AMAZING MACHINE
RUSSIAN’S NOTABLE INVENTION. TRAVEL IN AIR, SEA AND LAND. Captain Victor Dibovsky, a pioneer Russian airman of pre-war days, who once headed a naval aviation mission to the Allies, has invented a machine which, he claims, will: Travel at 24 knots in water; attain a speed of 60 miles an hour on the road; and fly at 120 rpiles an hour. It is a three-wheeled vehicle on land, a motor-boat at sea, and a helicopter, or direct-lift flying machine, in the air. I have just seen a full-size model in wood of the invention, says Major C. C. Turner in the “Daily Telegraph,” and a separate working power model of the flying machine part of it. If the proamise of Captain Dibovsky's three-way vehicle be fulfilled, it will give us a machine only 121 ft long, which could take off from the deck of a submarine, or any other kind of warship, without need of a flying deck, and which could alight on any of these craft or, if necessary, alongside. It could travel along a road and take off without a forward run. The wheels are directly driven by the motor, which is a rotary set in the flat position in the body of the machine. When it is desired to fly, the wheels are unclutched, and the lifting vanes on top of the machine are put into action. This lifting apparatus consists of two horizontally rotating two-bladed vanes, rotating in opposite directions on a vertical shaft. The machine is designed to travel either forward or backward. Its horizontal motion is given by the propeller. which consists of two twobladed airscrews rotating in opposite directions on a horizontal shaft. The all-on weight of the machine, with 501 b for fuel and 1501 b for pilot, would be about 5501 b. It is claimed that, in addition, it would carry another 5501 b load.
Captain Dibovsky was awarded the C.M.G. in 1917. In 1922 the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors granted him £5500 for his invention of a synchronising gear for firing a machine-gun through a rotating propeller. Demonstrations of his twin air propeller with differential self-balancing transmission have -been given before War Office experts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 7
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368AMAZING MACHINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 7
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