Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-01-17
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very remarkable rate. Friends of mine" he
said, who are experts on the scientific aspects
OF alrmanship. predict that eventually speeds Of
200 miles and 800 miles an hour will be possible
AT this ones imagination is apt to reel but
this much is certain: If the flying machine is
to become of real Importance and not remain
always 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 con-
tinuousiy 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 105 miles
an hour and George Fourny holds a record of
fifteen hours of continuous flight Nothing like
union Of the two records has yet been known
and if Grahame-Whie succeeds according TO bis
promise he will have approached 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 as Grahame-
White plans he would under known conditions
have to carry fuel amounting in weight to more
than 1000 pounds
1t is estimated that average aeroplane mo-
tor with speed capacity of sixty miles an hour
will use average five gallons of gasoline
an hour and one gallon of ubricating oil. Both
these weigh approximately six pounds a 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
aeroplane which has the power to make a
tremendous lift without materially reducing it's
speed. 1t is generally conceded that the type OF
airshp used will be necessarily a bplane the
dainty monoplane is not weight carrier. Even
the biplane has not yet shown power of moving
the tremendous weight which it is estimated the
cross-seas adventurer must carry
In France there is record of a machine of
this sort lifting thirteen people from the ground
That however, a hop and not
tanned flight AT best only 1850 pounds of human
freight thus carried, If each person Is al
lowed $50 pounds
Whatever improvements Grahame-White may
have in his machine it is certain that he
must have unusual lifting power even If he has
discovered some of cutting his oil and
gasoline requirements. He viii have to have
tremendous drive to overcome the drag of the
weight in his storage tanks
To achieve what he has set cut to do he viii
have to secure machine of a type superior to
anything that has been 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 a machine equal TO all emergencies he
will still have the ocean to cross. That in the
estimation of the aviator is the least of his trou-
bles. Philip w Page, aviator. expert In the
cross-water flyers. expressed the views of many
of his feilow-airmen in discussing this phase OF
the proposed fight the other afternoon
e"Of course" he said there Is possibility OF
making a flight from continent to continent.
Such a fight. however. presupposes aeroplane
theoretically perfect for the purpose. With such
a machine the journey would be by no means as
terrifying most people imagine. If the aviator
sure of staying in the air and making the
required speed. the rest under normal condi-
tons would be of the simplest kinds OF flying
-straightaway unimpeded course.
Contrary to the general belief. he would have
conditions better than those on land. The winds
in the summer should be steady and never very
strong He would encounter no buildings, trees
or abrupt changes In the face Of the country to
split his air currents. Almost any aviator will
tell you that he prefers a foFty-mile steady to
ffteen-mile puffy wind.
The ar-hole theory has come to be a good
deal Of a myth, but there are still troublesome
up and down trends of the atmosphere which
lend no little difficulty to land flying These are
caused in a large measure from sudden obstruc-
ton to air currents and from radiation.
THE atmosphere over the ocean is not sub
ject to these distractions nor is 1t affected by