Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — HOW SHIPS GET LATE HAIL [ARTICLE]

HOW SHIPS GET LATE HAIL

Airplan** Upfo te iprertak* klner* and Drop Bags WWI* fo* Vtetel ls j '? ■ .7 it - ‘ / ' EXperiinenta have proved ft entirely practicable to deliver belated transatlantic mail to steamers at sea by ateplanes. ’ Thetfoilp may have taken it* depar-ture-several hours prevtouriy, y«t the 'flying machine, with a speed of 100 ifoles or more an hour, can easily catch up Vith it and put the mail aboard. A plane at the “flying boa!” type to 'used for the pqrpoee, and th* waterproof mail bas is held in a. chute on the side of the hull The aviator flies over the ship and the rigging ew tangies a long line dropped-from the plane amt has grapple tails on its end. This Une fs attachcd to the mail bag, which, vfoeii the- grapple tails catch, to jerked out of its chute, falling into , the sea. p It is-then, an easy* matter to haul 1 th* mali> bag aboard; while the steamer i continues .its uninterrupted voyage.