The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-14
DUMoNT TELLS HIS AIMS.
Believes He Will Be Able to Fly
From Europe to America.
saturday Evening Post.)

| tSaturday Evening .PoStt
| VI. Santos-Dumont has written a let
| ter to his brother describing his hopes
| for aerial navigation. He says
! The fight from st. Cloud to the Eiffei
| tower and back again was only the be-
| ginning-but it proved every one OF my
| contentious. The Sant0s-DumOnl vi was
as absolutely amenable to direction as
| the horse you ride. Your horse may shy
| at Il peasant in the road, but you COLI
| troll your horse; so a guest of wind ma Y
| give me trouble. but l rein up my sIeed
| and go on, without danger, along the
| road in the air
You must not think about my danger.
| | do not run any risks-because 1 take
| into account every risk before L say
Let co. Then, once in the air-when 1
have seen to every possible preparation
L know that everything depends upon
myself That gives confidence. 1 tell my
| self that the motor may stop. the rudder
break, something happen-then l remem-
Der fathers Nobody. else will help you;
| take care of yourself.
You need not worry. mon Francois.
none of you need, because see to every
thing myself, and l do not think there
can be any defect in the machines l use
That is the only danger. AS you know,
l did at last accomplish the tournee OF
the Eiffel tower in ~ minutes and 40 sec
onds-and have gained the prize Any
way, the money goes to the poor of
Paris will tell you when l have
thought it out more definitely OF a plan
for establishing a prize-in mechanics
or aeronautics, just as you and sister
think-which shall perpetuate our ia
Tiers name.
i leave Nov. 6 for the Riviera. I shall
erect my sheds, works, factory and so
forth at some favorable spot-perhaps on
the headland OF Monte Carlo. or near
Nice or Mentone. My plan is to cross
to Corsica. The distance is about 100
miles. The packet boat makes the voy-
age in between eight and nine hours ]
shall do it in less than four hours. Don't
worry take the road in the air which
never needs to be repaired. OF course, |
shall look out for the weather. Possibly
in the meantime l shall send the Santos
Dumont No. to Toulon and make the
run to the Lerius isles.
You think it only fair that | should
come home and make trip in America
You must not think | do not love Brazil
because 1 love France. our fathers
zil? | may make France so strong that
war against her may be impossible. Then
I shall have done something. 1 may
make war impossible everywhere. That
will be the most patriotic thing l can do
for Brazil.
With the new aeromobile which I am
having built l do not think the air voy-
age to America impossible. 1t is a
mathematical problem which I have not
yet worked out to my own satisfaction.
The whole question is this: How much
resistance will the guide rope which I
shall use as d stabilizator offer as 1t
trails in the water?" Once this deter
mined l can calculate any rate of speed
and the necessary consumption of force.
My voyage to Corsica is really expert
mental-a mere study for my trip from
Ireland to Nova Scotia
l do not believe that the last word Is
said in air travel, simply because 1 have
found the way of the bird in the air.
Many inventions will be added; many
improvements will be found. However,
once it has been proved and established
that one man can fly others will go far
beyond this adventurer.