The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-04

manner Maxim describes. he uas raadv 10
oegln the construction Of the actual fIying
machine. 1t will be seen that he made a
very large one. He did so because he saws
ne Gas satisfied himself that the great fault
WIN previous experiments has been that
tne inventors have made small machines 10
Oe run with slight force at slow speed.
FEATURES WHICH ARE NECESSARY.
Size, power and speed, he is convinced
are necessary to the proper trial of all rea-
Sonaote experiments looking toward me-
chanlcal flight. He found that 1t was nee
essary TO make machine so large that the
welen1 OF one or two men carried by il
should prove small factor in tie sum of
Its capacity. -
=, MY large apparatus" Mr.. Maxim con-
.lnued, is provided with a plane ITO feet
long and 40 feet wide, made of a frame of
steel tubes covered with silk. Other smaller
planes attached to this make up a surface of
o,oOO square feet. There is one great CEN
tral plane, and to this are hinged various
otner planes, very much smaller, which are
used for keeping tue equilibrium Correct
ana for keeping the flying machine at a
n4ed angle IN the air The whole an
paratus, including the Storage geer. is
$40 feet long. The machine is pro
Vloeo with two compound engines. each
weighing 300 pounds. The steam generator
weighs $50 pounds. The other things. the
castings ABOUT the generator, the pump, the
seam pipes, the burner, the propellers and
the shafting. all weigh 800 pounds Every
thing is remarkably light, so remarkably
nght that one great bar in boiler that gem
crates as much steam as mine would weigh
more than my whole boiler. 1t is made of
copper and steel, brazed with silver solder
There are $4,000 brazed joints in the genera
tor, and 1t is heated by 45, 600 gas jets. The
neat thus produced is perfectly terrific. The
boiler was tested up to 800 pounds pressure
and 1t don't leak drop.
THE most novel feature about the angina
Is the system by which burn petroleum
and generate steam. Petroleum is turned
into gas. and then that is burned for gem
eratlng steam. The engines have lately
been tried, and it was found that thew gave
push OF 1000 pounds on the machine.
winch seems to indicate that the machine
VIII carry $4,000 pounds. The actual
amount OF power shown in useful effect
upon the machine itself was 120-horse
power. A part of the acceptance, or actual
Kite is made of very thin metal and serves
as very efficient condenser for the steam"
1T LOOKS LIKE KITE.
"You call it kite-does it look like onep'
the reporter inquired.
Very much like kite" said he, Indeed
that Is what 1t is, a huge kite, with the ma
chinery hanging beneath it from its under
SIDE. II it were in the air in flight YOU
would see great piece of silk and a little
platform under it, between it and the
earth"
well, what theng the reporter asked.
simply to urge the inventor onward.
why, then, if the thing works-and I
think enough Of it to have spent S45. 900 on
i'll am going to take great package Of
straw and label 1t dynamite, and drop it
into Woolwich Dockyard OF on the roof of
the House OF Parliament, and then go to the
British government and ask for an order to
make lot Of Them
"How far will it go-how much fuel can
it carryp
IF it proves as figured it, there should
be room for fuel to carry it 1000 miles; in>
deed, 1t looks as if it might carry two tons
OF fuel or sufficient to propel it across the
ocean. But | cannot tell about that; a
trial alone will determine what unforeseen
things will arise. It will be possible to
burn 200 pounds of fuel an hour but l fig
ure that forty or fifty pounds will produce
a moderate speed or high speed 100 pounds.
The highest speed / got on the small ma
chine was 80 miles an hour, but 1 believe
this big one will go 100 miles an hour. It
is easily steered and it can be managed SO
that 1t will descend gradually and grace
fully"
I'VE will have to make roofs Of armor
plates on our houses, will we notg'
mo, there will be no way to guard
against it. 1t will drop a ton of nitro
gycerine into place and you can't stop it.
1t will go into an enemy's country and drop
dynamite on the gas works, the water
works and the ridges-those are the things
to destroy. Instead of soldier going
ahead, musket in hand and standing the
brunt of the fighting, the big fellows who
get up the wars will have to suffer. The
first thing we Will do will be to fly over the
emperor's palace and drop a ton of dyna.
mite on the roof. A Russian officer said to
me when | explained the thing to him:
That will revolutionize the whole world in
six months.'n