Avro Company Observes 25th Anniversary: London to Be Protected by Balloon Barrage The 25th anniversary of the great aircraft manufacturing company, A.
Roe & Coy which has been reached is worth notice, In these 25-years they have turned out 6,000 machines, or including those built in fother countries to Avro designs, under licence, around 12,000, When the company was incorporate Jed, on Janvary 11, 1913, its founder:
.V: Ros, now Sir Aitiott Verdon Foc—had already done five years' pioneer work. He was one of the. earliest "British experimenters in. [heavier-than-air ight. In 1908 plane of his design and. construc {Hon was flown. It was followed in. 1909 by the famous Avro triplane which flew on the power of a 9 lip. engine and rests to-day in the Science Since 1923 the Company has done flourishing export business. The Anson in particular is now sold to five foreign governments.
When the War broke out, several lot the Avro 504 biplane "trainers were in use with the Royal Flying Corps, as it was then called, and they distinguished themselves quickly by ferrying out a bombing raid on the Jairship sheds at Friedrichshafen on. November 21, 1914. This type of machine in modified form became LP", during the War the principal training. aeroplane for the Allied forces and before peace was signed more acroplanes of this type had been built than of any other in the world, and 18 ft 9 in, in height on the Jground. Details of its load and' per= formance ave oficial secrets, Flying-boat or Liner Interesting details are given in the Evening Standard" of the report on the United States Maritime Commission on Alreraft and Merchant Mar-Me, on the future of the Aying-bent, the' airship and the liner for erossing the "Auantic. They put the fyingboat easily frst, the alt ship second, the liner a bad' third.
The report submitted to Congress estimates that flying-boats carrying 150 passengers will be in use in no distant future. Six of these cheved could carry 109,500 passengers annually eross the' Atlantic at 4 capital cost of 4,000,000; whereas 2 ship of the Queen Mary class would cost £10:000,000 to bulld in America and would only carry 96,000. passen ers annually.
The "Evening Standard" says: the amount of ducted oh bout aes aovabeca of OG knoll wheteus ig, aly ly a me London's Balloon Barrage With the coming of the New Year, 1 beginning is to be made in forming balloon barrage squadrons for the defence of London. It is believed hat there will be at first three: Jsquadrons of 400 men each, with a balloon {0 every seven or nine. men, including three trained Weehnicians from the Royal Air Force, The idea of the barrage is to suspend from the balloons a fine net in Which aeroplanes will be ental led. The height from which it may be hung instill rather unknown, Some believe "25,000 ft. others say not more than 15,000 fi. It cannot, fwith'the numbers of squadrons as yet available, be hung all round London. But the effect of Its being somewhere should' work "powerfully on. the. moral of the enemy, and it ts this, the human element, which it is. important to al lack, ax a wing Commander writes to "The Times"— ground il be aitsetee nature at whet me, mass of you! for hours, cee, arrears tae
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