New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-01
DELAGR4NGE AIRSHIP.
Latest Type of French AerOplane
Not Received FaUOrabIy.

description of tho DeIagranee aeropIane which
went 20 pieces It's first test at Vncennes re-
Gently. has heen received in this country. From
previous experiments It had been figured out that
this type of aeroplane should lift at a speed Of
about hfty-two miles hour At its first trial
the drill grounds the m1ckirc shot forward for
about hundred and fifty feet. Then the for
ward plane started skywarl. while the rest of
the machine stayed on the ground the connect
ing rods bucklue II is said that the accident
We c,.use1 nS ilpioPGF 'sSs inolns ot the parts
The llach.ae however, mas caused Seletul IN
The DelaaI.qse aeroplane is OF the cellular type
win sustaining surface Of sixty square m Tres
length Of the first. The main acrOyane5 are as
BY 30 feet ~ lta6th and width. while the rear
Wuth 1licS are COZ nected by vertical posts braced
nished cloh which is stretched over curSed wood
en- IBIS in the usual manner. The planes IRE
cGnnected by three vertical planes TO assure tie
STABILITY Of tie machine and to keep il noyins
forward a. a stIai%ht line Back OF the middle
The rear planes arc ca:lie'i snail pneu-
mounted AEON a trameyo-! OF steel tubnE SUB.
ported upon two wneels through The internIedium
of sdocE ABSORBING springs line 'rout and rear
planes are connecled to9eteer b. steel tubes and
ward lanes un a suitable ned is nIacHd 20.
motor seat Tor tae operator the stec n RS and
ss:a nice fee. orward the horzonts S"s ro Ssn
which Is also made up of Two rlanes having a
tOta! surface or seven sqUa.. metres (75i SQUARE.
teoU NJ tae real part OF this bed is placed an
eigiit-eyI!gader motor OF ptty torsepow,r which
The propeller is fastened upon TIE motor shat
and has dame of - metres toS9 feet) ana y,
one-metre (32S eeO pitch. The hla les are OF cas-
aluminium ana t.le Iivt ted TO tEe arms of steel
tubing which Sctt y into steel hub.
TWO new rivals 10 DR.. Julian p Tnorn.s,s
aerOnautcal enterprise have been found moth m
TINS city. One Is Raphael j. Moses, OF No a VrSf
Stth street, and the other IS JOnn NJ Jones who
lives on the other side of the city.
Nj. JoEes's ideas have made even the Patent
Office sit ~ and take not ce. tie has invented
what he calls semi-spral revolving tubes " hich
catch the air somehow to confine It tnat in ire
Struggle TO Tree Itself, tteIe evolved 1 Iffin :
lower equal T. . nail Whirlw.nd. His idea is ~
hitch four 81 these hi.lWind producers 10 "a hon :
SNAPPED machin two 10 Eft it u, and the others
one ut each end, 10 send il forward or back mis-
invention represents about twenty two years IA =,
work by MIR Jones. N"--
Mr.. moses mas a process whereby he expects 70
lift steel vessel weighing go tons Whicb b 10
thinks he can do by means of gas explosions n
is to equip his airship with about a tho1,sarJ
air chambers, with megaphone-like trumpefs ~
tached Fly pointing these trumpets earthward ~
believes that the force Of the explosions will s9nd
the snip sailing aloft. and them BY turning tbaIe
at Rele. obtai0 the necessary lateral pr0Dsf,-s
power. these Will 10 pretty i,J5,a.SIi AZ,
plOsiOns for MIR. Moses says that mis- airship When
all ready for months cruise will weigh az Least
half q million pounds which would REQUIRE =
force equal to l0O horsepower 20 OVercOme fha
down pull OF gravity alone To meet this REQUIRE
pent. he SAYS that his gas explosions will leveion
az least l,e50 horsepower. Mr. Moses. who is ~
optimistic most inventors. says that the ax-
Plosions easily will drive his airshp at least one
hundred rai.es an hour,