The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-07
|6RET AER0PLANE
/ BUILDING GOING ON
h,.Thousand-Dollamr Prize Is
Creating Great Deal of
Interest.
|uoHUNDRED AEROPLANES
ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED
,Usmy Waiting for Reporters
and Photographers to
| Leave.
cnaniaI Sporting Service.

kkrs Special ePo' '"'e
,oynON April Ga large amount
,ss,st aeroplane building is going
: sb;s country, due to the "Daily
NE 81 offer of $4,000 for the first
y, ~ he.ween London and Manchester.
.sronautical societies hear little of
= ofirially, for the inventors are
are unlike, as rule, M. Santos
-no, who takes the public unhesi-
-Jv into his confidence. Still, ii
avs 10 estimate that there are over
4 ,sroplanes projected or in course
,,rstn,ction in England. 1T would
N be as near the mark as it is
-sible to get.
1--WE have had over 100 inquiries al
-dy for seroplane motors. - said r.
t saiih of the Adams Motor Manufac-
|Ls1e company, recently. 1.-The invent
rSlo have made these inquiries range
- blacksmith to n wealthy society
Nv For the most part they are ex-
r-,ty anxious that no detail of their
In shall become public property.
n, man who opened negotiations for
: iutoinette motor similar to that
zij,I so supplied TO NJ. Santos Du-
,st told me he had built a most sue
al model which had made some
|rsmratively long flights. lie was then
rutipp upou his full-sized machine. /
|uia Elm what he had done with his
|-Id Burned it,, he replied signifi-
'tr,ly. We have been asked also to
IfH entire aeroplanes, but owing to
I-,ssrs of work and lack of plant, we
|u,rot undertake to do this. -
n What simms Says.
Ma 2. r Simms said: eve have
|k numerous inquiries for aeroplane
||tzi,ss, but in no case am [ permitted
|tr,niion names. There are three en-
|rs under construction now, ranging
,|ta IS to $50 horsepower. The last
! IL cost about $4,000, and will drive a
I |fns.foOt propeller at 1900 10 1900 rev.
|tiOps a minute. In month or two
] ID clients will be ready for practical
| |til and | believe that one or two of
Z Ia contemplate an attempt on the
, |lQ00 prize. Our engines work out
, about 21a pounds per horse power,
Irl the cylinders are cooled on a new
! Inape." Messrs. Fairbanks are
/ I17iding another inventor with 30.
|cspOwer motor, which is to be deliv-
: ~ In day or two.
2 6ul on the windy Brooklands motor
2 eR- track stands Nj. Bellamy's aero.
: |;ri ready for flight. Now the aero.
Z f.s is finished one can realize how
= |lzi Of the design NJ. Bellamy owes 10
, IL" Professor the pet falcon which
niollOwed the inventors fortunes III
J, la, France and England. The Bel
I'D
: " Of bird. and not ewing
Z fsFT" In front is a pointed bird 's
h some six feet long. composed OF
rlse eaico.covered triangles, set verti
FAy aud horizontally respectively, or
Hsnon "neck, which may be
pa in any direction. Two twenty
~ wings, composed Of strong BAN
g covered with light calico, curve
Enids some twelve feet above tn,
t@a Between the two wings in tho
eva strong wooden framework
,ln the fourcylinder 50-horse-powel
I r9ae, which drives two siX-foot pro
90 lthc pitch of which can be reg
A'e ent out Of thin steel braccd in
ngdify. Behind this is a grea'
4 t,slhg tail twenty-four feet IN length
Z y tTelve feet wide at the end. Or
= Forward part Of this tail is small
'or NJ. Bellamy. A single pneu
/. .lstlred wheel supports the whole
4 .fe when IN motion, but at prescn
4 -1 supports are in position. On ;
ra close to NJ, Bellamy's hand wer,
IN TWO wings and the tail of a roy
Z seon- One day, when the photog
Z seH are mapping, NJ. Bcllamy vii
q ''s ais attempt at flight