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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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WOOD ON THE WING By BRISTOW ADAMS © UMBS from a foreign airplane were employed in a bombardment of the White House on Saturday, ' September 22, 1917. That the bombs were floral and that the airplane carried the colors of a friendly nation are merely incidental. The important fact is that the bombardment took place and was wit- nessed by thousands of interested spectators. On a brisk autumn morning an ivory-tinted airplane gleamed against the bluest sky that ever domed the City of Washington. The sky was essentially Italian, im- ported especially for the purpose of welcoming the ivory tinted biplane which had been piloted by an Italian flyer from Norfolk to the banks of the Potomac. Thousands of people awaited the arrival of the plane and greeted the visitor with the enthusiasm born of international brotherhood in arms. Hardly had the aviator received the cordial welcome of sky and populace when up from the horizon swept another and larger biplane, silver- gray, to be followed shortly afterwards by the great Italian war-tractor carrying a dozen or more persons. It was during the flight over the city that the flora: bombs were dropped on the Executive Mansion. Less than ten years before a group of watchers had looked toward the same Southern horizon for the appear- ance of another biplane. This machine had passed the preliminary tests and was on its final supreme trial be- fore acceptance by the United States Government. The supreme trial was an overland flight from the parade ground at Fort Myer, just across the Potomac from Washington, down to Alexandria—all of seven miles away—and back again to the starting place. As the wind died down with the setting sun, this Wright ma- chine, started by means of the pulley-and-weight launch- ing device, made a few preliminary circlings and then sailed away over the tree-tops out of sight to the South. The wait for its return seemed interminable; watches were consulted; it had been gone ten minutes. "I'm afraid it won't get back!" said one; "probably couldn't make the turn," said another; "maybe he hit a tree—he was flying rather low." This was the tenor of the com-
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Copyright 1917 bv tJnderwood & Underwood, New York. BUILDING AMERICA'S GREAT AIR FLEET FOR USE IN THE WAR The extent to which wood enters into airplane construction is attracting the attention of foresters and lumbermen The Government's program calls for the construction of 23.000 airplanes within twelve months This call for 20,000,000 feet of lumber for propellers alone For the aviation school cantonments the need is 120,000,000 feet and for coastal airplane stations 22,000.000 feet. This picture shows one of the processes in building the planes in a factory which is turning out large numbers for the Government. It illustrates the construction of the frame of a plane. 583

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