The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-30
go MILE AN HOUR AIR
PLANE is DESIGNED

New York, May 23.-An aerial levi
athan of the bat-wing type, without
a strut or a stay-wire, expected to
travel at the rate of $50 miles an hour,
has been designed, and may be in pro-
cess of construction, according to Will
liam Dinwiddie, an unofficial investi-
gator of the aircraft industry.
The project is cloaked in much Sc
crecy, but Mr.. Dunwiddie, in an ar
ticle on "Air-Travel Possibilities" in
the June Century, reveals some OF the
details of the design Of the huge plane
which, because it has no parasite re-
| s~istance from struts and wires, could
probably cross the Atlantic in twelve
hours.
IA three hundred-foot wing span,
bat-wing, cantilever airplane would be
CAPABLE of lifting an effective load OF
from fifty to seventy thousand pounds,
that is, lightweight freight closely
and carefully packed to approximate
w rs tons could be transported in the
monster" the article reads. "Twelve
hours. or even less for transatlantic
flights may sound like the romances
of Munchhausen, but the non-paraslte-
resistance airplane of the bat-wlng
TYNE. or some modification of its form,
is firmly believed by certain air en-
g~ineers to be the final solution OF the
air-speed problem.
"There are a number of very radl-
cal plans in the hands of designers
of air craft that are expected to rev.
olutionize the whole art of flying, n
which, it is hoped by the more enthus-
iastic leaders, will give air transport
alton on a truly economic basis. Inc
designs embrace the double concep-
ton of reducing air resistance and
thereby decreasing gas consumption
together with construction which Will
give strength and freight-carrylng ca
pacity.
"The best of these ideas and the
one which will probably be next IN
the rapid advance of the art OF flying
is apparently a huge monoplane, With
out a strut or a stay wire or a fuse
laqe or an un~dercarriage visible IN
flight. 1t is just a mammoth wing
or wings, if you like, something IN
the nature of a bat with it's head re-
moved.
"It is to be built on the cantlleve1
bridge principle. At the nose OF the
forward center of the plane this bridge
work will be five or six feet high
tapering each way to the extremltleS
Of the wings. From the front to the
hack or from the head to the tail the
same cantilever-bridge construction Is
used. Toward the tail the machlne
narrows, or it may be cut out INT
q definite tail feature, like the pres
ont n]anes. The tail of the machine
is equipped with the usual balance'
, rudder and elevators.
Offer Little Resistance.
F "The engines and propellers arr
, spaced equally apart from the nos
+ Of the machine. The radiators, II
! stead of being vertical, are placed IL
. a nearly horizontal position, SO tina
thew offer little resistance to the all
: and the wind rushing over them suck
the air through them, instead OF push
ing it through as in an ordinary plane
"The undercarriage, or lano1ng
] wheels make their appearance onl'
j when the machine is on the groun'
e or about to land. Once in the all
they are promptly pulled up INTO tn
d body of the machine, to reduce win
t resistance. The whole of this struc