| Show I II II I Berlin to New NevI York in One Hour I tJ T l t j t I I L pI p- p v I p. p S S Sl S- S p 5 MILES tO b a Propeller Rockets YORK Rockets Alone L Glides bo tio Earth Earth Here is a light experimental model of the new rocket propelled I airplane to be tried in Germany using a rocket motor similar to the one with which an auto recently attained a speed of miles an hour within forty five seconds The diagram shows how such a plane would fly at high altitudes I from Berlin to New York I i I New Rocket Motor May Propel Airplanes at Twice Speed of Rifle Bullet By ISRAEL KLEIN CLEVELAND ND O. O NEA NEA Think Think of f flying ing fr from ns Berlin to New York a of miles in iii on one ho is Of sailing through rarefied alt air ata at ata a speed of miles an hou hou- hou Of ot reaching a height of 31 miles above aboe the earths earth's surface surface- And AndOU you OU have the future picture according to present predictions of ol the rocket-motored rocket this this is even now in the first stage of constriCtion con- con on The ro rocket ket plane i is l the ultimate 1 nl 1 of oC the Iho builders of a motor r that is propelled by a series erles of zt t t JOns similar to 11 ft f a locket shooting into the a air Ir It has just been heen applied l' l to an automobile which attained a a. speed of miles mile an hour within 4 45 seconds of f its start and which may attain a spee speed l far greater than ever reached by man manIn manin In such a vehicle This 1111 I is th the th unique idea Idea of of Fritz von Open German auto uto racing champion who has been collaborating ing In wih I tho ho Gorman airplane and Raab and Katzen- Katzen motor builders s ein eln ii In the tho construction of his lO roc motor and its application tIit t t to automobiles and ultimately to airplanes airplanes' H K as s this might sound however it i is taken quite seriously not only by Von VOll Open and his IsIs but ut b by several European European European Eu Eu- scientists who have long been contemplating a similar Idea In fact the Russian soviet government govern govern- ment it is said has appropriated to finance a Moscow i scientist scientist scientist for experIments of of this kind The rhe idea of attaining excessive speeds and great heights beyond the capabilities of present engines has forced experimenters experImenters' to to o entertain entertain enter enter- tam tain tho principle of a lo rocket l Qt mo mo- tor Th Tbs would hf lir a motor that would force a bod out ward from the earth at p. p tremendous ous speed I much as an explosion does to a fireworks fireworks fireworks fire fire- works rocket It is believed this Is the principle of the German rocket motor al although although al- al though the Inventors are reticent about the matter Max Valler Valier the Munich inventor has long been figUring figuring figuring fig fig- on this type of motor to propel prope an airplane almost at lightning speed across the Atlantic Valier Valler has reduced his theories to practical figures from which he concludes a a. trip from Berlin to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York could be made in a little more than an hour At the thc beginning of such a trip says sas Valler Valier th tb th rocket airplane would have to contend with sith the re resIstance resistance resistance re- re of the atmosphere and therefore could be aided in its Initial in initial initial in- in progress by a pair pall of pro propel propel- l lers Shooting up into the air at an angle of 70 degrees however the rocket airplane could reach a height of nine miles in less than a min min- ute At this height the atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere v would b be so rare as to make the propeller practically worthless as a means of pulling the plane along and the ship would have to depend entirely for its further gross gress on the series of exp explosions of rockets ets in this p peculiar c motor The extremely thin air all however would relieve reHee the ship of so much resistance that Jt it t could attain a speed of miles mUes an hour in a afew afew afew few seconds At a height of thirty one milos above the earth almost eight times the altitude actually attained by byman byman y man Valler Valier figures the airplane could cOul continue continue- to go on an even cl parallel with tile earth at a speed of miles s an hour A bullet fired ired from a rifle would go only half as fast The rocket ship c could uld reach this tiis altitude at a distance e of only fort forty forty- three miles from its source and Ina in a l. l minute and forty seconds I In less than an hour the ocean could be crossed and the plane could glide slowly down to earth The lIW gliding pr process would tHe Mice longer longet than the actual flight light The fact that human b brings ant cant live in Iii so rarefied atmosphere a a.- a. as that which exists thirty one mIls miles above the earth doesn't bother both both- er Cr the advocates nd of the rocket ar dr- plane They explain that the s could have an airtight cabin b both th for pilot and lj passengers in which th he the oxygen content main vin vill always RS re remain remain re- re the same samo as that on the earths earth's surface The passenger therefore would tee feet no m Ill effects of mounting to so grEat a heIght Additional oxygen tanks ml ht also c y n oxygen en for combustion or of the In the thin all air of the Jolt lofty altitudes |
