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6 A THE OMAHA STTsTJAY BEE: AUGUST 10, 1913. Across the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours iCopjrlKht, WIS, by Krank Q. Carptnter.) t WASHINOTON The day will lAf oon come whn vt h" I W I be able to co from Nortn America to Europe in less tlmt than no now spend on the railroad between New York and Chicago We shall b able to start from New- i rounaiand at noon, or even later, am land In one of the cities of Ireland nex' morntnr In plenty of time for an 8 o'clock breakfast. This Is the belief of one o the shrewdest and most careful arithme ticians among the scientific minds tJday I refer to Dr. Alexander Graham Hell, the Inventor of the telephone, who for the last twenty years has been connected with every movement In the direction of serial navlratlon. Or, Doll was cloiely associated with tjaneley In his experiments as to artificial flight, and he was with him when the first heavler-than-alr machine was sent by steam flylnff this way and that across the Potomac. Ho Is a member of the 'hlef societies of aeronauts, and his own researches as to the baslo principles of aerial navlratlon have done much to bring that science where It Is today. A great deal of Dr. Bell's work has been In connection with others, ilo was an associate of Simon Kewcomb, who tied strlklns theories as to the weight of bodies of certain shapes while In the sir; he Is also the friend and adviser of Glenn Curttss. and much of the work of F. W. Baldwin has been connected with his experiments at Baddeck, Nova Beotla. Dr. Boll has made tetrahedr&l bites, which have supported men in the air, and he has a well-equipped flying machine laboratory at Baddeck, where Mr. Baldwin Is now carrying on hit ex periments as to tha hydrodrome, and making wonderful discoveries as to the rapid movement of boats through the water. Hundred Twenty-Fire Stltea IConr. Sr. Boll has what might be called the dentlflo Imagination, and his deductions deal with possibilities far beyond those of the ordinary Inventor, Ills mind works along sclentlfto lines, and his flights at times mako the head of the layman buxi to comprehend them. Our talk as to short trips across the Atlantic took place after midnight last Thursday, in the big library of his house on Connecticut avenue. Wo had before us the statistics of alt the best aerial flights yet made and Dr. Bell fig ured out his calculations on a &-cent pad as he talked. Said he: "The shortest distance between New foundland and Ireland is less than 3,000 milts and tha fastest speed record of a hekvler-than-atr machine was made by Jam" J. Vedrlnes In a Deperdussln aerodrome on the Uth of September last. His speed was oyer 107 miles an hour. Now let us suppose that that machine could keep up a speed of even 100 miles an hour, and it would cross the Atlantic ocean within twenty hours. If the night ware made from America to Europe we would have the winds to help us along, and this would give ua an additional ve locity of at jeast twenty-flva miles per hour, as tha general trend of our winds is from west to east. Adding this to the J06 miles, we havo a spied of 19 miles an hour, at which rata we could cover the 2,960 miles in Just sixteen hours. If we left Newfoundland at high noon we might be landed in Ireland at 4 o'clock in tho morning, giving us four hours' margin for our t o'clock breakfast. Or, during tha suramtr months, we might start with the rising of the sun at 4 in the morning Mid be on the Irish coast In tlmo for din ner at 8 o'clock in tho evening. All of that ride would be in the daylight and wo should be landed the; same day we ttarted." Rapid FllBht at Utah AltUodes. "a ther a possibility that one might to even quicker than that. Dr. Bell?" "Ves." replied the ctentlst, "but I do not wish to be quoted as saying anything more definite than that flying machines should be abls to cross tho ocean In a tingle day. I have no doubt that a drome will Increaso Us speed In the rarer air high above ground, but whether this In crease will be strictly proportionate to the diminution of density is a point that I am not yet prepared to assert. The wind are mora steady there than at the ground. According to Mr. V. W. Baldwin, who ho been working out a series of calculations as to the speed of flying machines at high elevations, the peed of the machine will rapidly Increase as it goes upward, Mr. Baldwin says that It la absurd to judge the speed of a fly ing machine by its performance at a low elevation. He says that the resistance. of the air decreases as the air grows thin ner and at the same time the power which moves the machine has the same force. 