What's to Come Next in Our Conquest of the Air?

Abov-.The new Far man biplane Below.The rabin of tbe "aerobs"

Abovir..In a Handley-Page aeroplane

The 'Frisco
By Jack Binns
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FRANCISC0
,0

to

London

Airship Express
into the engine rooms and watch the powerful machinery sending the ship London along through the air at a hundred

These tremendous express on tower number miles an hour. power plants will be entirely different all abo-o-ard!" fc_v six; from the aircraft engines of to-day. This fantastic cry may be Owing to the pressure of war, airharass] before the year 1320 enters the aim of history. It will be shouted the station attendants of the mamrroth aerial stations that will be erect1 all over the world within the next -htcen months. Moored by its nwee to the huge wer, a giant rigid airship will gently vay in the wind just as a ship rides anchor when the tide is on the turn.
.

BHow.Bark and side view of the I/oening monoplane, fa-tr.t in the world, by official government tests

nere
r

it will await while the passen-

ascend the elevators to the top the tower, and then walk into the ~imodious salons of the ship. This is the hip that will carry pascr.gers, mail and xpress freight from :in Francisco to London in four and a half days without a stop. Alongside of ', moored to another tower, will be the .rship waiting to take on passengers r a direct flight to Australia, while urther along the Japan airship will
t

wsiting.

As the passenger walks aboard he ill be conducted to his stateroom by

uniformed steward. There he will id a four-poster bed, small conch, a ..rdrob for his clothes, and a folding

ashstand, with running

-e

water.

Having deposited bis hand baggage

will atroll around the ship to get his earing. Along the companionway he will walk to the smoking room, situ

ated in the after part of the ship. There will see a fair-sized room split up nto cosey corners with tables o ar ranged that card game can be played
.

Mall will be carried on the hip at airplane engines o< a potal rat of r.even crie an . their craft. The power problem of th airship is entirely different from tha of the airplane. There Is no need fo The tentative first cas passenger rat the very powerf'.-.l single unit so nee between New York and London trill essary to the airplane. Moreover, th be $250. including meal. engines of th airship can bo silt-need 'Plane Attached thus eliminating the terrible effec I

hip

constructor hve had to be con

tent to install

will be rapidly developed to peris tion. In a very short time the ^igM houses" of aircraft will be wine leu towers. These towers, like na rine lighthouses, will have varloel ranges, according to the power is stalled in them. They will seal out through the fog, hate, mist * rain, directing beams that will si ract the aeroplane t> it lawBaf

,.|

place.
Once these towers
are

unreal

.n

the vivyage. The steward will then show him the ..hroom, and arrange with him the In the .ime for his morning bath. middle of the ship he will find the din ing room, a spacious salon capable of seating the entire sixty passengers at one session. There be will be able to -der his meals la carte, all pre pared in the electric kitchen just be

upon the passengers caused by the eon tlnuous noise of high powered engines The airship's power plant can be up".i up into many unit. While the ship is passing over lar< cities, or beautiful country, the pas senger may go to the observation can There seated in a glass-inclosed roon he will be able to view the country ir the same manner as a bird. Or, heal this prove too tame for him, he car go up to the promenade deck on thr roof and lean over the forward or afl

railing.

hind the dining room. After dinner be may djotim to the lounge, which will be chiefly the sit ting room of the lady passengers. It will also be the library of the ship. It rill have a few table arranged o 'hat the fair passengers end their part ners may indulge in bridge If they feel so inclined. In the middle of the room a piaro will be bolted to the floor. There will also be a phonograph, which can be taken onto the roof garden for

British

Engineers Ready

This is not th dream of a Jules Verne, but the actual projected plans of the new British combine which was incorporated this month in Kngrland, It has back of it the huge engineering firm of V'ieker, Ltd., and he Armtrong -Whitworth Coatpgny. The plans for the airships are based .pon the reports of Major General K. M. Maryland, who was commissioned dancing. by the British Air Ministry two years Perhap feeMng In the mood for ago to investigate -the '.I.iahter than exercise the pasaenfrer will walk over air"' possibilities of commercial avia to the elevator, ring the bell, and wait tion. The R-T{ 1 wui the immediate re
mit of his investigation.

the instruction and performance of th two sister ship, R-98 and R34, the Vickers Con-pany has com menced construction of an airship quite capable of flying from London This under rapid icvelopmcnt. Everywhere .in Franenci without a nop. hip will be eoaatractad in Its pas huge towers, like the Eiffel Tower in senger carrying d'-partment in exactly Pari, will rife above the surrounding the ame maaner a. here described. building. Standing straight out from The huge combine formed in Great the tops of hee towers, at right gTowifcg palms. flach will h the fitting of this Britatl pln a eonaervntive start angles, will be impossible looking pole. luxurious ship of the all that will to etabllh line between England . loser Inspection will reveal the mam ar.d various eitie in North arid South moth airship moored by he noie at revolutionize long dUtar.ce trav Arier ic* and with cities in Europe, i tferent tower. in point of peed and com In the natural circumstances, these \fri-a Alrahip route be''Om the r;. As a p'-< aerial Utiona trill ba situated rot. ta\e a-aaeenger may M pruiitted to go. i ween England and Australia
:n
.

