Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
AERONAUTS ABROAD
Flying Colony Established in
England.
"A. v. ROE USES TRIPLANE
Pau Chosen as Winter Training
Ground for Wright and Bleriot
Machines.

While the winter season has put dam
per on aeroplaning in this country, eX-
cep- in favored localities like Los An
geles, there is no closed season for air
craft in southern England and the lower
ATTITUDES in Europe, and a number of
records are being made there and a
number of machines being flown of which
little or no mention is made in the Amer
lean papers.
The Wrights have made some sort of
an arrangement in England for the man.
ufacture and sale of their machines
They had a man practicing there by him.
self last summer before Orville Wright
wen. abroad and after he had succeeded
in teaching himself they began turning
out machines from a factory there and
have already sold large number
There has been a little flying colony
established at Eastchurch, a village in
the south of England, and there num-
Der of beginners are practicing with the
Wright machines. One of the most prom
Using of these newcomers is c. s. Rolls.
who is an ardent automobilist and for
.S seconds for mile. He took to the
aeroplane naturally and after few
lessons made a fight of 70 minutes.
Then he increased his endurance record
to d. minutes, and would have stayed up
for a full hour except that a descent
was forced by motor trouble
He also made a croSs-cOuntry flight of
fifteen miles in January, the longest
cross-country flight that has been made
in England, except the forty-mile flight
of s. F. Cody. On this occasion Mr..
Rolls machine was being repaired at the
machine shop where it was built. and he
stopped there one afternoon. got it and
few to the settlement at Eastchurch in
stead of taking the road in a motor, as
he might easily have done.
Roe's Tandem Triplane.
One of the most curious machines that
is now being flown in England is the
Roe tripIane. A. V. Roe is the in
ventor. He has been struggling alone
for several years, and has finally turned
out a machine that has made some very
good flights. 1t is a tandem triplane,
the main planes being only ten feet
long. This is an advantage in reducing
the space taken up by the machine. 1t
has 80 square feet of effective sup
porting surface, and is driven by a 20
horsepower motor. The whole front tier
of wings tits and tips, regulating the
height and maintaining the balance The
designer has made some good flights
with it, but the most of them have been
short, as the steering machinery requires
bigger space to operate in than the
small race track where it is now being
tried
1t seems that the best speed made up
to that time was by Delagrange a few
days before he was killed. He then had
a 4o-horsepoWer motor in his machine,
and made a record of just under fifty-six
miles per hour. But there was Bleriot
machine, fitted with an S0-horsepower
motor, that made an officially timed
flight of 59.6 miles an hour.
Training Ground.
Pau, where Wilbur Wright did his win
ter flying in Europe, has been chosen
as the winter training ground for both
the Wright and Bleriot machines. There
is regular flying colony there, and
ten pupils. including two Englishwomen,
are taking lessons. The Bleriot factory
is busy turning out monoplanes, and has
orders booked for more than 100. They
are being turned out now at the rate
of six per week, and no orders are &C.
cepted under three months.
This seems to be the case fin the
United States, too. The Wrights have
only small factory now at Dayton,
but they are booked for year ahead
with orders, and will have to put I'D
another factory before they can catch
up.
They are the only people who are turn
ing out flying machines now, as the Cur
tiss factory at Hammondsport has been
closed down, though whether this is due
to the Wright injunction or to the in
ternal trouble with Herring it Is impos-
sible to say.