naut should do the journey between Paris and New York in two days.
The difficulty of carrying sufficient petro-
leum ts the biggest problem in connection
with such a project. But that will be over-
come, just as engineers have solved the ques-
tion of carrying enough coal to stoke Atlan-
tic liners. What would Fulton have said if
he had been told that steamers would be
built of 44,000-horsepower? The Santos-
Dumont VI has an 18-horsepower motor.
Who can say how many horse-power the
navigable balloon of the future will possess?
The first step in aerial navigation has been
successfully accomplished. The era of long
voyages in steerable balloons is now begin-
ning, and the crossing of the Atlantic is
only one of the vast designs which will be
realized sooner than most people imagine. I
am persuaded it is possible and I hope to
try it.
