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Fritz von Opel, 31-year-old scientist and motor car manu facturer, here is pictured with his wife and their pet chaw; Gin Wan, which accompanied them on their American tour. Be- low you see the start of a trini run in which Von Opel drove a car propelled by rockets.. It is this principle that he hopen to employ on aeroplanes driven at great speeds through the outer
limita *of "the earth's atmosphere.
the that it was not until 1926 that he He wants to get to work on new liquid fuel, build an instru- met Prof. Friederich Sanders,. ment-carrying rocket to explore pyrotechnic expert, and became the outermost limits of our air. his co-worker. Maybe Fritz known and to fly the English Channel in a enough now so that he won't get
himself killed. rocket-powered plane.
By that time, he hopes to be
"There are plenty of mysterios able to calculate definitely the of the outer air which we must explore," continued her husband, chances of passenger fights at 30-miles altitude and at a speed of "Just before I came to America, I at least 1,000 miles an hour. was asked to build a rocket to What we must do," he said, "la carry Instruments out toward reduce the weight of our rockets. space. The recording instruments We have gone a long way already we had then were too delicate to shocks of Buch The fuel is much lighter, but not withstand the light enough to let us reach speed, but I am told now that height of 20,000 to 30,000 feet. these bave been perfected.
a few
So pretty soon we hope to Once there, though, only impluses of normal rocket power know the truth about the great would be enough to send a plane layer of hydrogen that is supposed clear around the earth."
to surround the earth at a die- He spoke calmly in the most tance of 35 to 40 miles, and whe staggering figures. In the absence ther there would be any danger to of air resistance, which retards life in the cosmic rays before they
he
the speed of ordinary airplanes. are filtered through our, at- pointed out that the speet of rocket mosphere.
.
Can. Control Speed.
be almost want to build a plane to y transportation would unlimited. A rocket plane, he ex- the English Channel, too: First plained, would be the only vehicle the engineers said I could not fly, the efflelency
of which would be in and I flew. Now they say that creased as its altitude increased. only short flights are possible, and "A thousand miles in hour that the speed cannot be con- probably will be the minimum," trolled. he said, "and 5,000 miles an hour would be more satisfactory. That New York, Dec. 30. upper air, he anys there is no would be the most efficient speed, for that is the rate at which the The next time Fritz von Opel scientist to-day who can deny the comes to the United States from feasibility of long-distance flights explosive ganca leave the rockets.) plane, it is generally his native Germany, he may awoop at tremendous speeds,
Such Von Opel is on his way back to
agreed
would out of the upper atmosphere with
have an engine and content for the propeller for auxiliary power, to WALLS OF JERICHO. pool University, will try to answer. advanced to explain the fall of all the speed and pyrotechnic Germany now,
be uyed comparativo Sir Charles Marston, who with the wails included the extra-effect of a meteor, to glide to n present with the
in taking off and landing Part
It would, of course, be hermetical the late Lord Melchett, Ananced ordinary suggestion that if ramas-landing within three hours after anail's pace of a liner the expedition, said that that last horn trumpets were blown on one his take-off from Berlin.
owner and executive of the Opel ly sealed, with oxgyen tanks sup-
plying air for the passengers. year's work revealed the fact that particular note a long blast would That wild-sounding conjecture Motor Works, largest nutomobile
Hopes to Explore Space. the walls of Jericho did actually not up metallic vibrations In the pre-supposes only that the young factory in Germany he spent ten collapse.
walls and cause them to fall. aciontist and inventor who has months in the United States study- The most feasible suggestion to Sir Charles thought it very far pioneered in the rocket principle ing our manufacturing methods.
Wants to Perfect Fuel. cause the collapse was an earth-fetched, but added that it would of motive power is successful in WHY
But once back in Roussolheim, the walls of Jericho qunke, and the expedition would be well to remember that there further lowering the weight of the collapsed before the armies of try to find traces of this catns-are probably forces of nature liquid explosives, which serve as near Frankfort, he will resume ex- Joshua is a queation which the ex-trophe which occurred about 1.400 avaliable of which we know almost engines for his fearsome looking porimonts with the rockets which pedition to Palestine, led by Pro-. C.
nothing, and perhaps these were vehicles of flight. For, given such already have made his name a fessor John Gerstand, of Liver-Other theories, which had been understood by Joshua's priests. a fuel to send a plane far into the byword in aeronautical science.
Expedition Seeks Reason for Collapse.
"I want to prove them wrong again. Our fuel is much improv ed, and we have figured a way to
force of the regulate the plosions.
"My father who used to laugh at my experiments, wrote me the other day that a special airport for rocket planes is being built near Berlin. I shall not do any more work with rocket-propollod As he talked. Frau Von Opel automobiles, which people in Ber. hurried about the hotel suite, in will be glad to know. I re- packing for the return voyage to member the time when, with 300 Germany. A tall, graceful blonde, pounds of explosives in my car, I oven younger than her husband, forgot all about the officials bo- sho looks on with what she says is hind me and blew them off their fatalistic toloration of Fritz's benches. No, they were not hurt big ideas." She is glad, though, much,
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