The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-01

aeroplane should not succeed. Many men
have made aeroplanes. They are an
right, except that II is hard to make
them land safely
An aeroplane is nothing but a kite.
1t goes on the same principle. Ii is not
necessary, as many Imagine, for a kite
to have a string to il.
Il have sent up a kite three miles, have
had it travel off ten miles ana disappear.
/ have sent a man Up with a kite, at
tached, IL is true, but l have an employee
who is now ready to go up with a kite
not attached TO anything but himself.
He will undertake to manage and guide
it while he is up and bring 1t down safely.
/ have not allowed him TO try the eX-
pertinent, as / am not ready for IL yet.
The experiment would cost anywhere
from 81, 900 to 5000. I'll guarantee to give
the man the machine. We don't fly just
now, because we do not need TO. The
public does not want it. 1t is more inter
ested in other things They knew the
earth was round and they knew a great
deal about the power of steam long before
they thought 1t worth while to make any
use of their knowledge. When we need
flying machines we shall have them. That
time will come when we have a war on our
hands, If not before.
when trouble threatened with Chilli
was engaged by the government to pro-
/ =
1900 pounds of dynamite against a mod
| crate wind. The idea was to drop the dyn-
amite on the decks OF the men-Of-war. OF
! course some much more powerful eXplo-
sive could be carried just as well, and
| 200 pounds of that would have done in
! finitely more damage.
"As soon as a war comes aerial war ma
/ chimes will be built-plenty of them-and
men will be found ready to practice flying
of all kinds.
IF you could destroy one first class bat
! tel ship with 100000 worth of air ships
it would be cheap. but with 100000 in
airships l could wipe out all the navies Of
the earth. one hundred thousand spent
on air fighting machines would destroy
any fleet that could be placed off the port
/ Of New York
mo, the ships could not escape by get
ting from under. The motive power that
could be applied to balloons and the air
currents well understood would make es-
| cape impossible. The explosive could be
/ dropped from the air ships with admia-
BILE precision. The enemy would soon
| blow up and vanish with death and de-
/ structiOn raining down on him from
above. The fighting of the future will be
| done in the air. The trouble win be to
/ prevent the enemy from sending dyna-
/ mite air ships up over our cities and de-
| stroying them. We shall have to keep a
| fleet OF air ships. The fastest can get
! ready to rise at any moment and flight
! invading balloons. Remember that this is
| not Imagination. 1t is serious fact, and
! every man with as much Imagination as
| a flea must know it,"
/ Prof. Myers is an eminently practical
man, the best known aeronaut and bal
loon builder in the country perhaps OF
| the plan for flying home from town from
/ high tower he spoke very simply. He
thought that mile a minute would be
as fast as the average man would care 10
fly, unless it should be very cold or rain
ing. He could fly muCtl faster, however
If he chose, and there were no city or
dinances against ii.
If any man wishes to be a pioneer and
| experiment in floating, he can do so If he
! has some money. He need not have much
| courage.
/ This Is the way to experiment: Get a
! captive balloon let 1t go up 1900 feet
/ being all the time attached to the earth
| by a cable. Hang a rope / 900 feet long
| from the balloon and dangle the flying
| eXperimenter at the end of this rope he
would be hanging in the air 200 feet above
ground and perfectly safe. Dangling in
midair he could practice with his wings,
| become used to swooFing through space
and get thoroughly at home in the new
element. Soon he would know he could
trust himself and fly with the aeroplane
without any balloon attachment.