Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-23
ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF
AIR SHIP INVENTED.
1t Will Weigh Almost 10000 Pounds
and Instead of Sliding Will Rise
Directly From Ground.

Spokane, Wash, July 23.-Several
perpleXing problems of aviation have
been solved in an airship designed by
NV. E. S. COyne of Spokane, who has
just received United States patents on
craft of the purely helicopter type.
Mr.. Coyne claims his ship will rise
directly from the ground, remain
poised in the air for hours and come
down straight in alighting, also that
lit will carry 80 passengers at a speed
of Is miles an hour and sail 1000
miles without stopping.
Announcement is made by George
Foster who is building the craft, that
a model, equipped to lift $4,000 pounds
Will be ready to make it's first flight
early in 1911. The ship carries 320
feet of canvas and is to be propelled
by five motors, each of 100 horsepow-
er. 1t will be raised directly from
the ground by the action Of planes,
Mr.. Foster added, and remain poised
nm the air as long as a pound of pow
er is left to operate the planes.
Describing the ship, which he be-
lieves has high commercial value as
means of travel, Mr.. Coyne said:
1T is purely helicopter type of
airship, or air vessel 1t has two YER
tical hollow masts, one working in
side of the other, with total height
of about "a feet The inner mast
reaches seven feet above the outer
| mast, and has rigidly attached to it
| two crossarms three and a half feet
apart. Each crossarm is 80 feet long.
To the outer eight feet Of each cross
arm is attached a plane surface eight
feet long by five feet wide, set at an
angle of one foot in five.
AT the top of the outer mast,
which begins three and one-half feet
below the lower crossarm of the up.
per mast, are two crossarms, similar
to the two just mentioned, three and
one-half feet apart, with arms of the
same length and planes of the same
dimensions, tilted one foot in five, but
in the opposite direction.
These two hollow masts pass on
down into the motor room of the car
Here the outer one is rigidly attached
to 35-inch bevel-cogged gear, turn.
ing in horizontal plan
"The inner mast passes down
through, ending in a stop-bearing In
the bottom of the car, where it is rig
idly attached to 33-inch bevel-cogged
= gear wheel, identical with the one
attached to the outer mast. These two
gears are seven inches apart in a yer
tical direction. The teeth of the gear
face each other.
"Enmeshed with these 35-inch geal
wheels are seven-inch beveled pinor
wheels, which are rigidly attached tt
the driving shaft of the motors, sc
that when the motors are in operation
enc of the big gear wheels is driver
in one direction, corresponding to the
tilt of the planes on its shaft, ant
the other is driven in the opposite di
rection, corresponding to its shaft.
Thus it transmits to these planes
, on a mean circumference of rs feet
, Irevolving motion, which can be in
: creased up to 400 revolutions per min
{ ute, thus giving revolving thrust il
opposite directions of the planes equa
to $4,000 feet per minute. This i:
equal to $40 miles per hour, as the
. speed of the revolutions of the plane
The body of the car is 16 feet il
7 diameter, a perfect circular form, re
!. sembling two saucers placed face tt
, face This car is provided with
4 [separate motor and horizontal shat
e in the front end, which revolyes pro
. peller for temporary horizontal pre-
e pulsion This propeller shaft is huns
/ upon a hinge mechanism, which per
d mits of the propeller being moved III
: or down in vertical plane at the will
$ of the operator.
"The car is hung to the engine room
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