Show MEN noll SOON CROSS THE IN NEW SAIS CURTISS aviator expects successful effort will be made in 1916 remarkable development of the Acro aeroplane plane as a result of the european war has displaced dreams with deductions use in war has proved utility in peace new york glenn it II curtiss Curt las the lav lalor lator and inventor ot of the alt boat was asked by tile the now new york world what dream of the future ho he was building ni as a result ot of the remarkable do ot of the aeroplane by the war tit in europe with a smile mr cur tubs IBS replied ive iva left oft off dreaming visions of 0 th the a future are in fit the repair shops get ing now new motors the old keep up with the pace that plain facts acts are setting those days no wo we dont dream now wo draw deductions so the question was altered to well what are arc your deductions as to the future Ile call tile tho facts acts returned mr air curtiss Curt las and you can make your own deductions what are wo we seeing in tile the greater part ot of europe today the aeroplane aero plano and the seaplane as they tall call the over there are playing a largo part ft a very largo large part in what to la now the dally daily life of 0 those sections of tile the earth it la Is not the life 0 of o tile tho times of pence peace I 1 grant you but the difference is such that it Is really greatly in favor of tile the future when you ask whether aircraft will remain part of the dally life in europa after the war common as ships im not going to say any that wo we shall sea BOO nero planes na as common OB as automobiles on oil fifth avenue and broadway hut but they havo have undoubtedly won their place their uso use in war has proved hilr utility in peace As AB to sea seaplanes planes and I 1 am confident ithac they will very soon boon bo be as common a sight as ships and motor boats ibre are today odd as tho the idea may seem tit at tho the moment lt tho the war will certainly result resul t in knitting the peoples ot of tho the world more closely together tho the wireless telephone will come apparently immediately pence peace Is established and that will emphasize the over increasing feeling tor for closer relations and the demand for speed in transportation which la is a necessary cons consequence consequent equen a 0 the seaplane eoa plano will become an absolute necessity its development may perhaps bo be practically without limit at As a beginning someone will cross the atlantic in an airboat the first fine day that the world la in again tree free ito 10 take interest iti in that side of tho the development ot flying this could bo be done any day now craft aro are already in existence which could cross tho the atlantic in a single tion atop topflight flight the feat historic Hlat orlo whoever is IB first to fly across tho the atlantic will certainly still accomplish ia a feat eat that will be historic out but the flight will not vow bo a treats frenk performance for mance mauce which might not be repeated in YOUR years so ranch much Is such euch a 8 flight now within the range of dally daily experience that tho the man who first does it may not improbably after a brief rest turn round and fly back 1 1 I do da not think I 1 am giving away a secret when I 1 say that rodman hodman wanamaker tor for whom I 1 built the america to fly across the ocean last year Is still as keenly interested as ever in tile the transatlantic flight when after the war had bad broken out and lieutenant porto porte who was waa to have made the at tile tho air trip was cia atu back to service in england mr air wanamaker was induced to sell the america back to me it was with the understanding that I 1 would build him van another othor plane to fly tho the atlantic and that will be dono done at tho the first possible moment juo mont next time and wo we are hoping it will be next we shall I 1 think start the flight actually from now york city that la ih itself will show you something ot of the development to dato date tho the first log leg ot of tho the flight will be to st johnb johna newfoundland and the tha next to the he azores the two stops will vill be moro more to meet the possible moods of the aviator than tho the necessities osal of 0 the machine before we were working expert inen mentally tally and in doubt and darkness now wo we can work and speak with confidence the second transatlantic flight will I 1 arn pretty sure bure cover the ocean in all probability without a steif it will all dupens on the man at the wheel the machine tua phine will easily carry all the supplies necessary tor for a nonstop flight of that distance to gathor with an allowance as a margin for possible exigencies do you won dor that hat I 1 havo have left leftoff off dreaming plan trial flints to give the aviators the necessary experience in ocean flying we purpose locating the machine here in now new york city and making lights flights along ithe coast and to sea at least such are our present plans when a man can do say about miles at tile the wheel in one spell the transatlantic flight will present little further difficulty biffl to him and then after afterward waid put in tho he questioner the next deduction should not be ba hard replied wr curtiss and then stopped to A regular transatlantic air now new york to london in 36 nourat hours was suggested 1 I told you I 1 was dot doling nathl nothing ng I 1 in n ibbe ith a way ivay or of vis visions loni 11 cretu IT ed hrcar lisa allis with bla smile of the I 1 ir 1 e hut but this I 1 can any with definiteness ho he continued experience will show that the seaplane la Is the safest as well us as tho the speediest ediest of all the means of transit wo we have ono one of our big sea planes would ride nt at anchor through the worse of at storms but would more probably got get above it and journey on with complete indifference to the weather you asked mo me what in my opinion are tile the chief outstanding features of the great experience which the war in E europe drope Is affording us in aviation I 1 would say bay that they are theses these the increase in tho the size elzo but principally la in the power of tho the machines tile the amazing work shown to be possible by flyers and above nil all tile the urgent need of and adequate aerial forces for the defense of tile tho united states lesson for U 8 for us I 1 think this last lesson Is by far tile tho most important wo we have practically no machines and almost no flyers wo could perhaps get the