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HUGE. FLOATING AIRPORT. FIRST LINK IN ATLANTIC CHAIN.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 28th, 1931.
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wave re-
Pictured at the top is an architect's drawing of the Armstrong sendrome as it will ap pear when put into service between New York and Bermuda, Note that the building the landing deek as well as the buoyancy tanks below are streamlined to lessen sistance and to make the structure change ita direction with the wind. A supply ship is shown at the extreme right deliyering a cargo of fuel. Lower left is a picture of the sea- drome model just before launching for its text. This showa construction of the buoyancy tanks and the counterbalancing weights below. Lower right is Edward R. Armstroniz, 1-
ventur anal bead of the Armstrong Sendrome Development Company,
and there.
the
a year.
inst tanks Alled with iron ore. Thus the structure will not roll or pitch when exposed to wave 'ne- tion, since the lower weights will
LORD MELCHETT'S SUCCESSOR.
counteract surface disturbances. Str H. McGowan's Rise
A Floating City.
On the projecting centru nec- tions, according to Armstrong, will
to Fame.
Forty years ago, as plain Harry be built a hotel, hangars, storage McGowan, a determined young at 25/- per sheds, weather burenu, radio sta- Scot started work
And Just the other day tion, offices, hospital and light week. house. The sendrome is to have that same Scot, Sir Harry now, its own power plant, a fire depart became chairman of Imperial ment, lifeboats to neat 240 persona, Chemical Industries, the biggest and a 54-foot speed bont for patrol concern in the British Empire. and reacuc service. At night ita Hegan as Office Boy. searchlights and flood lights will be visible for 100 miles.
Sir Harry was born in Glasgow In 1874 and started work as an
survey ship sent by Secretary office boy In one of the Glasgow of the Navy Adams confirmed plants of the Nobel Explosivo Armstrong's hope that a high pla- Company, Nobel being the famous tena on the ocean Boor could he Swede whe, having made a lot of found for anchorage. It is nearly money aut war, left the bulk 3,6000 feet higher than the sur-of his vast fortune to give
all rounding area and will save thou-annual prize to the man who dis sands of dollars worth of costly most for pekee, and also annual cables, which even now must be prizes for great achievements in luid to a depth of 12.600 feet. literature, medicine *
The Anchorage problem was one of the most difficult the engineers faced, for the structure must be capable of holding against 70-hiu new job for more than a couple mile gales, huge waves and the of weeks, when he said: "I like normal ocean currents, It also this concern. I think I will be must turn with the wind, in order boss of it some day."
to present ita full length to avla tors landing or taking off against the wind.
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of
Sovereignty in Doubt. Apparently only one detall the enterprise remains to be funtly settled. This is the question of sovereignity. The sendrome is not ship, and therefore not subject la registration under existing man- rine laws. It is not an island, 80 cannot, according to investigators, be subject to national domain.
"It is belleved that it will nut he subject to state or federal laws of any nation," the designer ex- plained, "Although its
owners.
Being Americans, can call on the United States government for help or protection of life and property.
care of Reed."
Nor will the sendrome by sub- Ma-
selences.
the
The legend goes that young Me- Gowan had not run errands
in
However that may be, he ad- vanced step by step until,
sure
enough, some years ago he became chairman of the great company.
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A group of Amertean engineersji been let and specißentions runs and return. For the Boating is are swinging into the first of ten pleted for everything from the land is to have a 40-bedroom hotel jeet to taxation, it appears. giant strides
with which they first rivet to the last coat of paint, as well as arcummodations during rine insurance underwriters, how- expert eventually to bridge
Tu Test Public Favour. the day for 350 or more guests ever, have agreed to write policies Atlanti Devan For out of 24 Thus it might seem that success, in the various lounges and publiej tas it, since it has been designed Afteen-your-old maze of plans and of the aradrome system is assured, roues planned. Since it will be in accordance with specifications hopes and blueprimis, construction. But 'apparently, it is much easier anchored far herond the twelve of Lloyds and the American has bern begun an
fantastic te elculate the wrights and mile limit, liquor could be sold Bureau of Shipping. floating land, mude of strel, stresses and hydrography
May Build Seven Others, which will take its place between, nietenpology connected with
Hopes for Large Income.
if the first sendromu, to be call the United States anal Bermuda. cast undertaking thin 1
to Armstrong and his buckers nowed the Langley, proves a comtner- This is to be the first pier of Agure how many plans will use hope that the experimental projeet eial success. Armstrong's groap the Atlantic
Others the semidrome after it is successs, will carn "bridge."
at net income of from plans the establishment of seven like it. according to Katward R. falk buid.
