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AIR BATTLESHIPS FOR THIS COUNTRY
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell Has Information That They Are Soon Coming.

FLIGHT PROBLEM SOLVED
Inventor Says We Will Be Able Before Long to Dine in America and Have Breakfast in Europe.

Special Cablegram,
Copyright, 1907, by THE NEW YORK TIMES Co. LONDON, April 28.-Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, said to me to-night that it was only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation would make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe, covering the distance across the Atlantic in considerably less than twenty hours.

"My expectation," said Dr. Bell, "is that an airship will be perfected capable of making 150 to 200 miles an hour. My opinion, however, is that the next step in aerial flight will take the form of such improvements as will make possible the creation of aerial battleships.

"The actual problem of the navigation of the air has already been solved by the Wright brothers. Naturally there will be development along commercial lines, a feature of which will be a great increase in speed, but the most attention will be paid to adapting airships to the purposes of war. My belief is that America will be the first country to perfect aerial battleships. This belief is based on inside information, and from the same source I get reliable statements on which I base my prediction of the early production of an airship of enormous speed.

"I hope to be able to add much to what is known of aerial flight by experiments at Cape Breton Island this Summer. My problem this year will be to propel my kites with a specially constructed engine of fifteen horsepower, weighing 120 pounds. I hope to get a machine of the heavier-than-air variety that will support a man and the necessary equipment to operate it at low rather than high velocity. Last December I constructed a vehicle that supported itself and a man in a ten-mile breeze. I now want to fly a machine carrying an engine at ten or fifteen miles an hour. If I can accomplish this there is hope that the aviators, or the men who are trying to solve this flight on the bird plan, will be able to avoid fatal accidents long enough to learn how to fly. Even a bird has to learn to fly, and, as with the bird, one of the first considerations is safety, so man must learn to go slow before he goes fast.

"I am confident that it will not be long before flying machines will be everywhere. The developments of the next few months will be unprecedented, but the most interesting point is that only very few know how near America is right now to solving a question which will revolutionize warfare throughout the world-I mean the construction of a practical aerial battleship.

Dr. Bell is here to receive the degree of Doctor of Science at Oxford on May 2.

Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is quoted here as saying that is only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation will make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe, the Atlantic being crossed in less than twenty hours.
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29 Apr 1907.

War Balloon Test Postponed.
The balloon ascension that was to have been made here by Captain Charles Chandler, U. S. Signal Corps, and C. McCoy, of New York City, has been postponed until there is a strong wind. Captain Chandler is testing the ability of the balloon for use by the Government in war, and hopes to start to-day.

Globe New York
29 Apr-1907

AIRSHIP PREDICTIONS.
It is evident enough to even the least aeronautical of us that some progress has been made in the last twelve months toward a practical solution of the problem of human flight. Santos-Dumont's brief excursions through the air in his imitation bird-possibly also the somewhat mysterious achievements along the same lines of the Wright brothers-have demonstrated the possibility of an aeroplane airship.

Man has at last made a machine, heavier than air, in which he can fly for short distances. This is certainly a very notable advance. But, on the other hand, it is a long step from anything that has at present been constructed to a practicable, commercial, aerial vessel of even one passenger capacity. The aeroplane, even more than the balloon, is still a show apparatus for the use of reckless experts at expositions and country fairs. It is about as safe a recreation as walking a tight rope over Niagara Falls or throwing stones at a can of nitro-glycerine.

It seems, therefore, as if Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's cabled announcement that we are on the verge of transatlantic aerial liners, maintaining a regular twenty-four hour service between New York and London, were somewhat premature. In fact, the doctor seems to have developed rather a habit of making these predictions whenever approached by reporters. Something over a year ago he startled the automobile fraternity by telling them that "the age of the flying machine is not in the future-it is here!" and adding that the terrestrial motor car would soon be old-fashioned. He also then predicted a twenty-four hour transatlantic service.

Now he says, "I am confident that it will not be long before flying machines will be everywhere," and predicts a very remarkable development of airship construction in the next few months. Santos-Dumont, after his first aeroplane flight, announced that the one man airship would soon displace the bicycle as the poor man's vehicle. Gathmann, the Wright brothers, Capt. Ferber of the French army, and many other enthusiasts have been quoted to the effect that present day apparatus for crawling along the surface of the earth at forty or fifty miles an hour and over the waters thereof at half that speed would soon be relegated to museums for antiquities by the airship. Perhaps so, but there is no information yet available to the public justifying even the most reckless plunger in taking a flyer in airship stock.

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