The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-06
BEACH WAITS FOR CALM TO TRY BLERIOT FLYER
 DIRECT FROM FRANCE
EXPERIENCED AVIATOR AND CORPS OF MECH
 ANICIANs GATHER AT LORDSHIP
tBut Wind Blows 20 Miles An Hour and It is Deemed Unwise to Make Attempt-No Means Had
 Been Provided for Prining Engine

Housed in a shed at Lordship Park, waiting for the first favorable wealth CT conditions to make a fight under the guidance of veteran aviator, is a brand new Bleriot monoplane, pur- chased in Paris by Stanley Yale Beach, aeronautic editor of the Scientific American and son of the proprietor of that publication.
 It is not unlikely that the aviator, John G. stratton, will make an at tempt at flight late this afternoon. He tried out the engine this noon, and found it to be running splendidly. The wings of the monOplane, hQMWeVer, are slightly warped as the result of faulty packing in their shipne enE a across the sea. and the aviator who it must be said is more cautious than MT. the craft and himself in the face of a stiff 20 mile breeze sweeping the avia- tion field.
 Mr. Beach has secured this machine as step in plans he has made for en- tering the field of aerial navigation on a broad basis. He expects to use the Bleriot in connection with two ma chimes of his own that are built on similar lines of the monoplane type. Very likely he will find the French mans craft of much aid in getting his own machines in flying trim.
 The Bleriot Beached this country a week ago and was promptly shipped to Stratford. John G. Stratton who spent several years in France and his notable aerial achievements was engaged by MT. Beach to take charge of the assembling of the big device.
 For three days the machine has been in readiness for flight but the weather conditions were not regarded as fla vorable until this morning dawned Eith9ut Eab hreats nd of ba7f air stiTTing GnI mechaniciens hurried to Lordshfp Park from Stratford where MT. Beach lives, and soon ran the machine out of the old barn used as a storehouse for the
 By Il o'clock they had the machipe ready for flight. Beach's father, Frederick c. Beach, editor of the Sci several guests at his hobae in Strat- ford, motored to the park, and a num- Der of the residents of the summer colony of Lordship also gathered about the machine.
 From the fact that the serial num- Der of the machine is 169, can be gath cred an idea of the proportions that the flying machine manufacture has assumed in France. The last serial numbers, said MT. Beach, are in the 30Os.
 The Bleriot is constructed of. a stout framework of wood with it's mono, plane, warped to resemble outstretched wings, fashioned from skeleton of wood covered with oiled linen. The spread ts 28 feet, considerably less than. the monoplane that MT. Beach sue eeeded in raising from the ground for short flights at Lordship several weeks ago.
 It is equipped with a 30 h. p. three cylinder Angani engine This is the product of an Italian engine builder, Ets three cy1ipders spread out in fan like shape, the plane of the fan being at right angles to the direction of the machine, that each cylinder may re- ceive every possible advantage from the arrangements for their being air cooled. The propeller appears strik-