The illustrations accompanying this article show three typical examples of plane installations using the Hispano-Suiza motor. There are a number of others, such as the Thomas-Morse Scout illustrated elsewhere, but the three shown will serve as reasonable examples of developments around the " Wright Hispano." The Loening two seater fighter was designed especially to meet the call of the Army toward the end of the war for a very high speed two seater machine of great maneuverability. This machine has not only shown its ability as a land ship but is being built for the Navy as a pontoon type seaplane. It is equipped with a 300 horse-power Type "H" Wright Hispano motor. The Ordnance Scout was built in response to the request of the War Department for an ultra high speed single seater machine. The performance has been exceptionally high. As it was developed for the Air Service, the exact figures are not available. It is equipped with a 300 horse-power Type "II" Wright Hispano. The V.E.-7, or Vought Bluebird, was especially developed as an advanced training machine for the Air Service. It has shown very marked ability for a machine designed for a 150 horse-power motor and is widely used to-day in the Air Service. It is equipped either with 150 horse-power Type "I" or 180 horse-power Type "E” Hispano. The Wright Aeronautical Corporation believes in the Wright Hispano engine and that the developments which are in hand at the present time make it not only wise for the corporation to continue in the aeronautical engine business, but that it is its duty as an American corporation to do so as it is the only corporation in the United States which was a large producer of fighting engines, which proposes to continue in the business with aviation engines as its sole product. The Wright Aeronautical Corporation therefore believes in aviation and the necessity for a strong organization which will bend its whole efforts toward the continued development of the aviation engine. The corporation is in position to accept orders for Wright Hispano engines of the 150 and 180 horse-power and 300 horse-power sizes. It is developing in a conservative manner other types of engines which it believes will be needed. The corporation will undertake the development of any particular type or engine auxiliary equipment for the use of private concerns or military establishment in the United States and abroad. CHAPTER IX CHRONOLOGY OF AERONAUTICS Nov. 15, 1918 (For Earlier Chronology, see * See amplification at 1918 November 15 Dec. 13-Jan. 16 December 24 December 31 1919 January 2 January 6 January 12 January February 1 February 2 February 12 February 12 February 13 February 13 February 19 Jan. 4, 1920 Aircraft Year Book, 1919 ") close of this chapter. Handley-Page at Cricklewood Field, England, carries 40 people 30 minutes at altitude of 6,500 feet. England to India. Four motored Handley-Page piloted by Major MacLaren and General McEwen of the Royal Air Force arrives in Calcutta, a distance of approximately 6,500 miles from England. United States Naval non-rigid dirigible A-236 flies from Key West to Tampa, Cape Sable, Palm Beach and return, covering approximately 691 miles and maintaining continuous flight for 40 hours and 48 minutes. Lieutenant-Commander P. N. L. Bellinger carries 5 passengers and 542 pounds additional weight 668 miles in 9 hours and 1 minute continuous flying. New altitude record established by Captain Lang, R. A. F., at Ipswich, England, with passenger. Altitude of 30,500 feet reached unofficially. Transcontinental Pathfinding Tour. Four army Curtiss J.N.-4-H (Hispano-Suiza) airplanes complete 4,000 mile flight in 50 flying hours. Aerial photographs and maps taken and aerial mail routes and landing fields selected. Rockaway to Key West. United States Naval dirigible C1 (Goodyear) flies 1,450 miles. New Italian Record. Italian biplane, the Marchetti Vickers Terni, equipped with 200 horse-power Spa motor, and piloted by Sergeant Elia Lint, attains, under official tests, and over a closed circuit, an average speed of 160 miles per hour. Navy airplane successfully launched from dirigible in flight. Marseilles to Algeria. Lieutenant Roget and Captain Čoli pilot French Breguet airplane across Mediterranean Sea, a distance of 457 miles in five hours. Endurance flight. Cape May, New Jersey. Goodyear Air- Paris to Brussels and return. Farman Goliath carrying 17 British non-rigid airship N.S.11 patrols North Sea for four Lieutenant E. E. Harmon, piloting a Lepere biplane, 400 Famous Air Pilots-1. Lieut.