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H i The Standard Magazine Section Ogt'en. Utah, November 29, 1913. s
Xnb The Aviaiori
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From New York to parls In fcv-enty-two
hours in a boat with
w4ngs. Sounds like a dream,
doesn't it? Vet it Is not all a
dream no more of a dream at any
rate than was a flight from Dover
to Calais, across the English Chan
nel, in 1008 when Lord Northcllffe,
tho wealthy publisher of the Lon
don Daily Mall, startled the world
by offering a prize of $100,000 for
it accomplishment. Nor any
more of a dream than a lllght from
London to Manchester and a fllKht
circling Ecngland, both of which
also wore accomplished after this
far seeing and generous English
man had offered large prizes to
pur avlntors to attempt them.
And now Lord Northcllff goes
even further and forecasts the
crossing of tho Atlantic In an air
ship in seventy-two hours In the
near futuro by offering a prize of
$50,000 for the aviator who first
accomplishes this feat. In the
other cases where ho offered prizes
for seemingly impossible feat..
they were won within a year after
k the offers were made. So Its does
not seem o much of a dream after
all to predict that a boat with
wings will soon speed across the
mighty Atlantic from America to
Europe and mark an epoch In the
history of aviation. Lord North
cllffe has hung a pot of gold at the
end of the international rainbow
and bids the flyers prepare them
selves to capture It? they do
It? Let us consider what such a
flight entails and how it might be
accomplished.
Lord Northcllff has specllfied
that the flight must be made In a
hydro-aeroplane in seventy-two
hours. It may be made from any
point In the United States, Canada,
or Newfoundland or any point In
Great Britain or Ireland. But te
make the trip within the time
limit the selection of a route U
vital. Men who are expert In avia
tion, say any route of more than
3.500 miles is out of the question.
While It may be possible to con
struct a craft which can attain a
speed of between sixty and one
hundred miles an hour, they say.
the possible draft and other un
known quantltW-s make it necessary
to have broad margin of time, a
single sustained flight also is more
likely of success, they say, than a
series of flights with landings nn
water and therefore tho shortest
routes are tho best.
SIX ROUTES
AHE SUGGESTED.
The following routes have been
suggested.
! From Newfoundland to Ire
land, about 1.900 miles.
2. From Newfoundland to the
Azores, about 1.200 miles.
3. From New York to Paris, via
Labrador. Greenland, Iceland,
Faroe Islands, and Scotland about
4.500 miles (compared with 3,500
miles Ma steamer and rail), and
with the longest necessary stretch
of water 270 miles.
4. A simmer southern route
via the West Indies, South Amer
ica, Cape Verde Ixlands. Africa
and Spain about 9,400 miles with
one water stretch of 1.280 miles.
And, by the use of a large scow,
ship, or float, as a supply station
anchored In shoal water off New
foundland Bank:
5. Newfoundland Bank (Flem
ish Cap) to the Azores. 170 miles.
6. Flemish Cop to a similar
scow anchored off Porcupine Bank
(to the west of Ireland), about
1.400 miles.
The map accompanying this ar
ticle fchowt various routes that
may be cluii-en for air travel be
tween North and South America
with their adjacent islands and
Europe. The South American
routes traverse the African coaut.
Distances are gnen approximately
to nearest ten (land or English
statute miles. One such mile is
equal to 1.61 kilometers. This map
is on the Gnomic Projection, and is
compiled with reference more to
the geographical location of the
land masses than to the topograph
ical or meteorological conditions
obtaining. Of the abovo rout's
two have been selected by tho Vant
man and "Suchard" expeditions,
both of which are nearly ready. The
. . - A .,l,Aiin in llOT. V
i.ii'.irauie roun a " j
lines are suitable for both motor
planes and motor balloons. The
alternate e and other routes are
shown in lighter lines.
Do the distance shown on the
map make you gap when you con
sider their accomplishment by a
heavler-than-alr craft.' Again do
you murmur - impossible." Reflect
that flights of from 500 to 1,000
miles now are quite common In Eu
rope. Consider the following list
of flights made within the last
three months (lights of from 2S5
to 1,375 miles, flying entirely by
compass direction, and consider if
it is wild to prophecy the croaatng
of the Atlantic Ocean within a
year.
