The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-14
FLIES WITH AEROPLANE
Californian Has Solved Problem OF
of Many Years.

| Dan USE, Cal, April 14.-After
weeks of experimenting, including
several actual trials, the airship or
aeroplane of Professor John ]. Mont
gomery of Santa Clara college, has
| demonstrated that it is possible for a
man to fly. During these tests J. H
| Maloney, the aeronaut, remained in
the air more than a quarter of an hour
at time, and on one trial trip covered
several miles with no other motive
power than his own hands and feet.
He is enthusiastic over the machines,
| which weighs only 80 pounds, and con-
siders the problem of aerial navigation
solved. Speaking of the trip, he said:
81 went up with a hot air balloon,
and got 5000 feet above ground before
| I cut loose. For a moment 1 simply
poised in the air and then flew around
in different directions, circling back
and forth, up and down, as easily as
an eagle could have done it. I was
| up in the air Is minutes and never had
the least difficulty in guiding
Professor Montgomery has not CIV
en- the world a full and complete de-
scription of his aeroplane. He has
good reasons for Withholding it for
the present, but in good time all will
be known The patent rights here and
abroad will then have been perfected,
and no infringement to pilfering can
happen.
But one can watch butterfly and
see upon what principle the aeroplane
is made. In it's essence it has but one
pair of wings, divided into two parts.
One of these parts is in the back, an
other in the front. Neither is wholly
dependent upon the other, but each is
aided by the other. And when the OPP
orator desires to swoop downward he
does so by operating the tips of the
wings, as does a bird. One tip goes
s1anting upward, the other in the OPP
posite direction, and the drop is made.
To circle around it is very much like
guiding a horse or riding horseback
or a bicycle. The instructive principle
of equilibrium and balance is sustained
throughout. The operator sits in a
frame suspended from the wings, and
the tips are worked while he occupies
small saddle seat made for him.
The aeroplane has no motive power.
It is flown, not by the wind, for it
operates with and against the wind,
but by air forces that nave never
been controlled until Professor Mont
gomery broke them to harness.
Let me say" said Professor Mont
gomery, that this is not an airship;
it is an aeroplane. But it is the basis
of an airship. I have my hopes-but
other men have had hopes and failed.
Some have died. I shall wait. Before
Lilienthal, you know, men tried to fly.
There are ancient accounts of the at
tempts.
1.-THE principal difference in my aero
, plane from others lies in the construc-
ton of the surface that gathers power
from the air. 1 have taken into con-
sideration the movements set by the
surrounding air, and have made the
surface of my aeroplane take advan-
tage of these movements by peculiar
form of construction. Not alone is the
sustaining surface to be taken into &C
count. The agitation of the air is
reckoned with in my contrivance and
that force is made good use Of"
Great Sustaining Power.
Loosed at an altitude of 5000 feet,
| the sustaining power Of the wings will
give power of flight for a considerable
! length of time. By manipulation of
the wings the aeroplane can go against
| the wind as we'll as follow it, and the
man suspended in the light frame work
below is complete master of the wing
| ed craft.
Professor Montgomery is apparent
! ly much averse to making claims that
| ne cannot substantiate. His caution,
his earnestness, and all the circum-
stances connected with his work gives
assurance that the airship is utterly
| free from humbuggery, as has SO often
been the case. Associated with MIN
| in exploiting and building the winged
ship is Father Bell of Santa Clara
college.
How to Succeed.