New-York tribune., 1910-12-25

been. In fight Mr.. Egerton and Cecil Grace do not
stoop as Mr.. Rolls used to do They are somewhat
smaller men, consequence of which their passage IN
the seems the most natural easy, and comfortable
thing imaginable These the very type of men to
make ierS for they have of and love the
open air fe far preferrng the discomorts of the camp
IN regions not often traversed by white men, to the
luxury of West End drawing rooms.
Farman. Paulhan and B1eriot
DASS1NG to the French school of biplane double
surface machines, the pioneer was Henry Far
man. who c'riously enough is not by Nature fitted for
f1er because, though he without trouble to
any height, the descent utterly skaters his
That is why he is known the public only for fes IS of
flying endurance. Though may be interesting t. read
IN the papers concerning the number OF hours e has
flown with passengers setting record on record
theess there is er in the world utterly unpctur
cable distance off the ground He usually hoverS just
above 1t; SO that onlooker said If this flying.
give motorcar; it is much more satisfactory.
On the other hand let little Louis Pauhan of London
to Manchester fame, step on the same machine and
you would imagine that at the least somebody had
changed the motor and put about double power into
It, 1t behaves utterly different fashion. Farman
always looks though 1oath to leave the EARTH He
crouches forward almost much and intensely as
Wilbur Wright on different type of machine Paulhan
sits bolt upright to be exerting any
lar force Though often he doing so) and either
one hand rests of the upright wooden struts
between the two main planes, while every now and
again he shouts some popular He is, indeed born
ler; for he and it labor to him.
He goes, too, to the most giddy heights Few people
realize that he has flown nearly mile sheer OFT the earth,
fully the authenticated height to which
dIrigible balloon has ever been known to rise.
1t is true that you go ordinary spherical bal
loon that drifts at the will of the winds that blow you
do not feel gddy matter how great the height but
that different experience from being driven through
the air fortyve miles hour and sitting what is
the equivalent of window ledge: for such is the sua
ton of Pauhan Indeed it is bit than that, be-
cause if he is flying in uprising current of air and
comes suddenly into descending one, like any other
fier present day comparatively small light and slow
he q StOr9 mel 1tfpTf SO
that his window ledge seat literally drops away from
under him. That is reason why you never should
let 60 when you sitting aeroplane
The man of the most number of miraculous escapes
is Louis Bleriot, the first to fly the Channel;
which fact the only notable thing that has so far been
done with monoplanes of his making. In spite of the
many designs of aircraft he has got out Louis Blerot
himself will never be great des gner but he is
ta1nly great tller have him fly at Rheims, get
thrown out by little monoplane that has got utterly
broken up the process of landing and half hour
later he has gone out another machine, which has
caught fire flight and got burnt to pieces before he has
done one lap of the course with it. No of
juries in the way of bruises, Shocks burns to
deter him.
OF strkingy different temperament is the dilettane
Hubert Latham, also of CrOSSC Channel fame, who has
had the good fortune to be associated with the only
make of flying machine that really looks like live thing
in the air; namely, the Anoinete monopane, which IS
like enormous dragon fly.
Monop1anes and Biplanes
AfONOPLANES or single surface machines differ
A'A from bplanes twodeckers IN the tact that the
single surface have the front and drawn
after it; whereas, with not very notable exception
the bpanes have the propeller propelers behind the
main planes This requires radical difference IN the con-
troll of what called the flight path otherwise the rising
and falling In the biplane this is chiefly effected by
little minor plane pair of planes, in 'front.' which can
be rocked vary the angle of their presentation to