Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-06
Fl |NG MACHINE SHOW
To Be Held in New York by
Aero Club.
ROY KNABENSHUE'S AIRSHIP
Will Be on Exhibition With Other Ap-
planes.
PROF. LANGLEY'S AER0DR0ME
To Be Included in the Array of APP
paratus Designed to Be Used in
Aerial Navigation.
aoF. LANGLEY's AER0DR0ME

The coming exhibition of the Aero Club in
New York in connection with the auto
mobile show promises to be the most i'm
portant exhibit of appliances for flight and
atmospheric investigation ever given IN
this country. 1t is of more than usual IN
terest to Westinghouse, too, because
there will be at least four important eX-
hibltors from Washington-Prof. Langley,
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell Prof. Albert
Zahm of the Catholic University and MI
Emil BerIiner of telephone fame.
The Aero Club is a new institution, one of
only few weeks existence, and 1t Is the
first time that America has ever had such
g. club. There is similar club in France
and one in England, both outgrowths of the
automobile clubs and the same Is true OF
the American Aero Club. Nearly all of the
men composing 1t are Automobiles either
for pleasure or profit. There are III MEM
bers of the young club. Some of them are
men prominent in the field of aerostatics,
some enthusiastic sportsmen and autorno-
bilists, and several men of great wealth.
1t is felt by the founders of the club that
if there is money needed to further any
reasonable aerial project these are the mon
who can aud will furnish 1t. 1t Is said, too,
among those who know that realization OF
practical flight is nearer than the general
public realizes; that ~feats have been per-
formed already about which nothing has
been said in print and that passenger traf
f1c, or at least a new and fascinating form
of sport, is already well assured.
New York Exhibit.
The exhibit at New York will include the
Leo Stevens sixty-fve-footer, a small nine
foot airship by Santos Dumont, the Cali
fornia Arrow and Roy Knabenshue's thirty
five-footer. There will be two balloons-the'
Stevens and a signal balloon-on view, to-
gether with parachutes. ballast bags, an
chors and other accessories.
The collection of flying machines will be
particularly varied. Prof. Langley will
have two models, one of his steam and the
others Of his gasoline machine. o. Cha
mute will have two, one the Hargrave model
and the other the Lilienthal type. A. NJ.
Herring will have a gasoline model and
Emil Berliner of Washington will have two
models on exhibition 1t has been known
for some time that Mr.. Berliner was work
ing quietly on some model machines but
he has said little about them. DIR. Alexan-
der Graham Bells man-carrying kite and
his tetrahedral kites will both be shown. as
we'll as several other kites, all the interest
ing models of the patent office and several
types of machines by inventors less we'll
known than the above
There will be a good collection of the sci
entif1c apparatus from which data for prac-
teal work is being gathered. DR.. A, F.
LdnII OF the IalnOllC University Will nave
on exhibition much of the apparatus with
which his experiments in measuring wind
pressure and the resisting form of various
models was carried out. These experiments
have not only been very interesting to the
scientific world but they have evolved new
and hitherto little understood laws that
have been of material assistance in solving
practical problems in fight. The United
States weather bureau will show its auto
matte recording apparatus and there will
be various other allied scientific apparatus,
including the paraphernalia for wireless
biography
Besides these things there will be large
and interesting collection of pictures show
ing the work already done In solving the
problem of flight and the men who are do
ing 1t. There will be light motors of vari-
Gus forms and means of propulsion and a
large collection Of literature loaned by the
patent office, the Smithsonian and other in
dtviduals and Institutions interested in the
problem.