The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 08, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
GIRL ASKS TO ROCKKT WITH
# CAPT. COLLINS TO THF MOON.
Commander of New York Air Police
Describes his Plans for Most Fantastic
Adventure Kver Conceived
by Man?Gigantic Wireless Plant
to Communicate With Karth After
His Arrival.
New York, March 27.?"If by doing
so I could get the American people
back of military aviation, I'd even
hop to Mars in a rocket."
This statement was jocularly made
by Claude R. Collins, president of the
Aviators' Club of Pennsylvania and
captain of the New York City air
ponce.
But the newspapers took his letter
i making the astounding offer seriously
and now Captain Collins says he
will have to make good?provided he
is asked to do so, and it can be proved
that a rocket can actually be sent to
Mars?or the moon, as Prof. Robert
H. Goddard, of Clark College alleges
is possible.
Moreover, at least two enthusiastic
kindred spirits have expressed a willingness
to make the trip with Captain
Collins, among them being a woman,
Miss Ruth Phillips, of Kansas City,
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i Sharp featured, square jawed, with
a wide, intelligent brow, from beneath
which peer a pair of expressive oiue
eyes, round which a smile is incessantly
breaking, Captain Collins presents
that type of clean cut young
American manhood which composed
the American air service during the
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world war.
Captain Collins said:
"I made this statement to a newsSS&r:
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paper man a few days before the report
was published that I was ready
to leap to Mars. It was said on the
spur .of the moment to denote the
earnestness of my desire to make a
national tour, by airplane, to arouse
tan interest in the dire condition ot
aeronautics in America. No one was
more astounded than myself when I
discovered the statements played up
t:' so vividly in the newspapers.
"That I have been forced to swalr.
low unlimited chiding and even well
meant insults need not be said, but
as I made the statement it is one of
the golden rules of life to keep one's
word?if it can be done.
"Therefore, in answer to the several
scientists who have questioned
the I can only say that I am prepared
to carry out my part of the agree
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" filled and should scientists summon
me.
"I have been flooded with letters*
: Many want to learn how I intended
to prepare for the hop, what I was
going to do when I arrived on Mars
and how I intended to get back.
"Young ladies, mothers, and old
men have sent letters urging me not
I'... to sacrifice my life. Most of these
: ; appeals were certainly sincere. However,
I am far from being tired of
living, and I don't intend to sacrifice
f. my life needlessly.
Ready to Take Risk.
"Many (persons have wanted to
3. ;, know whether or not I have corresponded
with Prof. Robert H. Goddard,
the Clark College scientist, who
has invented the super-rocket, which
the Smithsonian Institution declares
U can be shot to the moon, and which
others believe msry be able to reach
Mars, carrying within it a human being.
I have not.
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"If, when this rocket is tested, it
landed oh the moon or on Mars and
communication is established with
the planet, it will be up to me to live
r . up to my word.
"The rocket which Prof. Goddard
1 has prepared, I understand is constructed
on the theory of the toy
^ . rockets with which every boy is acquainted.
However, it is sO arranged
that the bases, caused by the explosive
mixture within, would escape
through a nozzle at the bottom, at the
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rocket would contain a series of explosive
charges.
"To carry the rocket to the moon,
233,819 miles from the earth, at least
1,274 pound? of explosives are needed.
The Smithsonian Institution's
bulletin points to the possibility of
filling the pose of one of those
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rockets with a charge of brilliant
flash powder and a percussion cap,
so that when it struck we should be
able to see the flash.
"To my mind nothing is impossible.
By this I do not mean that I believe
a rocket can be shot to Mars, but I
can not say it is impossible.
An Uncomfortable Speed.
"I have been forced to consider
what might prove the outstanding
features of suclj, a leap. Speeding at
5,400 miles an hour through space
could hardly be comfortable. As it
would take some days to make the
trip to Mars, it would be necessary
to eat and to sleep. One must also
have oxygen to breathe, as it seems
aocurad cnrrmlpfe vacuum px
"bump' upon landing on .Mars.
"This is something to think about.
But scientists assure me arrangements
would be made to stop the
flight of the rocket by control levers.
"In actual tests Professor Goudard
declares the rocket he is making has
made a maximum speed of U miles
per second.
"He has discovered, through experimentation,
that, contrary to the
general opinion, the action of escaping
gases would prove more effective
in the vacuum existing beyond
the limits of the Gocoronium
of the earth than within the air composing
that atmospheric blanket.
This, he says, would mean even a
greater speed, and with no air to
cause friction the possibility of the
metal being melted away would no
doubt be eliminated.
Has Received Letters.
"It has been suggested that fins be
placed on the forward end, or nose,
of such a projectile and a valve arranged
to cut off the passage of the
escaping gases, so that the speed of
the rocket might be decreased* and
possibly a safe landing made, with
parachutes or other means.
"Here I wish to call attention to
several letters I have received from
persons who have offered to make a
similar leap or to 'go with me.'
Among these, the most interesting
are the offers of Captain Charles N.
Fitzgerald, a flier from Texas, now
living in New York, and Miss Ruth
Phillips, a young woman of Kansas
City, Mo.
"Captain Fitzgerald is so thoroughly
interested that he has called and
volunteered his willingness to proceed,
accompany or follow me in a
rocket.
"From his statement, Mr. Fitzgerald
seems confident he could com
plete such a leap. He has performed
a long list of feats, such as jumping
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used to stand such terrific speed without
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| off cliffs, diving from one of the New
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ing three oranges in his hands. In
j "one of his aerial feats he says he
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j \ "This man has some really surpris|
ing ideas. One reason why I credit
| them is that he stands ready at all
times to prove his sincerity.
" 'Scientists have agreed for years
that life exists on Mars,' he told
me. 'This being true, human beings
should be found there. If that proved
true, it would be quite simple to establish
there some sort of communication
known to this world.'
"We fliers have a general idea of
the rudiments of electricity. Why,
j then, would it not be possible to arrange
a great wireless plant on Mars
! to establish communication with the
' earth?
| "Strange things have been accomplished
in our age. The impossible is
being done every day, and no educated,
free thinking man will admit
anything is impossible. Unlike Captain
Fitzgerald, I am not impatiently
awaiting the chance to step into the
rocket, but should I be called upon to
keep my word I should do so."
Captain Collins is a keen minded
young business man, about 35 years
of aere.
Besides heading the largest "fliers'
club in the world, Captain Collins was
commissioned in the New York air
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