wh'le the car come down from the "roof." Ih- will enter, and two sec onds later will step out onto the promenade de-k which runs the entire length of the huge frame, a distance of over 700 feet. In the centre, t the w1det part of the tr%rne, a roof garden i located. This garden, cover.i with a glas dome, will have a highly p'.!;)..-d ?"<it for darmng, while all about it walls will be eoey eooehea interspersed with

From the

exprience already gained

The most remarkable feature of these huge airships will be the arrangements for fast delivery of special express mail packages and letters. Beneath the huge mas of the airship' frame a special equipment will hold a high speed air plane, capable of an average speed of 17o miles an hour. When within a few hundred miles of it; destination the airship will release this airplane, which will then proceed at top tpoed with the special mail side the big towns, perhaps twenty or aboard, saving two or three honrs in thirty miles, on secount of the lsrge amount of territory they must occupy. time. Another feature that the British com They will be the harbors of the future. bine is basing its plans upon is to enter By that time larding grounds suitable into open competition with the cable for small, fast aeroplanes will be estab companies serving distant countries. lished in the centre of large cities. This is best illustrated in the words of The passenger wishing to take the the official report of the British Air airship express from New York to Ministry on this phase of aerial naviga London next year will probably start from Central Park. By that tima the tion, which reads : ''The cost of electric cable communi old reservoir will have been emptied, cation, say, to Johannesburg, at 8 10s and the areaa it occupied may have been $42.00 per 100 word, a message tak turned into municipal landing ground ing twenty-four hours to reach its for airplanes. There will he a fast destination), can be contrasted with airplane that acts as tender to the air the cost, say, of 2 6d <60 cent) of ship. In a few minutes it will land at sending a letter of 5,000 woqds to the him at the a'rship terminus will the end h' <liof Long Island, where he same spot in six days by airship." reetcf] Remarkable as these facts are, they for the to the correct docking tower London airship. He will enter will be rurpassed by the remarkable the at the foot of the tower, construction of the future airship sta and elevator a few seconds later will he aboard will be erected just out tions which the mammoth a'r liner. Within two side all the large cities of the world. to Central Park after These stations at iiret glance will have dsysv ill be motoringin a London res he dining the appearance of a huge oil territory

Baby

ly installed and suitable landisi places erected in all lirge eitle aviation will be entirely unhss> pered by any weather conditia and absolutely independent of ftl
means

We admit that aviation al I of transport is cxpenst* We admit that there i an least

The Circumnavigation of the World in an Aeroplane

plished. Moreover, it will be done within a period of time that will Aeroplane Manufacturer A FLIGHT from New York to make the exploits of Jules Verne's New York around the hero appear commonplace by com world without a stop will parison. It is all a question of
be the climax of the spec

By Grover C. Loening

of

navigation and landing fields within cities. With Improved navi gation an aeroplane of high speed will be independent of wind and
weather.

world interest will he from New York to London without top by a muchinc capable of developing an avaragl peed of 150 mes an hour. A-* :: stunt this flight will be valu taurant. The dr?am of Jules Verne of a trip able as demonstrating the possibili around the world in eighty days wa ties of aerial mail between the two laughed at when it arpeare! in book capitals being delivered within form, scarcely more than half a cen tury ago. But man's victory over Time twenty hours. I would like to work moves rapidly forward to final con on such a machine, because I believe quest, and it i only a matter of month it possible. now when the world traveller will be The non-stop flight around the able to circumnvigate the globe in world will eventually b acconv five days

speed. A machine capable of 200 miles tacular flying to which we are being Speed, in fact, is the raison d'tre an hour will he able to go up of the aeroplane. It is the quality introduced. against a forty-mile gale and still The next immediate flight of of the aeroplane that will finally make \C0 miles an
establish it
us one

of danger, but that danger Is frri ually being eliminated. We bars* offer, however, the advantag" ' speed that cannot be attained & any other mean vf transport It is quit* possible at the pf* ent moment to build a three-sea* airplane with an average tpeed 170 miles an hour. Against a <ot9 mile wind this machine would * be making two miles a min11 With the wind it would t> ft* forward at a sperd that sotxndl most ludicrous to the '.ay mind. Until adequate landing g-w have been established in cities
next deveopment in aircraft W be fast t'yir.pr boat.. The xMtA

for this develop It should be continued nlonjr sane lines. A machine with a speed of 200 miles an hour is not merely a possibility, but will he an act uality within a very short time. The irre at need at the present
our

hour.a speed of the most im in lac- ^ in any other means of dous speeds developed portant parts of our economic life. impossihle chines have not been transferm Sped itself can be developed nor transport. With such a gale be aircraft umg water a a Isas* mally by sound engineering prop hind it the machine would go to its place. res. There is no need to o outside destination at the phenomenal spee! If this were done it would

experience

ment.

of four mile* n minute. The development of the wireless

possible
.erial

time,

however, ia improved

means

direction finder n a means of navi gation will make the machine independent of fog, the greatest enemy of all means of transportation. Like the aeroplane, the wireless direction Ander baa com to stay. It

> i>rk and all the great cities of"1 Kast and Middle Wet. n<>Ua large city but could be re*

to establish immexdi**1 passenger lines between w"

Tbert^

elapse before proper larding ft*f can ba bout m the uta J^Jt

would tide

by seaplanes

or

over

the

flying boats. tV

period that