Record Bomb Load

Flying over Dayton, 0., the Barling Bomber carried 19 bombs having a total weight of 6,692 pounds--a world's record. The giant airplane is the largest in the world, and weighs nearly 20 tons when fully loaded. But Barling claims he can build a plane four times as large. He could, but it would be scarcely practical to do so. Landing a monster of 80 tons might offer considerable difficulties, and not a flying field in the U. S. is really equipped to receive such a ship as its guest. Moreover, dirigibles improve with size, but airplanes do not. The larger they are, the heavier their structure in proportion to their gross weight. A limit in airplane size exists, at which a plane can fly but carry nothing except its crew and fuel.