The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-20
NO TROUBLE NOW
TO FLY
MASTERS OF THE AIR.
SAY SO-IF YOU HAVE THE
PRICE TO BUY A MACHINE YOU
CAN START RIGHT AWAY.


is filled with airships?
How soon will the automobile be-
come old-fashioned.
Wilbur and Orville Wright, of
course, can answer these main ues-
)tions of the century better than any
other men on earth.
And so I asked them.
"Y0u can fly just as soon as you
can turn over the price of a ma
chine" said Orville.
"Are the machines for sale now;
like automobiles
Eyes, in France, and they will be
on sale here, too, right away. We
are making so in France right now.
Our factory there is too small"
How much will a flying machine
lcost?"
1--WE are going to sell them for
$4,000"
SIS it hard to learn to fly one?"
1--WE taught a man in eight days.
II could teach any man in six days, If
II gave all my time to it. Or course,
he must first know about gasoline
engines and electric batteries"
"Does one have to learn to balance
an airship like bicycle?"
"No. A bicycle is harder to learn
Ito ride than an airship. All you have
to learn, with an airship is how to
steer"
"Do you test mans nerve before
you begin to teach him."
"Why, no. All he has to have is
ordinary sense Does the automobile
teacher test the nerve of the man
he is teaching?"
you mean any man who can run
Ian automobile can run an aeroplane,
|too?"
yes"
How many men have you taught
ito operate aeroplanes?"
mine. And / can trust any one Of
them to take me up. One of the
! jobs before us now is to teach men
who will act as tutors to purchas-
ers."
"How high can you go?"
GAS high as I want to, but there
will never be any need to go higher
than 1000 feet. At that height no
known gun could reach you"
Glow fast have you gomez"
Forty miles an hour
Glow fast could a machine be
made to go?"
There's no limit that I know Of.
But no man, unprotected, could go
faster than 100 miles an hour and
stick to his machine. The rush of air
is too great"
Gould you make machine go 100
miles an hour?"
Easily"
How large can you make your
aeroplanes?"
eve haven't worried about that.
We can make them much larger than
our present models, but we don't
need to-
do you think anybody will ever
fly across the ocean in an aeroplane?'
Hard to tell. Depends on whether
anybody wants to-"
It's hard to get this quiet man to
give long answers.
For what purposes will you ma
chimes be used at first?"
Military operations and sport. The
military interest was first; then came
the sporting interest. Various nations
are planning to buy machines for
their armies and recently the men
who are lovers of exciting sports are
ordering machines"
The next question that arose in my
mind was, "Is the machine safe and
reliable?-at least as much so as an
autOmODlIe!
Orville Wright wasn't the one to
put this question to. He has never
fallen through the air, feeling his
machine fall under him. and been
dashed to the earth; he has never
had a companion killed. Wilbur
Wright, however, had been through
these terrible experiences and he was
the man to ansyer these questions.
"You remember my accident at
Fort Myer?" he asked. "The news
papers explained that incorrectly. 1t
wasn't the propeller that caught In
the wire; 1t was the rudier.
1--WE have fixed the rudder now
SO that it can not possibly catch in
anything" he continued. can acct
dent like that can never happen again.