Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-11
NEW WRIGHT RECORD
Passenger Carried | Hour, 9
Minutes and As Seconds.
HOW IT FEELS UP IN AIR
Aeronaut Rolls Describes Sensations
in Aeroplane.
HERRING WANTS NEW GROUNDS
Objects to Fort Myer and Seeks
Change-Ready For Trials
on Time.
HOW 1T FEELS UP IN AIR
HERRING WANTS NEW GROUNDS

LIE MANS. October 1O.-Wilbur Wright
today established another new record
with a passenger remaining in the all
for one hour. nine minutes and forty-hve
seconds.
His best previous record with passen
ger was made October Zone hour, foul
minutes and twenty-six seconds.
Experience Of Passenger.
/ LONDON. October 1O.-C. S. Rolls. pic.
neer balloonist and automobilist, writes q
| glowing description of a flight of Wilbur
Wrght's aeroplane Thursday, when he
was passenger.
He says:
When starting. the weights were re-
| leased and off we went with bound
| but no worse than when starting on a
switchback before reaching the end OF
the rail. where we had left it.
Once clear of the ground, the feeling
of security was perfect. We tore along
at forty miles an hour.
| I'VE soon came to the first corner
| Here a point of interest to motorists was
| demonstrated. namely no matter at what
| justs its own banking. and at the will OF
the operator uptilts gracefully to just the
correct angle to suit the speed. In taking
| curve an aeroplane is actually safer
than an automobile.
The prevalence Of undulations In at
mosphere necessitated the closest atten-
| ton to the two levers controlling equi-
librium and altitude. Both of these were
kept constantly on the joggle with slight
movements.
Il noticed how. near the earth's surface.
even calm weather was composed of spiral
movements. varying in. diameter. some
times vertical sometimes ncrizontaI. And
there were little hills and valleys and
0ir-fndaad q
| scenery of great variation. which, though
| invisible to the eye, was none the less felt
by the operator Of the aeroplane.
The maintenance Of equilibrium and
which for centuries has banned tho IN
genuity Of man. Now 1t has been solved
by the Wrights.
Wilbur. flying sometimes above trees,
sometimes a yard from the ground.
showed the most perfect control of the
machine imaginable. Side gusts and cur
rents caused gentle dipping motions not
unlike the switchback.
But the machine was always in COM
plete control and came to the ground SO
gently after flight of several miles that
found it impossible to tell exactly
when the runners touched. On landing
We skinned over the surface like a
toboggan. coming to a standstill a few
yards from the start.
Wright and the machine seem to work
as one unit.
The management of a machine of this
kind in breezy weather however, is not
easy. At the same time 1t can only re-
quire patience and practice by any INTEL
ligent man possessed Of GOODNESS and
good judgment to learn
Herring Wants New Test Ground.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON. October 1O.-A. n. Herring,
the aeronaut, who has been working for
several weeks on an aeroplane in his
shop at 1881 Broadway. has announced
that his machine was ready. and that
he would go to Washington oMnday to
exhibit it.
Herring said he would ask the army
Signal Corps officers. who are to observe
the tests. to hold them on some place
other than the Fort Myer parade grounds
The sharp turns would. he said. subject
the machine to unnecessary strain. Some
OF the turns would have to be made at
a forty-mile rate.
Herring's machine Isl lighter than the
one used by Orville Wright during the
disastrous test last month. The engines
1t is said weigh only thirty-nine pounds
but are capable OF generating forty horse
power. The total weight of the machine
is 200 pounds.
The inventor said he would take no
passenger with him until he had thorough
ly tested his aeroplane.