Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-06
Chinese Cook Made Big Kites;
Helped Young Cody to Fly

| enough and there were a series Of
trials that certainly were rather ludi-
Crous.
The machine would run along the
ground al great speed, and sometimes
IL would rise a few feet into the air
only 20 come down again at once
The humorists at AldershOt Christencd
IL the daisy cutter" and declared
that IL would do anything but fly
The newspapers poked fun at Colonel
Cody and some Of them began To COM
Tlain that an American was fooling the
war office with q flying machine that
couldn't fly and never would be- able
TO ny. Members OF parliament began
to ask questions In the house and
finally Mr.. Haldane. the war minister.
became Disguised and announced that
he had decided to stop all experi-
ments IN acronautics for the time be-
ing. Mr. Cody got his notice, and at
the same time was informed that the,
government would supply him with no
more money for his experiments. lie
was oyictod from the AldershOt balloon
factory, which he had organized. ana
he was deprived Of the assistance OF
the soldier engineers whom he had
trained
As it turned out, however. this was
the best thing that could have hap
pcned 10 him. The authorities, ashamed
perhaps Of the way they had treated
him, allowed him TO take his aerOplane
and TO erect a shed at his own expense
on government properly at Laffan's
plain, No longer handicapped by the
red tape methods required 10 obtain
new supplies, he got the engine ne
wanted and the first day that he tried IL
fitted TO the machine, he flew. A few
days later he made a worlds record for
cross country flight. and he only
came down then because his petrol was
exhausted. He could have kept on
lying for hours. ne said, II he had Ia
ken up enough petrol
Il Us only fair to say that Col Cody
has received nothing but sympathy and
support from British soldiers Gen.
smith Dorien. the COMMANDMENT
chief at AldershOt, IN his firm friend
and supporter. and every man in the
royal engineers swears by him BY
the crook OF his finger he could take
every civilian employe out OF the war
balloon factory. His troubles We're
caused entirely by the politicians and
by civilian critics who know less about
aviation than they do about the
mountains of the moon.
PRACTICAL MACHINE.
81 have a practical machine" he said.
hundredweight Of pig iron and drop IL
on top OF a bell tent as / ny over n
500 feet IA the air, without disturbing
the stability OF the machine In the least.
1 could do the same with a hundred
weight Of dynamite. or course, / would
be within rifle shot. but with my ma
chine flying at the rate Of 20 miles an
hour they would find il pretty hard 10
get me, and they might shoot the ma
chine full of holes without bringing me
down unless they happened 10 hit one
OF the vital parts, and / have every
part OF Importance In duplicate.
OMNIBUS SERVICE.
Something OF the reliability OF the
machine was proved the other day
when Colonel Cody ran what he called
an aerial omnibus service" across
Laffan's plain lie took passenger after
passenger on "a trip three miles across
the plain and back and landed each
one az the same spot with unfailing
precision.
In appearance this man bird d. the
least like a bird Of any Of the we'll
known aNiutors lie Il little lat
man, and he weighs 225 pounds. but
when one sees him clambering like a
cat about the wings of his great aero
plane one realizes that his ayoirdupois
interferes not at AN with his agility.
ny home In m the alr me- sdlu 10 me.
Il feel safer there than ON the ground
A BRITISH SUBJECT.
Colonel Cody has just become
British subject in spite of his treat
mtnt by the British government He
has done this in order 10 bee eligible
90 Win the Prizes offered here Tor
British built acceptance. and / gather
cd also because be- has d sincere az
iectlon for the country and for the
British soldiers who worked with him
10 Loyalty
IN conclusion word about the d.
mansions OF his machine may De in
teresting. A. span Is o. feet Il Is A.
feet long and II feet high. aud it
weighs "a ton, The engine N AN eight
cyllnderod one ~ Gs-s0 n. b. running
at 1900 1850 revolutions per minute.
The average speed is Al miles an hour,
but u can be geared up 90 about 20
miles ana the petrol consumption b.
nve gallons an hour The petrol tank
holds - Rallnnn 40 that "a very simple
calculation shows that Colonel Cody
can ny nearly 900 miles without alight-
ing for petrol.
JOHN S. STEELE.