The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-25
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MAXlM's FLYING MACHINE.
An Inclined Plane and Propeller tho
Ghiof Parts.

Shioh AHItss
WARRINGTON, Mny M.--"If can rise from
the const Of France. sail through the air
across the channel, and drop half ton Of
nitro-glycerine upon IN English city. can
revolutionze the world. believe csn do
ii il live long enough. lf die, some one
will como after me- who will be suceesaful
where failed' Tho man who made this
prophecy il HiramJ. Maxim, the gunmakAr.S
He has built at his Workshop near Kent
England, n small flying machine with q
wooden screw III ita motive power. 10
snys My first machine WIS small one.
1t was an inclined plane, thirteen feet long
and four feet wide, and set edgcwiae against
the air. / balanced ii on an arm, abput
thirty feet in length, revolving In circnm-
ference of 200 faet. Tho arm WAS movable,
30 that it would rise and fall When the
machine Travelled ut the rate of thirty miles
mn hour it remained on the same plane.
When the speed was increased TO tnirty-hy
miles ii began to rise. At ninety miiea y
pulled ,ts guy wires with such force TINT "
| broke them, and now we have to keep ~
| chained.
Now / nm at work on a large machinss
| built Of silk and steel, that will do on .
| large scale what the other machine does ON
a small scale. We found by experiments
that one-horse power will carry LIB pounds
Mt u rate of seventy-five miles an hour. We
proved also, that our screw would easily
| lift forty times as much on plane that II
propelled as il could push. nave built a
motor weighing 800 pounds and which
pushes LOCO pounds. IT will therefore, llft
/ 10000 pounds. The weight of my engines,
generator, condenser, water supply, and POI
| troisum, and of two men is 5000 pounds.
SO Won see what "A margin | have left.
'aThis machine will be Ito feet wide and
forty feet long. 1t will be propelled by two
immense wooden screws, nearly eighteen
feet in diameter, looking very much like the
screws OF ocean steamers, only with broader
blades. The steam il generated by heating
copper by petroleum, and iscondenaed after
being used. SO that We get along with twu
gallons Of water. The boiler ID OF the finest
Whitworth steel, and we will uae about forty
pounds of petroleum per hour. The machine
will be placed at an angle of about one foot IN
eighteen inches on railroad track twelve
feet wide. At thirty miles an hour 1t will
barely skim along, the pressure Of tho aii
underneath it being then equal to one
ponnd for each square foot, or just suftt-
cient to lift it. At thirty five miles an houl
it will begin to rise, and as the speed in
creases it will mount higher and higher
When Won want to descend you will slacken
speed, or if you wish to proceed on Il
straight line ON certain height you come
back to thirty miles an hour. 1t can be
done as sure as fate. have spent b,OOO
already upon 1t, and did not enter upon
the work until | was convinced that TIN
idea was practical
But suppose you should tip overP' wai
asked.
"On. no.'' said Mr.. Maxim, with laugh
"Yon rnay be sure that that is one contin
pency that we are bound shall not occur
1t will be impossible for the machine t.
fall forward, to sink backward, or fal
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