WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1915, Page 10 (Supplement)

WAR NOTES.

TRIPLANES FOR BRITAIN. Following upon the recent reports concerning the British decision to build up a fleet of "super-aeroplanes," there is considerable interest in a dispatch from Bridgeport, Connecticut, in a San Francisco paper to hand. "The British Government," it says, "is negotiating with Stanley Y. Beach, of Stratford, for 10 powerful triplanas, capable of crossing the Atlantic at 100 miles an hour, and 250 biplanes, lire-proof, and capable of doing 120 miles an hour. From the time the order is placed, Beach, who is president of the Scientific Aeroplane Company, of New York, must have the first (riphuie for shipment within eight weeks. The British Government, he says, is to decide whether it shall fly across or be shipped. Mr. Beach said to-day:—'l believe the distance from Newfoundland to Ireland can be made in one single flight of 24 hours. The distance is only 1800 miles. If we did it, we would win the London Daily Mail's £IO,OOO prize. I suggested that the British Government send over Lieutenant John Cyril Porte, who expected to fly across in Glenn Curlias's America last year. Our machine will succeed where the America didn't, because it will be twice as powerful and will have twice the lifting capacity. The triplane will he a big flying boat, "it will be perfectly seaworthy in case of accident, and will be eqiiipped with wireless. There will be two separate motors of 200-horse-power each. The motor is a piston valve motor, and has no springs or visible moving parts. One small piston inside the working cylinder admits and lets out the gas, instead of the usual two-poppett valves.'"