| Show Clipper II-Clipper Ship Marvel of Skyway y r to go from New York to f o nod back Dack b by rail raU The tray eler could coull leave New York late Into Sat a I II I 4 k night nod be In London In time t imo to start the business week first ai thing Monday morning z Instead ot of a pilot and co pilot co-pilot s t our land tran transport ort planes have llave the lid lidI I clipper ship has a captain and a navigator for It Is an ocean going i- i iF h F- F vessel Automatic Flying ot of tUc fi Oln ie Is done by b y an Lt automatic pilot that s these two officers tree free to keep close watch on E the course of at the ship The condl IP a tion of the engine Is entirely In charge of tIle the ships ship's engineer Near Near- Nearly aU all of the Instruments r n ly many I gages dials and indicators are a- a banked la In the engine room which 1 la L u r v r may r t I I Above Artists Artist's Conception of Passenger 1500 Transatlantic Plane Planned In Germany Right Pan American Clipper Ship Below Maxim Gorki Russia's Largest Plane Which Crashed Killing 48 By Dy WILLIAM C UTLEY HE HL world with America Inthe inthe In TIlE T the 1 lead eH Is entering a new and glorious era ern of transportation tation It might be called the I Era ra of Realization of the Fan Fan- Fantastic Not so many years ago In ago In fact within the memory of children still sUIl In school covers school covers of magazines of the so-called so science and tion type were filled with artists startling conceptions of great greot flying palaces then weird In appearance which were to tie together the tho tar far ends of or the earth In the future Blase passengers were shown read read- reading read read-Ine Ing newspapers playing chess or even board shuffle while white their great grent winged Ingell carrIers cleft the clouds far tor above the vast expanses of or ocean Novels of ot highly Imaginative tic fie fie- tion llon typified by the Mats Mars stories ot of Ed Edgar nr nice like Burroughs bristled our spines with high jinks on oth oth- other other other er planets where the members of scientifically superior civilizations new flew about thu the faces of their respective tive planets In spectacular hops of thousands of ot miles at a time Such Buch wild literary entertainment we were wont for fear of ot appear Ine lag Ing too silly to our neighbors to leave In upstairs bedrooms reservIng reservIng reserving ing the lie space on the library table roble for tor Dickens Thackeray Edgar A A Guest and the family Bible Dible And AmI white while deep In our hearts we thought It was swell rending reading we knew that It was teas really realty Impossible stuff I Yet Yet before the year Is out out re reg char scheduled passenger servIce will he In err effect t between the Unit Unit- United United United ed States and China Not flying palaces perhaps but at nt least flying hotels will soon foon link the newest and most progressive of ot the great grent powers PO with the oldest and most mysterious of nations on another side Ide of or the world Surprising enough h the giant ships of ot the air look very much like the time artists conceptions which graced the sensa sensa- sensational sensational press of ot a few years back backMost Most surprising of or nil all we accept the real reni thing tiling with far tar less loss amaze amaze- amazement amazement ment than we did dill Its imaginative Uve forerunner Now V that the New Era bra Is la upon us ns we accept with little won won- wonder wonder wonder der the fact that German engineers are planning the construction of ot n a nI transatlantic air liner that will car car- carry carry I ry 1500 l OO This flying boat hont hontI I will he be b literally a n hotel on wings t it will ill sacrifice none of ot the comforts com com- comI corn i I forts forta of ot the tho great ocean liners with their sport decks deck entertainment facilities etc te I IShip Ship Cars by Air There will be he elevators from fromi I deck tied to d deck k There will be rOOm roomI for travelers elers to take their own au- au au the sen sea with them G Garages will be provided for tor th these e hoisting machinery will lift I the cars cers c ra up Into the Ur plane I ITIle The TIle own neon steamship has Its sup sap I pI ply of life lire boats to turn loot loose fromi from I the mother ship In case CAM of eases emer- emergency gency geney at sea and the pro proposed fly fly- I lag Ing boat will wilt not he ho outdone In this respect either for room will