Show clipper ship M marvel irvel of skyways X ak 11 0 a ears nears back most surprising of all we accept the real thing with far less amazement than me e d d its imaginative forerunner now that the hew new era Is actually upon us we me accept with little wonder onder the fact that german engineers are planning tl ti c construction of a trans atlantic air liner that will carry 1500 persons this flying boat will be lit orally a hotel on wings rings it will rill fice none of the comforts of the great ocean liners with mith their sport decks entertainment facilities etc C ship cars by air there will be elevators f om deck dech to deck dech there m will ill be room foe fot trav elers to take their own automobiles across the sea with them garages will be provided for these special hoist ing machinery will mill lift the cars up into the plane the ocean steamship has its si aply of life boats to turn loose from ahr mother ship in case of emergency at sea and the proposed flying boat will A not be outdone in this respect either for room will be provided to house smaller auxiliary planes these will take off frow the surface of the body of the great plane being speeded on their way over the sea by a powerful catapult which will assure their get ting into the air this ship may sound a little fan to us but by this time we are used to having fantastic new contrad eions accepted as practical facts al at most overnight the german design ers promise us that such a flying ship as this will be ready for travel over the ocean in the very near future hardly less spectacular Is the amer lean marvel of the skyways s flying clipper no 7 which Is now completed as the first ship ever designed specifically for transoceanic le travel it will begin service probably on the route across the pacific some tima time this summer it Is now finishing tests which so far have proved it to be equal to the bullying of the elements and the once forbidding distance be ameen continents with its inception into service the period of pure expert ment will be over oner none of the comforts of rail travel need be sacrificed aboard the clipper soundproofing of all passenger corn com apartments part ments reduces motor no se so that it Is no greater than the noise of a pullman car the ger deck 43 feet long has a ceiling ix lx and one half feet high so that even tall men need not stoop in walk ing thirty pa passengers and a crew of five fhe can be carried the spacious lounge loungo and dining room seats 16 at a time for lor sleeping the passenger seats can be converted into 12 single and six double berths in case of a full house there are four double berths aNal available lable in the lounge so far it has not been decided how to apportion the available space to passengers and cargo this may de pend largely upon the popularity of inter cont cental a ar r travel for ex ample it will be possible with one scheme of distribution to carry 12 passengers the crew and a cargo of 2 pounds on non stop flights of 3 in les the clipper has four engines whose developed horsepower can climb 1000 feet a minute with a load of 51 pounds tl TI e plane s cruising speed at 12 feet Is miles an hour but it can do and more if feces sary it can soar more than four miles high safety clipper watchword safety has been the watchword in the design of the clipper it if one of the engines should fall the other three could finish the flight carrying the pound burden even if two of them should go dead at the same time the remaining two would mould main tain the altitude long enough to allow the captain and h s men an eunity to male mal e ready for any emer agencies the sea holds no terrors for this re ship it could make a foicey land ng in a stormy sea with more ease than the gray gull it lesem bles it can land or take off in a spa with naves raves running five feet high former cl sh ps have been as alsted in the water by pontoons sus from the wings no 7 has a supporting device new near to american dc dl sign which Is called a spon soon and might be I 1 bened to an additional ning this sticks out a short distance from each side of the body at water lei ien el it serves to house the fuel tanks also the iso no 7 Is larger in every respect than the clipper ship which recently flew from california to hawaii and back again the latter s four engines are each of horsepower totaling lebs than the no 7 it has a foot ring ft ing spread pread we gs pounds empty pounds loaded and its maximum cruising range Is 3 miles the new clippers wings are 13 ISO 30 feet from tip to tip it weighs 23 pounds empty and can add a useful load of pounds its maximum range Is 4 miles if in leage between stops were reduced the sh p could carry 24 pa passengers and a pay load amounting to several tons to europe over the route made famous by col charles A lindbergh with normal stopping periods in eluded a ship of this type could fly from new york to london in about 33 hours averaging miles an horn that Is less than the t me required to go from new york to chicago and back by rail rall the traveler could leave new york late saturday night and be in london in time to start the business week first thing monday morning instead of a pilot and co pilot like our land transport planes have the clipper ship has a captain and a navi gator for it is an oceangoing ocean going vessel automatic flying most of the flying Is done by an automatic pilot that leaves these two officers ceis free to keep close flitch on the course of the ship the condition of the engine Is entirely in charge of the ship s eng neer dearly nearly ill all of the many instruments gages dials and in dictators dica tors are banked in the engine room which Is in the center of the wing N 0 7 Is truly a sa symbol abol of the steps ahead which have been made in trans continental air travel france Is link ing up even its most distant colonies with the fren h capital by means ot of ships of this size one of which has