The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-02

les his name will be familiar as the au- thor of numerous articles on flying ma chimes in the Zeitschrift fur Luftschiff- fahrt. thu Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung the NsIe Frc,e Fresse and other newspapers and magazines. < The failure that has hitherto been the reward of the numerous inventors or hy- ing machines is by Herr Nimfuhr at the excessive weight of the machine: sec ond. to the danger to life and limb tn- volved in learning to use it. Hhe all i'm portant question, How Is a novice to tains the skill and confidence necessary for Its proper manipulation and without running serious risks?' has hitherto been almost completely ignored by inventors. To quote Herr Nimfuhr's own words: "The apparatus may have been invented by a genius and constructed by an art ist. Skillfully manipulated. it may be capable of carrying man safely along the pathway of the swallow and the seagull from Dover to Calais in half an hour Yet, what have we achieved IT, as Is too often the case, the first attempt to use 1t results in catastrophe. due solely to the aeronaut's lack of training. and man and machine lie on the ground heap of ruins?
 Human Flight.
 "The fatal falls O. Otto Lilienthal in Berlin, and of Percy Sinclair Pitcher, in Market Marlborough. the accidents with the Dragon flying machines of Herr Maxim Alder and Herr Kress, in Vienna, have led to the conviction, now very generally held by experts. that the prob- lem of human flight Gas distinguished from ballon traveling) will be solved when a method, free from serious danger, of acquiring by practice the necessary dexteritv confidence and muscular traln- Ing has been discovered"
 Herr Nimfuhrs new flying machine re- sembles a huge bird or bat. The gross nf 10 with the man It caIr Iries. does not exceed 5O0 pounds. The wings, when fully extended. measure 76 yards feet across, with a superncles of 1.5oo square feet. They fulnii the tacie and of the screw propeller of an or dinary steerable balloon, raising the ap- paratus above the ground and maintain ing it floating in the air and supplying the motive force by means of which lt is carried forward in the desired direc- ton
 The propelling power of these wings is. however much superior to that Of any air screw propeller. Indeed. their great capacity is considered by Herr Nimtuhr to be one of the distinguishing excellen- cies of his new invention.
 The Motor.
 The motor by which these wings are moved is a miracle of lightness. It weighs only forty pounds. It Is claimed that its capacity. when at the full limit, Is thirty horse power, although, as call culation and experiment have agreed in proving. the demapd made upon 1t will. under ordinary circumstances, not exceed two-horse power. The experiments are entirely free from danger. The ascent from terra firma" is effected by means of short run, the wings being put into rapid and powerful motion thereby. Herr Nimfuhr hopes that a speed of twenty miles an hour may be attained with the apparatus and thinks it not improbable that this may even be considerably ex- ceeded.
 Muggins-These poor street beggars fill me with pity. I cannot bear to such suffer ing Buggins-You always look the other way.