-Com. A. C. Read, first trans-atlantic Flight, Navy-Curtiss N.C.-4. 2. C. J. Zimmerman, Aeromarine, New York to Cuba and return. 3.-Com. J. H. Towers, N.C.-3, Commanding Officer of Transatlantic Flight operation. 4. Lieut.-Com. P. N. L. Bellinger, N.C.-1. 5. Roland Rohlfs, Official World's Altitude Record, 34,910 feet in Curtiss Wasp. 6. Lieut.-Col. R. S. Hartz, Around U. S. in Glenn L. Martin Bomber. February 21 March 1-15 March 1 March 2 March 3 March 6 March 12 March 13 March 20 March 22 March 23 April 4 April 6 April 16 April 19 American Speed Record. Thomas-Morse Scout, equipped with 300 horse-power Hispano-Suiza motor, attains speed of 164 miles an hour at Ithaca, N. Y., recorded as witnessed and officially recognized by Director of Military Aeronautics. First Annual Aeronautical Exposition of Manufacturers Aircraft Association at Madison Square Garden and 69th Regiment Armory, New York City. French Aerial Mail Service established between Paris, Bordeaux and Marseilles. Italian Aerial Mail Service established between Padua, Italy, and Vienna, Austria, a distance of 304 miles. Canada United States Air Mail. W. E. Boeing, in a Boeing seaplane, flies from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle, a distance of 200 miles. The trip was authorized by the Canadian Post Office and the bag was officially received in Seattle by the Mayor of that city. Pilot C. J. Zimmerman in an Aeromarine Model 40 Flying Commercial delivery by airplane made in Curtiss J.N. by Curtiss M.F. boat sent by Commander Schofield as aerial am- 150 mile radio telephone conversation. Secretary of Navy Daniels talks to pilot in seaplane in flight. 3 D.H.-4 airplanes cross Sierra Nevada mountains at altitude of 14,000 feet, flying from Mather Field, Sacramento, to Carson City, Nevada, in 85 minutes, as compared with average train time of 912 hours. Marseilles to Paris. M. Roget covers approximate distance of 500 miles in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Lieutenant Cortinez, of Chilean Army, crosses Andes Mountains at altitude of 19,800 feet in British Bristol monoplane. Lyon, France-Rome, Italy. M. Goget makes non-stop flight from Lyon to Rome, distance of 684 miles in 7 hours. Flight across Continent. Major T. C. Macauley piloting D.H.-4 airplane, arrives at Souther Field, Americus, Georgia, from San Diego, California, distance of 2,400 miles, in 19 hours flying time, completing round trip flight in 44 hours and 15 minutes. Captain E. F. White, piloting D.H.-4 army biplane, makes first non-stop flight between Chicago and New York City. An average speed of 106 miles per hour is maintained for the 727 miles. April 10-May 10 Remarkable records made by Victory Loan Flying Circus. The circus, composed three flights, each flight consisting of 15 pilots and many types of airplanes, tours country. Performances given in 88 cities in 45 states. Total of 1,275 flights made, 368 civilians taken as passengers and 19,124 miles flown. April 23 Sixth National Foreign Trade Convention held in Chicago adopts following resolution calling for establishment of separate department of Aeronautics: Realizing the unquestioned advantages of having the speediest possible mail and express service in enabling American enterprise to compete successfully in securing the specifications and requirements of our foreign contracts, this convention urges prompt Con Famous Air Pilots-1. Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown, first NonStop Trans-Atlantic Flight. 2. Lieut. Alex. Pearson, Jr., Winner in actual flying time, New York-San Francisco Race. 3. Major G. H. Scott, Commanding Dirigible R.-34, Round trip Trans-Atlantic Flight. 4. Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, first to make round trip New York-San Francisco Race. 5. Capt. R. Smith and Lieut. K. M. Smith, R. A. F., first to make flight from London to Australia. 6. Major R. W. Schroeder, World's two man altitude record, 31,796 feet in Lepere motored biplane, equipped with supercharger. |