New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-30
NEW OCEAN AERO
COOLLY RECEIVED
Aviators Doubt Value of
Nine Triplanes Ordered
by Britain.
24-HOUR CROSSING
HELD IMPROBABLE
Experts Say Three Months Is
Too Short to Make Motors
for Such a Craft.

Aviation experts view with more
skepticism than enthusiasm the report
from Stratford, Conn, that Stanley Y.
Beach, aeronautic inventor and head Of
the Scientific Aeroplane Company Of
New York. is negotiating an order with
the British government for nine huge
triplanes capable Of crossing the At
lsntic in an uninterrupted fiji; Mr..
Beach has made public q cablegram
from London agents who stipulate that
the machines must be able either to
Ay across the Atlantic or peIlorm an
equal distance without landing. The
first triplane must be delivered in eight
weeks.
Mr.. Beach al his home. in Stratford,
said he had cabled for an extension Of
the time to three months. He said he
was confident that his triplane,
equipped with two 2OO-horsepower mo-
tors invented by Arno Zillger, Of
Bridgeport, would fly from Newfound-
land to Ireland in single fight of
twenty-four hours.
Authorities we'll versed in the art Of
flying said yesterday that they doubted
whethe rthe Scientific Aeroplsne on
pany or any other seroplane manufact-
urers could turn out a triplane of this
power in three months. at would take
a group of experts at least four to six
months TO perfect the motors" one avi-
ator said. He called attention to the
difficulties attending the manufacture
ia reliable high powered aeroplane
motor, and said that Orville Wright
was working secretly on a new 100
horsepower motor which would not be
on the market for several months
Tests are still being made on so and
20 horsepower motors In the Wright
factory at Dayton, Ohio. II the Bridge
port inventor, Zillger, has a 200-horse-
power engine ready for eBach's tri-
plane it is conceded that Ye has made
tremendous strides in aeroplane motor
research.
Friends of Lieutenant Porte, of the
Royal Naval Flying Corps. say the
British government will doubtless hest
tate TO send him over TO fly Beach's tri
plane, in view Of his unsuccessful ex-
periences with Glen Curtiss's flying
boat America last year. Mr.. Beach
claims, however, that his triplane has
better chance Of success, because it is
twice as powerful and has q much
greater lifting capacity than the Amer
lea. In case cold weather sets in be-
fore the first triplane is ready for
shipment trial flights previous TO the
=, . h.
poned until spring. thS young inventor
said.
Stanley Y. Beach has been expert
menting with aircraft since 1908. In
1910 he made an impression on the
aeronautical world by inventing and
patenting the first aeroplane with
gyroscope attachment for stability. His
first attempt to fy monoplane of the
Bleriot type at Lordship Park. STRAIT
ford, in that same year, was not sue
cessful. The machine failed to rise.
dashed off a cliff and was wrecked on
the rocks below. BY jumping at the
cliffs edge Beach escaped with minor
cuts and bruises. He is aeronautic
editor of "The Scientific American"
Although no surprise TO friends and
fhrmer associates of Orville Wright in
this city, his decision TO quit the work
shop for the laboratory. as announced
in yesterdays Tribune. aroused their
interest. 1t has been matter Of COM
mon knowledge that Mr. Wright has
received several attractive offers for
his Dayton manufacturing plant and
his patents during the last few months.
Ferdinand Eggena, of this city, men
toned in the Dayton dispatch as the
representative of Eastern capitalists
unsuccessful in closing a deal with Mr..
Wright, received his pilots license re-
Gently. To the National Aeroplsne
Fund, sanctioned by the Aero Club of
America, he subscribed the use of
Wright military plane presented to New
York, New Jersey and Ohio in turn.