The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-22
GRAHAME-WH
 PREDICTS OCEAN
 LINERS OF SKY
Thinks World Will Soon See Huge Airships Garry
 ing 4,0OO Passengers

Predictions were made today by MT. Claude GrahameWhite,t the Eng fish aviator that in twenty years aero planes 1000 feet long, with a pas senger carrying capacity of 4,OO0 per sons will be operated between London and New York, and that, besides com pleting the trip one way in fifteen hours, the air craft will supplant the transatlantic liners. He also predict ed that the future aeroplane will DC of steel, that it will be operated by electricity instead of gasolene and that the power will be gathered from wire less electric waves.
 Aeroplanes making trips from con- tinent to continent, he maintained, will be as safe and as comfortable as these shores. The wars of the fu- ture, he declared, will be fought n the. air. He added that the best Am erltan aviators are to-day in their coHiifs-sacrifices to their daring recklessness.
 Ocean Line Airships.
 Transatlantic aeroplanes of great carrying capacity are inevitable" said the aviator to a reporter The aero plane is being perfected every day to a point where students of the science realize that in the future they are bound to supplant the ocean steamship and be an important factor as a pas senger and freight carrying proposi- tion I am convinced from my knowl- edge of the progress that has been made in the science of construction and operation of the aerOplane that in twenty years aerOplaneS at least 1,- 900. feet in length with a passenger carrying capacity of 4,OO0 will enable New Workers to have in dinner in Manhattan and breakfast in London.
 Gasolene of course would probably not be serviceable on a trip of that sort. But gasolene. l am certain will be eliminated in time by the work of some genius in favor of an electri- cal engine that will be absolutely de- pendab It will be possible, I am sure. for plenty of electricity to be obtained from electric waves sent aloft The aeroplane is the solution of quick travel. It will represent then the highest speed that man will be able to attain in transportation.
 Wars in the Air.
 Wars of the comparatively near future will start in the air. The most decisive battles will be fought in the clouds. The adoption of aeroplanes by the armies of the nations and the extent to which they are now being used indicates beyond any doubt, co my mind. that my belief in this di- rection will be realized. The aero plane as a war vessel will be made just as serviceable as will the trans atlantic flying ships that I predict. These aerOplanes, both for fighting and passenger carrying purposes, will be heavier than the air machines.
 Already aeroplanes are being con structed of steel. I have seen the course of construction of machines of this metal in France. The 1000 feet aeroplanes for ocean travel will be of that material and will have en- zines of 75,O00 horse power. The aeroplanes for use in war will not necessarily be of the length of the passenger machines. l believe the war air craft will be nearer 200 feet ii length.
 When MT. Grahame-White was ask ed to what he attributed the collapse of the machines of Johnstone and Badger recently in Chicago, when they fell to their deaths, he said he could not tell.
 .'I always fly safely with view of flying another day." he said. Many of the best American aviators with whom I flew on my last visit here are dead. They were sensational flyers. I believe in flying safely all the time. I regret their deaths for they were among the foremost aviat- ors of the world.''