THE conversion by Herr Anton Flettner of the sailing ship Buckau into a rotor ship was referred to in NATURE of November 22, p. 758 and brief reference was then made to the principles underlying the ...
Anton Flettner’s Rotor Ship (TiME, Nov. 17)—or Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called—has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing ...