Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-10
THE FUTURE OF THE AIRsHIP
Il Will Be Safer Than an Auto and
Speed Will Bring Security.

II Will Be Safer Than an Auto and
Speed Will Bring Security.
A most practical and inspiring dis
cussion of the future of aviation ap-
pears today from the pen of Claude
Grahame-W White, who confidently af-
firms the year 1911 will witness the ac-
tual development of a great new in
dustry.
The advancement of the aeroplane,
he points out, has been checked by
three defeats in the machines them
selves-inability to combat winds,
constitutional weaknesses, and unre-
liability of their engines.
"These defects, which made aero
planes mere playthings in their early
stages of development, are already be-
ing overcome in an altogether surpris-
ing way" the writer says. THAT they
will be completely overcome, and that
flying machines will be made practical
for everyday use, is my firm convic-
ton.
Take flying in winds, for instance.
With the aeroplanes we had in the be-
ginning it was only possible to ascend
when the wind was as low as four or
five miles an hour. Now find it pos
sible to remain in the air and control
my machine in a wind of 25 miles.
From this to the ability to fly in even
stronger winds is merely a question
of greater speed.
81 have become an ardent advocate
of high speed flying. Speed gives you
power to overcome the attacks of sud-
den wind gusts, which are an air mans
chief peril. In a high speed monoplane,
for example, you dash through an ad-
verse gust in the same way fast tor
pedo boat destroyer thrusts its way
through an opposing wave.
For this reason, in my construction
al work, I shall devote my earnest at
tention to a high-speed machine. Far
greater weight and rigidity of con-
struction is bound to come, and with it
will dawn an era Of an hour of aerial
travel at speeds Of from 100 miles an
hour up. At such speed it will be pos
sible to pilot a machine through any
thing short of an actual gale.
when we have this machine, which
it is my intention to strive for con-
structionally, regular aerial service
will become not only possible, but
profitable.
Engine problems are solving them
selves. With the skepticism with which
some people always view new idea it
was contended in the infancy of aero
planes that no petrol motor would
stand the strain of propelling an aero
plane, because of it's necessary light
ness and the high speed at which it
would have to run. The answer to
these critics has been overwhelming.
Even while our aeroplanes, and par
ticularly our propellers, are admitted
~ imperfect, thereby imposing upon the
engine the most difficult conditions,
flights of three, five or six hours al
ready are evoking no particular COM
ment. To a certain extent, indeed, the
duration of the flight now has become
purely a matter of petrol carrying. I
have not the slightest fear. therefore,
as to the success of the flying ma
chine engine.
Now, there is the question of safe
ty. Here l am faced with grave mis-
conception. People generally have
come to the conclusion that flying is
highly dangerous and will always re-
main so. AS a practical flyer i say
there is little danger in it now and
that in future there will be no more
danger in an aerial journey than there
is in moving from point to point in
railway train.
"Analyzing the deaths that have
taken place it is possible to draw
practical lesson from each, and thus
the set of circumstances which has
brought any one of these fatalities is
not likely to occur again. IneXperi-
ence, foolhardiness and CONSTITUTIONAL
weakness in machines have been res
ponsible for practically all the acci-
dents which have taken place so far
Given a good and carefully trained
pilot and proper weather conditions,
flying is already as safe as motoring,
and soon it will prove to be safer
Next summer, practically for the
first time, people will be able to enjoy
of n
type of the machine one might call an
air car will be ready for trials in the
spring. 1t will be a strongly built
monoplane. with a 100 horse power en-
CINE and a body like a motor car, with
four comfortable, padded seats, well
protected from the wind. There need
be no reason why any wealthy motor
list shall not purchase such a machine
and have an aerial chauffeur, if he
does not want to learn to drive him.
self. and enjoy aeroplaning in thor
oughly practical way.
IN it's sporting aspect l foresee that
flying will enjoy even greater vogue
than motoring. Motor car driving,
even in it's most favorable aspects,
cannot be compared to flying. There is
a sense of freedom and eXhilaration in
passing swiftly through the air that
never comes when driving car. l
speak from experience again, having
done more than a little motoring.
Directly more convenient and less
bulky machine than the present aero
plane can be produced the public de-
mand for it will begin. | see no un-
surmountable difficulty in the way of
completely revolutionzing by means
of the aeroplane all existing methods
of communications Cores
pondent Chicago Tribune.
~ Lots Of these reforms you hear
so much about" said Uncle Allen
Sharks Consists merely in muffling