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very remarkable rate. Friends of mne," he
said, who are experts the scientific aspects
of airmanship predict that eventually speeds of
200 miles and 800 miles 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 a sporting toy, it 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
tinuously. He must have that to make his jour-
ney in the time he has set. Jules Vedrines has
flown at the rate of trife better than los miles
an hour and George Fourny holds a record of
fifteen hours of continuous fight Nothing like
a union of the two records has yet been known
and If GrahameWhte succeeds according to his
promise he will have approached one 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 Grahame-
White plans he would under known conditions
have to carry fuel amounting in weight to more
than 1000 pounds
1t is estimated that an average aeroplane mo-
tor with a speed capacity OF sixty miles an hour
will average FIVE gallons of gasoline
hour and one gallon of ubricating 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 aeroplane 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 biplane as the
dainty monoplane Is not a weight carrier. Even
the biplane has not yet shown power of moving
the tremendous weight which 1t is estimated the
cross-seas adventurer must carry.
In France there is record of machine of
nc Ia Prom fho pro md
That. however, was a mere hop and not sus-
tanned flight At best only 1850 pounds of human
freight thus carried, il each person 10 al
lowed $50 pounds
Whatever improvements Grahame-W White may
have in his new machine it is certain that he
must have unusual lifting power even II he has
discovered 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 machine equal to all emergencies he
will still have the to cross. That in the
estimation Of the aviator is the least of his trou-
bles. Philip w Page. aviator, expert in the man
agement of hydroplanes, and one OF the foremost
cross-water flyers expressed the views OF many
of his fellow-airmen In discussing this phase OF
the proposed fight the other afternoon.
"Of course he said. there is a possibility OF
making fight from continent to continent.
Such flight. however, presupposes an aeroplane
theoretically perfect for the purpose. With such
machine the journey would be by no means
terrifying most people imagine. II the aviator
we're sure of staying IN the air and making the
required speed. the rest under normal condi-
tons would be one OF the simplest kinds Of flying
--straightaway 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
abrupt changes IN the face of the country to
split his air currents. Almost any aviator viii
tell you that he prefers a forty-mile steady to
1fteen-me puffy wind
The air-hole tseory has to be good
deal Of myth, but there ERE still troublesome
up and down trends OF the atmosphere which
lend no little diflcHlty to land flying These
caused In large measure from sudden obstruc-
tion to air currents and from radiation.
The atmosphere over the ocean 10 not sub.
1ect to these INSTRUCTIONS nor h Il Affected by