The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-27
FLY OUR AIRPLANES ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC.
A. w. Lawson's Scheme to Save Ships
and Time.

To THE EDITOR or The suN--sT: In
a statement issued by the War Depart
ment under date OF August IL two
serious facts are disclosed.
1. That 1t will be impossible to ship
American built airplanes to France In
quantities sufficiently large to do any
damage to the Kaiser.
2. That the cost of shipment of these
airplanes to France is about as much
as the actual cost Of building the ma
chimes exclusive Of the engines.
After eleven years Of continuous ser
Vice in the aircraft movement, in which
I have obtained practical experience as
a builder and pilot Of airplanes. and
after giving a largo part OF that time
in considering plans to send airplanes
across the Atlantic Ocean by their own
power, I finally worked out \ system
which Is practical and Of great economic
value. I have submitted an outline Of
the plans of my transocennic hoat sys-
tenn to both the War Department and the
Navy Department.
Up to the present time and amer
nearly three months Of publicity there
has been no one who has been able to
prove a flaw in my plan.
In Bulletin No. 10 show whore my
system will save for the United States
Government S311,850,ooo in the ship
ment Of $4,000 airplanes to Europe dur
ing the year Of 1919.
am ready to prove at once that my
system is mechanically correct by n.y.
ing an airplane across Long Island
a.
peake Bay and alighting upon a float
in the middle Of any one OF the above
and flying from the same float after hav-
ing taken on gasolene and oil in the
same way that 1t would take place on
condition that an airplane new across the
Atlantic Ocean according to tho plans
Of my float system.
Furthermore, / am willing to furnish
the airplane for the test and I am will
ing to pilot the airplane myself in order
to demonstrate to the public that my
plans are right.
All I need to make the demonstration
IL the hull Of any old steamship from
four to I'VE hundred feet long and with
an absolutely fiat deck from stem to
stern.
The establishment Of my system
would mean just this:
/. It would enable us 10 send all Of
the airplanes we can build in this coun-
try to Europe.
2. i. would get airplanes to Europe
in 30 per cent. less time than 1t now
requires.
3. It would save the number OF ma
chimes lost in the holds of torpedoed
ships.
4. II would be the means of furnish
ing twenty-four hour service for mail
delivery between America and Europe.
5. 1t would establish twenty-four
hour passenger carrying service between
America and Europe.
G. 1t would establish a safety lane
for shipping between this country and
the lands of our allies.
T. 1t would mean the saving OF s3l1.-
$4,000 to the United States Govern
ment for every $4,000 airplanes sent
across the Atlantic Ocean.
I have offered, my plans to the Gov
eminent free Of charge and / am ready
TO give my services to the Government
to supervise these plans free OF charge.
I want nothing but the bare sat!sfac-
ton OF doing all in my power to help
whip the Kaiser.
AS 1t will take in the neighborhood
of six months to get this system into
operation the demonstra ton flight which
/ am ready to make should be done at
the earliest possible moment.
ALFRED w. LAWSON.
GREEN BAY, Wis, September %.