Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-08
HERRING ASKS TIME
Requires Additional Month to
Prepare His Aeroplane.
ACCIDENTS ARE REASONS
Has Mashed His Finger and Flying
Weight Damaged Machinery.
PRINCIPLES OF HIS MACHINE
Feature Is Automatic System Of
Ralance-Hopes Much From New
Engine of Light Weight.
PRINCIPLES OF HIS MACHINE

A. NJ, Herring, inventor of an aeropane
which IS to be submitted to the govern
ment experts, called at the War Depart
| ment this morning and asked that an ex-
| tension in time be granted him for the
delivery of his machine This extension
would bring the date for the Herring
trials up to September - instead OF Au-
gust 49,
Mr.. Herring. after his call at the de-
partment left for Fort Myer to take q
look al the Baldwin airship.'
Two shop accidents have seriously In
terfered with Mr.. Herrng's work and
have delayed the completion Of his ma
chine. He expects, however, to be grant
ed the necessary time to finish what re-
mains to be done before being required
to bring his machine to Washington. He
declared today that he was sure he could
fulfill all the governments requirements
Confident of Outcome.
II have fulfilled them ALL declared Mr..
Herring, with another machine The one
l am now building will. 1 believe, be far
superior to any that have preceded 1t. I
feel more than ordinarily confident as to
the outcome"
In whirring little workshop on upper
o"u"aS, New YORK, every bit of avail
able space filled with machinery and
mechanics working steadily beneath the
glare OF Immense electric bulbs, Her
rings new aeroplane is being assembled
Herring Is a publisher at ordinary
times, but has devoted the great pa rt
Of the past ten years of his life to
further study and experiment with the
Inultiplex problems Of aerial navigation
His Finger Injured.
One of the shop accidents met with by
Mr.. Herring was the injury OF the index
| finger OF his left hand when it caught in
piece OF machinery. ALI but severing It,
This injury has kept him out OF the
| active shop work for some time. He
| has had to depend wholly upon assist
ants to carry forward the work.
| The second accident occurred during
an experiment with the motor. which
Mr.. Herring believes is the best power
plant ever designed for a ship of the air.
The motor was being speeded in a shop
| trial. when one of the counter weights
| that had been temporarily placed in posi-
| ton flew Off and badly damaged some OF
| the shop machinery.
| These mishaps have not discouraged the
| inventor in the least degree. COM
| paratively young man, clean shaver and
serious in the whole aspect of him. Mr..
Herring seems entirely wrapped up in
the problem he has before aim.
| When asked about the progress Of his
work on the new aeroplane Mr.. Herring
waved his caller aside.
BY degrees. however the inventor was
led into telling something of his hopes
and his machine.
Originated Two-Plane Type.
The Herring aeroplane is in general de-
sign much like the Wright brothers ma
| chine. and also like the flyer Henri Far
| man. the French aviator. has been ex-
| hbiting at Brighton Beach. In other
words. it consists OF two lateral planes
that face the direction. of flight, and has
box tail behind.
81 am the originator of the two-plane
type Of flying machine" said Mr.. Herring.
land had constructed a machine on that
| principle seven years before the Wright
brOth hers first adopted 1t. They put the
| tail in front. while have kept it behind.
| as Farman also has done.
| However, the position of the tail does
not make a great deal of difference. A
good flying machine can wag it either
way.
In 1898 I sent into the air the first
aeroplane that ever carried an engine.
The solution of aerial navigation prob
lens must be slow. Experience only can
teach us and experience comes slowly and
dearly"
| The Herring aeroplane Is much smaller
than either the Wrights or the Farman
flying machines, and yet the inventor
CiaAiHS ~ Aeho a lcti STSdlcT HUNG power
He estimated that his design of aeroplane
lifts In ratio of five to one as compared
| to any other air-plane now known to the
science.
Motor Light and Powerful.
Mr.. Herring claims that his motor also
is lighter for its developed horsepower
than any other motive force ever at
tached to a flying FRAME In its maximum
strength the motor attains proportion
of practically one horsepower for every
pound of weight
The motor is capable Of developing forty
horsepower at top speed, but 1t is seldom
that an aerial motor Is ever called on
for anything like maximum power.
1T is of a new and different design
he said. capable of developing remark
able power with an even and precise action
| which permits OF the use of a very light
driving snaft and propeller gearing"
The motor, Of course. Is gasoline
driven.
The feature Of the Herring aeroplane
| in which the inventor places the greatest
| confidence. and which he believes will
enable him to navigate further and faster
In the air than any Of his contemporaries