The Republican journal., 1895-10-31

Higher than Gilroy's Kite.
FIRST CsE OF LILIANTmAL's. DESIGN in
AMERICA BY A PORTLAND JEwELER.

FIRST UsE OF LILIANTHAL's DESIGN in
AMERICA BY a PORTLAND JEwELER.
From the Portland Press.
AS is well known Mr.. Charles H. Lam
son the jeweler, Of this city, has been &C
lively Interested fol some time in the sub
.ject OF aeronautics His experiments with
Malay and Hargrave kites have been very
interesting and have been illustrated and
described in this paper.
He has recently had constructed one Of
those flying. OF soaring machines, that
have been used with SO much success by
Lllianthal. the now famous German aero
naut. 1t consists OF pair of huge wings
with which it is possible to soar from the
summit of hill against the wind, for a
long distance and to a considerable height.
Lilianthal has scared for 900 feet straight
away and to a height of POO feet.
Nh. Lamsons dying machine has a
spread of wings of % feet and is feet
wide. 1t weighs about 40 lbs. and has
both vertical and horizontal tails, or rud-
dcrs. The ribs are of spruce and the
whole thing is strongly braced with piano
wire.
Last Saturday Mr.. Lamson, together
with his SOL and his brother, Mr.. j. II.
Lamson. the photographer, went down to
1lSdl l(ldHtQHt W lllthC IliC illSU
trial Of the flying machine. 1t was the first
trial Of a Lilianthal machine in America.
They went to the top of the ridge on
the west side of the island. The slope is
not very steep, but for the first trial it
was quite steep enough. To ride these
great wings on the waves Of the wind is
even more difficult than balancing the
crankieSt canoe on the waves of the wa
ter 1t required long practice and skill
before Lilianthal could make his long
flight.
Mr. Lamson's first two attempts were
not successful. The third time he got his
balance and scared for several feet The
fourth time was still better. He scared
into the air to the height Of or I feet
and went distance of Is or 20 feet. Then
the wind tipped up one of the wings. He
was suspended between them Of course.
Instead of throwing the weight of his legs
and feet in the direction Of the uplifted
wing in order to bring it down, he invol-
UNFAIRLY acted as he would on bicycle
and threw the weight Of his body in the
direction towards which he was tipping
That is all right on a bicycle, but with a
| flying machine it is different Mr.. Lam
son and the machine came down and one
OF the ribs was broken. 1t was a trivial
/ ududSt DttJ IL prevented luILuCI Use VI
the machine.
Mr.. l4amson said that it was deli ght-
| full sensation. as he felt his weight borne
upward and suspended in mid air.
| Mr.. Lamson took to Great Diamond is
land that day his big Hargrave kite, that
looks like two big square boxes, sus-
| pended in the sky. The kite was flown
and went UP to the great distance of a
mile and quarter.
The cord was wound on a drum to
which a crank is attached. 1t took seven
men an hour to wind in this mile and a
quarter of string. The big kite returned
to earth with much reluctance and the
men took turns at the crank
| When the kite was brought to within
about 100 yards from the ground it was
allowed to fly there and was thus taken
to the steamer. 1t remained in the all
4 during the entire trip to the city, not
once wavering, when the steamer stopped
and turned and backed at the different
! landings. 1t was pulled down on the
/ wharf in the city.
When up mile and a quarter, it was
visible only as tiny speck in the sky
though it is 10 feet long and feet wide.
4 In coming up to the city it seemed to
fly better along the side of the steamer
than when behind it. That is it kept its
position more perpendicularly above the
steamer.
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