be provided to house hout c smaller mailer i Dry ary planes plane These Thee will take t off orr from Crom the surface of ot the MS sea by a powerful catapult which will assure their letting getting Into the air This Tola ship may sound a little fantastic to u us u but by this time wei We weare j are re used to having fantastic new I contraptions 8 accepted ns lIS practical I fact facts almost overnight The Th Ger Ger- Ger- Ger German German man designers promise us that such sucha I GerI a flying ship as 1 this will be ready re for tor travel over the ocean In the i very fery nr near r future Hardly less leas spectacular p la ls the th American marvel of the skyways Flying Clipper No 7 which II la now I completed as II the first ship hID ever Ter de do- signed specifically for transoceanic travel It will begin service probably probably probably ably on the route across the Pa ln Pacific cHIc cIOe some time lime this summer It ItIs Itis ItIs Is now finishing tests which so tar far have ha proved It to be equal to the bullyIng of the elements and the once forbidding distance between continents With Its Inception into service the period of ot pure pur experiment experiment ment will be over oyer None of ot the comforts of ot rail travel need be sacrificed aboard the clipper clip clip- clipper clipper per Soundproofing of or all nIl passenger compartments reduces motor noise so that It Is no greater than the noise of or a pullman car carThe The passenger deck 43 feet teet long has hag a ceiling six and aDd ono one feet teet high so that even tall men need nor nOI stoop In walking Thirty passengers and a crew ot of five e can cnn be carried The spacIous lounge and dining room seats scats 10 at ata nta n a time For sleeping the th passenger passenger passenger ger seats can be converted Into twelve twel single Bingle and six double berths In case of a full house there are four double berths available In the lounge So far tar It has not been decided how to apportion the tb available a space to passengers and cargo This may depend largely upon the popularity popularity larity of Inter inter continental air travel For example It will be possible with one scheme of or distribution to carry 12 passengers the crew and a n cargo ot of 2 2200 OO pounds on stop non-stop flights ot of miles The clipper has four tour engines whose 3 OO developed horsepower can climb 1000 feet teet a minute with witha a load of ot pounds The planes plane's cruising speed at feet teet Is miles nn an hour but It can do ISO and more If it necessary It can war soar ar more than four tour miles high Safety Clipper Watchword Safety has hns been the watchword In the tho design of or the clipper If one of ot the engines should fall faB the theother theother other three could finish the th carrying the pound burden it If two of them should go dead at the same time the remaining two would maintain the altitude attitude lon long enough to allow v the captain and his men an opportunity to make ready for Cor any emergency The sea holds no terrors for tor this remarkable ship It could make a forced landing In a stormy sea sen with more ease case than the gray gull It re resembles It can land or takeoff take fake oft off In a sea Eon with waves wa running the five feet high Former clipper ships have havo b been n assisted In the th water Eater b by pontoons pontoon suspended from the wings No Xo 7 has a supporting device de new to American design which Is called caned a 8 oon and ml might ht be likened to toan toan an an wing This sticks out outa outa a 11 short distance from each side ot of the body at water level It serves to hou house houM the th fuel Cuel tanks alto also The No 7 Is larger er In 10 every err rt- rt re respect than the clipper ship which recently flew fiew from California to Un- Un Ha Hawaii wall nod back again a aln The latter's four CD engines s lne-s are each of horse horse- horsepower horsepower horse power totaling less leas than the theNo theNo No 0 7 It has a n foot oot lM-f lM ot win wing spread h pounds empty empt pounds loaded and Its maxImum cruising range Is le miles s The now new clippers clipper's wings are feet teet from tip to tip It weighs 1100 pounds empty and cnn can add adda a useful load of pounds Its It maximum range Is miles It If mileage between stops were weri reduced d the ship could carry 2 21 passengers erl erland and a pay load lond amounting to BeYe several ral tons to I Europe rope over r the route wade made famous