BIRTH OF AMERICA'S AEROPLANE MOTOR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 8

BIRTH OF AMERICA'S AEROPLANE MOTOR

ENGINEERS WHO WRESTLED WITH THE PROBLEM. The announcement made by Mr. Bakor, Secretary of War, that a now aeroplane motor bad been perfected which would''help enormously in tlio completion of the great aeroplane fleet now building in the United Stf.t.GS, vividly emphasises the characteristic; energy with which the nation is piepnrin'g to throw it-s whole weight into the war against Prussian autocracy, says Reutor's correspondent vi a dispatch from .Washington. ""Mr.'Baker"describes how the motor camo-. into, -being. "Two of lite best engineers in the country, who liad never before seen each other, were brought together at Washington, and the problem of producing _an nil-American engino at tlie earliest possible moment was presented to them. v Their first conference on June 3 lasted ironi tho afternoon until 2.30 o'clock m the \morning. Tlieso two engineers were, figuratively, locked in a Toom in a Washington hotel and charged wifh tho development of an aeroplane motor for nse by American aviators c* cr the battlefields of Europe. "For five days neither men left the suito of rooms engaged for them. Consulting engineers and diaftsmen from various parts of tho country were brought to Washington to assist them. Tho work in the drifting locm proceeded continuously day ai d 'night. Eaclrof .the two engineers in immediate charge of motor Uvelopment alternately worked a 24-hour fbiit. It wtis promised that the ergine would developed before July *. Twenty-eight days after tho drawings wore started the engino was tet up. Tliis wa3 on July 3."