Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-03
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drop life belss ropes, food, medicine or stimulanu
according to the urgency of the needs.
With all the navies working to develop means
for launching aeroplanes from battleships and
receiving them back it is safe to say that the
problems connected Herewith will be solved very
Then liners will carry aeropanes to use for
carrying dispatches and for general pilot duties.
Just as the water aeroplane is wonderful aux.
ilary of the navy, it is wonderful auxiliary for
ocean liners, promising to afford to passenger
carrying ships services Of the highest kind.
The water aeroplane is wonderfully adapted for
preventing disasters of the kind which overcame
the steamship Titanic, and, in such disasters
take place, minimize the loss of life. flying
boat on a steamer can rise to investigate unseen
dangers ahead. 1t can do so at night as well by
s5ing the ships searchlights as the aeroplane's
searchlights In case of the vessel becoming dis
abled the aeroplane fly to notify other vessels,
utilizing the wireless apparatus with which every
flying boat is being equipped III the foreign ma
VleS to notify the other steamships of the need
of its APPROACH.
The most appalling thing in the Titanic disaster
was that there were number of steamships with
in call distance-some mot as much as 40 miles
away-whch the wireless telegraph did not reach
in some cases because it became disabled as the
ship sank. A flying boat could have covered the
40 miles in less than an hour, while its wireless
plant would have notified the other vessels as it
proceeded onward
A flying boat on the vessels that came to the
rescue after the Titanic had sunk could have
searched the surface of the sea for survivors, it's
altitude giving it range of vision of miles, and
could have found the survivors where the vessels
did not them 1t would thus practically have
superintendent the work of life saving.
Each year there is long list of people who
drowned from falling overheard from large vessels
and who cannot be rescued in time to save their
livi s. the boat sent to save them reaching them
too late to be of avail. flying boat be
launched and can search for the person that has
fallen overheard and can drop safety belt land
by and pick him up rnuch faster than the fastest
life saving boat.
The sea Is an unknown quantity in many
spects and the biggest of steamships is very
much at it's mercy, and assistance of the kind
which the flying boat affords is necessity YES
sci at often meets signs of wrecks it is
signalled by craft in distress At the present time
there is way to investigate such things without
involving great delay or putting the craft itself
in danger through taking 1t out of its marked
route which is the safety zone. A flying boat can
do all these things for the vessel 1t be launch
ed with two men, one Of whom searches the sur
face of tibet sea with powerful glasses. The
sci proceed on its course; the flying boat will
overtake it after having discharged its mission.
AS special machine and the equipment
cannot cost more than $4,000, it is evident that
it is absurdly cheap factor of efficiency which
every craft can afford and should have.