The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
ANY ONE NAY FLY NEXT YEAR
GRIHANE-WHITE DESCRIBES
THE COMING AIR CAR.
Ms sure >erepaanes WIN Soon Ne In
Practical Everyday Obstacles
10 flight Sanishing High Speed the
Thing safer Than Autsms chilling.

Thing safer Than Autemshaiing.
sr,,+di ca4s Despatch 10 TnR srS
LONDON. Dec. c4.-The most practical
aud also the most inspiring discus
ION ot the future OF aviation appears
to-day from the pen OF Claude
trahame- White. who confidently affirms
that the year 1911 will witness the
actual development OF a great new in
cI-,ry. The advancement OF the aero
r.ans. he points out. has been checked by
three defects in the machines themselves.
inability 70 combat winds. construc-
tona weaknesses. and the unreliability
# the engines. These defects. which
made aeroplanes mere playthings in
their early stages Of development. are
already being overcome in an altogether
surprising way.
That they will he overcome and that
Aving machines will he practical for every
div use says Grahame- White. is my
FIRM conviction. Take flying in winds.
WITH the aeroplanes NE had in the be-
ginning il was only possible 20 ascend
when the wind was as low as four or Ave
miles an hour. Now | find il quite pos
sinle 10 remain in the air and control the
machine in a wind OF twenty-five miles
From this 20 ability to fly in even stronger
winds 1t IL merely a question OF greater
speed.
I have become an ardent advocate Of
h gh speed flying, continues Mr. Grahame-
White Speed gives you power to over
come attacks of sudden wind gusts. which
are the airmen's peril. In a high speed
moroplane, for example you dash through
an adverse gust in the same way that
last torpedo boat destroyer thr,Ists her
cav through an opposing wave. For this
-ea-on in nv CONSTITUTIONAL work shall
fsvot. my earnest attention to "A high
speed machine.
Far greater weight and rigidity OF
construction are bound 10 come. and with
'rAm will dawn an era Of aerial travel at a
-D.ed OF iO0 miles an hour At such
-Teed It will be possible TO pilot a ma
came through anything short Of an actual
gale When We have this machine. which
j. my intention TO strive for coustruc-
ronaly. regular aerial services will
n-come not only possible but profit
able
The engine problems SAYS Grahame-
White. are solving themselves. With
the scepticism with which some people
always view a new idea IL was contended
IN the infancy OF the aeroplans that no
petrol motor would stand the strain OF
propelling an aeroplane because OF the
necessary liGhtneSs and the high speed a,
which il would have to be run The
answer to fhese critics has been over
shelming. Even while our aeroplanes
and particularly the propellers, are adj
mittedly imperfect. thereby imposing
upon the engine most difficult conditions
flights OF three. Ave and six hours are
already evoking no particular comment
To certain extent. indeed. the duration
n flight has now become a matter OF
ra,rol carrying. have no; the slightest
fsar therefore. as to the success OF the
wing machine engine
Next there il the question OF safety
Here am face to face with a grave mis-
conception. People generally hav. com.
10 the conclusion that flying il highly
dangerous and will always remain As
practical fiier l say there is very little
danger in il now. and that m the future
'nsr. will be no more risk in an aerial
Quincy than in moving from point to
roin' in a railway train
AZ present reck oning expert hiers ard
rupIls who can pilot machines OF the
ground. there are estimated to be 5000
arm en- throughout the world. To teach
'he~e men to avigate new element with
crude experimental machines and abso-
N'"v no data 10 go upon. what has the
tsa'n roll amounted to- Le~s than
'airty. and in this particular connection
= i significant to recall "a n comparison
nat nine men were killed in one great
motor car race Analysing the deaths
mat have taken place. il is possible TO
draw practical lesson from each Thus
set Of circumstances which brought
anout any one Of these fatalities il not
likely TO occur again.
lnaVperience. foolhardinsss and CON
Hructional weakness have been rcspop-
srls for practically all the accidents
Ih!ch have taken place Given a good
machine "A careful. well trained pilot
and proper weather conditions. flying
already as safe a. motoring. and very
soon u promises to be safer.
'"NI -IIniurE. rSyr
practically for the first time people
T he able 70 enjoy the sensation OF air
'ra"H Ready for trials in the spring
T 20 IN. first type Of q machine which
ne mi ht call an air car. IL will be
.rrongly built monopiane. 4 100
nor-e.power engine will propel II 1t
r nave a body like a motor car. with
'our comfortably padded seats. well
rro'er'Hd from the wind There - no
'~s-on Why any wealthy motor'st should
NJ purchase such a machine. He may
nav an aerial chauffeur II he does not
want 20 earn to drive himself. and enjoy
s"r1rianing IN thoroughly practical
Vav
In - sporting aspect says the avia-
tn for--.e that flying will enjoy even
sr"a'-r yogII. than motoring Motor
'ar driving even IN its most Favorable.
1-r"~'- csnnot b. compared with flying
Nor" a sense Of freedom and exhiiara-