The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-23

New 1OEA I1EA A&A0-
 rrweutv-efght miles in thirty-eight minutes in an aeroplane--thirty con secutive circuits of a course In neav- Ier-than-air flying maehine-tnls As the record of the Wright Brothers' or T1avton. Ohio, made known yesterday to the Aero Club. of America III tno first public announcement ever sHlaue by the men. the result or whose Is woin has been awaited with keener interest tha, that of any of the scores of in ventors who have been trying to solVe inc probIem of aerial navigatien.
 so far have the Wright Brothers ad- vanced toward complete success that the French government has alreauy made a deposit of $25.o00 on account and will soon be called upon 10 pay an i additional $275.0o0 for the FsenSh rights to the invention, proVioea lhe terms of a test to be made "lthih 'S short time are carried out
 Tn q machine of their own construe- t,on the wrights say that they suc- cessfully traversed a distance or tWeh- tv-fo,r and one-fifth miles in thirty ai~ht minutes and three seconds, ana had to come to earth then only oe- cause the supply of f'fuel was exhausted, the tank by an oversight na3 naVln : been completely filled petore the .Sr.o
 Elirhts made about the same time ware almost equally successful The day before the record flight was maoe fbe aeropuIane covered a distance or twenty and three-quarter miles Tn thirtv-three minutes and seventeen seconds, and the day before that IL flew fifteen and Q quarter mics in twenty-five minutes ana IiVe secoiiu'' Pleased to Make Report.
 .-rhough America" say the Wright brothers in their report to the Aero CIub "through the labors of Professor langley. MT. Chanute and others hao | acquired not less than ten years aso l tha recognized leadership In tha' l branch of aeronautics which pertains | 10 birdiike flight, 1t has not neretoIoIe | ben possibly for American workers to | present a summary of each year A. eA. l nerinnents to a society of their own countrv devoted exclusively to the pro. Tnotion of aeronautical studies ane | snorts. It is with great pleasure | therefore, that we now find ourselVe'
 able to make a report to sueh SO
 ssPrevtous to the year 1905 we hat l iexperimented at Kitty Hawk. N' V l with man carrying gliding machlhes aa |,
 the years 1900, 1901, lso2' ana M 1soo
 and with a man carrying motor nyer
 which on December 1T, 1903, sustain ea itself in the air for fifty nine second i durinr which time it advanced agalns | . twenty mile wind a distance or eo
 gAet Flights to the number of mor
 tbar one hundred had also ben mad l at Dayton. Ohio, in 1904, with secon
 motor flyer Of these flights, a complet
 circle, made for the first time O
 September 20, and two hights or thre .s
 miles each, made on November an
 December i, respectively were th
 more notable performances.
 sSrhe object of the 1905 experiment
 was to determine the cause and dis cover remedies, for several obscure an
 somewhat rare difficulties whlch a ha
 been encountered in some or the 4sV
 flights, and which It was "ecessaS :
 overcome before it would be sate |
 eronIov flyers for practical purposes
 Tbe experiments were made tn
 svvauDv meadow about eight miles eas
 of Dayton. Ohio,. and continued Iroi
 June until the early days or octopel
 when the impossibilty of longer man
 taining privacy necessltateu 'le'i "'9
 EarIler Flights Were short.
 towing to many experiment. changes in the machine and the re
 s,,Itiney differences in it's management the earlier flights were short put to ward the middle of September mean of correcting the obscure troupe wei
 Sound and the flyer was at las . hE0HRnI
 From this time Forward almost ever F1ight established d new record
 SIt will be seen that an aVerae | sneed of a little more than thirty -eiei miles an hour was maintameo III VI last flIght All of the rishts wei . made over a circular course Of apo'
 three fourths of n mile to the Ia
 which reduced the speed somewha The machine increased its Velocll ? on the straight parts of the course ai ] slowed down on the curves. It Is b lieved that in straight flights the no nal speed is more than forty miles z hour. In the earlier of tho fligh
 named above less than six pounds [ | gasoline was carried. In the later on . a tank was fitted large enough to ho ? fueI for an hour, bue>>by oversight was not completely filled before t flight of october D.
 5 @In the last three years a total
 1eO flights have been made with O motor driven flyers, and a total distan ' of almost exactly 160 miles covert , an average of mile to each flight, b
 untlI the machine had received it's fin l ;r1nrovements ths flights were most } shart as is evidenced by the fact th
 +ha fight of October was longer th ] tha 105 flights of the year 1904 t gether ,D,-..- Q CircIed Field Twenty-BiRe Times. . .srThe lengths of the flights were mea < ured by a Richard anemometer, wni
 ygas alta ,hed to the machine. The T s cords were found to agree closely wi
 the distances measured over Il
 ground when the flights were made