Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05

point; but the moment 1t has two cylinders
a steam engine does not require fly wheel
donkey engines on board ship do not
have them. All right Now TO correspond
with a two-cyinder steam engine in this
respect, how many cylinders must a pc
troleum motor possess? Evidently four
times as many; because where In a steam
engine you have two pushes for each turn
the petroleum motor gives but one push
every two turus-you know. the cycle.
drawing in gasoline. mixing II with air.
igniting 1t, explosion. pushing out con-
sumed gas. etc. Therefore. when you have
an elght-cylinder petroleum motor, IL is
as IL you had a two-cylinder steam engine
you can do away with the fly wheel
With Sixteen Cylinders.
This. you understand. is one-but only
one-of the reasons his Bird of Prey was
furnished with an eight-cylinder motor
and why his new motor will have sixteen
cylinders. Try to imagine what a sixteen
cylinder motor looks like In a way IL
suggests a shining metallic centpede, alive
with explosions and sparks. For lghtness
IL has the free escape of gas, with all Its
thunder splitting.
Il am stiil in admiration of its lightnessr'
exclaimed Santos. 1T will develop more
than one hundred horsepower and 1t weighs
only DO pounds! There's progress! The
Buchet motor with which | won the
Deutsch prize OF navigable ballooning, gave
me twelve horsepower for 1913 pounds
weight
From my automobile experience 1 sug
gested certain objections to many cyl
nders.
'Aeroplaning is all different" he an
swered. Before l start. my engineers
verify that all the cylinders are render
ing. In the air i wouldn't have time TO
finger even four cylinders. On the other
hand. the dragging of one cylinder, which
would seriously reduce the power OF
four-cylinder motor. will scarcely have any
effect a slXteen-cylinder motor; and,
you know. when you in the air by mo-
| tive force alone. you don't want 1t TO get
cranky-or you come down with a bump! l
don't how the Wright boys have not
| killed themselves with the motor they are
| supposed to usen
AS to the Wright boys Partisan aero
| planists are perfectly fair. While not eN-
| tuberculosis serum, they admit that the
| story has encouraged them to the point Of
| flying.
Want the Wrights to Come.
81 hope the Wright brothers will fly over
| Paris" said Ernest Archdeacon. he stop
! ped a moment to glance at the racer and
| talk routes to Rome with Santos. 1t will
| be far simpler to buy one of their ma
| chimes than to risk our aecks in expert
| mental constructions. But whether they
| come or don't come. we shall fly
| Their good work is really done. he add
| ed. Their story came to us at the psyche
logical moment. 1t has given us the neces-
| sary announcement to do the resti
| Surely we shall fy!' said Capt. Ferber.
He is the Partisan who has been nearest
| to the Wrights I'VE are now where auto
| mobiles were in 1894. What is going to
| happen? 1t Is very simple. AS in 1894,
| the Paris papers will found heavy prizes.
| We will have aeroplane races. Who Will
| compete in them? Why the same Pa
| risians who made the bicycle races. the
| motocyclette races. the automobile races!
Gentlemen of means and leisure will asso-
ciate themselves with workmen. as In 1894.