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The Official Journal of Villanova Engineers
VOL. VI
Managing Engineer
JOHN P. HENDRICKS’ ’32
RICHARD AVIL, ’31
THOMAS BRIEN, ’31
GEORGE BAGNALL, ’32
VINCENT BAGNALL, 732
CLEM. BUSENKELL, ’32
THOS. M. DALTON, 712
GEORGE H. WILSON, ’16
Literary Adviser
PROF, JOS. T. JONAS
Villanova, Pa.
DECEMBER, 1930
THE BOARD
Assistant Engineers
THOMAS BYRNE, ’32
NICHOLAS CATTIE, °32
JOHN HICKEY,
EDMUND PRINCIPE, ’32
JOHN REITANO, ’32
Alumni Advisory Council”
CHAS. B. LAUGHLIN, ’23
Published monthly during the College year by Phi Kappa Pi Fraternity, Villanova College,
$1.00 a year, 15c a copy. Entered as second-class matter July 12, .1928 at the
Post Office -at Villanova, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Address all communications to “THE OWL,” Villanova, Pa.
No. 3
Business Engineer
JOSEPH HAAGE, ’32
JOSEPH HAHN, ’33
JOSEPH HOUSEMAN, ’33
*32 KENARD KOONS, ’33
R. ROTHERT, ’33
J. WINTERBERGER, ’33
JAMES J. O'BRIEN, 713°
PAUL G. TAYLOR, ’27
Consulting Engineer
REV. E. V. STANFORD, O.5S.A.
THE STORY THAT NEVER GROWS OLD
This is the season of goodwill. The story
‘often told but never old. It is the most joyous
feast of the year. The OWL sincerely wishes
to all of it’s readers a MERRY CHRISTMAS and
a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
A MAMMOTH BIRD OF PASSAGE
The Dornier air liner DO-X, which is to make
a flight to America, is so large it could not pass
through the Panama Canal.
The German flyng ship is known as the larg-
est in the world, but it is so much larger than
.any other heavier-than-air machine that it is
difficult to grasp its real proportions.
Any ship afloat can pass easily through the
canal, but the wings of the DO-X would spread
over the sides of the locks.
The wing spread of the DO-X is ; greater than
the width of the world’s largest liner, the Levia-
than. .If the DO-X alighted with its pontoons
on the liner’s center, each wing tip would ex-
tend 22 feet beyond the Leviathan’s side.
The wing spread is 144 feet. The fuselage 1 is
120 feet long.
The DO-X dwarfed triple-decked excursion.
boats that gathered around it when it alighted
from Lake Lucerne.
Here are some facts that give an idea of the
ship’s gigantic size:
The 144-foot wings are deep enough to per:
mit mechanics-to crawl through them to get:at
the 12 625-horsepower motors, mounted in. tan-
dem, which can generate 7,500 horsepower.
The fuselage is divided into three decks, or
rather two decks and a hold. The passengers’
_ quarters ,on the second deck, run 64 feet from
end to end. There is a bar ,a luxurious smok-
ing room, a large lounge and staterooms com-
parable to first class quarters on big liners.
On short flights the DO-X can accommodate
169 passengers,
In the hold 3,521 gallons of gasoline can be
stored, and so big is the ship that the gasoline
is a great distance from the motors—so far
there is no danger of heating it.
Above the pasenger deck there is a pilot
house, navigation room, engine control room
and radio room. There is even a second engine
room where a small generator set provides elec-
tricity for lighting and for the wireless set.
Telephone lines, like those on ships, connect
pilot, navigator, engineers and radio operator.
Passengers and crew can walk erect in com-
fort, and can exercise on a promenade deck, —
Because of the great size of the craft it is
not bothered by air pockets, and can carry far
greater payloads thun ordinary ships.
Ten of the 12 motors will keep the DO Xx
practically at full speed, and eight motors drive
the ship with safety.
The plane weighs about 30 tons and can carry
20 tons more.