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Oe Ur their very lnfrastlns; and Instructive bock- ci slrlcs 1st 'expectant aotfccrs. speed of the drome near the ground aa like that of a motor car on low gear, and says all that Is necessary for ft high alti tude Is a gear-shifting arrangement, such as we havo on our automobiles. "ou chango your gear as you rise, Just as you do with your car when you go up hill. In this way you could leave the ground at a moderate speed, havo a high speed In the air and, changing your gear, alight without danger. "Now, If Mr, Baldwin's calculation. sh6uld prove true In actual flying, the peed of the machine at K,ooo feet high would be almost doubled, and the blo Velocity, without tha ituilat.nrn nt the winds, would be M0 miles ner hiiir instead of 100. It seemes to me. however. that It Is qute enough to pro) htsy that wo snail bo able to fly across the ocean In a day." To Overcome Mountain Sickness. "But, Dr. Bell, would It be possible for man to croas tha Atlantic at ml ton elevation? I once went up lt the Andes hi an miiuae or is,30 feot, At thit height I had a bad attaak of soroche or- mountain sickness, Sty nose bled. I huA terrible nausea aart an earthnuakn. Pllttlng headache, and this continued until I got down the mountain. I should not ilka to fly to Ireland feeling that war." "That can easily bo prevented." said the scientist, "All that you need Is to nave your place In tho machlno so cov ered at the aides and back that you get the air only from the front Tour sick ness on tha Andes was caused by the tninness and rarity of tho air. It was not dense enough to glvo you your usual amount of oxygen. This Is avoided by tho speed of the flying mschlne, which goes so fast that It condenses the air within the hood, ami gives you air to breatho of practically the same, duality as that you had when leaving tho ground. This density will vary with the speed of your machine, arid no matter hoW fast you go, your supply of oxygen will be Just what you neejd. At M,(W) feot yoU are in air which Is hxlf the density of that near tha ground, but your speed Is double that which you had at tho eround. and so tho density of tha air which you are breathing Is Just tho same." Jltnv Hitch Muii Un Kly, "But can flying machines go to a. helsht of 10,000 feet" I asked. "They havo done bo and better. The highest altitude reached by an Amerl. can Is only a little over a mile, but in Europe the aerodrome records hvo sieaaiiy rising. In im we had some very remarkable flights. June 80 of that year Lieutenant CUatohka ascended from Vienna, taxing passenger -with htm, to a height greater than tho top of lko' Peak. He went up more than 14,000 foet. wmcn was almost 3,000 feet abovo all the records preceding. Beptomber 17. UU, George Legagneaux made a new alti- tuao record of U,ri feet That was over WW feet higher than Mont Blanc and mora man s.ooo feet abova Fullvm. Japan. The world's record as to altitude whs made lost December. The flight was irpm Tunis, m Africa, by Roland Garros, and tho altitude reached was 13,002 feet, or almost four miles." "But how about keeping up in the air. Dr. Bell? Havo we got the fuel which will keep tho iachinery going alt the way across the Atlantic?" "That wo shall have It within a short tlmo there Is but little doubt, and ih. duration records show that such u Ions mam is aireaay within the possibilities In October last John H. Towers) flew for six hours and ten minutes In a Curtlss hydro-aeroplane from Annapolis, Md.. and the world's duration record was made la Franco last BepUmber, Tho aviator was C. Kourny, and he flow for over thirteen hours." "Have you any Idea of making the flight. Dr. Bell?" "No, I have not although it has been reported that I was to compete for the 150,000 prise offered by Lord Northcllffe to the man who shall first cross the At lantla ocean In an oarodrorao In seventy two hours. I do not expect to enter any contMt, nor shall I send any machine. You will note that the limit of Lord Northcllffe's