SUBMARINES TO FLY.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17923, 26 June 1930, Page 7

SUBMARINES TO FLY.

SEA, LAND AND AIR

DANES' "HUSH-HUSH" GRAFT One of, the greatest dreams of the inventor now seems likely to be realised. People are promised an allpurpose, craft which will': Travel over land on pneumatic tyred wheels; run down a beach and launch itself in the sea; dive' under- water and turn itself into a. suibtmarine; unreef telescopic wings and leave either sea or land for the air.

Reports have been reaching London from various sources concerning the design and construction!, after years of experiment, of this hybrid craft. Several foreign governments have, it seems, already been made aware of the exsistence of this "fourelement" machine, which is said to be undergoing a series of secret tests on the Danish coast. This" hush-hush" craft—said to'be the result of the efforts of several Danish inventors—has a tapering, allmetal, boat-like A hull, upon either side of which are telescopic metal wings. The wings can be drawn in or reefed alongside the body by mechanism inside the hull. The crew, closing watertight compartments, can submerge their vessel' and operate it below water like a submarine. On regaining the surface the craft can either be manoeuvred like a ship, by means of an under-water rudder and screw, or its metalic wings can be unfurled and it can fly. Beneath its body this crajft carries amphibian gear, with wheels which can be raised or lowered, enabling it to alight and travel on the surface of the ground. , It is suggested that the occupants of the new machine should be described as "rand-sea-air-men." They have the freedom of three elements —rushing on wheels' across ia,ny great smooth expanse such as. a desert; extending wings to fly over mountains or forests; or gliding down to ride upon—and if necessary dive beneath—the sea. i .. ..