Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-24

ing in open country. sometimes there is
no preliminary signal from the motor that
10 Is going 10 cease work. That is the
time that the aviator must act quickly
Much Depends on Motor
] have been asked Il an aeroplane could
be built that would carry "A number Of
passengers and travel as Far a. from New
York to Philadelphia. ] am convinced thai
II could II a perfect engine is developed
The whole thing depends almost entirely
upon the engine. II the perfect motor is
obtained and the size OF the planes in
creased there is practically no limit to the
lifting power On the power OF the motor
and the size Of the planes would. of course,
depend the number OF passengers that
could be carried
one student Of the subject declares that
when aerial transit becomes an actual fact
host OF new problems will suddenly APP
near. problems which no laudsman seems
so far to have troubled himself about
though it is very probable that many a.
navigator Of the sea has given considerable
thought to the difficulties lying in wait for
his brother OF the air. In undertaking
long aerial voyages at varying heights and
under varying atmospheric conditions, the
aerial navigator will suddenly find himself
confronted win all the intricacies of ma
rine navigation. with a good many addi-
tiona problems much more battling.
Granting that he can accurately determine
his course through space by means of some
wonderful form OF compass that has yet to
be invented, he will still have to determine
the distance along that course While there
are several excellent devices for measuring
a vessels speed and distance through water,
there are none whatever FOR measuring an
airship's speed and distance through the
lighter medium Of air True the aerial
navigator lost in space while sailing over
known lands can descend, locate himself
and proceed on his way. But what If he be
sailing over trackless ocean or barren
| desert?"
Chsrting the Air.
! 1t has also been pointed out that it will
1 be necessary to install throughout the world
an entirely new system of lighthouses
beacons and other aids to navigation. There
must be easily recognized lights, not only
at prominent Ravens, but on mountain
ranges and Isolated peaks. not merely as
guides to the sky sailor, but as warnings
OF the proximity Of danger. The impact of
a delicate aircraft travelling at sixty miles
an hour against a terrestrial object would
be far more terrible to it's passengers than
that OF liner against sunken reef.
These lighthouses should have immense arc
lights and be equipped with fog signals to
be used in bad weather.
An ingenious suggestion has been made
by another writer that highways might be
formed in the air, like channels in water,
and-instead Of buoys-captive balloons
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ate spots, as we'll as to offer temporary
mornings to passing airships, which might
send Geographic messages through them to
their friends and relatives on earth.
Airy Troubles.
Also with the coming of the airship, a
very pretty problem win be presented &c
the legislators of the world for solution
namely, how to deal with the aerial law
, breaker, to whom neither walls nor fences
mountains nor rivers, nor even the broad
ocean, will be insurmountable barriers. Are
these airshps TO be allowed to traverse from
) tiers freely. regardless of passports? Il
the upper air TO become a smugglers' para
, disc? Are these aerial wanderers to be in
; dependent of customs duties. defiant Of BAN
OF exile and laws of immigration? Ar,
I they to remain at liberty to hover ove
our Qualifications. arsenals and doclSyards
: or to land on our lawns and flower beds
q And how shall we guard against the aeria
9 burglar? Most houses are badly protected
e on top, and the burglar who had friendl!
l. airship in waiting for him need have littl
: fear OF the police. 1t is perhaps too fan
n tastic to predict an aerial police force, bu
v with the arrival Of the cheap and populaI
$ airship the authorities will have to adop
: special precautions to regulate the trafn
: of the skies. Aircraft will inevitably b.