$1,620,000 to $25EL000 Armstrong, the designer, will be. That is why only one of the They estimate
others five, including the Lang- placed at 35-mile intervals to the structures is to be built Brst, and the read the cost of building leg, to the Azores, and three others and putting it in on a direct line toward France. Azures, arut Then t France, anchored for a trial mi a year or place at $4,3800,000, with an ad-Engel, Ireland. France ind Larger than the mightiest mean, two between Atlantic City and ditional $2,500,000 required for Spain all would be approximately In the meantime, in addition to be liners, and almost as intmobile as: Bermuda.
terminal and operating costs. indones us
equí-distant from the last rocks, these
sen-coming interested in the American to! "According to airway cost pytl- The final form at the seadrome drome.
and Canadian companies mention. serve as way stations to be span-matea, Armstrong said, “earrying is the result of fifteen years "We fully expert every trans-ed above, he also had become a ned by airplanes in short flights passengers to and from Bermuda, Armstrong's designing and testa, Atlantic route.. whether back and forth across the sea.
for Bidirector of Canadian Explosives vin the
experimental seadrome, From his original scheme, in 1915. mail or passengers, to dad the sea- Limited. British Dyestuffs Cer- 11 in
is a dream, but not a pipe would be a very profitable opera which looked like the how of a drome system Armstrong declar-poration, and the Dunlop Rubber dream. Armstrong bong has been lim if only 25 per cent, of the battleship and would have served | ed. "The economics of the
time that a young Swiss named, chance when he and Sir Harry consulting engineer for the E. 1. people that now ake the Bermuda only as a refueling station for tion are such that no trans-At-Company. He also foresaw the Brunner did the same thing. They| McGowan happened to be return- du l'ont interests. Associated trip annually would travel by air, seaplanes, he has evolved the new lantic service could afford to ep got in on the ground door.
great future in artificial silks and
both wern chemists, and had ex-fing from America on the same with him in the Armstrong Sea. For estimate purposes, the round. principle of a huge fiat deck of erate without using the service.
perimented in the making of alkabout. As they paced the decks on drome Development Company aro trip fare to Bermuda by air is as steel. 70 feet above sea level, 1,100 "The fuel lead on long flights)
Effected Huge Consolidation. technical experts
Hes and sudan,
their six days' Trip, they hammered and natriers,supied to be $300.
Then his path crossed that of This is some feet in length, 340 feet wide in the is an insuperable bar to pay load. of both
They formed the little Arm of out the details of the great Im- duPont and General what less than the present steam- entral zone and 180 feet wide at That is why a series of eight sea- the late Lord Melchelt, who was Motors organizations,
Brunner. Mond and Ca., which perial Chemical Industries. A large ship fare for the better acon- the ends.
dromes, anchored at intervals of better known in the financial, in- scate sendrome
Employed 60,000 in Factories. has been tested modations.”
soon was to expand into a huge It is to be supported by 32 buoy approximately 350 miles, will redustrial and political world as Sir and proven
Lord Melchett became chairman satisfactory
concern, manufacturing not only) Lind Madl and express, to and from aney tanks connected to the deck move the hazard from ocean tying Alfred Mond, Baronet. Mond lid bergh, Byrd, Sikorsky and Bleriot · Bermuda, is another source of ex hy stream-lined columns,
The and permit'
soda, other alkalies and other and Sir Harry, the vice chairman. a paying operation] aot have to struggle like young have expressed their confidence in peeted income. Sun another tanks are to be 18 feet deep, with daily, at rates little if any in ex-MeGowan. Many years before, his
chemicals, but was abo to take a They formed a perfect team, the the project, Government aid has; would be pleasure trip been extended it. Contracts have coastal airposts to the sendrome below them to support huge bal-highspeed steamship lines."
from elamus extending about 100 feet cess of those now charged by the father had emigrated to England foremost part in the world of nick-tall McGowan and the short stocky
el and other metals.
Melchett, They housed their main from Germany, about the sume
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