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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928.

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Attaining a speed of 125 miles an hour in 45 ecconds from a standing start, this rocket automobile, à German In- vention, amazed Berlin spectators with its tremendous speed In recent tests. Fritz von Opel, its driver, Intends to experi- ment again in July to attain a greater speed. Tests are limit- ed, as each rocket costs a small fortune. They fire from the

tubes shown on rear of the machine.

Cleveland, O., May 29-Think of concludes a trip from Berlin to flying from Berlin to New York, a New York could be mado in a lit- distance of 4000 miles, in an hour-tle more than an hour.

Of sailing through rarefled air at a maximum speed of 4500 miles an hour-

At the beginning of such a trip, says Valler, the rocket airplane Of reaching a height of 31 miles would have to contend with the resistance of the atmospliore and above the earth's surface

And you have the future picture, therefore could be aided in its in- according to present predictions,tial progress by a pair of propel- of the rocket-motored airplane which is even now in the first stage of construction.

The rocket plane is the ultimate goal of the builders of a moter that is propelled by a series of rocket explosions similar to those of a rocket pinwheel shooting into the air. It has just been applied near Barlin to an automobile which attained a speed of 125 miles an hour within 46 seconds of Its start, and which may attain a speed far greater than ever reached by man in such a vehicle.

This is the unique idea of Fritz von Opel, German auto racing champion, who has been collagbot rating with the German airplane and motor builders, Raab and Kat- zenstein, in the construction of his rocket motor and its application first to automobiles and ultimate- ly to airplanes

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Shooting up into the air at an angle of 70 degrees, however, the rocket airplane could reach a height of nine miles in less than a minute. At this height, the at- mosphere would be no rare, as to make the propeller practically | worthless as a means of pulling the plane along and the ship would have to depend entirely for its further progress on the series of explosions of rockets in this pecu- liar motor.

The extremely thin air, however, would relleve the ship of so much resistance that it could attain a speed of 3500 miles an hour in a few seconda.

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At a height of $1 miles abové the earth, almost eight times the altitude actually attained by minn, Valler figures the airplane could

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Here is a light experimental model of the new rocket- pronelled airlane to be tried in Germany, using a rocket motor similar to the one with which an auto 'recently at- tained a speed of 125 miles an hour within 45 seconds.. The diagram shows how such a plane would fly at high

altitudes from Berlin to New York.

Revolutionary as this might continue on an even kéel sound, however, it is taken quite parallel with the earth at a speed seriously not only by von Opel and for 4500 miles an hour.

his co-workers, but by several A bullet fired from a rifle would European scientists, who have longgo only half as fast!

been contemplating a similar idea. The rocket ship could reach this In fact, the Russian Soviet gov-altitude at a distance of only 43, ernment, it is said, has appropriai-miles from, its source and in a ed $260,000 to finance a Moscow minute and 40 seconds. acientist for experiments of this kind.

The idea of attaining excessive speeds and great heights, beyond the adapabilities, of present en gines, has forced experimentera

In less than an hour the ocean could be crossed; and the plans` could glide slowly down to earth. The gliding process would take longer than the actual flight.....

The fact that human beings

bo entertain the principle of a can't live in so rarefied atmosphere rocket motor. This would be a aa that which exists 81 miles above motor that would force a body the earth, doesn't bother the ad- outward from the earth at a tro-vocates of the rocket airplane. mendous speed, much as an ex-They explain that the ship could plosion does to a fireworks rocket. have an airtight cabin, for both It is believed this is the princi-pilot and passengers, in which the ple of the German rocket-motor, oxygen content will always re- although the inventors are reti main the same as that on the cent about the matter.

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lier the Munich inventor, has long. The passenger therefore would been figuring on this type of mo feel no ill effects of mounting to tor to propel an airplane almost so great a height.

at lightning speed across the At Additional oxygen tanks might Jantic

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also carry oxygen for combustion

- Valler, has reduced his theories of the rockets in the thin air, of „to practical figures, from which he, the lofty altitudes

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