The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-29
Gas Bag Will Be Inflated by Exhaust Gases of Aero plane Engine-When Ma chine Flies Balloon Will Be Collapsed-Noted In ventor Makes First State ment of His Work to Far mer.

Using a small balloon to tighten the aeroplane he has designed and is now building, Christopher J. Lake, vice president of the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, a noted inventor, will en- deavor to dispense with all the usual starting devices adapted to aeropIanes He also hopes to build a plane that will be able to start from almost any where without the need of the almost ideal starting grounds that are now required.
 The balloon will be filled with the not exhaust gases from the aeroplane engines. In landing the same princi- pie will be used. The balloon will be inflated preparatory to settling and the speedy and difficult landing which breaks the runners in all the machines now in use will be superseded by a gentle settling to the ground.
 MT. Lake, who is the father of Si- mon Lake, inventor of the Lake sub marine boat, said this morning:
 T was quite surprised yesterday to read in one of your papers that I had received flying machine and expect ed to fly soon. What I received was Curtiss air cooled motor. This and the Wright motors are the only Amer 1can motors which have been success rul, although a great many have been tried. The Curtiss motors were air cooled. but of late they have been changed over to water cooling system. Now I simply intend to attempt to work while longer on the air cooled system. As to the kind of aeroplane I am to use, whether one, two or three planed affairs I'm not ready to state. have patented two types"
 In the air cooled motors of high power, such as are necessary to use in aeroplanes, the excessive heat of the motor raises havoc with the valves It has been to this that most of the are attributed The use of water, though, is objectionable in so much as 1t increases the weight of the machine by adding pumping devices and the a high speed, high powered, air cooled gas engine would therefore be a long step in conQuering the problem of fly ing with heavier than air devices.
 The second fault found by the ex- periments carried on in this country is the starting and landing of the ma- chimes, particularly the latter. The runners or wheels, on which the cars are built are in rare instances able to be used for more than one flight. It is necessary to keep the machines go- ing about thirty miles hour in or der to attain sufficient air pressure to keep them in the air. The speed is checked but a very small amount in landing. It is clearly seen that the runder-pinning of them must be dam aged or undergo a terrific strain as the aerOplane lights upon the ground. With the use of a balloon to allow an easy settling this fault would be overcome and it is on such a problem that Christopher Lake is working.
 The experiments are to be made in Hippodrome Park adjoining Avon Park. A force of men are working about the buildings, there getting them into shape to make the manufacture of MT. Lakes apparatus a possibility. The grounds are fenced off to keep in trouders and cranks from ibothering MT. Lake.
 ''I do not care" continued MT. Lake, ''to get too much publicity as a build CT of airships until something has been developed. Since the Farmer printed the article describing my air ship experiments a few nights ago have received communications from many newspapers all over the country. The editor of one of the aero-nautical publications was indignant because his paper did not have the news first; but the early publication was nothing for which I was responsible"
 MT. Lake hopes to be able to make some trials with his type of machine during the month of October, and until that time the men in every part of the country who are interested in aviation will have their eyes upon Bridgeport and the, development of the Lake pat entS,