The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-24
DE- LESSRPS TO FLY IN CANADA
VIII Nor RESk TROI BLE WIN
THE WRIG HTS ~ AMERICA.
Arrives Win Hs Brother ami sister and
starts AZ once fer Montreal Does
Not Think Much Sf DirtGibles Fuel
capacity q Not o serious Matter.


NOt Think Much sf DirtG iblea Fuel
capacity d Not . serious Matter.
jacques de I.esssps. who hvw across the
English Channel in a Bleriot monoplane
on May p. got here yesterday from Cher
bourg by the Hamburg. American liner
Deutschland and started Immediately
Tor Montreal 20 attend the aviation meet
there. Tie - accompanied by his sister.
the Countess Helen do Ia Begaasiere, and
his brother Bertrand both ot whom have
made flights in France. I, was the origi-
nal intention Of jacques de Lesseps 70 AZ
across the Channel and hack and thus win
the Ruinart prize % % 500. but he was pre-
vented from doing 80 by dirty weather.
The Frenchman has been a student Of
aeronAutics since his boyhood. lie 10
;all and dark with a high. shapely fore
head and a rather deliberate manner for q
Frenchman one u the two monophnes
which De Lesseps will use a. Montreal
arrived on Tuesday BY the North German
Lloyd liner KronprinE Wilhelm and the
other Is due tomorrow by the French liner
La SavOie
I have been told said the aviator, of
the 300 mile run Of me Zeppelin diriG-i
hle Deutschland from Friedrichshafen
to Dusseldorf. and Il does not impress
me as proving that the diriEible " going
20 be a successful venture commercially.
You So arr not strong for dirigiblsa.
but they nave their good points But II
A. 4 II. =
heavy storm she would he destroyed.
That has been the fate of her sisters. and
that means the loss ~ an enormous
amount n money. An aerOplane il light.
The aviator can So the storm coming and
can make swift descent, landing In a
sheltered place The machine y small
enough - he hauled into a barn or a shed.
can see no great future for the dirigible
The aeroplane. in my opinion, Ia the flying
machine II tho future do not see much
IN this talk about the impending trans
atlantic airship line The first flight across
the Atlantic Is , long way a. Az present
aviUl,n nv ,eroplane IL merely sport
and ~ development for some time will he
long tho line - sport When the time
c1mes when II shall he absolutely safe ~ a
spnrt then Il will he fitting n consider Il
from commercial standpoint. There
Is nurh o. he done IN the way ~ improve
mont before tho aeroplane can be utilized
commercially a. a passenger or freight
c.rrier acruss the So or land. The type
must ha different. how different il Is not
Tor mo to Ssv
i have real ~ IIamilton's Night from
Now York 10 phila elphia ann hack and
a. wire his courage AID skin will make
TO cTort ~ emulate him IN the Unitei
StP'er feel that cannot Az here after /,
th. eVgc -icr ~ 81 PaIihar With th. Wright J
ur0th"rg 20 rot. vat gry trouble ?
with th" Nrishts vouli not enter
tho thicago-New YORK rare n | we're
eligible hat ! CcrtHirlv shall follow II d
closely Every event NJ ths' s0r' develops I
the sport. / cot graduate turtiss hy .
cable on his splc % N yht from Albs7y /
to New lork I am rot opposed n the !
Wright brothers I leheve they should .
gel fh-- dus,. nu' they have lost prestige
by their cotton and VhAtcvcr they may do .
thov rAgult mouOpulizn the aeroplaUe .
uf.sire-s there are very good fiers in .
N,rarira. 81" may ever develop tho best .
a"i DO seems wong % N" % cripple the
sport AVID rus FCtgri IT, doVelIpIucnt 4
The question 81 fuel carrying capacity \
s1years % ne rot % he a serious CON
: era'ioa In the prese-t condition 81 4
the sport " fviug With heavier than air 7
maohir"s The fnarhlr - must he 40
40 ,ilv handel. ~ steerable ~ to he able .
"a lana a. eDy place When they ere thus
sN'e 20 la0d. stations my Re established
whore q iditiorGi fuel NAV ~ take7 aboard .
"a - HEe - he
With automobiles They carry only
enough fuel to lest them a certain numt ~
II ulles and then have - take on more
station - FOR HDrpIla' - about hundred
miles aVArt. ~ a.I ears 20 me. wouli -
the right thi"g The main question with
the ssroyla ~ the engine which 10
Tar from - f-ct nov.
I am a -elf-t1uCht aviator never
went up NTH E.Nu1' although I have
talked with HIM .uJut hrs methods and .
use Lls monoplane ! believe any one .
baNs~1e 1n aviator did not care 70 .
lel,s wa any one and thus endnnger
two fves inste-i e unly my own II
something ( 80 wrong with your machine .
then YpU alone are responsible for results. .
y have considered the fuel question .
Prom the viewpoint ~ one who believes .
that tho sport u eviction may he hest .
promoted by flights Of not more than 100 4
miles ~ a stretch The RyittpT should I
10 required 60 make this flight in two andt
half hours or On a schedule somewha .
simIl'r. and after taking On fuel end adj .
JIsting his engine ~ make another flight
from the first fuel station 90 the next one, I
In miles dist1nt. and ~ on until he ac- 4
a flight perhaps u 600 miles. 4
Ny sister will not 20 up with me.
but she expects % make n fight on a .
FJrman hinlans that my brother has .
ordered After the Montreal meet | .
snail return ~ PARIS 70 enter the Paris
20 London fight IN August Tor a so, on
prize