The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-07-30
FARMAN
GREAT AEROPLANE.
NAVIGATOR
In America to Make a
Series of Flights
Under Contract to Aero
Club of America-Says
He Will Fly Against
Wright Brothers and
Their Machine.

who holds the record as an aeroplane
navigator, arrived today from Hayre
by the French liner La Touraine and
was met at quarantine by the repre-
sentatives of the Aero Club of Ameri-
ca in the tug Moran, which took him
aboard and brought him up the bay to
the pier of the French line. Among
his Welcomers were Allen r. Hawley,
president of the Aero club; Thos. r.
McMechan, editor of the American
Aeronaut; Simon Lake, the submarine
boat inventor; Chas. ]. Glidden, VIM.
R. Kmball, A Holland Webb and Paul
La Croix. Mr.. Farman is classed by
the Bnglishman as one of that breed,
but he looks more like a Frenchman
and authorized the reporters to spell
his front name as it is here. His
father Ia a Scotchman and he was
brought up and educated in France,
where his parents have lived for the
last 40 years.
Mr.. Farman was induced to come
here by the Aero club under contract
to give ascensions at the Brighton
Beach race track for $24,600. He Is
confident that he will not disappoint
the club and hopes also to make 10
other flights in most of the big cities
of the country at the rate of 5000 each.
He will, after his various public per-
formGnces, challenge the Wright
brothers, wagering $4,000 to similar
sum put up by them in their behalf
that his aeroplane will stay in the air
the longest.
Mr.. Farman said that he had fash
ioned his machine, strictly heavier
than air machine, somewhat after the
fashion of huge bird and that he be-
lieved a study of bird flight was the
best means of accomplishing man
flight. He said, 81 have made no Sc
cret of my methods. My machine is
combination of the ideas Of other
inventors who have striven to fly
without the aid Of gas bags, including
Langley and Delargrange. The ma
chine of Delagrange, in which he
elaimB to have covered 10000 yards in
ISM minutes, Is similar to my own. I
disagree with the policy OF the Wright
brothers In keeping their experiments
a secret. l am willing that other
aviators shall have chance to see
how make my flights and how man
age my machine and what sort Of a
machine l use. What we do should
be for the general improvement in the
art of aerial navigation. We are con-
stantly discovering something new
about the aeroplane
81 shall use the same aeroplane at
Brighton Beach that l have used in
France, but with larger and more
powerful motor. The whole apparatus
weighs about ton and half. shall
fly about Is feet above the ground, as
have mostly in France. have never
sailed as high as your scrapers. l look
upon the navigation of the air as a
certainty and | believe that finally It
will be attended with no more danger
than a trip is an auto; in some in
stances should say with less danger;
the aeroplane has a future that is
close upon us. The greatest pause
have made in a flight has been ten
seconds; but believe the time Is not
far distant when We may see aero
planes motionless In the sky and per-
haps as numerous as automobiles on
the land"
Mr.. Farman has gone in for money
prizes from the start and has won
more thai any other aviator. He cap.
tured in January last the Deutsch-
Archd eacon prize of $4,000 by making
a circular flight of nearly three-quar
ters of mile in Paris last January.
Two Irnpths later he captured another
and half, which he covered in two
minutes and a quarter. In the early
part of this month he did his greatest
stunt. which he hopes to eclipse here,
staying in the air twenty minutes and
nineteen seconds. covering IL miles
and winning a prize of $4,000.
Mr.. Farman met VIM. Wright in
Paris and talked with him in English
about aeroplanes. He says that Mr.
Wright knows lot about the subject
and that he doubtless has a good ma
chine, but he, Mr.. Farman, Is willing
to try conclusions with him for the
love of the sport and the promotion OF
knowledge on, the subject of air naviga
tion. Mr.. Farman does not believe In
the combination aeroplane and gas
bag airship as the sky flyer of the
future. Something on the plan of the
great birds that do the trick so easily
and gracefully will be. he thinks. the
solution of the problem that is vel
on the way toward becoming no prob
lem at all
Mr.. Farman was taken from the
French line pier, where the tug Morar
landed him, and the reception com
mittee, to the Hotel Astor He will
be entertained officially by the Aero
club at the hotel on Thursday evening
Mr.. Farman has two machines, botf
aboard the Red Star liner Kronnlant
due tomorrow from Antwerp. In caG'
of accident to the one he has made
his greatest flight, he will use tht
other They are in charge Of Ave ma
chinists and a carpenter. Mr.. FarmaI
will make his first flight at the race
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