Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-04
AERIAL NAvIGA ION
Exhibit by Santos Dumont and
Other Scientists.
TO BE GIVEN IN NEW YORK
Great Display Of Famous Models Elk
pected.
FRANCE WELL REPRESENTED
Exhibition in Conjunction With the
Automobile Show, January
Is to go.
RANCE WELL REPRESENTED

Santos Dumont's navigable balloon has
just arrived in New York, to become a part
of the aeronautic exhibit under the auspices
Of the Aero Club of America. This event Is
the first revelation of the great industry and
earnestness Of the committee which has the
enterprise in charge, and which has been
striving hard. though quietly, for weeks. to
make the display representative Of the best
work of this country and Europe.
The exhibition will be held in conjunction
with the automobile show, January 10 to 20,
In the magnificent new armory of the Goth
Regiment and is the first public effort of
the first organization in America devoted
exclusively to aerial navigation.
Besides Santos Dumonts airship there will
be several other exhibits from France, and
number of prominent aeronauts will come
to study what Is being done in this country.
A great variety of models is expected, illus
trative of the growth of the science; also
apparatus for the study of its principles and
instruments for exploring the atmosphere
The manufacturers of aeronautical appli-
ances will be represented. NJ Malet, the
balloon maker of Paris, will send full ex-
hibit of his aerostats and paraphernalia.
Every man in America whose work has
bearing on aerial locomotion has been
asked to contribute his quota Mr.. Chanute
has sent an exhibit of gliding machines, IL
Illustrating his experiments, which were the
earliest practical studies of dynamic flight
in this country, and the precursor of the
very important work of the Wright broth
ers.
The Models Expected.
Prof. Langley will exhibit his steam and
gasoline models. which were the first to fly
and balance themselves in the air with
automatic control. DR.. Bell will send mod
els and illustrations of the wonderful kites
with which he has been experimenting the
past three summers in Nova Scotia. DR..
Zahm has forwarded the models and in
struments with which he discovered the
laws of atmospheric friction, and the hull
forms of best shape in the wind tunnel at
the Catholic University.
The patent office has loaned all its models
and patent drawings of aeronautfcal inter-
est, for Mr.. Allen, the present commissioner
of patents, regards mechanical flight as a
rational science, not as dream TO be
classed with perpetual motion. Prof Mar
win has forwarded from the weather bureau
a number of instructive instruments for de-
termining the motion and meteorological
conditions of the atmosphere, for 1t is eX-
pected that in this country, as IN Europe
meteorology and aeronautics will be mu-
tually helpful. Gen. Greedy has shown his
sympathy with the movement by lending
number of very interesting appliances Illus
trative of the balloon in warfare, but, I'M
fortunately, could not lend his large Ger
man kite balloon, having recently shipped 1t
away Mr.. Berliner, who has made some
flying models and has projected a full-sized
"aeromobile,' will send an interesting eX-
bibit Knabenshue of Toledo, who occasion
ally Unanswered over the worlds fair at St
Louis will exhibit the navigable balloon in
which he flew about New YORK city bald
win ALSO and Karl Myers, Americas vet
eran aeronauts and balloon builders Will
send exhibits. Leo Stevens will exhibit
sixty-five-foot airship and a balloon.
In marked contrast to the bulky motor
balloons will be the display of the Wright
brothers, showing all the phases of flight of
a purely dynamic winged machine, without
gas, carrying a man through the air at ex-
press train velocities. After this exhibit
1t is believed no well-informed person can
afford to ridiculA the science of aerial loco
motion or question the feasibility OF mans
flying with the celebrity of birds from city
to city on wings of his own contr1Ving and
with against the wind
Official Statement.
The broad nature and completeness of
the display can be judged from the official
statement of the committee in charge:
IN this Qhe aeronautic) section of the
sixth annual show of the Automobile Club
of America there will be exhibited every
important development In aerostation that
this country has brought forth, besides
much of the most interesting work of for
eign inventors. There will be balloons, in
Guiding dirigible airships of all forms.
spherical and other drifting balloons; para
chutes; aeroplanes, comprising gliding ma
chimes and power aeroplanes and tetrahe-
dral, box and other kites; lifting machines,
both with propellers and wings; light
weight motors; meteorological Instruments;
a complete collection of the literature of
mechanical flight; pictures of various
famous flying machines, both in flight and
at rest, and an exhibit of materials and ac-
cessories In the latter will be included
special cordage and fabrics for balloons,
gas-proof varnishes, steel tubing and wire,
gas valves, anchors, etc. In short this
exhibit will constitute complete exposi-
ton of all that has been achieved in the
solution of the greatest unsolved mechan-
ical problem that today confronts man
kind"
What means all this. and what does 1t
portend? 1t means say the scientists, that
money and madness have happily Joined
hands-the aero clubs of the world, COM
prised of very wealthy men who wish to
fly, are talented ones who can show
how 1t means that modest science, which
hitherto has suffered the scorn of wise
acres. will now assume bold front. Aerial
navigation has come to stay. The science
will prove both useful and interesting and
must endure to the end Of civilization.
The Aero Club of France has just offered
q prize to 1850 francs for an international
contest. 1t Is expected that the Aero Club
OF America will soon offer a greater prize,
and that 1t will find champions well able
to sustain the honor of this country against
all the world.