Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-26
FLYING MEN OF PARIS
SCARED BY AMERICANS

fly over towns and for
ests"
The best informed party
about the Porte Maillot said this to me.
He referred to Farman, Delagrange and
other flying men Of Paris; but before you
hear the secret chapter Of the motors. do
you know what motor-aeroplane is:
Kites are held on high by the natural
wind of heaven rushing underneath them,
pushing them up-when rugged at the
right angle and held against the wind by
their cord. But when the wind dies down
the boy runs with his kite. or It will fall.
] Such is the condition Of the motors aero
plane. utterly different from all cigar
shaped motor-driven balloons. The aero
plane has no gas bag to hold 1t UP. 1t
must ever be held by the wind. or down
1t comes.
To make the wind hold 1t up. because
whether natural wind holds up a kite
held still against 1t. or whether the kite
be pulled over still air, the backward air
rush is the same; and whether the boy
pulls his kite. running, or whether Far
mans swift-revolving propeller pushes his
Chanute double planes over the air at the
right angle, 1t is still the same holding
up rush Of air.
Will Stop Jockeying.
10 lift the front of their machines and
get this angle Santos-Dumont and other
early experimenters saw that they must
have movable front planes. called lifting
rudders. But what happened? The ma
chimes made great bounds into tho air.
They got I'D sufiicient speed, rolling over
the ground: they raised their lifting rud-
ders air got underneath: the apparatus
rose, few few hundred yards-and dtved
down.
Their lifting rudders were too large
They made too much resistance to the
air. They slowed the acquired speed.
When Farman cut the lifting rudder
down by rule Of thumb he showed them
how to fly. But. wait; Farman's longest
flight has been only two miles and a
quarter. Why has he not flown over
towns and forests? Now we reach the
story OF the motors.
They'll fly to Versailles before June H.
said the man OF the Porte-Maillot. the
Paris motor center. They know that
that they will demonstrate at Fort Myer
under the high auspices Of the United
States Army. They have heard Of J. r.
Scott Of Chicago and A. M. Herring Of
also be tried at Fort Myer. They're
scared for their prestige. They'll stop
jockey1ng with motor companies-and
n.y."
"JOckeytng! inquired.
THE word may be too strong" he said:
but every one knows that the rivalry Of
motor manufacturers has caused the pres
ent deadlock. Why cannot the Count de
la Naulx get sufficiently powerful A.
or B. aeroplane-motor? How came
Vuia to offer his money in vain to the
only three companies pretending to make
aeroplane motors? Now he is getting one
Of the latest c. models. like de la
Vaulx-after the c. people gave up
hoping to interest Farman. Why. they
had agreed to pay friend Of Farman
10000 francs IL he could persuade Farman
to make deal with them"
Motor Companies squabbling.
why could not de Ia vaulx get an
A. or B. motor?" I asked.
Because Farman would not allow II,
He won the Archdeacon prize with the
A. motor-in spite Of the royal offers
Of the BIS and C-s. Having hon
estly fulfilled his engagement with the
As he was free to accept B.
motor.
(Which he did.
Now he has both: he Lays and draes-
and keeps them lighting over him like
Lucifer and Michael over the body Of
Moses: Naturally the As hope to
uraily the BIS hope to get it from
them. but they have not. q. really prac-
ical aeroplane-motor yet, although
they may have shortly There's
been lots OF temptation to kill time"
You see there are automobile motors
dirigible balloon motors. An are dif-
ferent. according to the need. And from
the Paris point Of view the true aero
pla6e-motor u Just being evolved. and