The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-11
IN AN AIRSHlP-TRl
Experiences With Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, France,
 Graphically Told.
MANAGEMENT OF A FLYER
The Control of the Machinery seems Easy and pcrfcCt-lhc Sen
 Satous

II |. Mr. Wilbur Wrights intention to essay yct another unprecedented
 feat with his po~er-driycn flyer at Lc Mans when he receives his motor back from the Bollee works where it is uu- dergoing an overhauinR by taking up two passengers at once az well as him- self, and that with the same motor that he has been using all along and with ont Increasing the area Of thc planes which have served him SO well in cs- tablishiug all records in respect of dur atlon of dishl with and without pas sengors easy manueuvrng height of flight, and conditions ga well In respect of relative darkness as strength of wind, says II Massac Buist in the London Morning Post Those things being so | sought out Mr. Frank
 Hedges Butler founder of the Aero club of the United Kingdom, who has been staying a the camp at le Mans for three weeks past witnessing nearly every flight during that period and spending his leisure hours with Mr.
 Wright, who accorded him the honor of an aerial voyage on his marvellous ma chine. so that Mr Butler Is fortunate to be numberod among the first six FngIshmen who have travelled in an aeroplano, the brief let comprising the names of Farmau and Fordyco, both Englishmen resident in France, and Major Baden Powell Hon Charles B.
 Rolls, Mr. Griffith Brewer and MT. 1 Frank Butler, quartet whose acro- plane experiences are those of passon- gera as distinct from those of pilots
 As Mr.. Wright prefers to call his ma chine flyer and has been by far the most successful student of the science there Is more than q likelihood of tho word coming into vogue, to the oust- ing of the term aeroplane "Thc eX- |pericuco Is so perfectly normal that ! it. is scarcely possible to make story out of flight with Mir. Wright" said Mir Rutlor
 ."You see the whole apparatus IS sC simple and everything that is done ! NV '.''''' M " l'' |, F''TE' ''ii' bllll lb' ural, that in place of coming away ! with the impression that you have ha( a novel experience you find yourself l imagining that flying is the most ordn, ary thing in the world, and that wt must have been indulgng in it foi generations past Tho much-criiiciset starting weight rontrivancc is not ar 1 indispensable adjunct, for one has sccr the flyer rIsc after being merely pushed by three or four men along the taking
 off rail- Once the machine gets nov
 ing forward all Mir. Wright does is t' slightly pull back tho lever that h' holds with his left hand that actiot giving an upward tilt to the pair O
 forward horzoutal. ruddcrs, vhicI causes the machine to rise accordingly I.oaying tho ground is much like doint SO by balloon. as cOnlrastad with th, everyday experience of a lift, that l.
 to say, you do not feel any upwar, pressure from underneath Noll Ther fig practically no vibration to speak of while the noise created by the working of the motor and the turning of th' propellcrs by chain-driyius is not s
 noticeable as is the sound one hear
 when cruising on the average moto
 boat. The problem of duration Q
 flight depends on the aptrol supply which in the case of the Wright ma
 chine is at present sufficient for thre
 hours, and on the degree of relIabilit
 possessed by the motor.
 "Mr. Wright nses his own moto
 merely because he has a passion fo