I LATEST MARVEL OF THE I
An account of the fifteen ton
Curtiss air cruiser, of which the
government has ordered twenty,
is given by -Ur. tienry Vvood
house, governor of the Aero Club
of America, and director of the
American bociety of Aeronauti
cal engineers, who has just re
turned trom an inspection of the
air cruiser.
Mr. Woodhouse gives the fol
lowing account of the cruiser:
'l he idea of a 15 ton air cruis
er was evolved principally to
supply a flying yacht to a promi
nent sportsman, who later be
came interested in another phase
of aeronautics and postponed or
dering the Hying yacht. But Mr.
Curtiss, having made the design,
proceeded with the construction.
Upon learning, recently, that the
British admiralty had placed an
order for a substantial number of
machines of this type, I went to
Buffalo to see W'hat was happen
ing, and 1 saw the new Hying
yacht—but not in Buffalo. The
censor, who would probably not
approve any part of this report,
would scowd at seeing in print
the name of the place where I
saw the Hying yacht, and to
please him I shall not tell.
The size of this new flying
yacht was most impressing and
once more the wonder of the con"
quest of the air by man made
me marvel. Ten years ago—only
very few of us—marvelled at ihe
thought of the possibility of fly
ing with an heavier than air ma
chine. The majority of people
laughed at our belief and called
us “dreamers.” Then the
Wrights, Santos-Dumont, and
other pioneers, made their first
flights, and the world stood in
wonderment, marvelling at the
achievement of what had been
pronounced as impossible by all
—including scientists.
After that, one achievement
succeeded the other, and particu
larly after 1912, when the nations
began to spend millions in de
veloping aeronautics,aviation de
veloped in rapid strides
Marine flying only started in
1911, when Glen H. Curtiss made
the first flights ever made with a
hydroaeroplane. A year later
Curtiss developed the first flying
boat, and in 1914 he devised the
large flying boat “America,"
which was ordered by Rodman
Wanamaker for the transatlan
tic flight—which could not be
made on account of the war.
These things came to my mind
as I looked at the twenty passen
ger yacht being completed in a
factory near Buffalo, about
which nothing has been publish
ed at date of writing, the matter
being kept secret.
This giant flving yacht with
out wines looks not unlike a
whale wdth windows and extend"
;ng fins on the fore part of the
body. The body without the
rear rudders is 55 feet long. A*
the widest point the hull is to
feet wide. On each side of the
body there are fin-like planes
extending out five feet, and about
15 fet long, which will, when
the machine is driven at a certain
speed, make it possible to rise
freely from the waves.
I went inside of the hull and
stood in each of the three com
partments, or cabins. The main
cabin is 19 feet long, 8 feet wide
and 7 feet from floor to ceiling.
In the pilot house there wejre.
six men working. Over the boat
body is a cabin fitted with win
dows, forming an enclosed pilot
house. There ig a false keel with
bilge pumps; and three water
tight compartments at the stern
and two at the bow—to prevent
sinking if there should be punc
tures.
I saw the wings of this giant
flying boat a99emuled in another
department. being a triplane,
there were three wings super
posed, about 133 feet over all,
with substantial struts between
them. Elsewhere 1 saw the mak
ing of the four motors of 250
horsepower each, which are to
drive large propellers. These
motors are 12 cylinder Curtiss
and made in the Curtiss motor
factory at Buffalo. These motors
are mounted between the planes,
where they are easily accessible
to the mechanics who will at
tend to them while the
aeroplane is in the air.
An additional motor of 80 horse
power will operate a screw pro
peller to use when the machine
goes > nand out of small harbors,
to stop it by reversing of propel
ler, and other purposes for which
it is unnecessary to set the large
motors going. When on the wa
ter this machine is like a yacht
and is piloted in a similar way,
being controlled by a water rud
der; when in the air it is control
led as aeroplanes are, with verti
cal and horizontal rudders.
The w'eight of the machine
complete will be about 20,000
pounds. Besides the weight it
will lift about five tons of fuel,
passengers and useful loads.
This means that it could carry
easily four men and supplies and
the fuel necessary for crossing
the Atlantic—which it could do
in about thirty hours. But at the
date of writing, although the
drawings were first made for a
sportsman, it seems certain that
this machine is to be used for
war. It is a secret now—but will
undoubtedly no longer be by the
time this appears in print—that
the British admiralty has order
ed twenty flying cruisers of this
type.
This means that before another
year has gone by there will be
a flying yacht twice as large as
this one constructed. Glenn H.
Curtiss, who has always started
on improvements as soon as a
type was under construction, be
lieves that there is no limit to
the size of an aeroplane, and,
gfven the .opportunity, he will
start building a small air liner
with a wing span of 300 feet,
capable of carrying twenty peo
ple across the Atlantic, or fifty
people on a 1,000 mile course.”
ALASKA NOTES
The first application for a
water right under the law of 1901
received at the Juneau land oince
was that of the Seacoast MiiJTTig
company of Valdez, which re
cently filed its application. The
company applies for water rights
on Uno creek at Shoup bay. The
act of 1901 provides that power
sites rnay be issued by the land
office, giving the grantee rights
for fifty years, subject to the di
rect supervision of the Secretary
of the Interior, and revokable at
any time at his discretion.
Aside from its local interest to
Alaskans, the following story in
the Seattle Post Intelligencer
hints at a new species of ptarmi
gan not known in these parts:
“An allowance in the form of
gold dust comes regularly from
parents in Candle, Northern Al
aska, to Colin C. Clements, a
senior student at the Universiey
of Washington. Clements yes
terday received some "dust” and
nuggets, and took his “poke” to
an assayer, who turned it into
coin of the realm. Yesterday’s
remittance came in a sturdy
purse made of a webbed foot, be
lieved to be that of a ptarmigan,
with the leg used as the mouth
of the sack Candle is on Kotze
bue sound, just below the Arctic
circle. Because of the delayed
mail service Clements has to
wait more than the thirty days
which most college students con
siuer a long enough interval be
tween remittances from home.
He is preparing himself for
newspaper work, and expects to
supply the residents of that
region with the news which they
now must get by telephone from
Nome, across the peninsula
A drill which Professor Her
schell Parker took into the Cook
Inlet district with him to pros
pect placer ground is said to be
of a new type and different from
anything ever tried in the north.
It can dig by suction to a depth
of forty feet by hand power and
can be used for much deeper
ground if a two~horse power en- i
gine is attached to it. Mr. Park
er believes that there are thou
sands of square miles of placer
ground to the westward which
can be worked by improved min
ing methods.
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The lighthouse keeper at Lin- :
coin Rock, Southeastern Alaska, ;
reports that an unknown halibut 1
fishing schooner foundered near
that place on February 13. He
j lad watched the schooner for
nearly an hour and after return I
ing from his dinner noticed that
she had vanished, although it
would have taken her at least
thirty minutes to get out of sight
in any direction A very heavy
sea was running at the time and
he fears that the schooner went
down w'ith her crew. She was a
gas boat apparently from 45 to
55 feet long with her cabin very !
nearly amidships with square
windows and carried her dories
iofrward. The fishing schooner
New’ England parsing through
Snow Pass a few hours later re
ported seeing some floating fish
buoys but believing that some
party had put the gear out for a ,
catch thought nothing of it until
the loss °f the schooner was re
ported by the lighthouse keeper.
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agents arc notified to immediate
ly begin cleaning up their prem
ises and have the rubbish hauled
to dumping ground or out on ice
not less than 200 feet from shore.
W. D’ARCY CHACE.
Health Officer.
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