The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-31
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mo machine In tho air without Tho help
= the gas or hot air In The envelope. and
a. mat hsrnatlca cannot lie tho doctor feels
IRE that the solving Of the problem Of
,orial navigation Ia all over but the shouting.
IN fact the ascension, which tho inventor
hofes to make some day. Ia only an Incl
don't.
Tho anrouaut lays particular stress on
tho nreprooi. g~asproof, waterproof and hot
air proof paint with which the gas bag up
homo and the wing attachments are covered.
This naint was invented by Or. Hunt and lie
composition Ia n black secret. Also the
raint Ia particularly light, the airship
Weighs only eighty-eight pounds and tho
scrnnaut himself IL from Cork. The Celts
that gathered In force yesterday 10 witness
the near-ascension turned out partly be-
nrse the inventor Is a Corker, but princi-
rally because they agree with DR.. Hunt
that with an aeromobile a man with proper
POLITICAL principles could do much for the
cause. A bag below the steerer's bicycle
seat will hold O good sized bunch OF dyna-
mite bombs, and with q cargo Of these.
some sandwiches and o couple Of light
novels. one could sail back and forth between
the Lizard and the Tweed and ever and
anon drop a bomb where it would do the
most good.
suppose a cannon ball did puncture the
gas envelope" said the doctor lightly.
what Of it? Then the wings would act as a
parachute and the aeromobile would settle
easily into the water. Once in the water
a ..li.z ~~o.nIo- halnvn tha emit could
send the machine through the water at the
rate Of fifty miles an hour. The propeller
Oh. 1t isn't made yet. but I had intended to
fan to take it's place If one Of my wife's
relatives hadn't died up the State, The
aeromobile itself is 80 feet over all and
weighs only 8S pounds, not counting the
weight Of the aeronaut. With my weight
added 1t weighs about 400 pounds
.Oh, no. Imean that when the weight OF
the motor and some other things are added
the weight will be 400 pounds. And |
weigh something myself added DIR. Hunt
proudly.
hot air in the factory the reporter was moved
to inquire What arrangements had been
made to initiate the envelope for the ascen-
sion that was to have taken place about
an hour before. II the engraved invitation
told the truth.
well, I suppose I'll have to make arrange
ments with the gas company to run pipes
or something up to the roof OF the factory
here pretty soon, said the inventor vaguely
and then III make a start from the roof.
Or perhaps by taking the wings of the
aeromobile / can get It downstairs in the
elevator and haul 1t to the nearest gas tank
| believe 1 told you the airship will be a
wonder in the water. l shouldn't like to
guess how fast it will go through the air,
but in time Of war it will go easily fifty
miles an hour through the water.
In which direction?'
"Oh, any direction. The turbine pro-
reller which / hope to add, will enable me to
swim like a fish or fly like a bird-lT go
through the seas or the heavens, one as easily
mobile continued the Cork inventor,
"and the wings really make h gas, bag
unnecessary, but as I've never made an
ascension / a going to use the envelope
to-day merely as a p~recautiqn. I've proved
to my own satisfaction hi ! can cutthe gas
bag adrift and come down successfully"
Then DR.. Hunt climbed into the aeromo-
bile, where, with COAT tails draped over the
side rods as IL in the act Of being famed
by the zephyrs, he had his picture taken
Bunker Hill Club grasped the aeromobiie
at the side, either to steady it 80 1t would
not fall of the wooden horses or to get their
pictures in the paper also, but they were
waved aside with tne ASSURANCE thdt tno
machine would not fall off the horses.
Or. Hunt gave the reporter q list OF the
distinguished persons present. There were
Miss Georges, who, the doctor said. is presi-
dent OF a church club; Francis Thyme, who
told the reporter he lectures on Ireland
to the Y. NJ. C. A; j.. j. DAILY, Who belongs
to the Gaelic League, and p. j. Burke OF the
Bunker Hill Social Club.
None of the Aero Club was in attendance
because, so DR.. Hunt said, he hadn't invited
any of them. He was about to join the
Aero Club, he said, but while his name
was hanging fire the clubs dues made an
ascension and he couldn't see that there
was anything to It,.
Mr.. DAILY said hat DR.. Hunt was descended
from Lord Nelson and was also descended
from Leigh Hunt. but that he had never
made an ascension 20 far as Mr., DAILY knew,
According to Mr.. DAILY the doctor did take
a short fier in Rubber when he came to
America. The Hunt family, too, have lived
near Cork many years longer than the
seromobile has been settling on the wooden
horses at Robinson's factory. One OF the
inventors ancestors was a king in Ireland.
When the aeronaut left the factory two
automobiles followed, but whether to keen
track Of the ~aeronaut's course or not could
not be harmed. A strong breeze. was blow
ing when Ninth avenue was reached, which
bothered the eyes Of the man at the motor
and also gave the conductor trouble while
making transfers. Ffty-ninth street was
reached in safety, however, and here the