Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-21
TO MAKE
FIRST FLIGHT
FOR = WEEKS
Aeroplane at Sea Breeze Is
Assembled and Is BEING
Trued Up.
EDWIN CLEARY DESIGNING
ANOTHER MACHINE

F1oJ uotiueuL OI tne completed
aeroplane now in huge tent near
Sea Breeze has caused a postpone-
ment in the original date set for the
initial flight of the machine 1t was
the intention of the builders to make
the first trial flight this morning,
but in order to true up the machine
and TO clear away a suitable space
from which to make the ascension.
the date has been postponed. In
about two weeks, those in charge of
the plane say, the machine will be
used for the first time.
1t became known yesterday that
not only one but two machines are
being built On the Staten Island
point. Edwin Cleary, globe trotter.
soldier of fortune, engineer and cleo
trlcal man, is building a machine ac-
cording to his own design. The en-
gine for his aeroplane is being con-
structed at Schantz & Eckert's foun-
dry, in this city, and over on the ISL
and, In an old tumbledown barn,
Cleary is working night and day
A NEWS reporter visited the
scene yesterday, saw the completed
machine, and conversed with the
men In charge of it. In appearance,
the plane is somewhat similar to
the one in which Charles K. Hamil-
ton landed on the South Amboy
shore few weeks ago. A peculiar
feature of the machine, however. ia
the sliding seat controlling the de-
fiecting apparatus. A turn of a
wheel draws the seat and its occu-
pant towards the rear, causing the
forward ri nP hn I,N1o
upward. A turn of another wheel
reverses the position.
A four-cylinder, forty-three horse
power Clement-Bayard engine, capa-
bic OF making speed of fifty miles
an hour, furnishes motive power. 1t
turns six-foot propeller at the rate
of 1850 revolutions a minute, and
has thrust of 300 pounds The en-
gine is of special design, made in
France, and It's type has never be-
fore been used on an aeroplane.
From tip to tip the plane Is forty
three feet wide. Its length is about
forty feet
John F. O'Rourke, OF New York,
owner of the machine, will visit the
aeroplane In few days. He and
Mr.. Cleary are close friendsA and the
latter is experimenting the con-
struction of the New York contract
or's aeroplane, besides designing his
own. Mr.. Cleary, it will be remem-
bered brought Louis Paulhan, the
premier French aviator, to this eoun-
try under $4,000 per week con-
tract, and lost $4,000 in the VEN
ture. He Is Kentuckian by birth,
makes his home in London, and has
been all over the. world, having even
penetrated the iungles of Africa in
the extension of railroads He has
been wrecked off the coast of South
America, lost on the Sahara Desert,
adrift in balloon, and confined In
the tropics by fever. By profession,
be has been an actor. railroad ~build<
er, Snowman, Journalist and mining
engineer. The Green Book for Au-
gust contains good description of
the travels of CIeary
Standing in tbs doorway of the
shack In which he is building his
machine, Mr.. Cleary Informed the
NEWS man that no flight would be
attempted inside of two weeks. "The
machine is entirely assembled" he
said, but the parts need adjust
ing" Just what the two planes are
to be used for Mr. Cleary would not
say. However, they may be used in
big aviation meet, as the following
from the Green Book will explain:
"Cleary has not yet given up the
idea of a big aviation meet, under
his control, in this country. Failing
to carry that project through, how
ever, he intends to return to rail-
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