machines if the enemy was good enough to give giro us the grace of a little time but how about tho the men to use them it takes time tomake a flyer a lot more time than any foe would give us the ono one no country can afford to take chances these days something ought to be done at once congress tins lias voted but most of it I 1 understand is going for experimental workshops works bopa all right but it wont produce aviators As a builder of aircraft I 1 shall be considered interested I 1 suppose but I 1 will run that risk I 1 speak because I 1 know for that matter everybody ought to know it Is so obvious in the last two naval maneuvers tho the defending fleet was eluded each time and the enemy succeeded in landing on our shores we were told wo we had not enough scout ships the obvious fact act was that wo we had no sea planes efficient watch on a long coast line like ours can only bo be kept by means of seaplanes sea planes the expense of scout ships Is unnecessary and they could not do the work so well no matter how groat great their number our entire coast I 1 believe should be guarded by a system of seaplane stations the big seaplanes sea planes of today can go tar far out to sea drop anchor and ride there for days it necessary they can see sea infinitely farther their speed Is fit twice or three times that of R scout ship they can keep in touch with each other more easily they run little danger from the foe and are a peril to submarines instead of being in peril from them seaplane all eyes eye the seaplane la is the only thing from which a submarine cannot escape a to escape from a warship a submarine has but to submerge and once it to Is belov tile the surface it Is out of right flight and far from having to floe can turn back on tile tho warship and havn it at its morcy mercy hut but experience on tho the other side Is showing allowing that once it Is spotted from a seaplane a submarine to Is doomed as surely as a pigeon over which a hawk Is hovering and from the air it can be spotted and followed oven even when submerged british aviators havo have adopted an ingenious daring and deadly method with the german U boats when they come upon them submerged unseen iron from alio LI boat they foil aloft until tile foo foe starts to tho the surface to take a peep around then they swoop down and swishing along the alio surf surface ice ot 0 f tho the sea at tor rifle speed pass right over tho the U boat breaking off its periscope and leaving it help loBs one of tho the marked features feature of tho the seaplanes sea planes now Is the great streng strength tt with which they aro are built wo we no longer use the fine alno silk that was da i s put on the america and while I 1 am not favoring metal for the surface of the planes much of the framework la is of 0 metal I 1 am not at liberty to give dimensions men mou mansions Blona of the biggest machine yet turned out but I 1 can say it Is considerably larger than the america and more than eight times the weight of the machine with which I 1 flow flew down tho the hudson five years ago and won the worlds prize tor for the flight from albany more important than the increase in size is the increase in reserve engine power on the america we bad two motors of 90 horse power each but they developed only 80 horse power or together on a similar machine today we put two horse borso power motors aeroplane safe were we now building tor for peace purposes we could build enormously larger machines than wo we are turning out but in war machines very high speed Is essential rather than size it Is ie absolutely necessary of course that aircraft in war shall be able to rise very speedily the perils of war are arc evolving an acro aeroplane plane that Is as sata safe apart from war perils as a coach on a paved road among tho the war flyers dyers of the allies the mishaps essentially aeronautical that la Is not due to war conditions have been fewer I 1 understand than accidents dents among a similar number of automobiles taken altogether the me losses in the flying corps have been remarkably light compared with the a mount amount of flying done dona and the risks run records ot of their work show that some 30 e of the men we trained have boon inet haf in the air more than one thousand hours in loss loan than a year and one of them has recorded 1200 hours aloft which means mean 11 more than four hours a day in the air 1 r over the toe foe without being hit bit or having a mish mishap ap to his machine some of the escapes have been miraculous prom from one flight a man returned with more than a hu bun n dred bullet holes in his planes but ho he had not been hit two other developments illustrate the inherent reliability of the aeroplane today the first Is that flight Is now made with safety no matter how rough a wind Is blowing weather no longer counts the other Is that though in pence peace flight over a city was forbidden because of its danger cities are now being protected by aeroplanes aero planes and wo we have not heard of any disaster through a machine falling expecting too much ill 1 I am often asked why tho the british flyers cannot protect london from the zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins my answer Is that that to is expecting too much it to Is impossible able the truth Is that they are ara so no far protecting london that the zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins dae daa da e not venture near in the daylight and can make their raids only under cover of a dark night even at night the raiders have to turn back it if the sky Is 18 cloudless out but even if the aeroplanes aero planes were already hovering high over the city when tho the zeppelins zeppelina Zepp elins came the chances would bo be in favor of the raiders it would bo be possible to fly quite close to a zeppelin and not know it it you did happen to see lea it the next moment it would be lost in a cloud it if as must bo be the usual case the defenders have to wait on the ground until tho the zeppelin to in picked up by a searchlight tho the raiders will have done their work and bo be fleeing at top aneed before an aero aeroplane plano can reach their height the germans say they make their raids at an elevation of feet but I 1 believe feet is nearer the mark that Is why they escape the guns londoners Lon doners will havo have to bear with the tha raids as part odthe of the fortunes of war they can put out their lights but they cannot hide bide their river |