voyage la seventy.two hours, or more than four times as long as the sixteen hours which we havo found the possibility to be." The World's lrotrres Toward Fllaht "Are you satisfied with the progress which tho world is making In aerial navigation?" "Yes. It seems to mo that we are mov ing steadily toward successful flight We aro learning more about tho air. and mora about tho machinery necessary to navigate it. This Is so at to all kinds of apparatus. We have, you know, two gieat divisions. First, machines which ore lighter then sjr, and second, those which ore heavier than air. Under tho first kind come the spherical and dirigible balloons, and under the second tho va rious kinds of aerodrome, or as many call tbem aeroplanes. I do not like the word aeroplane. Aerodrome was the term used by Z-angely. It means traversing the air,' and It is far better than tho word 'aeroplane.' which means a flat sur face driven edgewise through the air. Aeroplane is applicable only to the wings of the machine, but not to the machine as a wbolA.'' k us,. Jk rut ,. " iM r:.,i. estimate, that they have had one accident ' fg for about every 32.000 miles of flight During the first three months of last ' year their military machines flew a dis tance of over 400,000 miles, which was Just about twice the distance covered during a similar period In 1911. The number of accidents In both cases was about tha same. Mali)' of them were ,due to breakage, and some to Inexpert onca. I believe that such accidents will grow fewer as time goes on." FRANK O. CARPENTER. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS Small Sadie was of an Inquisitive turn, and one day while out riding with her papa they happened to pass a cemetery, and she anked: "Say, papa, how long does It take for the tombstones to come up after they plant people?" "Ma," inquired Bobby, "hasn't pa a queer Idea of heaven?" "Why do you ask that?'- " 'Cause 1 heard him tell Mr. Naybor that the week you spent at the seashore seemed like heaven to him." Kate, aged 6 years, had been going to school only a few weeks. She had learned to raise her hand If she wanted anything. One day she put this method Into effect when she was sent to tho chicken-house to get the eggs. Just as she reached tho chicken-house door her mother heard her say: "All you chickens that have laid an egg, raise your hands." m m "Ms aewioOTW w w s" swl '. t 1 .ner n' ' kumujsssi 5ft7wt? Fasi-FJylng Modern MirJgNef dirigibles, but more In Europe than in the United mates. In 1912 thero was a Gordon Bennett race In Germany, In which the different nations took part. The first and socond prlrcn were won by France, and America came third. The records were 1,304 miles in forty-flvo hour, and 1,806 miles In forty-six hours, both made by French aeronauts. Cap tain Hunnewell, the American, made 1,053 mites." Wonderful Feats of the Dirigibles. "How aboUt the dlrglble balloons?" The aermans aro now making more progress n dirigibles than any of the other hatlons." said Dr. Boll, At tho beginning of last year thoy owned thirty dirigibles, while the French had twenty one and the Russian eight. They had a regular balloon service beween Frank furt and Dusseldorf, tn wh.ch tho dtrtglble Schwaben made 100 trips within three months and carried 2,tS passen gers. H flew altogether a total of 224 hour, covering 7,?50 miles. tter in tho year It flew from Dusseldorf to Berlin via Bremen and Hamburg, making '230 miles in less than eleven hours, an aver age of mora than thirty-four miles an hour. The Victoria Lulse made dally trips from Frankfurt to Dusseldorf, going from one city to the other In three nours, carrying twenty-eight passengers. It also made a flight from Hamburg over tho North sea, a distance of 2J0 miles, and of a duration of vlght hours. Thers Is another airman balloon which mes rorty-six miles an hour." "What are tho French doing In bal loonlngr "They have one balloon which haa rrade a scouting flight or sixteen hours and another which has flown for seven teen hours with nlnteen passengers. The French are much interested In dirigible balloons as related to warfare. At the SfSlf,0' ,lut year thty Pproprlated 11,600,000 for such balloons, and the French budget of that year Included a vote of more than H.000.000 for military aviation." The Flylngr Mncbln In Warfare. 