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1920
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MARCH 18, 1920- '_• • I- THE ITALIAN " RICCI " THREE-ENGINED, TWIN-" BOAT '' SEAPLANE : Each engine is an Isotta-Fraschini 200 h.p. P 6, two driving pusher screws being mounted in nacelles on either side of a central nacelle, the third engine, driving a tractor screw, being mounted in the nose of the latter. Floatation is by two long single-stepped " boats," one under each wing-engine. Span, 83 ft. ; length, 42 ft. ; height, 14 ft. ; total area, 1,291 sq.ft. ; gross weight, 10,340 lbs. ; empty, 6,380 lbs. : speed, 99-105 m.p.h. FROM the same source we learn that developments in the application of wireless telephony to aircraft are proceeding by leaps and bounds. Before long it is promised that pas- sengers on aeroplanes will be able to ring up their homes or business houses and carry on a conversation' through space with less difficulty than now attends telephonic communica- tion on land. (Nothing much to brag about in that.) BY way of endorsement of these epoch-making advances, Col. H. B. T. Childs, who is in charge of the wireless telephony department of the Marconi Company, states that preliminary trials have been carried out with highly gratifying results. " Telephone messages were picked up from a Handley Page machine on Saturday at a distance of 120 to 125 miles," he states. " At 100 miles the operator's voice was very clear and distinct. There is no reason why this distance should not be greatly exceeded when our instruments are made perfect. At present the invention is only in its infancy. It is now possible for a passenger on an aeroplane to ring up a ground wireless station, and from there be put through to any telephone within a reasonable radius." COLONEL CHILDS also points out other advantages of the system. Many accidents which have occurred would have been avoided by the use of the instrument. pf| " For example," he says, " a pilot who is lost in a fog will not need to make a descent on unknown territory. All he will need to do is to ring up a ground wireless station, where his exact position can be ascertained by means of triangulation and then transmitted to him. The sporty little Italian "Ricci" triplane : It is fitted with a six- cylindered 40 h .p. Anzani engine, and has a span of 10 ft. 4 ins., a length of 11 ft. and a height of 6 ft. 7 ins. Its speed range is 24-78 m.p.h. Fuel carried for two hours' flight. Gross weight, 572 lbs.; empty, 330 lbs. 55 324
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