Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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All of th fesiss th errsBTlttoiSfi .n'BEfit np, skill, strenght, money, and experimentation- Yet we are not satisfied for to be still greater is to keep ever striving, ever inventing. Diezel realized thfei. ahS had very recently introduced into the business world the Diezel engine. It is a great success. It os economical because it consumes crude and crank case drained oil. It is sanitary because it gives off no smoke. It is a very high compression engine with little or no vibration. The Diezel engine is being installed in medEnn vessels and smoke atack3 are being ommitted. To accomplish the union ct sea and air transportation people have been quietly revolutionizing the surface ships, while speeding the development of bigger and better armored planes. The United States, within a few months, will have added to its fighting fleet the last word in airplane carriers. Thses are being insltlied on the mighty cruisers, Lexiton and Saratoga, which are nearing completion. Thses vessels will be equipped with a launchingcatapult, which will allow the plane to take off immediately from a standstill. America leads all other countries in this invention. The aircraft carriers are the most wlerd and wonderful ships that ever put to sea. Huge landing decks, equipped with the most modern wind break invention are at either end of the vessels. Airplanes may be elevated from the landing decks to the catapult ready for a take off. Below the deck is an airplane factory and machine shop, capable of rebuilding an entire plane cr making any necessary repairs.With thses new devices in freight carrying planes or passenger planes will stop in mid ocean for fuel, be elevated to the catapult and shot out to sea reserving their entire lifting capacity for carryingthe load. Historians tell us of the Victorian Age, the Elizabethan Age and many rothers. Are ?;e not living in the-aircraft age? Never in the history of aviation have so many experiments been made, as in the past two years, and sucoessful years too. Charles A. Lindberg says, Commercial aviation, until recently a topic for ridicule will lead the world in transportation in a few years. Commercial aviation willcome more quickly than the railroad and the e.utomobile because the automobile has developed these qyickly.than the airplane. In less thar twenty years bt has grown from the crudest experimental stage to a safe reliable carrier with many conveniences and comforts. Europe to-day has well established com ercial lines using large multi-cabin 3hins equipped .o be as comfortable as pullman cars. The Governmet furnishes from fifty to ninety percent of the oprrating coats. Perhaps that d s why com ercial lines haveebeen pushed f forward in Europe . We have commercial lines here of course, such a3 the United States mail routes. There are several of these routes now in operation in the United States and more are being added constantly.