The Washington times., 1913-06-03
FLYING BOAT" MAY
0UTRUN FAST TRAIN
Aviator Atwood Promises His
New HydroaeropIane Will
Make Mile a Minute.

eANDUSKY, Ohio. June "A mile
a minute In flying boat" is the prom
Use of Harry n. Atwood, Of Boston. the
lonG-distance aviator, who has been
working on his device in this place In
secret since the beginning Of the year.
The '.fyine boat" will be subjected to
tests on us Government iife-saving
station In Lake Erie within the next
ten days.
II successful. Il will be delivered to
E. B. Hanley. Of Providence. r. l., to
whom Atwood has agreed to sell 1t for
5000. II II fails to come up to expecta-
t,ons II will be reconstructed until 1t
does.
But II viii navigate both water and
a minute. and then some Detroit is
seventy-two miles from Sandusky as
the crow nies. am ready to guarantee
to deliver q passenger at Detroit within
seventy minutes after setting sail from
How about New York; Atwood was
New York" said the aviator. rs
between seven and eight hundred miles
on q direct line. Flying over land isn't
a. s..y 2. ng y over aoI the , waas 10 sosT
! shan be able to Get to New York from
eandusky In leas than twenty hours.
Later on I hope to be able to reduce
materially the time of the Twentieth
Century Limited and other fast trains"
Built to Weather Storm.
The ''nying boat" whose propeller is
In the air instead of the water. 10 pro-
PEELED In much the same manner az m
aeroplane, although the mechanism 10
in the boat instead Of in the rtgsing. ss
Il 10 In what is commonly known as the
hydroaeroplane.
come up and should find 1t necessary
to do %. the planes could be released
from the body simply by cutting eight
slender wires. each one OF which u
within easy reach of the wheel at which
the operator viii SIT" Atwood explained.
The boat, bereft Of fiying rigging.
would become an ordinary power boat
It would still contain It's engine. pro-
peuer and rudder and by reason of the
fact that II II built along peculiar lines.
resembling to q great extent the nom
sinkable life-saving craft Of the So
called ish-belly type. ought to. and
believe VIII. weather almost any kind
The boat il thirty feet long. The
planes surmounting 1t measure forty
feet from end to end. The flying boat"
~ q whole. weighs 1,5oo pounds, not
withstanding the fact that II is con-
structed Of the lightest material obtain
able. mostly violin wood and bamboo.
The motor weighs $50 poundsI The total
weight Of the craft. with the aviator
mately two tons.
Nay Revolutionise Flying.
Atwood employs dozen men in his
voekshop. prominen. among whom ID
Weldon B. Cooke, the California en-
durance dyer. who. with q second ny
tng boat" upon which Atwood viii be-
GIN work within the next few weeks,
has entered the international Great
lakes nying cruise. which viii start
from Chicago July s, to fnieh At De-
tro1t ten days later. and George Law
ooa. who was Atwood's mechanic on
TIE aviators 81 Louis to Boston flight.
the success thar Atwood and Cooke pre-
dict. win revolutionize flying. 1t win
enlarge the field Of travel to such an
extent. they think. that an over-the-
Q mere possibility. Atwood admits now
that he had ''nying boat" in mtni
when be considered a fight across the
Atlantic some time ago. And he may
attempt this night in the not far dis
Atwood invited Mayor George T.
Lehrer Of this city to accompany him
on his first trip in the flying boat, -
but the invitation has not been ac-
cep.ed. The aviator agreed 70 push the
boat along at any rate Of speed the
mayor might specify. between ten AMI
sixty miles an hour. and At a height
of from one to one thousand feet above
the water