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“At Sign fect the pilot gildes of the enig of the mother-eroff........., a winged rocket."", THE PICK-A-BACK SEAPLANE Fast Atlantic Liners To Be Launched
A Regular air service across the Atlantic between the North Atlantic; also that it will Britain, Canada and the United States is to be discussed operate regularly at a reasonable ut an Air Conference in Ottawa at the end of this month.
The ocean air rate betwien the
cost.
word N: wonder, therefore, that some of our best air brains are cor entrating on it."
It is a combination of two flying-machines in United States, Europa promises one--a giant which climbs skyward with another to the pot renumerative in the 'plane perched on its back. It is here described.
This winged projectile is soon,composite apparatus, still joined to be launched in its tight, not together, will taxi across the water from ground level but from a point ruid take to the air like one high in the air.
machine.
One of the world's best-know Arms of constructors have been entrusted with the building of It, and early next year it will be on Its preliminary trials,
Steadily they will climb. Then when a height of about 5,000 feet Ims been reached, the pilot of the upper plane, pulling a lever in his cockpit, will operate a mechanism de-enabling him to glide off the wing of the big mother craft, and launch himself like winged rocket in free light.
Major Mayo, the aircraft signer and expert, is responsible for this astonishing "brain wave" of aviation,
ON HER WINGS Picture a huge, weight-lifting | flying boat-a mulli-motored mons.
ter of the sklos,
By carrying the amuller machine up to its operating height, and there launching it in mid-air, it is possible for this machine to trans» | port a bigger load at a higher speed and to fly for å greater distance than if it had to take the air under its own power from the surface of land or sen.
THE BIG PROBLEM
And then picture a smaller machine—a slim, streamlined 'plane which tells of speed in ita every | Bne-mounted on specially designed ¦ supports on the upper wing of the big flying-hoal.
That is the idea just in its out- One of the big problems in flying line, and an astonishing sight these the Atlantic with commercial loads two
machines will present-the [is to gain altitude at the beginning mother craft floating en the sur-of its flight-burdened as it is to its face of the water with this smaller limit with mails and petrol, craft resting on her great, wide. stretched wings.
GLIDING OFF When the day for the first trials comes, the four great engines of the mother craft and also the motors of the smaller machine she carries, will be started up.
다
And then their extraordinary
But if it can be carried up into the air mounted on the wing of a hig mother plane, and launched from a height of thousands of feet, one of the chief difficulties is solved, It is calculated that this Mayo plane, even when carrying a con siderable mail-load, will fly non-stop at a high speed from, England over!
2° A A
It may will prove a gold, me from an aerial trafic view-point. It is net just a question of curry- ing letters in a fast, air-launched : mail machine such as the Mayo. There is the all-important question of passengera.
Business nien to whom time really means money are constantly in transit on this North Atlantic route, and if such travellers can male an ocean voyage by air in comfort and safety and save much valuable time by so doing, they will pay special fares for the privilege.
But the designers of the big flying-boats now being prepared for first phase of experiment on the Atlantic are faced with mony pro- blems,
These great machines or theirs' must ly fast. They must have a multi-engined power-plant render- ing them, practically immune from forced landing. They must have an interior equipment providing a luxury, comparable with that of Juxury surface travel.
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not hold the field unchallenged.
Dr. Eckener, that wizard in hand ling glaut airships, having flown And then on top of this comes regularly through the favouring the most important point of all. weather of the South Atlantic, now They must also carry a load, over proposes with a bigger and more and above fuel nud, crew, which powerful dirigible to make, tests will enable dividends to be paid to this next year on the North Al- the shareholders of the companies |lantic, operating them.
Will he prove his contention that Seaplanes and flying-boats will a fast airship is a proposition even
Timo alone.
The ingenuity of man has dls- covered yet another possibility for. spanning the sens between Europa and America. This new science is called "rucketry."
NEW YORK ONE HOUR Some of our cleverest engineers are now engaged on this problem of rocket transport and propulsion.
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