El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-09


But how about keeping I'D in the air
; Dr. Belly Have We got the fuel which
: viii keep the machinery going all the
! way across the Atlantic?'
That we shall have it within a short
. time there is but little doubt, and the
duration records show that such a long
4 flight Is already within the possibilities.
: In October last John H Towers flew for
SIX hours and ten minutes in a CUTtiss
; hydro-aerOdrOme from Annapolis, Nd,
and the worlds duration record was
made in France last September. The
: over IS hours"
Worlds Progress Toward Flight.
Are you satisfied with the progress
which the world is making in aerial
navigation"
Yes. 1t seems to me that we are
I moving steadily toward successful
/ InShG We are learning more about
the ar and more about the machinery
necessary to navigate it This is so as
to all kinds of apparatus We have, YOU
/ know, two great divisions. First, ma
/ chimes which are lighter than air, and
second, those which are heavier than
ar Under the first kind comes the
spherical and dirigible balloon. and IN
ger the second the various kinds of aero
uIones' or as many call them. aero
planes. do not like the word aero
pane Aerodrome was the term used
-. L-anEley- 1t means 1raversing the
air, and it is far better than the word
&efopiane, which means a flat sur
r.
Aeroplane is applicable only to the
wings OF the machine. but not to the
machine as a whole
Wonderful Feats of the DiriGfbIes.
How about the dirigible balloons"
,, ne Germans are now making more
progress in dirigibles than any of me
pLher nations, said DR.. Bell AT the
9SSinnlng Of last year thew owned SO
ulrlSlDIeS, While the French baS 81
ana the Russians eight Thev had a
ffSsuIdr balloon service between Frank
2 a =
olrlg1ble Schwaben made 100 trims
" " , I'm Lnree months and carried 1926
"a ,a She flew altogether a to-
IA OF "a hours, covering 1850 miles.
44ater IN the year she flew from Dus-
Selaorf to Berlin via Bremen and Ham
~ EN-, making $50 miles in less than
II hours, an average of more than "a
LnLSS ana hour. The Victoria Iuise
made daily trips from Frankfurt to
other in three hours, carving 2S mas
sSngers She also made a flight from
Hamburg over the North sea. a dis
I9hcs OF 800 miles, and of a duration
of eight hours, There is another Ger.
man balloon which flies 46 miles an
hour" 81
Flying Machine in Warfare.
Are the great powers of the world
9POIIlil >, Iucn as TO military aviation. DR..
Yes. They are fully alive as to its
possibilities and dangers. Every strong
government IS experimenting, and /
9GouDt not that a great deal more has
Known That is one of the thfnes tbe+
governments try to keep secret. In the
Hlnler months of 1912 our own army
s.NIaIorS made 436 flights. and for the
fiscal year ending June 80. 1912 +bey
made 1900 flights. The total time that
our men were in the air was about 200
AS to the French. they passed an
aerial law last year regulating tho
t 1Sta pI1s5hment of an aviation depart
uLenI Tor the army, and at the end of
that year they had a total of 344 ef-
IecClYe aerodromes, divided into 43 sec
llonS ana distributed on a territorial
basis. They had 2S4 trained pilots and
an equal number of trained ObServers
and 22O0 men. Since then their army
aeFocromes nave been increased BY a
very large popular subscription and II
IS claimed that they have on or be-
qromes ana 1900 trained pilots. The
French call aviation the fourth arm OF
the military service.
me Germans have recently sub
scribed- 100000 marks toward aVia-
uon- They have large number of
as.erodromes and are training men for
IN Great Britain the government
mas created the royal flying corps.
service but has an entity of its own.
It IS associated with both army and
navy, ana has a military wing and a
nayal wing. each Of which is divided
into sections. The military wing has
an a1rSh1p section, a kite section and
three aerOdrome sections. The naval
wing has flying stations on the Island
Humber
The Japanese are doing consider
able in aviation" continued DIR. Bell.
and so are Italy and Austria The
lCaIlanS have been the first to employ
the aerodrome in actual warfare They (
have used aerOdrOmes in Tripoli in
their war with the Turks. The ma
chimes were employed in making OBJ
SfrYatlons at night and for detailed /
observations over long distances They /
were manned with wireless teleSraphs. (
and were able to maintain uninter- |
rupted communication with their base
Aerodromes were also used bv the ]
BaIkan armies IN the recent troubles !
with the Turks"
Dropping Bombs on the Enemy,
I understand that some of the aero /
1romes have been competing as to the (
dropping Of bombs into an enemy's /
camp?"
for the Michelin prizes. They were all 4
won Dy Lieut.. Scott, an American. The /
-lrsG prize was $4,000 1t was for the /
Pacing OF the greatest number of 4
bombs, each weighing 15h bounds. /
within a circle of about SO feet the
same to be dropped from an altitude
o. 656 feet or higher. Lieut. Scott I
ifopped y out of the Is bombs with
n the circle. The second prize was
greatest number of bombs in a rec
angle of less area than the deck Of
me or our biggest steamers, or in one !
1874 feet long and 131 feet wide. In /
MS contest the altitude was a half |
nile or more. Scott dropped Is bombs /
Ind eight of them fell inside the rec |
angle. The third prize was $1,000 for |
he most scientific and Dracticed appa-
'atus for bomb dropping. Lieut.. Scott 1
Won this by his gun which he used
or the purpose
I'm the same connection I might /
Jay that one of the best aerOdrOme (
runs IS an invention of a United States /
lrmy officer, Col J. N Lewis, of the
'OSt artillery corps His gun is made
Il steel and aluminium, and it weighs !
bout Is pounds It will shoot from
100 to 700 shots a minute. This gun is |
or shooting at machines in the air"
Flying Machines Man Killers.
/ here referred to the great number |
4 deaths which have occurred in con- !
ectiOn with flying machines. and |
-sked Dr. Bell whether the mortality |
vas increasing.
"The deaths are growing less in pro-
ortiOn according to the number and |
uradOn of the flights, and to the !
lumber of men on the machines. The |
ctual number of the accidents of 1912 |
vas greater than that of 1911, but its
alto to the miles down was much less.
he French have kept the best suatis-
cs in regard to such matters. They
stimate that they have had one acci-
ent for about every $1,000 miles of ! +
light During the first three months
last year their military machines
lew a distance OF over 400 miles,
-hich was Just about twice the dis
lnce covered during a similar period +
1911. The number of accidents in z
9th cases was about the same Many