The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-29
so SAYS ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL, WHO HAS BEEN MAX
ING STUDY OF MATTER.
Declares That All Now Needed Is De
velopment-Speaks of Limitations
of the Aerodrome.

YIN, L. H., April
Especially problem of flight is
now solved All that is needed is de-
velopment," is the declaration TO Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell, president of
the late Aeronautical Experiment as
ISOLATION, who has returned to Wash
ington after spending the winter at his
estate near Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He
possibly will remain here for the air
ship trials at Fort Myer DIR. Bell in
telling of his winter experience in Nova
Scotia said that although the estate
there was customarily used as a sum-
mer home, it had been found that there
was no place like the ice for flying
machine trials, and the experiment as
ISOLATION had spent practically the
whole winter there working on the
flight problem. There is an open
stretch of about % miles over the ice
in Baddeck bay and this had been used
as a field in trying out the machines.
The greatest success had been met with
in the trials of the Silver Dart, the ma
chine built by J. A. D. McCurdy. The
work of the experiment association
was now practically done and the Or
ganization has dissolved DR.. Bell is
going to continue experiments with his
tetrahedral machine, and the other
members of the association are going
into commercial work.
Canadian Flying Machines.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that McCurdy and F. Baldwin,
both Canadians, are going to start
building aerodromes of the Silver Dart
type in Canada 1t will be the first fly
ing machine factory that mas ever been
started in the Dominion. They will
offer the first machine built to the Ca
madam government and failing accep-
lance there will open negotiations with
the British war Office. DR.. Bell said
that he was we'll satisfied with the
work that the association had done. He
did not succeed in getting his terra
hedral machine int Othe air, but still
hedral machine into the air, but still
be the practical machine of the future,
or at least one of the essential types
of machine for DR.. Bell is catholic in
mis- views of flying developments and
says that there will be uses for dirigi
bles, aerOdrOmes of the Wright type
and tetrahedrals, all for different pur
poses. In fact, he says that there is
no more reason why flying machines
should be restricted to one type than
that birds should all be of one type.
Skill of the Wrghts.
In speaking of the work at Baddeck,
DR.. Bell said:
There is no question that the
Wrights have done more in actual fly
ing than any other persons in the
world. But I do not think this is due
to their type of machine so much as to
their skill as aviators. They have had
a great deal of practice and nobody
could wish to detract from their
achievements. 1 still think, however,
that the Silver Dart has some points
of superiority over their machine
you know that the Wrights' ma
neuver by distorting the frame of their
machine with a set of levers that work
fore and aft. They cannot turn or
right their machine without working
the rear rudder and their main planes
in conjunction.
"NoW with the Silver Dart we have
the same number of things to do, for a
flying machine must be steered in three
directions, but we have made the steer
ing as nearly instructive as possible.
In the first place the frame of the ma
chine is rigid, giving greater strength
of construction. We maintain the lat
eral balance by tips on the end of the
main planes. These are operated by
wires, ending in a fork that goes under
the operators arms
Steering the Silver Dart.
when one side of the machine tips
down 1t is the most natural thing in
he world for the operator to lean to
he high side to bring the machine back
on an even keel. This motion of the
body moves the wing tips and restores
the equilibrium of the machine.
1.-The rest of the steering apparatus
is combined, being a regular automo-
hfie wheel that operates the rear rud-
der and turns the machine to the right
or left This wheel, besides turning on
its axis like the steering wheel of an