Here are some of the long flights
made by daring and skillful Euro
pean aviators within the last three
months:
Aviator Houf. Dtit. In mil
OalUau rni-Mrtfnc .. . 3
I-atort prl-nltn itt
Janolr mumam Wibiw o
Ollrt pjrU-Vlllorl npn 4.0
Junofr K,mp.-Brln 700
fHuln rurrlJ-BrTnn . M.)
D Mrmlr p,rl-Al-l--hspelle
leort Brrlln r
Oufuaam rriii-Br.ckAl ia"
Hnburs 1000
liert - FarU-Dsn'' W
LORD NORTHCL1FFE AT UPPL:R LEFT.
Jn$n VflUti.-tcnnei-rctcr.i'waM
(Frontier vlllago of
BeJiemui)
D Marlroer Blairli:-Farl-Blar-
rliz JOO
T-ord Calbfry Porjj-I.onilnn . .. . i'7
BAton Pajqultl E: anH'c-Bordeaux-Pa
rm 670
Janolr Etanucs-Urltn-Slnw-
Rla - Pakow - St. Pf
irbure 1-39
7 .i-i - rnrl-Ian3ln-Dun-kro.u-Rottrilam-Arnnwdani-Etisdm-Oatn-J-Kpvlo-Porli
ln hydroac roplan , ISM
Commander Felix. Indon-Frta 27
Grahame-WMte lr.don-Parl (In
hvlrftaeroplart) 287
Chemet london-Parla (in
h-4roaroplane .
Audermra I arla-Uertln 074
tin alrbnat.. ..... 8X1
Frlederlch Pr'.ln - Part "
I.leut Scarjla Turln-rord''non M0
Btorflr Mnlhauiien-Irirhiirg w-0
Colonial Aviator HLkrn-T'inu- UflT 7W
Coionui Aviator GMablsncs-Kei ""'J
$C0T' .if niX'i' a-re
ih Sabarla Desert SCO
Garros FYeJtW near ("annet.
Frrir Afrnil the
A.irlail-- Pea, to Ttl
nle. Africa N
Thulln AeroM thfl Baltic frrm
tndakroni to Sttal
un4. In two houra. or
at a rate of LM nillei
an hour 312
PloefOer Fllfht ending at Mul-
hauaen. Germany IZii
As aviators dispute over the best
possible nnite for crossing the At
lantic they also dispute as to the
type of aircraft beat Milted for the
trip. Most experts, however, say
that tho aeroplane that eventually
will make the flight will be a boat
with wings. Th most efficient
aeroplane today, they say. Is the
alrbont.
The airboat haa developed rapid
ly within the last few years. It
first was developed by putting floats
on an aeroplanw to keep ". from
sinking. In 1911 Glenn H. Cur
tis?, the aviator and Inventor, re
placed the floats with a pontonn
and In 1912 he substituted a body
shaped like a boat. This latter
has been developing In size and
shape to IttCll an extent that the
next step promises to bo a regular
air-yacht.
The airboat that crosses the At
lantic and captures tho pot of gold
at the end of the InternatlonPl rain-
how muct be able in even,1 way to
sustain a flight of about 2.000
milee. That such a boat can be
mill is not doubted by station ex
perts. It Is an economic rather
than n mechanical problem, they
gay. The leading constructors say
the flight probably will b attempt
ed In a standard power boat
equipped with planes ana trans
formed into an airboat. The tittle
power boat, Detroit, which crossed
the Atlantic in 1912, is mentioned
aa a possibility The obtaining of
suitable motors. It is suggested,
would Involve the outlay of be
.. . i $20,000 and $30,000. if four
lhO herfeapoWer motors (tyro as a
reserve) were Installed, a compara
tively small expenditure to that
a
BHi
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m.
wntch would re nccessair to nnance
tho constructing of a special ma
chine and equipping for the trip.
The aeroplane should be capable
of flying at a minimum speed of
fifty mile an hour with a load of
about 4.000 pounds of fuel and
equipment Over 3.000 pounds of
this weight wujld be fuel, which
being consumed would lighten the
aeroplane and thereby Increase the
ppeed to possibly ninety miles an
hour. To f arry su h a weluht an
aeroplane would have to have a
spread of about 120 feet; and It
would have to be biplane, 'for the
double set "f wings would afford a
greater llftlnir cap4 Ity.
To drive an aeroplane of this
size, with such a load, would re
quire a minimum of 300 horsepow
er, which would have to be doubled
" is to assure an Independent re
serve In case of an accident.
