10,000 AEROPLANES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1917, Page 5

10,000 AEROPLANES.

WOULD END WAR IN TEN WEEKS. New York, July 1. The New York Times publishes a telegram from Dayton, Ohio, giving an interview with Mr. Orville Wright, who says that 10,000 aeroplanes would end the war within ten weeks. To sweep from the heavens every German aeroplane would be to put out the eyes of the German .gunners. The United States, Mr. Orville Wright declares, should begin the construction of a vast fleet of little fighting machines carrying one man and a quick-firing gnu, und send them to tho front within tho year. Tho hast Germany can hope to achieve as regards the production of aircraft, Mr. Wright thinks, is to keep abreast of her European antagonists, and tho United States, by making use of automobile plants, is in a position to hold the balance of power in the air. "AIRPLANES WILL WIN V ." Mr. Holt Thomas,, tho famous airplane constructor, said, in the course of an interview with the Daily Graphic, that he was greatly impressed by the American proposal to construct a fleet of 10,000 airplanes. We are, no doubt, as a result of our experience, miles ahead of tho States in the matter- of airplanes. Machines with a speed of eighty miles an hour are absolutely useless now. They are obsolete. If America, building upon export advice which we can give and 'will supply her with, constructs TO,OOO machine*, she will have, done much to win the war. The country with the most airplanes is going to win this war.