already been completed the de Vals seau pans paris this ship Is the larg est seaplane in the world with a wingspread of nearly 50 meters and engines which develop more than horse horsepower pomer it weighs 37 tons and has a crew of eight it has several first class cabins each with alth two beds and a private bath 4 TZ 01 k ap above artists conception of 1 passenger transatlantic plane planned in germany right pan american clipper ship below maxim gorki russia a largest plane which crashed killing 48 by WILLIAM C UTLEY HE world with america in the THE lead Is entering a new a and nd glorious era of transportation it might be called the era of realization of the ran fantastic not so many years ago in fact with in the memory of children still in ischook covers of magazines of the so called science and invention type were filled with artists startling con caption of great flying palaces then weird in appearance which were mere to tie tle together the far ends of the earth in the future blase passengers were shown reading newspapers papers playing chess or een shuffleboard shuffle board while their great winged carriers cleft the clouds far above the vast expanses of ocean novels of highly Imag imaginative inathe fiction typified by the mars stories of ed gar kice rice burroughs bristled our pines with I 1 agh jinks on other planets where the members of scientifically su perlor civilizations alev about tt ti faces of their respective tive planets in spectacular hops of thousands of miles at a time such wild literary entertainment we m were ere wont for fear of appear ng too silly to our neighbors to leave in up stairs bedrooms reserving the space on the library table f for or dickens thackeray edgar A guest and the tho family bible and while deep in our hearts u we e thought it was s vell read ing we knew that it was ras really im possible stuff tet yet before the year Is out regular scheduled passenger service will be in effect between the united states and china not flying palaces perhaps but at least flying hotels will soon llna the newest and most progressive of the great powers with the oldest and most mysterious of nations on another side of the world surprising enough the giant ships of the air look ver era much like the artists conceptions wl ten ich graced the sensational sensation il press of a few service has already started between the french capital and points in french colonial africa the nether lards have eldered new douglas planes for transcontinental lines service has been going along on schedule for some time between the united states and various south american points served by pan ran american Amerlean the graf zeppelin Is so regular in its schedule between germany and brazil that no one mentions its arrI arrivals Nals and depar tures any more use isolated islands since early this year american ships have haie been busy canning sup plies of all binds hinds food clothing cows chickens tools and building materials to once isolated islands in the pa ocean so that they can be con nerved into habitable landing stations in the most important of all the new sea routes the one from the united states to china the longest hop on this journey will be the one from california to hawaii a distance of 2400 miles to be cov ered in a little more than 17 hours as the pin american clipper corn com banded by captain musick covered it a fe lev v m weeks ago from hawaii the planes will hop to guam wake wale mid way may the philippine islands and can ton china strangely ti tie e chinese gove ament has not yet agreed to let the ameri amerl can planes have a terminal in can ton or anywhere else in china this difficulty which probably arose from the glynese fear that the japanese goven government ment will expect the same eriv liege Is expected to be ironed out be fore the landing stations are all corn com plated and the route is ready for service there Is good reason for japan as well as several other nations important in the world of commerce to be alarmed for the completion of the air route to oh ch na will probably mean the begian beginning of a new ner dominance ol 01 the china trade by the united states it will rill bring the chinese market closer to this country than even the european market england france and holland air services I 1 ave attempted to lay the plans for air services to china but hine been stopped at the chinese bor der germany alone of the european nations has been able to get in with air lines we hold this advantage rapid and uninterrupted flight Is pos sible across the pacific while land nights flights from burodean bur Lur nations to china face the obstacle of frequent stops for inspection when crossing international boundary lines russian marvel crashes with all the clipper ships considered perhaps the most unusual of all the giants glants of the air was the ill fated rus bus ship the maxim gorki it weighed 42 tons carried 63 persons had eight engines of a total of awo 7 horsepower flew miles an hour and cost 4 in it were a complete photo graphic studio a photo engraving plant an electrically driven rotary printing press capable of turning out new newspapers papers an hour a radio broad casting studio talking movie equipment a restaurant lounge 16 telephones an observation saloon business offices sleep sleeping quarters and a sound amplifier system it was used of course for soviet propaganda pur poses the crashing of the gorki with the loss of everyone aboard during ma beuvers over moscow was something of a shock to the builders of all large airplanes it must be pointed out however that the accident was no fault of the ship A pilot of a smaller plane stunting against orders ran into it head on the insubordinate flier filer was himself killed in the crash not even the sensational magazines predicted such unbelievable wonders as a flying newspaper plant radio studio an ani I 1 moving picture theater ab 0 western newspaper un on t L |