THE FLYING BOAT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 9

THE FLYING BOAT.

"■ THE VERY LATEST IN 'AIRCRAFT, Tlio wonderful flying boat iiivonted by M Mr. Glenn H. Curt-iss, tho American 2D 'airman, was exhibited to Admiralty experts recently. The inventor claims >r that his boat is particularly adapted for launching from battleships. "After years of experiments," said Mr. purtiss to an interviewer, "I havo built a ■a maehino which is perfectly ,safo and ;r unsiukable. , Short of out-and-ont carelessness, it is practically impossiblo to eo'me to any harm in tho ilyiiig boat, e, If through bad flying tlio boat drops 'i- from a height of 2011. or on to ,'j the water, no damago wilt ho done i- either to tho machine or tho passengers. It can' also bo beached through comparatively heavy surf, and can ho flown 3 ( in almost a gale of wind.''' si Tho llying boat has tlio appearance, of a miniature biplane riding on a torpedos shaped craft. The hull of the boat is wedge-shaped, broad at tho bow, and ie tapering to a point at tho stern, The ® boat- is 24ft. long, and eight water-tight iji bulkheads divide the hull laterally, eo that it is practically unsinkable, as any two of these water-tight compartments °* will keep tlio whole maehino afloat. :r Over tho bow of tlio' boat, and exteiulit ing bjick to the cockpit is a wind and spray-screen. Tlie cockpit is 3ft. 6in, 10 wide, giving ample room for two peril sons to sit. Stretching across tho a ' boat, and above tlio heads of thq pasfl. sengors are two 32ft. wings or planes of S laminated wood. Between tho planes s. is located tho motor. AVitft two pas'u sengers the Curtiss flying boat weighs i, about a ton, and will travel at a speed af varying from one to 65 miles an hour, 3 - but the inventor says tliere is no reason why a speed of 200 miles an hour should not be reached. Ik ~" Warner's Rust-proof Corsets for Comfort and Rood style. Ask at our counter r8 to see the latest spring fashion, but inr. sist on Warner's. Kirkeaidie and Stains, x- Ltd.—Advt. i 10 The last barrier at. the Pacific 'end of the Panama .Canal has lx'en destroyed c ; by dynamite'.' The work of removing the last barrier at the Atlantic end has e . also been begun, and when this is comm pleted ships will be able to navigate to 10 the locks at both ends of tho Canal. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. , e For Cout'lis and Colds never fails, Is. fid," ic Olio lighted |ias-jet consume? as much air us four adults. ,y In Russia no photogrfl-pher may praowithout a ..<<