The size of such an aeroplane is
not quite double that of the larr
est aeroplane in evlten-e the By
nro.-ky biplane, whkh holds the
record of carrying seven possen
gers in a flight of pearl;, two hours'
duration at an altitude of 6.000
feet, and its construction therefore
Is not Impossible from a mechani
cal standpoint.
The main problem, experts say,
will be weather conditions, oper
ating the machine and navigating
It across the ocoan.
"The difficulties Involved." sayj
an expert, who has given much se
rious study to the problems pre
sented are due principally to the
fa.t thit this air voyage never has
l-fn made before, the obstacle to
be encountered is '.T.'amlllarlty.
not lmpos!blllt v'.
"Granting that an aeroplane ran
be constructed that can fly for forty
hours continuously at a speed rang
lns: be,Wf 10 mlJes with full load
and 70 miles with less load, the
next problem Is to have the human
factor ti keep the aeroplane In
flight for that length of time. Fly
ing, keeping the aeroplane In the
air, la o psychologic process; it d- ,
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Feats Inspired by
Big Cash Prizes of J
J-ord Northcliffi
'lh flight from Dove- tJ
Calais auros the Iingllsh Chsa 1
i.cl I. or : North.-Mffo offerefl a I
prize ot $1o0.oim, ia j,0, 1
whb h is uon h- Louis RleHod
i Fi.rv. h avlatur, on July is' W
190?.
Ihe flight from London J i 1
Man. heater. Kniiand. Le-ej
No th-iiffc offered a prla 3 I
$50 n,m m r-oo. ,ind lt was 1
I tured by Louis rauihan, nli
1 l-T-en h alator, less than a yeai -after
the offer was made.
The making of .t comp.(,
J circuit flight around KijUn(j ji
Lord Northcllffe offered a prlia 1
of UOO.000 In im, and .jti &
; urn : ' r ir. ... race htld
Jules Vedrlnes and Andre Buu- aJ
mont. both Frenchmen, com-)
plated the .-Ircult without ccj. '
dent or mishap.
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pends entirely on the pilot's fetl-if
A lack of confidence on his pt5i''4
or worse yet, a temporary lapi, ,
ronArlousnes? invariably eniji wlt
his drifting down and landing a1"
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best he can; for If he becomsriH
all unnerved or befuddled he Sm
be unable to operato the rudefc
whkh control the ascent and dK
s ent in Hiich a way as to keep tflC
machine In the air. In fact, it l
been repeaici;-. demonstrated tba
an aviator cannot iL after he Ism,
once lost his feeling of securltfR
control. Jfr
' t'onseoiientlv. for a flight of f rt ,
hours It would be nrcewry
have three pilots, with two altr
on duty, and one resting at Intt
a!s In the cabin. This would I
suro continuous efficient service!
the wheel, us wel as constant I
tentlon to the motors. Of coon
tho pilot necessary' ,0 undcrta.
this flight would have to be f
navigators as well as good opef
tors of aeroplanes. To secure
men In America would be o
what difficult at present, uale
naval officers were ciripl'1)! Dj
in Kuropo lt would be les- uifeul
However, cood se.imen could "
lly be secured and trained to m
compllsh the flight."
So you see the flight can be md
II now Is a question of wh0 j fc
make I! U ill the .r-re fi a
the Other maKliltL ent onej gIS
by Lord Nortnchffe for the pr-
tlon of aviation, to a Frenchrfl ,
. . - . . r . . from l i .
American point of iew. lhi Jl,
though this country Is the nom
of the oeropljne Europe.
Frar.-e. in particular, now Ileal
In the science. Tru-. c have "J,
tors who are as expert. If Jp "1Mb,
fo. than any In EuropeY Mt inW,
re more experts In Europe .
the development of the )rlencc
elves n.ore substantial jencou rjmj
n si I But true Amerfloanj "Wr,
.ling to the hope thatJone j Jj
own daring blrdmen -dill
other glorious shlejn--n
lopg list thus Am-yuan ' . JK"
and pluck has recoiled in hlsto
Pages- . ; Ji I
That the feat 1,1 he
d there Is no . Wk,
hH said Loa North, l.rt ' "J
fers In the patt always hx
as forecasts f things about ' MJ
occompllshe'and. a you ha
there Is nonln. nslde r0 Ji?1
element of chance mainly
sented byposslbl weather "BI
tlons hit would make it " IW
possibilllv. Lord Nor,iSE!
present offer of $i0 OOO, ""JW
Is regarded aJ o forecast "P
the swift progress made f
fling. 7