'Am the great powers of the worlo, dcjng much as to military aviation, Dr. Bell?" I asked. "Yes. They are fully alive as to it possibilities and dangers. Kvery atron overnment is experimenting, and 1 doubt not that a great deal more haa been accomplished than le generalty known. That Is one of the things that governments try to keep secret. In the winter months of ) our own army aviators mode 41 flights, and for the fiscal year ending JMne 30, mt, they made 1.600 flights. The total time that our men were in the air was about 900 hours. "As to the French, they passed ait aerial law last year regulating the estab lishment of an aviation department for the army, and at the end of that year they had a total of 344 effective aero dromes, divided Into forty-three sections and distributed on a territorial basts. They had 214 trained pilots and an equal number of trained observers and 2,200 men. Blnce then their army aerodromes have been Increased by a very large jopular aubscrlptton and It Is chtlmeo mat mey win nave on or before the, ear 1915 at least 800 aerodromes ana (.ku irainta puois. The French r.i, aviation the fourth arm of the miiun,v "What has been lateli 1 )ne In balloon-1 service." ins?" , "How ftbeut Hie Germans "A great deal, both in phcricaU andj 'They have recently subscribed 6,000,000 marks toward aviation. They have a targe nuniDcr or. acroaronres ana are training men for the service. "In Great Britain the government has created tho Royal Flying corps, which Is connected with the military service, but has an entity of Its own. It Is assoclatea With both army and navy, and has a military wing and a' naval wing. Tht n llltary wing and a naval wing, each of which Is divided into sections. The military wing has an airship section, a kite section, and three aertxfromo sec tions. The naval wing has flylnff sta tions on the .Island of Bheppey, at Rosyth, nd In tho Humber," "The Japanese are doing considerable In aviation," continued Dr. Bell, "and so aro Italy and Austria. The Italians have been tho first to employ the aerodrome In actual warfare. They have used aero dromes In Tripoli In their war with th Turks. The machines were employed in making observations at night, and, for de tailed observations over long distances. They were manned with wireless tele graphs, and wero ablo to maintain unin terrupted communication with their base. Aerodromes were also used by the Balkan armies In the recent troubles with tho Turks." Dropping- Bombs on hej Enemy. "I understand that some of the aero dromes have been competing as to the dropping of bombs Into an enemy's camp?" "I suppose you refer to the contest for the Mlchelln prlies. They wero all won by Lieutenant Bcott an American. The first prita was $10,000. It was for tho placing of the greatest number of bombs, each weighing fifteen and ono-half pounds, within a circle of about thirty three feet, the same to be dropped from an altitude of 658 feet or higher. Lieu tenant Scott dropped twelve out of hts fifteen bombs within the circle. The sec ond prlte was 15,000. It was for the plac ing of the greatest number of bombs in a rectangle of less area than the deck of one of our btggeat steamers, or In one 304 feet long and 131 feet wide. In this contest tha altitude was a half mile or more. Scott dropped fifteen bombs and eight of them fell Inside tho rectangle. The third prize was J2.O0O for tho most eclentlfio and practical apparatus for bomb dropping Lieutenant Scott won this by his gun which he used for tho pur pose. "In the same connection I might say that one of the best aerodrome guns Is an invention of a United States army of ficer, Colonel J. N. Lewis of the post artillery corps. His gun Is mads of steel and aluminum, and It weighs about twenty-five pounds. It will shoot from 300 to 700 shots a minute. This gun Is for shooting at machines In the air." Flylnar Machines as Stan Killers. I here referred to the great number of deaths which have occurred in con nection with flying machines, and asked Dr. Bel! whether the mortality was in ert aalng; The deaths are growing leas In pro portion according to the number and du ration of the flights, and to tho num ber of men on the machines. The actuVl number of the accidents of 1912 was greater than that of Mil. but Its ratio to the mile flown was much less. 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