The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

say everything went off in good shape and the officers are very much pleased with the boat.
 ''The Navy Aviation Corps during the present time has only Curtiss ma chimes. Nine Hydro-aeropIanes and one flying boat. There are fourteen officers in all who are good diers.
 5Iieutenant Victor Btgolf accom- panied me as a passenger during the trials and readily became an enthu- s1ast after our return to the Avia- tion Station. The first thing the off cers examined was the barograph. All were greatly surprised at the climbs as well as pleased with the perfor- nance of the boat. Lieut. Utgoh soon mastered all the details in a very few hours and now he flies like a vet eran. also instructed Lieut.. B. N. Lutshaniroff, Lieut.. N. L. MfchyIow Lieut., l. I. Stacerosky, and Lieut.. N. R. Veran.
 ttOn October 8 His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Russia, Alexander Michael paid an unofficial visit to the Navy Aviation Station. He remained there for over an hour where he wit messed several flights of the flying boat and the hydros. He was very much interested and impressed with the performance of the flying boat. had quite talk with him relative to the construction and so forth. The
 
 League which controls the Army Aviation Corps of Russia.
 Aviation, especially military avia- tion abroad is taken as seriously as the automobile business and it has gotten down to a practical business basis with all military commissions in European countries. To give you some idea of the popularity of avia-- ton heres- the following countries are making great headway in that direc- ton, spending millions.
 Russia has several stations. Two of the largest have over four hundred aeroplanes and several hundred mil itary pilots. Hundreds of buildings which include Hangars for the ma chimes, machine shops, repair shops and homes for the officers and men, all are made of brick and are perma- nent buildings One camp near Se-- bastopoI which is on the Black Sea, occupies about twenty thousand acres of level fiat country. The surround ing country for thirty miles affords splendid place for landings at all times, this place is the principal training school for the land machines which are composed of MonopIanes and Biplanes. It is a common sight to see most any day. from ten to forty machines in the air at one tirne Dur ing some of the manoeuvers last week l was invited by Count Muruzi the COnlI1ldAO1AS OIuCoT or the station to take a ride with their Chief Pilot And ready. We went up in a passenger carrying Neupert MonopIane equipped with a powerful motor, Andready holds the long distance record for Russia having flown from SebastopaI to St. Petersburg distance of fifteen hundred miles. We watched the ma neuvers from 8 height of about three thousand feet, this particular machine has speed of about eighty miles an hour and head rests are required to relieve the strain from the neck which IS caused by the tremendous blast from the propeller which we sit di- rectly in back of. This was even to me a most remarkable trip and sight
 Russia expects to spend several millions of dollars during the next few years and the same is now being done by several foreign countries The business looks promising abroad as they generally order from ten to one hundred machines at one time at a price ranging from four thousand to eight thousand dollars per machine.
 tT am thinking seriously of form ing company to manufacture aero planes both the land and water ma chimes, especially the flying boat type such as I have just delivered to the Russian Government. For the past year have been working on a hull for the flying boat and have recently been InIormeQ by attorneys at Washing ton that my patent has been granted My boat construction differs from the present type which is a flat bottom af- fair and entirely unsuitable for rough water All future boat types must be built to stand rough water, and from years of experience in water flying am thoroughly con vinced that my type of hull will be universally used on all future flying boats, and any deviation from the present type bottom will be an in fringem ent on my patent. The flying boat has come to stay and within year or two we will be flying with four to ten passengers, at a speed of sixty to eighty miles per hour. My three years experience in flying and building Various types of machines will enable me to build the ideal type of flying boat both for the sportsman and for the navies.
 The flying boat will be the future machine for the sportsman in Aneri-