The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-17
IS
COMING OUT NOW
Will Fly Through Air or Travel
on Water Like Motor
READY FOR ANYTHING
THAT HAPPENS ALONG
DR., Charles Hunt, the Inventor,
Thinks He Has Solved
the Problem,
Tribune Special Sporting Service,


NEW YORK. June 16-Dr. Charles
Hunt OF this city, who believes that his
aero-mobile has solved the problem of
aero navigation. said this week that Ii
all went well he would make his first
flight in few weeks, which was recently
postponed. owing to death in his family
The aero-mobile is on view In this city
Tho machine Is buoyed up by a regular
balloon. but 1t has motor at the bottom
for the purpose OF operating two wings
mado to work as near like the wings of a
bird as tho doctor could devise them. 1t
also has two rudders and a propeller, for
the aero-mobile differs from most flying
machines In that 1t is designed to travel
by water like a motor boat in case it
happens to fall into river, lake or ocean,
The balloon. which Is to inflated with
hydrogen gas, Is fifty feet in diameter and
does not differ in appearance from the
balloons used in ordinary ascensions, ex-
cept that the inventor says that 1t is COW
cred with secret preparation that makes
1t air and water tight From the balloon
Is suspended motor car with a wing
attachment The frame of the car Is built
Of spliced hickory and tested wire, and Is
covered at the bottom with silk chemically
treated with the inventors secret prep
aration so that 1t Is water tight
VIII Serve as Boat.
cdentally falls into the water, or when
the aero-automobilist Intentionally lowers
himself into the water the car will serve
as boat like a canoe. AS the car has
a turbine propeller 1t Is expected that IL
Will be able to make good time in tho wa
ter whenever the wind is so strong that
the sky pilot cannot make much head
way In the air, The car canoe has water
ltrhf rYF oil,
ii up when In the water. and IL gives the
car a kind of cigar shaped appearance.
thus reversing the principle on which Roy
knabenshue worked his flying machine.
The knabenshue contriyance had Its bal
loon made cigar-shape.
One of the most interesting devices of
the aero-mobile is the set Of wings Each
wing Is six and half feet long by three
angle. When they flap downward and
backward the theory is that they will
shove the aero-mobile ahead AS the
wings return they will feather like an oar
on Its back stroke.
Has Two Rudders.
The turbine propeller is not expected to
be OF any service while the aero-moblle is
In the air. There are two rudders. One
at the stern works up and down and is
to raise or lower the airship. while an
other rudder at the bow works sidew!se.
and is intended to guide the ship TO star
board or port, at the pleasure OF the pilot
The car-canoe is thirty-sevep feet long.
The motor is four horsepower gasolene
engine. situated In the middle OF the
boat" Behind the motor sits the motor
ist, and little further astern is the tur-
bine auxiliary propeller. Tho motor
weighs 100 pounds and the remainder OF
the outfit weighs eighty-eight pounds, ma
king a total of 1S pounds When tho
balloon is fully inflated 1t is expected to
carry one person
DR.. Hunt. who expects to make his first
flight in the aero-mobile next Saturday. Is
q small man OF nervous temperament
about 30 years old. His avocation is that
of an inventor.