Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1942 — Page 5

STUDY OF | * PLANE ‘GADGETS

Bw Field Engineers perfecting Amazing Devices : Destined to Play Vital Role in the Global Battle for Freedom.

‘By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Central European Manager

WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, O., Nov. 3—The gadgets . which make American fighter planes and bombers so deadly efficient undergo constant refinement here at the Army air forces’ laboratories. Wright field has developed and the Army is putting to “hard use scores of new aviation devices which right now are ‘busy at the job of deflating Hermann Goering’s luftwaffe. Gadgets count heavily in air power and Americans are the world’s supreme gadgeteers. There is more to fighting an air war than building superb flying machines and equipping them with powerful

John A. Crawford and Charles Applegate, left to right, got up . way before breakfast to work at the polls. At dawn they parked before a movie advertisement to catch up on their food.

Workers for the various tickets swarm about the polling place at 3921 E. Washington st. to get a last crack at voters as they go in to cast their ballot.

Werner Rahn, . left, turned up about 6:30 a. m. to vote at the Sheridan theater on E. Washington st. Here he signs up. under the waichful eye of poll worker John Townsend.

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guns. An air force without

. gadgets would be like a rifle

without adjustable sights. “In the Wright field laboratories I have seen cameras whose lenses are operated automatically by photo - electric cells, activated by flash bombs; plastic lenses; portable development tents which can be dropped by parachute, and photographic plates so sensitized that the de- : Cn tailed picture of ? an entire city can Mr. Oechsner be printed on a surface not more than four inches across. Gadgets like that sharpen the eyes of the air forces. They, and some others, constitute refinements which top anything I ever have seen in Germany, noted for its

clever photography and expert camera technicians.

New Radio Device At luncheon one day, the radio

‘apparatus in our room began to

give out an SOS signal at regular intervals. We were told that the came from a ‘rubber boat “wast at sea” nearby. We found it, just south southeast of the radio laboratory. Four doughty airmen were sitting in it, awaiting our One of them held in his

_\ lap the radio device, a small hand

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dynamo which automatically ground out an SOS when cranked. It could be converted at will into a Morse hand-sender or an electric light-blinker. We saw a radio-controlled model plane, with a wing spread of about six feet, its engine propelling it at 100 miles an hour. It was equipped with a radio-controlled parachute to let it: float gently down to earth, since’ landing is still too complicated an operation for remote control. A small boy's dream of delight, the little ‘plane is militarily useful as a target for anti-aircraft practice. Outside the field of radio was another wonder—the largest elec-

; trie fan in the world, a giant blade

driven by 40,000 horsepower. It can set up a 450-mile-an-hour wind in a huge U-shaped tunnel where air flow and surface stresses are studied.

Study Reactions

In the aero-medical research laboratory I saw delicate tests to determine the reaction of parachute jumpers to the oxygen content of the atmosphere at 30,000 feet and downward, of pilots at similar heights. The air war is moving up‘ stairs and such information is vital. The flying fortresses at first were heavily criticized by the British. ‘Some of the criticisms led to changes, but the basic idea of the fortress —a long-range, self-suffi-cient bomber for high altitude work

. —was retained. It proved its use-

fulness. These refinements have been in-

vented and improved under. the!

stress of necessity, aided by the fact that in the sudden creation of our air power we have had the ad-

¥vantage of a late start.

One of the Nazis’ major boasts always has been that, starting from scratch in 1933 and 1934, under the penalties imposed on ‘their armed

- forces and armaments by the Ver-

sailles treaty, they went into actual combat only with bright new weap-

~ ons, not with the obsolescent equip-

ment of such opponents as the French air force.

Weapons New

It is equally true that the weapons of the United States are new and modern. If the Nazis started in

1933-34, we started in 1938-39, and have not been idle since then. Early improvements were. made basically on the reports of foreign pilots, or by our volunteers flying with their forces. Sometimes the foreign pilots didn’t understand. our planes. Since we have entered the war and our own pilots have begun to appear in combat with our own planes the experts at Wright field have been obtaining thorough-going reports by men who have been trained in American types. The reports generally have been good, When they are unfavorable it is Wright field's job to tackle the problem. New needs are satisfied here with astonishing rapidity. Lessons learned in the field of combat are studied constantly in the laboratory. Adaptations are made speedily on the production lines, where planes and their equipment are modified constantly as experience requires.

Experts Ready

Army air force authorities have not yet obtained complete in-action reports on all our new types, such as the fighter designed to oppose Germany's new Focke - Wulf - 190. Sometimes such planes have not been able to flush the enemy, or have had to operate under weather conditions which did not offer a fair test. But when the reports arrive the experts will go to work. Necessary changes will be reflected right down the production line, for the materiel éxperts here test every new contract, regardless of the tests made by the factories themselves. That’s why our aircraft are showing up so well in action. Our enemies knew we would be able to oppose them with quantity. They didn’t expect such quality.

ADMINISTRATOR FOR PAY FREEZE NAMED

Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Carroll

Dougherty, a professor at Hunter college, New York, has been appinted by the war labor board to head the special section which will administer wage controls under the new freeze order, it was learned today. . Until 1939, when he resigned, he was assistant administrator of the wage and hour division. By directive of. the new office of economic stabilization, the war labor board has Jurisdiction over all industrial wages under $3,000. Much of the detail of operation will be handled, however, by the

made its regional staffs and facilities available. to. the WLB.

RUSSIA PUTS NAZI TOLL AT 10 MILLION

MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—Ten million Germans have been killed or permanently put out of action on

roff, propaganda chief of the central committee, said today. He made his estimate in an article published by the government newspaper Izvestia. He said the Nazis’ losses were equivalent to the number of births in Germany over a 10 to 15 year period.

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