The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05
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as recorded by the judges will be
the average time in which it covers the
full course, but this shall count as
but one trip. Each competitor may
make as many trials as he desires. No
trial will be considered unless the full
/. course is covered, and the aeronaut
must make at least three complete trips
around the course at an average speed
of twenty miles an hour.
Archduke Leopold Salvador of Aus
tria, Commanding General of the Aus
trian Artillery, and an aeronaut of
worldwide repute because of his as
tensions with The Meteor" will take
part in the contests. He may be ask
ed to accept the presidency of honor
of the jury for Aeronautics. Other
notables are NJ. Santos Dumont, Sir
Hiram Maxim, Prof. Langley, Leo
Stevens and Octave Chanute, all of
whom have achieved fame in aerial
navigation.
santos DumOnt the FavOrite,
If bets were posted, Santos Dumont
would be red hot favorite on the
strength of past performances. He Is
the premier aeronaut of the world and
has more victories to his credit than
any of those who will compete with
him at st. Louis. Dumont has said
that he will win the Worlds Fair
| RAANSs anu Will lllcil llIlCllllOu ne QG-
signed and has built his NO. T." a
slim-waisted monster with a torpedo
| shaped gas bag 100 feet long and TWEEN
ty-six feet in diameter carrying an
| engine of 70-horse power.
/ Lively interest is being taken in an
American entry which may give the
daring Brazilian a tussle for first hon
, ors. 1t is that of the Wright brothers
| of Dayton, o., who have spent five
years in study and experiment and
have constructed machine that flew
three miles in the face of a strong
| wind. Their maneuVers as witnessed
by many persons have been pronounced
! the most successful feat yet perform
ed by an airship, and curiosity is man
| ifested in what the Wright machine
will do.
! The aeroplane, or machine heavier
than air, depending altogether upon
! dynamic energy for lifting power and
! flight, has many followers. Prof
| Langley although unfortunate in hav-
ing lost several machines of this class,
! still has faith in the theory and NAV
emerge from his last wreck with a
better perfected craft with which to
compete with the worlds airship build
ers.
The "xite Flying Glass.
Sir Hiram Maxim, the eminent Eng
lish inventor, is expected to have a
machine in the races that will pos
sess some new and marvellous improve
ments over his former efforts; Octave
Chanute, an American aeronaut, mas
theories very much along the line oil
those of Sir Hiram, and these two
gentlemen will doubtless represent
what is known as the "kite-flying'
| class.
Effort has been made by the ex-
position management to weed out the
| freak and untried ideas. No appli-
cant will be admitted to the compe-
tition who does not present satisfac-
| tory evidence of having made at some
time a flight over at least a mile
course with a machine similar to that
| which he proposes to use in the races
This will not exclude any worthy craft
and it will confine the contest to ma
chimes that promise at least creditable
performances.
From June to September these air
| ship trials will be in progress, and
the flights of the various machines in
their efforts for the 500, 900 prize will
be one of the features of the fair.
The McGnry Flying Machine.
Being first to arrive, the McGary ma
chine has aroused considerable inter-
est. It consists of an egg-shaped gas
bag forty-eight feet long by twenty
| one IeeL Wlue, anu a car LWenLy-One
| feet long, five feet wide and four feet
deep. 1t is propelled by four huge
wings shaped like those of a fly and
| is steered by a fish-tail rudder. The
| inventor claims that the wings of the
fly have pulling power with both the
| upward and downward stroke, and that
| his machine has twice the power of
those with propellers fashioned after
the wings of a bird.
Maj. NJ. B. Van Worries of Pitts
burg. Pa, has built an immense air
ship in which he proposes to sail from
| Pittsburg to St. Louis. His craft is
cigar-shaped and is 120 feet long To
! the gas-inflated cone he has attach
ed an aluminium car twenty feet in
length. containing d naphtha engine
for the propelling power. The ship,
| like the McGary machine, is steered by
a fish-tail rudder and wings are used
| for propelling.
| A Northumberland Airship.
A Marion. Ind. machinist, William
! Alagree, and a farmer, Jack Ferguson.
have just completed an airship which
they have been building for more than
a year. They have made a successful
trip in testing II, but refuse to divulge
| the motive power or give any descrip-
ton of their vessel.
Samuel T. Best. a Louisville real es-
/ tate man. has patented an airship in
which he hopes to sail 20 ST, Louis and
enter the contest He estimates the
speed OF his ship az so miles an hour.
Columbus. Ohio. has an entry. II ia
the invention OF George Francis Myers
| and was built under his direction, with
the aid OF a company OF Columbus bust
ness men. No description Of this ship