The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
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very remarkable rate Friends Of mine," he
said, who experts the scientific aspects
or airmanship predict that eventually speeds OF
200 miles and 300 miles an hour will be possible
At this ones imagination is apt to reel. but
this much Is certain: II the flying machine Is
to become OF real importance. and not remain
always sporting toy, 1t must be speedier than
any method OF transit on land"
Perhaps he is convinced that his new four
motor arrangement will give him 100 miles con-
tinuously. He must have that to make his jour
ney In the time he has set. Jules Vedrines has
flown at the rate OF a trffe better than 105 miles
hour and George Fourny holds a record OF
fifteen hours of continuous flight Nothing like
a union of the two records has yet been known
and II Grahame White succeeds according to bis
promise he will have approached and bet.
tered the other.
1t may seem strange, but to the aviator the
matter of swiftness Is a secondary consideration
in the problem. To him the lifting power is the
thing that counts One prominent aviator figured
the other day that on such trip as Grahame-
White plans he would under known conditions
have to carry fuel amounting in weight to moro
than 1000 pounds.
1t is estimated that an average aeropane mo-
tor with speed capacity Of sixty miles hour
will use on an average Ave gallons Of gasoline
hour and gallon of lubricating oil Both
these weigh approximately six pounds gallon
Grahame-White is to have four motors and stay
in the air thirty hours. The result Is simple
figuring.
The main difficulty, then. will be In producing
an aeropane which has the power to make
tremendous lift without materially reducing its
speed 1t is generally conceded that the type Of
airship used will be necessarily bplane as the
dainty monoplane Is not a weight carrier. Even
the bplane has not yet shown power OF moving
the tremendous weight which II is estimated the
cross-seas adventurer must carry.
In France there is record Of machine OF
this sort lifting thirteen people from the ground.
That however, was mere hop and not sus-
tained flight. At best only 1850 pounds of human
freight thus carried. II each person Is al
lowed $50 pounds.
Whatever improvements Grahame. White may
have In his machine It is certain that he
must have unusual lifting power even II he has
discovered some means of cutting his oil and
gasoline requirements He will have to have
tremendous drive to overcome the drag OF the
weight In his storage tanks.
To achieve what he has set out to do he will
have to secure machine OF type superior to
anything that has been SO far seen in motor
equipment, In strength. steadiness and speed
His motors will have to better the continuous
flight record by half, equal the speed record and
beat the lifting record by long odds.
Granted however that he will have at his
command a machine equal to all emergencies he
will still have the ocean to cross. That In the
estimation OF the aviator s the least OF his trou
bles Philip w, Page aviator. expert In the man.
agement of hydropanes. and one OF the foremost
cross-water flyers, expressed the views Of many
the proposed flight the other afternoon.
"Of course" he said, there is a possibility OF
making flight from continent to continent.
Such flight, however, presupposes aeroplane
theoretically perfect for the purpose, With such
a machine the journey would be by no means as
terrifying as most people imagine. II the aviator
were sure OF staying in the air and making the
required speed the rest under normal condi-
tions would be one Of the simplest kinds OF flying
-straghtaway over an unimpeded course.
Contrary to the general belief. he would have
conditions better than those land. The winds
In the summer should be steady and never very
strong, He would encounter no buildings trees
or abrupt changes in the face OF the country TO
split his air currents. Almost any aviator will
tell you that he prefers forty. mile steady to a
ffteen.mile puffy wind
The air.hole theory has come to be good
deal OF myth. but there are still troublesome
UP and down trends of the atmosphere which
lend no little difficulty to land flying These are
caused in large measure from sudden obstruc.
tion to air currents and from radiation.
"The atmosphere over the ocean is not sub
1ect 10 these distractions nor is It affected by