New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-22
Old TAR HOPES TO
CROSS SEA IN air
Works on Plans for big
"Hydro-Automati''
for IS Years
FpIFNDS ADVANCE
$4,000 FOR WORK
cootain Flint Expects to Start
September 1 on Flight to
the Irish Coast.

... .r,,essrullv sailed for thirty
~s the seven seas, II is now the
..... ~ carl T.. Flint, an aged sea
@".t., NJ BROOKLYN. TO soar across inc
-. an airship, and with this end
500, no is busily at work gay All"
u. ,- "a LOTT building at ~ henry St,
,,-.,,,,., constructing a hybrid sea ana
800, ~ his own invention.
I'd, r..irt has interested influential
- t, his enterprise and mas SO
.s trom of its feasiMlity thdt
con- -, -, adyqnced $4,000 10 finance the
,"' - o,6 assembling Of the strange
A. might be expected from
go. o,d salt who has sailed before
s''''' -, IN many an old-fashioned wind
-" -o-t,in Flint has adhered to
Iii. tr2iu.nc and the proposed
.....,-o-s.i.or,auc" as nc STYLES ms IN
,.,,tion. will be equipped with sails IN
stead Of planes. ~ -.
~ ,,srtv.fve years Captain Flint mas
- -, the plans Of his flying boat
"a on Sentember he expects to nave II
.oad,pess for a trial fight. on that
-. ~ thereabouts, he is to have MS
,,,.,o,, assembled and taken TO sea
co,o Then. II his airship refuses 10 n.y.
- he own confession. he will return 70
nc bovbood home in Copenhagen. broken
hearted. T.
For months Flint and his son, VINO Is
q skilled mechanic, have been at Work on
tho PARTS Of the machine. Thirty-nVe
years aeo Flint got the idea for his craft
but ~ that time motors such as he
needed were unavailable. He worked out
the plans carefully, however, and saved
them
The shop where the "hydro-automatic'
is being built is on the ground floor OF the
building in Henry st. AS the work on the
usrts has progressed the gray hairedcap-
tain has feared that tenants above him
suspected the nature Of his work. Al
though the building is five stories hiSh
and contains forty rooms Flint leased the
entire structure. so that none might learn
of his work and steal his plans.
Thirty hours is the time in which the
captain believes he can fly across the
ocean. following the steamer lanes from
Sandy Hook 10 the Irish coast Four Cur
tiss motors will drive the machine, and
gasolene enough 10 run forty hours VIII
be carried.
The sails. which are to take the place
Of wings or planes, are of oiled silk and
en- be regulated much in the manner of
sails on a schooner They are placed IN
two horizontal series above the cedar
cabin. which is said by the inventor TO he
capable Of carrying fifty men-four sails
in the lower series and three above
The body Of the airshp is elongated
with a sharp prov and stern. The pro-
peIlers are at the rear and will drive the
craft. i. is estimated, at speed OF 20 10
125 miles an hour The great weight OF the
machine. CAPTAIN Flint said yesterday
would not interfere with the flight once
he got the flying schooner up in the air.
once above the sea level, he said. he
vould hoist his sails, and. aided by the
wind. the propellers and series OF all
passages through the bottom OF the oodY
would never stop until the coast OF Ire
land was in sight.
Dr. Arthur r. Jarrett. of % Halsey St.
BROOKLYN. surgeon major of the 18th Regi'
ment. y. G.-,[ Y, has so much faith IT
Cantain Flint's project that he has volun'
teered TO be one of the crew to make the
trip across the ocean. His stepson' Harry
T. Seal. has been instrumental in raising
the money captain Flint has put into the
= craft 81,
Work has been begun on shed at the
foot OF West Path St, near Sea Gate
where the giant airship will be assembled
and kept until its trial trip, on or about
September /. Flint is planning TO start
his transatlantic fight from pier az
RavenhaWs. and will be at the steerlhs
apparatus when the start is made y
complete wireless equipment VIII De
strung between the masts of the hyine
schooner.
Meanwhile lest some one steal the Sc
crets he has labored so long to perfect
Captain Flint sleeps at night in his little
shop.