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Show SEES BfGTUTURE FOR MICE Transatlantic Passenger Travel in Three Years, Reed Declares. NEW YORK, July 2. Regular trans-Athintic trans-Athintic aerial travel would become a rcanty within throe years, if interest 3)i aviation evident in time of war were -'intinued in lime of peace, declared lieutenant Commander Albert C. Read, "skipper" ot' the NC-4, at a dinner Sivon tonight by the American flying ybib in honor of the airmen who won j for the American navv the honor of I L'eing first to fly across the Atlantic, j ' 1 Anyone who p:ivs that we will ver attain an altitude of 00,000 feet, That we will never be able to cross to i-.urope- in the forenoon and return" in ' no aft crnoon, t hat we will never be able to accomplish the things that appear ap-pear i mnnssihle now, is a most courageous coura-geous person, with a courage similar to tlmse in the olden days who said that iron ships would never work,'' asserted assert-ed Commander Read. Commander Read predicted that in 'ie future long-distance planes would bi mueh larger thau the NC boats, which have a wing spread of 126 feet, and that gearing down the propeller to obtain greater efficiency in. continuous drive uf gasoline motors will solve -inch of the present engine trouble experienced ex-perienced on long flights. ' The design of larger airplanes in '.lie future will undoubtedly incorporate incorpor-ate t h e fe a t u rc s of a gearing down from the motor to the propellor and also the connecting up of several motors mo-tors to drive one large propeller, " he asserted. ''Regarding the radio, the results obtained ob-tained by the radio officer on the NC-4 undoubtedly broke many previous records. rec-ords. He sent messages over 700 miles, fie heard Boston talking over 1000 nautical miles. He copied a long mes-tage mes-tage sent from the George Washington when approaching Brest, France, from 1175 miles awav. He heard stations calling other stations 1300 miles away. VThen you consider the requirements of a radio installation on our comparatively compara-tively small seaplane it is really a marvelous performance. ' t . Referring to Harry G. Hawker's remark re-mark concerning' the use of a destroyer -bain by the American fliers. Commander V.- ad averted the Britisher's comment had been m iseonf trued by the press and 1 hat. instead of disparaging- the feat of the Americans, be was seeking- merely to defend the British admiralty from criticism because it had not taken similar precautions. Read wus followed by Brigadier-Gen-rm! T,. K. O. Charlton. British air attache at-tache to the United States, who congratulated congrat-ulated the American crews on their ac-i ac-i cjnipliifhn'.rnT. Commander John H. Towers, flight lOTiririiider, who with Lieutenant-Commander P. X. T,. Bellinger were forced i' discontinue their flight with Read, re-cc;ved re-cc;ved an ovation when he arose. 'Head looked at the ocean from the point of a bird, while Bellinger and myself my-self toK. the doubtful view of a fish," he said. |