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Show oo FLYING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, tmen tor of the telephone, in a communi-! communi-! cation to the National Geographic so-i so-i ciety at Washington, declares the Atlantic At-lantic ocean can be crossed by a Tieavier-than-alr machine in 13 hours, and his figures are: ' A flying machine flies faster as you go higher up, because the rarer air offers less resistance to the motion, mo-tion, while the propeller gives the same push with the same power, whatever the elevation. As you get Into the rarer air the propeller spins around faster. A 50-mile-an-hour machine flying two miles high in the air and we have machines that have i gone twice as high as that will fly much faster thnn 50 miles an hour, i bi n at an elevation of two miles high in Hie air there is a constant wind blowing In the general direction of Europe having a velocity anywhere any-where from 25 to 50 miles an hour. As a net result of all these things, there can be little doubt that any or-j or-j dinary machine that is able to sup- port itself in ihe air at an elevation ol two miics high will attain a speed of af least 100 miles an hour in the dirt Hon "l Europe, and that means goinp from America to Europe iu a ; single day Calculation show s that taking all these circumstancos into consideration, our best machines should be able to cross the Atlantic in 13 hours I hardly dare say it. aloud for publication It is sufficiently sufficient-ly startling to know that it is not only possible, but probable, that the nnsFQRe may be made In a single day. But if. as I imagine, It can be done in 13 hours you may take an early breakfast in Newfoundland and B lafr dinner in Ireland the same night." |