The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-03
McCurdy win Glide From
Deck Of Hamburg Liner
on Saturday.
TORPEDO BOATS GO ALONG
Navy Department issues Orders
for Two Destroysrs to Race
In With Av!atog.

J. A. d. McCurdy. IN aviator for 03snR
X. Curtiss. will attempt an asroplans
fight from the deck OF q vessel fifty miles
at sea to Governors Island on Saturday.
He will leave port on the Kaiserin Au-
gus,e Victoria OF the Hamburg American
Line. which sails at 10 o'clock in the morn.
ing. Tie Navy Department win send
two torpedo destroyers along to rescue
NcCurdy in case OF accident.
The Curtiss machine to be used was
dismantled at Belmont Park yesterday
afternoon and shipped to the Hoboken
pier OF the Hamburg line. Either Mr..
be there to-day 20 superintsnd the build
ing OF a platform for launching the aero
plane. Il was said the platform will
be 100 feet long and will be built on tho
forward deck OF the ship. The incline
will have q drop OF sixty feet above tho
water
In launching the aeroplane tbs ship
will be headed into the wind and its speed
will be regulated to conform to the " ind.
thus making the length Of runway more
American Line is making the test with the
| object OF demonstrating the feasibility
Of eauipping it's new liner. the 800 foot
| steamer Europa. the largest ship in the
| world. nox under construction. with n
regular aeroplane service for use in trans
porting mail and other purposes Mr..
McCurdy will carry when he leaves the
ship a small waterproof mail bag con-
tanning letters from the passengers. which
i he will deliver at the New York posi-
Office.
Acting Secretary Winthrop OF the Navy
yesterday issued orders that two tor
pedo deetroyers OF the seventh division
now in the Hudson River. each capable
OF making about thirty knots speed.
patrol the course to be followed by Nc
Curdy in his flight II IL probable that
one destroyer will remain about twenty
| miles out while the other will proceed
further to sea
II the aviator succeeds in making more
| than thirty miles an hour in his aeropiane
the destroyers will not be able to keep
pace with him. In this case the destroyer
which goes furthest to sea will accom-
pany him back as far as possible. II the
machine outdistances the destroyer the
second torpedo vesse, stationed nearer
the coast will take up the race and with
a good start attempt 10 accompany the
aviator in.
Capt Washington | Chambers will
probably he detailed to hoard one Of the
destroyers as the official observer OF the
Navy Department Capt. Chambers was
designat. I'D TO act a. observer for the Navy
Department at the recent Belmont avia-
ZION meet The de-troyers will go out
on the trip specially prepared to do rescue
work
The selection of the two Ciestroyers will
b. left To ia. discretion OF Lieutenant
Commander George e. ay. com a ding
officer IT IN. seventh torpedo division
This Division consists Of five testroyerx,
m" Smith. IN. Fluss"r. tn. I.am~on. toe
Preston and the Reid. each Of 100 tons
Commander Day ~ IN command OF the
-Iroyer Smit IA besides being AT th, head
Of the division. IL is practically certain
therefor" that IN. Smith will be one to
part icipar. IN the race with the aeroplnne
Tn. trial OF rising IN an aeropiane from
IN" deck of n ship has long be-n suggested
by naval experts. Some have urged that
a United States war vessel be equipped
with long. Hat how for the purpose OF
experimenting along this line. OsHers
have suggested that an ordinary armored
cruiser running at full speed against n
still wind would afford conditions under
which an aeropiane could rise from the
deck without any very great difficulty.
Even il McCurdy should demonst rate
ON Saturday that he can rise from the
deck 81 the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
= here will still be another obsta which
navy men believe will rest riot the use OF
flying machines in naval warfare arf
that il the difficulty. or rather impoesi-
bility Of landing on war vessel after tho
aeronaut has once SCARED from the deck.
The French navy 10 already experiment
ing with the U.S. OF aeroplanes for coast
scouting purposes. but the French navy's
machines are operating entirely from
land base and do not attempt either TO
arise from or alight upon the deck OF
war vessel.
McCurdy In one Of the four men who
built aeroplanes at Hammondsport an
n member Of the Aerial Experiment Assoc
citation. which was organized by DR..
Alexander Grahams Bell. lie lives at
Baddeck. ". -. where he In said to have
made over 900 flights. In making thcse
flights he estimates that ie has covered
q 900 miles. flying above the frozen lake.
which 10 landlocked after the manner
Of Lake keuka at Hammondsport. He
was one OF tho first men to fly in this
and experimental in the Ave
machines built by this associa ton, which
led tn the construction Of the present
type Of Curtiss machine.
Other IN embers Of the association
were the late Lieut. Seifridge. who Loaf
his life in an asroplane accident at FORT
Myer; Glenn H. yCurtiss and 2. w. Bald
win. After the association disbanded
more than q year ago McCurdy went 70
Sn n,,gs cs ana srnr,sn.s 'crp UP Tor
months he has been associated with
Mr.. Curtiss and took part in the Sheeps-
head Bay meet during the summer.