The evening world., 1914-02-05

Se0O Two navy Men.
CAPT. DAY is DOUBTFUL
Small Craft Navigator Says
Trip From Newfoundland to
Ireland Would Be Penlous.
TIE plan Of Rodmas wanamahss
and the Aero Club Of America to ssad
two man across the Atlantic nexs
June. July Or August In an immsnss
airship now under construction at
the factory Of CLAIM H. Curtiss 1t
Hammondsport n. Z. met With
praise and disoosragsmsnt from In.
tsrsstsd persons to-day. Among men
familiar With coaditions on the North
Atlantic tn the summer months the
opinion was almost unanimous that
the plan II foolhardy and doomed u
failure.
The airship 10 Of special hydro.
asroplane construction. With q 700
horse power motor and . wing spread
Of eighty feet. The motor 10 expected
to give . speed Of sixty. i've miles an
hour. The machinery and operating
apparatus 10 to be housed In Q water.
tight almost completely in6loesl
boat-shaped hull suspended beneath
the wings and equipped for naviga-
ton on the water ~ we'll - In the cir.
The wings are detachable.
According 20 the plans anuounoea
~ The Asro Club this airship, which
10 now % per oent complete, 10 % b
started from some point on tie east.
eru shore Of Newfoundland and head.
"a for Ireland The distance over ne
proposed routs 10 l.eoo miles.
NOPE TO MAKE THE JOURNEY
i IN olx1GGN HOURS. .
Thsrs y = thseW that aursne the
summer months btsady wind pre-.
walls In the North Atlantic, blowing
about forty.dve miles an hour from
Newfoundland toward Irsland. with
the aid Of this wind Il 70 Anticipated
that the airship viii easily cover
100 miles IN hour and nsgotiaxs th>
distance In sixteen hours. or bstwssn
dawn and dusk Of Q long summss
day Of the north ATTITUDES.
Two msa are 70 make the trip, and
the plans OF the club contsmplsts that
one Of them shall b . member Of the
English Army Or Navy Aerial Corps
and the other attached to The aerial
branch Of the United States Army q
Navy. Mr.. WanamAkcr has promised
70 bear all the sxpsnsss Of the trial,
and Mr.. Curtiss has assured him that
Il y feasible. Many members Of thu
Aero Club Of America asFss with Mr.,
Cprtiss, while others srs dubious.
Il y Contemplated that the digit
shall b made 1t . height Of 10000
fsSt. The airship y 70 b equipped
with wireless With . sending area Of
nifty miles. One Of the airmsn u "a
attend TO the steering and the ma
chinsry. the other TO the wireless and
ths computing Of the position Of the
airship.
CAPT. pAv FGARs THE PLAN
WILL FAIL.
Amonk those who have NO conn.
dsnes N the project u Capt. Thoma,
Fleming Day. the navigator. WHIT
has made two voyages across ths
Atlantic In small boats. In 1911 hs
crossed in the thirty foot yacht ses
Bird ana In 1919 IN the thirty -foot
motorboat Detroit. He has made {
study for years Of summer weather
conditions ON the Atlantic Ocean
Mr.. Day u about TO start on . cruis,
u the West Indies In the small top
san schooner yacht Viola "a Will
Marshall Jones OF Pittsburg.
'The trouble with this plan is,'
U8tO SbVts Oey W ~ 6N0utu8 WOTt
reporter. ''that the aviators aht
others back OF It don't know anything
about the North Atlantic except wha
they have observed from steamships
I have spent many days and night,
on the ocean along the route pro.
posed for the oversee trip. and In m,
Judgment TO attempt to cross from
Newfoundland to Ireland In any kind
OF an airship would be suicidal.
I'm the nrst place I know fror
actual hying experience that no com
pAss will work on an airshiD. There !
too much metal around II. And In th
hight contemplated the compass woul
have to be depended upon almost ex
clusively.
"They talk about keeping the air
ship In touch with ships along th
route by wireless. What good woul
that do II the airmsn are unable I
tell where they are? And the
wouldn't be able TO tell their where
abouts from the time they went Y
for the reason that In the svmml
months the North Atlantic betwes
Newfoundland and Ireland II covsrs
by n layer Of mist from \ 0uaPtor Of