The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26

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SHOT OF man apparently fiyins. TO his
horror the kite carried the man about
afcrty feet from the ground, and the PFC
8turoS showed d 4 flying n chine with Il. 9
man 4 ttaohed to It's tall For D time
the Doctor was greatly alarmed. ind his
alarm kent up until the man reached the
earth again. NJ If. d. 4 40 N l5 S$6sSt 4
1nventinE 4 Propeller. Is
&5 III my talk with Or. Bell ne spoke Of
possible propollers for Tying machines N''
saying n 81
3Sly''That Ii tho question I shall now 4 at
tempt to RsolV Ia We ne We ID iscover the,
unit out % which the body q o,r aerial zig
vehicle Ia Ito Y be mndo. a$i yvo know hat
1t viii ny ana what We need siiowi Is some
thing to move II It onward & ana turn II
this way or that when It has q noe risen
from the ground. Y on 4 may z RENE nlber
that. many OF my exp crime n IS have been
upon tile water, 3 and that q have con-
3structed aerial vehicles hlch ND
float and which, when towed along BY
boats, at a certain speed, would rise into,
what the same way to q scertain tn 9 best
motive power to A propel s8 such bodies
through the air. # I do not expect to at
tempt TO invent an entirely new motor,
but shall begin with the best Of our small
commercial motors and work W tn 4, them y
We may possibly use g bicycle motor At
the start We shall attach this to q boat
such q way that the motor VII WORK
In the sar&and be subject to the ordl--5
~ aerial currents. w shall have g
framework built 5up above the boat and
the motor, will be placed upon It.
eft will be made to move the boat along,
under the Same condi tions II that It 10 to
move the flying machine along. So tar
the experiments for such motors have
been made within doors. WI here there are
no currents OF winds to disturb then. and
where the conditions are different from
tile outsld We shall experiment In thes
came way with our ru ODER; and Rif We
and that we can produce sa tisfactc'ry re-
suits In moving and steering the Doat
we shall feel that we. have gone q long lon
way toward the discovery Of the pro per
motor to be used when we ascend from
the water to the air, II
When We Shall Fly. ,,Hs$
.sc,an YOU predict anything as to the
future OF the flying maohine7 When will
man be able to successfully navigate the
air?'"sS8 s5st *
a u can make no predictions as to that
replied the scientist. I'VE can only say
that we are making great strides in the
direction OF aerial navig a ton. So far,
all our discoveries have been more X or
hof
ascertalned the peculiar form in which
inll$ bodies to be maintained In thu air
should be made have. In short, dis
/ covered the unit Of the flying body ana
4 m now ready. to 20 on to ex pertinent
Al 10 the massinE Of such units, have
given an order for ten thousand tetr
$hedral cells to be sent to my laboratory
at Baddeck. This will enable US 70 form form
almost any kind OF structure OF Z = LILY
lures we wish. /" II 5 jiB8 WE siS5 .gs
35is "But have not great successes already
been made in the line Of aerial high
Il Eyes, the Wright brothers. OF Dayton,
are doing remarkable work. TheY have
covered distance OF twenty our niles s
ElnSthirty-elght minutes on an aeroplane
I moved by q gasolene engine. and at me
( same time have carried fifty POUNDS or
pig iron al q dead weight. in addition 70
their own weight. ! have not seen their
machine. but there is no doubt but that
HI has flown successfully through the
s,.What do YOU think Of Walter Wells.
smans plan for reaching the north pole ~
i ct Ia one Of great risk, and the man y
indeed daring to make the attempt.
Nevertheless, think he has = chance of
}success. IIe presented his plsns ~ de,j
tail TO some Of the officers OF the Ma
tional Geographic Society. ana It seemed
+ "a me that his deductions were made
aupaR IA scientific basis. We expect 70
hsend a representative OF the National
Geographic Society along with him "
do not know. after all, whether he "a
3risking more in this way than In an AIS
tempt TO reach the pole by sleds and
dogs over the ice, His machine 10 such
that 1t can be turned into q sled. and
sif anything should make It fall to fly.''$4s
B Or. Langley and His Flying 4
Machine,
If .sYou saw the Arst flight Of the Langley
model. Dr. Bell, Was his large machine
ADAPTED to successful flightY !,
have flown had It been properly launch he's. =
was the reply, "Tha machine was
caught on leaving the boat and thrown
down into the water, It waH never sent
out into the air, and It Ia no more
proper to say that It would not have
flown than to assert that a ship. which
had been caught halfway down tho
launching stage and had never touched
the water, would not be able to float II
properly placed In the water Z,
Indeed, ! do not think that DR., Lang
ley was fairly treated az to hia flying
machine, and believe that the criticism
which he received from the press was
largely the cause Of his Death, He was
making the machine with an appropria-s
Gtlon from the War Department. and he
felt It hts duty to keep all details con-
corning 1t as secret "a possible
He also dtsllked publicity. and his per-.
sonal inclinations went side by side With
his considerations Hcrur'les IN hts atternpts
q to keep his experiments from the press,
Tho newspaper men, haweyer. camped
down about him whenever he attenptsd
TO make a flight, and when he would
give them no Information they began to
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