Italian Claims Craft Would Go on Indefinitely After Leaving Earth’s Atmosphere.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
ROME. April 27.—An airplane which its inventor claims can fly to the moon has been designed by an engineer named Gussalli at Brescia. The principle involved is entirely different from that of the air propeller.
Gussalli’s machine will make use of exhaust gas exploded violently against the fans of a turbine revolving 16,000 times per minute. The reaction against this explosion is calculated to make the plane move independently of a propeller.
“When the plane, moving at a terrific rate, passes beyond the earth’s atmosphere,” says Signor Clerici, writing in the Corriere della Sera, “it would continue through the ether by its own momentum an indefinite distance and would hit the moon if aimed accurately enough.”
But no pilots have as yet volunteered for the trip to the moon.
The Evening Star, Washington, DC, April 27, 1926