Mr. Curtiss states: "My idea was to provide a machine especially adapted for the requirements of the sportsman, one that would be simple to operate and absolutely safe. During the tests which we have made with this flying boat it carried three people with ease and the boat rose without difficulty with the extra passenger, although it is only designed to accommodate two people."
With the hydroaeroplane a safe landing can always be made, and if, through inexperience or carelessness of the driver, a bad landing is made, no injury to the operator or passenger can occur other than what may result from a "ducking."
THE EVOLUTION OF THE HYDRO
(A) (B) The flying boat of summer, 1912–on land and in the air. (C) A contrast–the hydroaeroplane of winter, 1911.
HYDROAEROPLANE FLIGHTS
(A) Curtiss driving the "Triad" over Lake Erie, ground-swells at Atlantic City.
(B) Witmer riding the ground-swells at Atlantic City.
This boat shows how directly aeroplane-builders are turning to air craft available for amateur sport–not for exhibition "stunts." Such boats will have ample protection for the passenger and be able to carry a large quantity of fuel together with wireless apparatus and provisions, so that long overwater journeys may be made in comparative comfort, and also well within the radius of communication by wireless. And most of all they are safe!–A. P.