The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-01-29

view to the solution of the problem of flying through the air
s.-=lH with balloons and with aeroplancs.
f#Y Although the balloon has been fairly familiar for
X49 than 100 years and has done many things that
EyWl not expected do still navigating the air it
8AD practically unmanageabe when 1885 DR..
cfrics Of Boston, crossed the channel England
France balloon filled with 1t perfectly that the dreams of
to-day become the realities tomorrow navigation the
long and the morrow has surely not vet dawned
ns discovery time bridge the between theory and prac
ce, but the actual advance is not much to boast about
understood that the balloon not of any use ALL
the contrary was suggested the beginning of this article has
helped in that expected it, BY much
has been learned of the conditions existing the upper conditions
which avc everything do with weather and the day after
The balloon has been of good deal of cphn value when Paris
has been the ardent aron
oyerthc heads bccgcs places neutrality and
hcn they have been of military the dread work
o quantities og explosives dropping them into The
of the but vantage from which inspect his
encmen his And then again they have furnished
sport for the rh which has the advantages of being expensive
elusive and thrilling But toward the practical navigation of the air the
balloon has contributed very little appccabc aid Mongo and
ehre made their memorable ascnts century and
Nor have the copancs contributed lie science much
might wish Although ever since The DAYS Leonardo h Vinc gcoogs
artist and engineer experiments and hosts of them
still the question of Darius Green "Thc birds fly and why can't
has not been satisfactorily answered question physics there
not TO be the slightest doubt about that with sufficient
plane maintain itself and its load the air The mathematical
ton of the problem has been far developed that according to the c
nony friends himself among The Of c physicists
the principal matters for study the starting and gng But still The
hope that the great invention Of light weight gpower engines that
The automobile has demanded might solve the difficulty and hardly
that this will not be efficient but the practical results the
compished flights far satisfactory 1t is true that the Wright
brothers have made flights Of miles and have, said interested
the French their work. but they themselves but the
very beginning OF the problem.
IF question of navigating with against midman
nercd trade wind whose direction and force reasonably constant day
after day. The condition might be considered perhaps sensible
the weather Of the United the
very different one Under our variable conditions of direction and
high In Judgment this should be less than 100 miles hour
less strongly powered oeropan caught by of ordinary gales
would be blown perhaps at least driven before the wind with
subsidized This
daen consider and is highly dangerous Unless such posi-
by guarded against would be unsafe start calm Thus
the minimum for bare safety fight must actually equal exceed
locomotive under the best of conditions
With this fact in becomes evident that safe and successful
flight problem which hardly 10 have begun
o attack and whose solution to be a..
accomplish. I-H-7