An experiment made by the U. S. Navy aiming to launch an airplane from a boat which navigates at fast speed
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An experiment made by the U. S. Navy aiming to launch an airplane from a boat which navigates at fast speed
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An Airplane that Rose from a Sea-Sled
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OUR Navy, always doing something
unusual, recently made the ex-
periment of allowing an airplane to
“take off” from a fast power boat going
fifty miles an hour, and, as usual, got
away with it, besides settling some
questions concerning certain experi-
ments.
The airplane, which had the usual
wheeled launching and alighting gear,
was lifted by a derrick and lowered
into place upon the sea-sled, being
simply chocked to hold it in position.
The sea-sled got under way, and
taxied out into the bay, where her
multiple-cylindered engine was opened
wide and she began to tiptoe over the
light sea at her best speed.
Tn obedience to a signal the airplane
pilot started his engine, gradually run-
ning it up to the same speed as the
boat was making. Then suddenly he
opened wide the throttle,
and with a roar the air-
plane took the air, going
straight upward as if it
had been thrown from a
catapult.
This was done again
and again to satisfy the
officers that it was not merely a case
of luck at the first attempt.
Now, we wonder, could this experi-
ment be reversed and the airplane be
made to alight upon the sled while it
was under way? We see no reason
why it could not be done if some means
‘were provided so that
the airplane’s pilot could
gage his airplane to alight
in exactly the place where
it took off. But don’t
worry; this experiment
is probably under way by
now.—FRED G. JoPP.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Fred G. Jopp (writer)
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Pathé Nawa Service (image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-10
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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26
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 4, 1919
