Evening star., 1909-07-07
At WORK ON A|RSH|P
Wriqhts Anxious to Complete
Official Tests.
MAY BE READY BY FRIDAY
Needed Parts All Here to Make
Necessary Repairs.
IMPATIENCE OF ARMY OFFICER
Chafing Over Delay Due to Accident
Last Week-Wilbur Wright's~,
Trip to New York.
1MPAT1ENCE. OF ARMY OFFICER

Both Orville and Wilbur Wright were
back at Fort Myer this morning working
on the crippled aeroplane and getting
ready TO resume the trial fights as soon
as possible. Wilbur was asked whether
| there was any prospect of more flights
this week and he replied, Wait till we
put in days work the chine and
We will be better able to talk The
chances are. however. that there will be
flight Friday or Saturday afternoon.
There was a good deal Of talk this
morning about the War Department be-
Ing impatient at the slowness of the
Wrights in completing their tests, and
especially in the mysterious trip that
Wilbur Wright made to New York yes
terday without reporting to any Of the
ofhcers of, the Signal Corps that he was
going As matter of fact Wilbur
Wright. not being either an officer or a
private In the army, does not have to re-
port ON his goings and comings. There
about his going to New York He went
over TO talk to the makers of the magnetic
that the Wrghts are using with their en-
gine this year to see If any better results
could be obtained from it.
Magneto's Important Part.
This magnetic is the only feature OF
the engine that differs from the engine
equipment used last year. The Wrights
found that they got better results and
had less trouble with A low tension mag
neto than they did With the high tension,
but all the automobiles this year are using
the high tension, and Ii is practically
Impossible to get the old sparkling dSyice
on the market They have been working
with the high tension this year and find
that 1t has a few kinks that they have to
adapt to their use The Wrights are
something of gasoline engine experts
themselves The comment of the French
technical press was that they had built
and were using a better engine than any
or the French aviators and that some-
thing of their remarkable success was
due to this fact. The new magnetic will
nave to be adjusted TO their engine and
when this is done 1t probably Will work
as we'll as the old one.
AS to tho impatience of the War De-
partment. the Wrights say the depart
ment is no more anxious to get through
with the preliminary flights than are they
themselves. Orvile went to Dayton for
the repair material because they had all
their forms there. and it was more ex-
pensiye but quicker to go there, get the
material and bring ii back than it was
TO trust to correspondence, and a prob
able delay of several days in getting the
material sent by express.
Material All Ready.
Now that the stuff is on the ground it
will be a comparatively small matter to
install it. The injured parts of the aero
plane have been removed and 1t will sim
ply be a matter Of fixing the new ma
terial in place. The engine probably will
be tried out a number of times with new
magnetic and spark adjustments, and by
the time the aeroplane Is repaired the en-
gine will be ready to do as good or better
work that 1t did before
What the Wrights have been trying to
do heretofore has been to fly with the
least possible amount Of power This is
important in their endurance test of one
hour, when they have to fly for an hour,
and carry passenger and fuel for 12j
miles. When the speed test Of only ten
miles is made the amount of gasoline
consumed will be matter Of compare
tive Indifference