Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-26
PREDICTS o-MIlE AIR
SHIPS.
In Time and After Experiments, Says
They Will Cross Ocean.

Aeroplanes for next season. accord
| ing to Walter Brookins, will be able to
make from 90 to 100 miles an hour
where they now make from 50 to SO
miles. He predicts that they will be
able to make long voyages over seas, to
alight in the ocean, start again from
the water, and trim sail" afloat in the
lair.
Mr.. Breokins is the first of the pro-
fessional fliers in this country. and
holder of the worlds record for slow
flying under control and steep banking
at the turns. Except for the men
known as aeroplane inventors, he has
been pratical airman for a longer
period than any American now flying.
OF those who came out of the Wright
school in his class-the first to be
graduated-he is the only survivor,
tombstone and Hoxsey having both met
death in the air. Mr.. Brookins has
had three serious falls. He is now
building an aeroplane for work over
seas, which is to consist of COM
bination between a high power racing
motorboat and Wright biplane. In
this new craft, which will have a trial
| in a short time on Long Island sound,
Brookins believes he will have an aero
| plane on which aviators may cross the
ocean.
The machine will be so constructed
as to be nonsinkable, and at the same
time it will have carrying capacity for
an abundant supply of fuel and food.
The craft is now under construction In
this city.
| Il can tell now what caused me to
have that bad smashup at Belmont
Park said Mr. Brookins, in telling OF
the outlook for aeroplanes as he sees it.
1T was the same kind of a smashup
that automobiles used to have fifteen
years ago or SO. In those days there
was only one speed, and a car leaped
Iaway at top speed, and stopped alb
lruptly. That gave the automobile
makers their chief problem. Today
we of the air game are just where the
Iautomobilists were then. We have got
to get speed control.
we can fly fast enough to keep up
but not slow enough to make safe land
Iings. II we should fly slow enough te
land easily we would simply drop, ano
that we must overcome. At Belmont
Park | had very little wing space oil
the Baby Wright racer and a big en-
CINE. Flying was fine, but lighting
we'll, had to hit the earth at a higher
,lspeed than it could be done
No, this is the way out, and ex-
lperiments are going to demonstrate it
An aeroplane to get off the ground
needs lots of wing space. Ii alst
needs wing space to light on. After
it gets up, and gets to going it car
move along on materially smaller
wings.
1--WE are coming to adjustable wing
lareas, and adjustable angles of Incl
dence for our planes. The sharper the
|angle the more upward thrust as the
plane leaves the ground. After it is
up, and strikes a cruising level. the
|angle> ought to be lessened and the sal
Iarea-thats the best term for it
ought to be reefed in.
IF we could get that matter solved
lived have aeroplanes' whose speed we
lcould control. We need aeroplanes
that can stay aloft at twenty miles ar
hour and under and if we get them IL
La condition to do that, and then car
reef in the sail spread after we get up
1--WE can send them to 100 miles an houl