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FRAMINGHAM, MASS. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1920.

Pulaski  FAVOR THE AVRO PLANE  Frederick

Companies Now Forming For Commerce of the Air
FRAMINGHAM ON LIST
Brooks, Banks and Smith Plan For Activity

(By C. Oren Smith)

Recent events on commercial air-craft circles seem to point to the fact that the coming season will witness the use of a large number of aeroplanes of the rotary type

Among the companies expecting to operate in New England, the American Aerial Corporation and the International Aircraft Corporation of Boston and Brooks, Banks & Smith of the English Avro rotary aeroplane.

Lord Weir, England's late secretary of state for the Air minister, stated that "It was unique evidence of the perfection of the design of the Avro that today it  had become the standard training machine of the Royal Air Force and was built in larger numbers than any other aero-plane in the world."

The Framingham company soon to organize for commerce of the air believes that a machine of this type is much more adaptable for landing in territory having small fields such as are found in New England.

The lightness of its engine and unique design of the Avro permits it to be "side-slipped" and the balanced rudder gives the ship an immediate responsive control directionally. This enables the pilot to land in a small area and does not require the long glide necessary in stationary types.

The three seated Avro is known as the 504 K type. It has an approximate range of 225 miles. Its speed at ground level  is 90 miles per hour. It may be landed at a speed slightly under 38 miles per hour. It will climb 10,000 feet in a little under 20 minutes, its ceiling capacity being from 18,000 to 20,000 feet. This machine is driven by an air-cooled engine which is a guarantee of no radiator troubles, and purchased with a closed in body of the limousine type, and equipped with skiis it becomes an ideal winter machine. In the near future the local company expects to see many planed employed in this vicinity throughout the winter months. Every ice field or snow-covered meadow is a possible landing ground. Skimming over the snow and ice, while trains stall, kick and plow through snow drifts, will appeal to many residents of Framingham and elsewhere who are obliged to daily visit Boston. Worcester and even New York.

In summer wheels or pontoons may be used, and if one has wooden lands, the pond will serve quite well as a landing area. With pontoons attached the Avro is much nicer and speedier craft than the average flying boat.

This aeroplane is equipped with skiis, wheels or pontoons is so very stable that it is hoped that women will fly their own machines, as they have motored for the past few years. With a reasonable height the engine may be turned off the controls and hands and feet taken off the controls with nothing happening except a gentle earth-ward glide. The controls on the Avro are very simple and in time one learns to operate them instinctively, as they are natural and logically constructed. At the same time the plane is build to withstand every known strain and it has never been known to fall apart in the air. 

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