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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929.

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The speed of the roadster pulling the "nerocar" design- ed by Glenn J. Curtiss, air pioneer shown in inset, Was increased, rather than reduced, due, says Curtiss, to the adoption of airplane design in its construction. This may be noticed particularly in the rear view at right,

"I believe there will be a com-jalized how much airplane dealgn ploto revolution in auto design could help Loward, improvement of very shortly. It will be based on the automobile. a study of present day aéronau- tics."

This is the radical assertion of no greater authority than Glein H. Curtiss, ploncer aviator and airplane builder, whose 30 years of experimental research into both aviation and automotive engineer,

No Advance on Buggy.

Cartiks goes so far as to say that, compared with the airplane, the automobile is a "horrible ex- ample" of inefficiency.

"The automobile to-day in some

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A sport from Africa states that there is a gas station at nearly, overy oasis on the Sahara Desert, providing refuelling places for both camels and automobiles.

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Nearly 10,000 miles of federal aid highways were improved dur». Jing 1928 by the 48 state highway departments in co-operation with the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads.

trend act by our most efficient form of transportation to-day, the airplane, the style of the Ameri can automobile is going to be. such that it will speed up travel 100 per cent,

"There are only two things that Trovent a car from going 1000 miles an hour. They are friction and head resistance. At high speeds 80 per cent of the power of the engine is used to overcome head resistance and the other 20 per cent, is taken up by friction." Criticises Auto Cooling, Curtiss laughs at the efforts mado toward cooling the modern motor.

ho modern radiator," he says, "is a fallacy. The cooling effect on the motor when the car goos

weight to the horsepower are in with the wind and against the favour of the airplane."

Trailer Boosts Speed!. By shaping his "aerocar" like an airplane in front and back,

Curtiss has been able to advance

wind varies considerably, con... atantly changing the temperature of the motor. For instance, a car going up hill with the wind geta overheated quicker than a car go- ing up hill against the wind."

the speed of the roadster gulling "No fan can control the whims respects is not far advanced from it, despite its increased weight. of nature or serve to keep the mo ing is still to reach its climax. the horse and buggy stage," heIn his tests along the Ta-Miami tor

the 1500-

"Proper heating and proper temperature have as much to do. In maintaining the efficiency of the gasoline as do many of its intégral parts."

ni a constant temperature. Curtiss bases his prediction on anys. "All it has gained in, 20 Trail across the picturesque Fler-The flow of air should be kept results he has established from years is power and reliability. It idu Everglades, he found his constant and the pressure should recent experiments with a new is no safer than the horse and ster could register a consi- be the same.

when alone. With type of motor vehicle whose de buggy of 50 years ago. Perhaps et speed of 75 miles an hour, sign is predicated on that of the the biggest safety factor in the wound trailer attached, however,

the non-ahatlerable airplane. This vehicle, a trailer, modern cur hitched to a regular stock road-glass and the recent invention of it made 83 miles an hour!

Curtiss attributes this increase ster, permitted that ear to travel all-steel bodies. at a greater speed than it did

"The design of the motor carin speed to its streamlipo effect The secret of this achievement resistance. At 60 miles an hour usual powerful suction that fol is its lightness and sturdy air-practically half the motor's power lows in the wake of the rondater. plane construction. Curtiss calls is used to overcome this element.

without the additional weight! Jenda nething to cut down wind in the rear, which minimizes the

The airplane, Curtiss belleves automobile. edeficiency in the will point the way toward increas But it will never take its place, There is no more useful ren-he insures up.

It an aerocar" and offers it as Paradoxical to the airplane, over-son for some things in the mo-

"The automobile will never sup.. his solution to the modern de coming of wind resistance is the dern style of the automobile than mand for fast, comfortable camp last improvement considered in there is for the style of a man's plant the airplane and the air- cars, buses and commercial vehi- the automobile. As a result, a necktle or a woman's hat," he plane will never supplant the au- "Automobile style tomobile. The function of the air- elea. He has been working on it minimum head resistanee, mini-comments.

As plane is to make long, fast jour was mum gas consumption, far supe-should be based on utility. for more than a year. It from tests of this car that he re- rior engine performance and less soon as wo begin, to follow the neys," is the way he puts it.

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