Henry Laurens Call was a writer, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the designer of this huge, complicated craft, which was powered by two 20hp Curtiss engines, spanned 41 feet and weighed 3,000lbs. It was intended to transport several passengers in the air, on water and on roads, with hot food and all kinds of comfort. However, Call stated that there were too many trees in Girard, Kansas where it was built, and the roads were not very good, so he was never been able to get up a speed of more than 18 miles per hour, rather than the thirty miles an hour he claimed was necessary for the ship to rise in the air.
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