The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-02
dash TO MARS
IS dream Of
Indiana MAN
instructor in Oakland City
School Would Get Power
from Air.
PROPOSES TO GET BACK
Differs from Rocket Makers
in Round Trip
Intentions.
PROPOSES TO GET BACK

BIZ NEA Service
OAKLAND CITY, Ind, April p
Everett Hunt, 34-year-old professor
of science and mathematics in the
high school here, is about to begin
building a machine that he believes
will take him straight to the planet
Mars.
While he may not be the first
man to feel this ambition, he at
least has new idea about loco
motion The rocket-like contrlv-
ances which others have proposed
for such inter-stellar Journeys have
been discarded by him; in their
place he is developing a car
which, he says, will take him to
Mars in something like five min
utes and will bring him back again
when he is ready to leave-some-
thing that the rockets would not dc.
His proposed Super-fying machine
is to be a big pear-shaped affair Of
duralumin, with a complicated
motor on the top where the stem
ought to be.
$4,000 Miles a Second
This motor, according to his ideas,
would look something like a radio
loop aerial. 1t would depend on
neither gasoline nor oil, but would
grab, out of infinite space, energy
from the all-pervading ether waves
to carry the machine along. Out of
it, he believes, he will be able to get
a speed approximating the speed of
light-186,000 miles a second.
Just how these waves will be used
to make the thing go will have to
remain a mystery to the general
public, for the present, Hunt says
ne has his scheme all worked out,
but can not describe it until he has
it perfected and patented.
1T is hard for me to believe" he
says, that God would create this
vast universe and place us on this
insignificant earth without some
means of interplanetary travel to
other worlds. Some dev we will
know how to get back and forth
from one planet TO another"
Plans Vertical Rise
His flying machine will have no
landing gear, as it will arise and
descend vertically. thus requiring
no special landing field. 1t will be
able to travel in the air either
straight up or horizontally, or at
any other angle, the motor at the
top being piYoted so as to be up
right no matter what the angle of
the car below.
When the machine gets half way
to Mars. he believes, it will pass out
OF the region of the earth's graVita-
tional attraction and would become
pulled toward Mars. Then it will
gradually swing round, and event.
ualy will land on Mars right side up.
Oxygen tanks will have to be in
stalled. of course, as there is no air
at all in the vast region between the
earth and Mars. Oxygen masks
probably will have to be carried. too.
so that the passengers can explore
Mars after they get there, as Scien-
lists report that the atmosphere on
Mars is much thinner than on this
planet.
Might Broadcast Power
There are objections to his plan.
Hunt admits; but he does not think
they are very serious.
Certain scientists claim" he SAYS.
that there prevails, about 200 miles
from the earth. a zone in which
there is a total absence of ether
waves. I haven't considered this as
problem, for / don't agree with
them. The mere FAINT that waves of
energy come from the sun i'll the
form of light and heat would dis
prove this theory, to my mind"
However. If this condition should
really exist. Hunt believes it could
be surmounted by having a radio
station on the earth broadcast
power to him.
When his machine is completed,
Hunt plans to take several persons
along with him. He believes il
would be just as we'll to have a
competent astronomer in the crew
to act as pilot while flying around
among the planets.
Later. he says. he could build
machines to carry 100 passengers
machines that would not only be fit
TO travel TO other stars, but that
wouIo be very useful for ordinary all
travel on earth, since they would
have a speed so much greater than