b by 0 Cot CoL 1 Charles J A Lied bergh b Jh With th normal stopping periods p in- in included In Included a ship of ot this type could fly from New ew York to loOn London don In about 33 hours averaging mite miles en an hour That Is less than the time I In the center of ot the wing No 7 Is truly a symbol of ot th the steps ahead which have hav been made In transcontinental air travel France Is linking up even en Its most distant colonies with the French capital by means of ot ships of this size one of which has already been completed the th de Paris de Paris This ship Is the largest sea seaplane plane In the world with a wIng wIng- wIngspread wingspread wing spread spread of ot nearly W O meters and en en- en engines engines gines which develop more than horsepower It weighs 37 tons and has hns a crew of ot eight Service has already started be- be between between be between tween the French capital and points In French Colonial Africa The Th Netherlands have ordered new Doug Doug- Douglas Douglas las Ins planes for tor transcontinental lines Service has been going along on schedule for tor some time between the United States and various South American points served serve by Pan Pan- Pan American American Airways The Grat Graf Zep Zep- Zeppelin Zeppelin Zeppelin Is so re regular ular In Its schedule be be- between between between tween Germany and Brazil that no DO DOone noone noone one mentions Its arrivals and de- de departures departures de departures any more Use Us Isolated Islands Since early this year American ships have bave been busy carrying sup sup- supplies supplies plies of ot all kinds food kinds food clothing cows chickens tools and building materials to to once Isolated Islands In the Pacific ocean so 90 o that they can be converted Into habitable land land- landing landing ing stations In the most Important ot of all the tIle new sea fen routes the one from the United States to China The longest hop on this journey will be Le the one from California to a distance of 2 2400 loo miles miles to be covered In a little more than 17 hours as the Pan-American Pan clip clip- clipper clipper per commanded by Captain covered It a few feir weeks ago ngo From lIan the planes will go o to Guam Wake Midway the Philippine Is Js Islands lands and Canton China Chinn En England land France and Rolland Holland all air services have attempted to lay the plans for tor air services to China but have been stopped at nt the Chinese border Germany alone of ot the Eu- Eu European European Eu European nations has bas been able to get In with air lines We hold this ad- ad advantage ad advantage vantage Rapid and uninterrupted flight ht Is possible across croS the Pacific white while land flight ht from European nn an- an to China face tare the obstacle or of frequent stops for Inspection when crossin crossing International boundary lines IDes Russian Marvel Crashes With nil all the clipper ships consid consid- considered considered ered perhaps the most roost unusual or orall oil all the giants JIant of or the air nir was the fated ill fated Russian ship the Maxim It weighed 4 42 tons carried 63 03 persons had bad el eight ht en engines or of ora ofa ofa a total of ot horsepower flew 10 miles an hour and cost 1350 1350 In It were a complete photo photographic graphic studio a photo engraving photo plant an electrically rotary printing press capable ol oJ turning I out newspapers an hour a aradio aradio I radio broadcasting studIo talking movie equipment a restaurant restaurant- rc lounge e 1 10 teh telephones nn an ob J a saloon sleep sleep- sleeping sleepIng Ing Ing quarters quarter and n a sound lOund amplifier t r litem I It was u used of ot course for Soviet propaganda purposes es s forI I The crashing of the G Gorki with I the low lots of ot everyone on board dot dot- doting Ing dor-Ing ing Ina maneuvers over Moscow Mo v osro wr was something of a shock to the build builders ers era of ot all large e airplanes It must be pointed out out however that the tir Be accident ac- ac accident was wu no fault of ot the ship A I pilot pilot of ot a smaller plane against orders ran mn Into It It on head-on i iThe The Insubordinate nl flier wn was him him- himself himself self killed In the crash 1 Not even eTen the sensational maga maga- maga- maga magazines magazines predicted such unbelievable wonders as a flying filing newspaper plant pl radio studio and moving pl picture tuu the the- theater theater Ur-ater Ur I ater A w w v |
