The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-10
ACROSS OCEAN. IN
METAL AER0PL LANE
IMoissant Predicts Feat Will Be
Accomplished Within Five
Years.

accomplished within Five
Years.
London, September 9.--To John B
Moissant the Daily Mail yesterday pre-.
sented q handsome cup commemorate.
ing his flight by aeroplane from Pari:
to London with passenger.
There was an Informal little gather
ing largely consisting of experts. With
several Of whom the Chicagoan dis
cussed the future OF aviation.
within five years from to-day he
said. "the Atlantic will have been
crossed by neroplane. All that Is real
ly necessary is to have motor de-
veloping 200 or 3o0-horsepower. Two
men will be able to relieve each other
in tho task OF handling the machine.
Already 1oo-horsepower motor
which is suited to aviation Is being
built. and I repeat that within five
years from now we shall have tfown
across the Atlantic.
Only Mt the beginning.
1--WE are only at the beginning, just
at the very beginning" Mr.. Moissant
continued Speed Is what the man
who files Graves for, and speed Is what
he is just beginning to get. In less
than two years time we shall produce
q monoplane with a 200-horsepower
engine which will thrust that machine
through the air at 100 miles an hour.
"This Is not idle talk. We can al
ready say that such machine Is but
matter Of producing a more power
full engine than we have to-day, ahd'
seeing that a 100-horsepower engine
has already been tested satisfactorily
one Of double that power Is purely
matter Of experiment. 1t VIII come
and, let me tell you this. when can
get up into the air on monoplahe
like that and drive it through the air
at 100 miles an hour, ! shall be able
lust to laugh at contrary gusts. 1t
will be not only the conquest OF the
air. but a complete victory over the
wind. Passing so swiftly through the
atmosphere, the craft will be altoseth-
err unaffected by even the hishest
winds.
Build Them OF Metal.
and imagine what thi swill mean;
picture the uses to which the aeropiahs
will then be put!
.'But in a couple of years time, you
must understand. the construction OF
aeroplanes Will be altered entirety,
They will not any longer be iiitnsS
structures of wood and canvass anu
wire. No, sir, we shall nave come 70
the era. of the metal aeroplane. III or
der to Withstand the immense pressu ~ :
of being forced so rapidly through 'ne
air, these machines Will De pu.il up
solidly. Already. you must Know.
weight is beginning not TO coun our. ~, 20
much as 1t did. Quite soon. in iac,. we
.hali make our wings of metal. Alum
mum alloys are already being testeu,
,rd .,ive extra ordinary lightness VIII
rerla rkable strength. -,
"And the bodies of the machines
be of metal. too. They viii cleaVe tne
way through the air as niela1
sheathed torpedo boat destroyer uoe'
the water. only at an eiio
mously greater speed
specinl Places TO Land.
"cri,ics sometimes say that although
tnav c,n understand machine leapins 5
into the mir at 100 miles an hour speed'
they don't see how safe landing Is 70
he made at the end OF the journey al
such high speed But by the time we
arc fying at such pace there WIZ pe
great air stations dotted about all over
the country. The Dreadnought OF tHe
.ea has to have special harpor TO
come into. and so will the Dreadnohshts
OF the air. -,
"These air stations will be greas
fiat spaces. They will be surrouhueu
nv sheds and repair depots. AIT cruz l.,
will be continually rising from them
and arriving at them after long aesia'
Journeys. You can see now, can you'
how a great passenger-carrylns heio ,
nlane. made staunchly out of metal ana
flying at speed Impossible now iiot'
one air station to another, has pecotiie
re
"The whole thing has fined Itself
down into the question of power Give
MS more engine power say the airmen'
and we will fly faster than anything
that moves on land, and ignore all the
wind gusts that now chain US to the
earth. besides carrying half dozen
passengers where we now take aio1t
one
tho situation, are directing all their
energies toward producing higher pow
ered engines than the present ones,
which shall be equally reliable. This,
of course means lot of trial work be-
fore perfection is reached, but the goal
is in sight.
"Nobody except the men who actuaA-T
1y can gauge the stupendous progress
which is now being made toward pro-
ducing perfect flying machine. Talk
about faulty engines! why, SIT, haVs
such confidence in the motor that drives
nv present aeroplane that have VEN
tured twice over the streets OF Paris
with it. 1t has already become thu
exception for the airman's motor to
give him any trouble while he is fly
ing.
And remember in how short time
these motors have been made. Re
member the enormous tax that Is put
upon them. Then picture the reliabi.-
ity of the motor which we shall get In
a few years. I could preach from this
text for hours"
Mr.. Moissant's ideas as to the lines
of future development of the ,aeroplane
have been embodied IN the machine CT
his own invention, with which, he de-
clares, he Will soon make the Wor.u
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