice of many live’ will scan have the biggest aerial fleet in the world, and sho probably now lias the most reliable engine?. We in Great Britain have aeroplanes good in design but few in number Cf course, our military arrangsmsnts have been almost negligible hither-o compared with those of the Continent. We want machines of increased stability, and these are coming. Wo want standardisation in typo. We want especially a real!-? reliable engine. Our pi’esent engines, on tho average do about 50 hours’ work, and then they require to be overhauled The strenuous conditions of wav time will inevitably ent-all a vast cumber of minor breakage, and .ve shall be Sucky if we tan per; thirty aeroplanes in the air sr rav ons time. ”