The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-04-18
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GUERILLA Of SKIES
Pilotless Airship Will Bomb
Cities And
Armies

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Baker disclosed that a successful au-
tomato control for airplanes had
been invented in America. In test
ing this invention, he said a machine
with a pilot was sent out first, The
pilot located q distant objective and
then returned 10 the starting point
without making landing Then an
other plane. equipped with the new
automatic control apparatus set to
land at the designated point, was
started without pilot. The ma
chine landed so close to the prede-
termined spot that If it had been a
shell from a big gun it would have
!. been considered a good shot.
MIR. Baker referred to the inven-
tion to show how terrible future wars
may be If there is no league OF ma
lions to stop them, intimating that
the device has tremendous potential
-tties as an agent of destruction.
A British non-rigid airship recent
Iy started from the Firth Of Forth,
flew over the North sea, directly to-
ward Denmark. and made circuit
embracing the coast Of Denmark,
Schleswig- Holstein, Helgoland, north
Germany and Holland. The weather
was extremely unfavorable but the
round trip of 1885 miles was covered
without a stop in about 40ls hours.
This flight was the largest nonstop
ever made by the British airship and
is believed to have established
worlds record for non-rigid aircraft.
4 British flier not long ago cover
ed the distance Of 172 miles between
Folkstone. England. and Paris in "A
minutes. This record flight which
was at the rate of about two and a
third miles minute is said to have
set a new mark for aerial voyages
across the English channel.
An American mail-carrying plane
a few days ago flew over 200 miles
in 1875 minutes with a load of mail be-
tween New York and Washington.
This was at the average of one and
three-ffths miles a minute.
A prize of $4,000 has been offer
cd by the Commonwealth of Austria
/, liza for the first successful fight he
tween Australia and Great Britain by
Australian aviators. The London Dali
ly Mail has offered like prize for
the first successful transatlantic
flight between Europe and America
Two British filters who have entered
for the prize propose TO undertake
the flight in a 375-horse-pOwer plane
capable of making 95 miles an hour
with a load of little more than 1900
pounds.
Plans are now beng made by
American naval officers for a fight
across the Atlantic in seaplanes but
they will not compete for the London
newspaper prize. II is proposed to
use machines of a type that some
time ago carried 81 passengers in a
test flight. Three seaplanes now at
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, from
which the machines are 10 start, have
three Liberty motors each, with a
conf ined horsepower of 1000 to 1909
A fourth plane is 10, have four such
engines, it is announced The ma
chimes have wings 125 feet long and
IL feet wide and are capable of APP
proximately 100 miles an hour.
From ROckaway Beach the planes
will fly northward and start the real
/ transatlantic voyage from some
point on the North Atlantic coast,
possibly in Newfoundland. 1t is
said that the machines will carry
bwireless outfits. These. with the aid
of relays through the destroyers
which are to be stationed along the
route, will enable them to communi-
cate at any time with the shore.
The weather bureau is working on
the preparation of special charts and
data relative to air currents, atmos-
pheric conditions, etc, for the gui-
dance of the filters. 1t is said also
that they will have special, lately de-
signed instruments TO ala them IN the
flight.
Experienced airplane builders are
convinced that under existing me-
chanical conditions only huge dying
boats, equipped with four or more
powerful motors, can be counted ON
to make a successful continuous voy-
age across the ocean. 1t is pointed
out that the machine would have to
be large and powerful in order to
carry the required supply of gasoline
and that several engines would be
necessary as a guarantee against
failure resulting from an engine
breakdown.
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