The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-11

having designed and made every part of his machine himself Perhaps the oniv notable feature of his engine is that hc does moi employ carbure'ter But any sufficiently flexible and power- ful type of motor would really answer equally well on hs machine which travels sufficiently smoothly to enable you 10 study q map for instance, quite easily, though there would DC a ditii- cuty about making q lengthy direct pont-topoint flight ln country m known to you because the vibration appears too much to enable the com pass to indicate reliably or it may be that the electric ignition apparatus ex- ercises some effect on tho instrument In any case, when you are travcliug you can talk and look around and lean forward backward or sideways to whatever extent yOu please without in anyWse affecting the balance of the aircraft the raising or lowering of which Is controlled by the lever opcr- 1tcd by the lcft hand iu the manner described With his right hand Mr Wright holds another lever which can he moved forwards. backwards. or ta left or right each one Of those move meuts performing one of the quartet of simple actions which consist of nov ing the rear vertical ruddors to left or to right. or Warping the forward ey- t,emty of either the left or tho right hand plane to cause the desired ev- tremity to dip for turning Thus far from being a complicated or acrobatic feat the Wright acropanc is more sim pie and more easy to handle than modern motor-car
 Whether you sec the new machine in flight or are on it you are equally convinced that it is impossible for wind to turn it over sidcway while whenever a turn Is being described the machine practically finds its own ne cessary angle of tIt just as provided for motor ear that travels on solid surface by the building of paraboli- cally curved banking as at Rrooklands
 Indeed the experience of an aerial voy- asc in a flyer has some points Of re- N'lilulHll'' ll Nhf f'llE M f'AH ti'ilNN 'f'-l deep, crystal, clear sheet trough which you can sec to great depths be- low and on which you are apt to he q trife nervous until you have described few figures that mark the ice with you skates. When manouvring too, tho familiar figure of eight is a very ravorite one for convenience sake for keeping near the point of taking off. That Is why at nights flare lights used to he lit to let Nlr, Wright know where he should come down, and that is. if anything. an easier thing than rising, for the motor s stopped and in place of anything like sudden drop you merely glide down an aerial incline to tho gradual extent of one In oight which no motoriSt dreams of regarding as a considerable dipping of the way when he encounters from the higher end q road graded in that proportion, And when you aliEht if Is so gently that you are moi always conscious of 1 thc fact that you have touched the ground When the flyer ceases tO move forward. like tho rest of Mr. WriEhts passengers, l did not want to get out or my seat. Indeed, nothing struck me as moro extraordinary than the contid ence which the machine Inspires. There are approximately ten thousand inter- ested spectators at the camp al Ia Mans and practically every one of | them a longing for the chance of be- coming Mr. Wright's passenger one of these days, yot not ono in four of them
 would trust himself in balloon
 "t believe that Mir. Wright has car i ried thirty different passengers in ! France to date. and every one of them l has been 10th to step off the machine ! when t aliRhtcd Moreover, he took ! up two ladies shortly after his broth 1 CTS accident in America, yet neither of the ladies had cssayed balloonng 1
 assure you 1t Is a most delicious sen.
 sation, albeit one tho notion of which
 l find it impossible to convey in words i to others. You do not notice the vi.
 bration, you forget the noise, you are
 unconscious that any effort whatever i'
 being made, These flyers are bound tc
 become popular, TOT can l see anything
 in them that is expensive, for if vol had the knowledge you could buiId ont
 for 200 pounds, | can quite believe Nr
 Wrights statement that presently he