The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-31
ALL SOON TO BE BIRDS
FLYING MACHINES AT sfo EACH FROM.
 LsED BY HOLLAND.
Seq 10 Chicago One Day-winged Nation Within Five fears 10 Prophecy-safer
 Than The Bicycle.
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Special to chicasol Record Herald.
 New w-York--John P. Holland, inventor of Q submarine torpedo boat announces that his flying machines will not cost more than sio. and that within five years men will be flying from this city to Chicago in day. His apparatus consists of four wings with bamboo frames. which will be attached to the arms and waist of the person using them- The apparatus will not weigh more than twenty five pounds. and he declares any man will be able to use it on sight and fly without any elaborate preliminary
 Mir. Holland has been working on the problem for thirty-four years and has made four different types of flying machines only to discard them because the principle adopted the aeropfane principle after a long study of birds in flight. He is holding back the details of the construction of his flying machine until the government grants him patent.
 In discussing his apparatus MT. Holland
 This flying machine. or whatever you want to call 1t. will consist of four wings. Those with which the first trials soon will be conducted will be in two sizes. one pair seven and the other ten feet long This will give a spread of from fifteen to twenty feet from tip, to tip. They will be applied directly to the person in such manner that appropriate muscles will manipulate them without more exertion than Is neces- sary for ordinary walking for the violent part of 1t will be only during the starting or ascending ,end while the person is de- seen6inE.
 Tn less than five years man will spread his wings and fly like bird. Without any more exertion than Is required by the act of ordinary walking he will make flights at the rate of from fifty to 100 miles an hour. He will fly to Chicago in day. He will make a short flight to Washington to sec his friends and will fly back in time for | supper, all without more trouble or energy than would be expended In the same time at walking: probably without as much exer- tion.
 CAN FLY AGAINST WIND. ''He will take a course with against the wind or at any angle he wishes. at any height above the surface he may find con venient or desirable. He will beat his wings vigorously for a few strokes. just as any bird does. and then, settling in fixed course, will ride the air without any more effort than does the swallow that skins and dips. He will use other device to attain bouyaAey. but will simply mount to the height sought by the same means as do creatures endowed by nature with feathers. 'Tn investigating and experimenting have found a curious similarity about the two problems of submarine and ariel navi- gation. I also have found a power which controls both--namely that the centre of gravity always must be exactly under the centre of support and the thrust always must be exactly opposite the centre of re- slstance. The principle Is the same in air as in water. the only difference being fn the greater density of the water
 NO NEED FOR ExERTION. "Only in case speed Is required will there be need for exertion in flying. There will be no mechanism for supplying great pow CT. The wings will be attached directly to the body at the arms and about the hips. This harness or attaching gear will be easy and comfortable for a man. though scarcely adapted to the use of women in their pres ent costume. The wings will be made of bamboo frames of a special quality I experimented with steel tubing, but found 1t to heavy when made of the requisite