The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-08-12

But how about Keeping III IN the
air. Dr. Bell Have We got the fuel
which viii keep the machinery going
all the way across the Atlantic"
That We shall have il within A
short time there Is but little dautt.
and the duration records show that
such a long flight IS already within III.
possibilities. In October last john II.
Towers flew for six hours and ten
minutes IN a Curtiss hydro-acrodrur4e
from Annapolis. Md. and the Wprid ;
duration record was made Ia France
last September. The aviator Na~ e..
Fourny, and he flew for over thirteen
hours"
Have o any idea OF making tho
flight. DR.. Belle"
NO. have not. although it mas
been reported that was to 60 npe-c
for the MISUNDERSTANDING prize Of
fered by Lord NorthClfTe to the nam
VINO shall first cross the AtlaEuc
ocean IN an aerodrome in sevenIy-1Ao
hours. | do not expect to enter ANY
contest. nor shall / send any ma
chine. You VIII not that the limit
Of Lord Eorthcliffe's voyage is seventy =
two hours or more than four ZINES
as long as the sixteen hours which
We nave found the possibility - be"
The Worlds Progress Toward ! light.
Are 20 satisfied with the progress
which the world is making in aerial
navigation"
Yes. It seems TO me that we are
moving steadily toward successful
flight. We are learning more about
the air, and more about the machin-
cry necessary to navigate It. This
is SO as to all kinds of apparatus. We
have, YOU know. two great divisions
First, machines which are lighter thar
air. and second, those which are aeaV.
fer than air. Under the first kin,
come the spherical and dirigible bal
looms, and under the second tn vari
Gus lind of aerOdromeS. or as r4aG,
call them. aeropl&Ses. | do o ILL.,
the word aeroplane.e Aerodrome wa
the term used by Langley. 1t mean
'traversing the air and it is far be-
ter than the word 'a6roplane.' whici
l means a fiat surface driven edscsjs
5 through the ar &eroplaa e is appii
: cable only t G<ingszpf the ma
chine, but no. sstheRfaAp n as
whole ~
: What has been lately tak in Ia:
~looning?'
g "A great deal, both in spherical
l and dlrigibles, but more in Europ
than in the United States. In 1911
: there was "a Gordon Bennett race j
: Germany. III which the dlferen: ma
S tions took part. The first and Sc n
/ prizes We're won by France. an
America came third. The record
were 1904 miles in forty-five hour
: and 1900 miles in Rrty-six hour
t both made by French aeronaut
Capt. HunneWell, the American. rGad
$50 miles
e Wonderful Feats OF The DirigibIcS
How abOut the dirigible balloons
~ s1Thn Gown nc - rAuy ,nal- ~
more progress in dirigibles than an
of the other nations.' said Dir. Bel
1t AT the beginning of last year the
e owned thirty dirigieleS, while TT
'e French a tWenty-One and the Rui
slams eight. They had a reSula- ia
IS loon service between Fran>furt ar
Dusseldorf, in which the dirigjh
'e Schwaben made 100 trips within thr,
:. months and carried 2.226 passenger
in She flew altogether d totll of ,:
t. hours. covering 1850 miles. Later
of the year she flew from Dusseldorf
Berlin via Bremen and 41ambur
"a making $50 miles in less than elav.
g. hours, an average of more han th,It
OF four miles an hour. The Victoria Lui
made daily trips from Frankfurt
Dusseldorf, going from one city tn II
:" other in three hours, carrying twcnt
ID eight passengers. She also made
lc IllSlt lIoII III ! oNCi II WI
at sea. a distance Of $40 miles. n
1t. a duration Of eight hours. There
as another German balloon which Iii
Of fOrty-SiX miles an hour"
to What are the French doing in be
looming"
Of They have one balloon which h
SO made a scouting flight Of siNte
in hours: and another which has foS
passengers. The French are mu
at interested in dirigible balloons as
d. lated to warfare At the beginni
Of last year they appropriated 5
Nv $4,000 for such balloons, and t
French budget Of hat year in:lu,i
a vote Of more than $4,000 0e I
If military aviation"
ID, The Flying Machine in Warfare.
CHI Are the great powers OF the VOL
doing much as TO military aviatif
re DR.. BeH?" | asked.
Yes They are fully alive rs
its possibilities and dangers. Eve
a strong government is experiment.