Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

been. In flight Mr.. Egerton and Cecil Grace do not
stoop as Mr.. Rolls used to do They somewhat
smaller men, in consequence of which their passage in
the the most natural easy, and comfortable
thing imaginable These are the very type of men to
make iers for they have of iron and love the
open air life far preferng the discomforts of the camp
in regions not often traversed by white men, to the
luxury of West End drawing rooms.
Farman. Paulhan. and Bleriot
DASSING to the French school of biplane or double
surface machines, the pioneer Henry Far
man; who curously enough is not by Nature fitted for
fer, because, though he rise without trouble to
any height, the descent utterly skaters his
That why he is known to the public only for feats of
flying endurance. Though may be interesting read
in the papers concerning the number of hours he has
flown with passengers setting up record record,
theess there er in the world utterly unpictur-
esque Henry Farman who rarely rises any appre
cable distance off the ground He usually hovers just
above it; that onlooker said If this flying,
give me motOrcar it is so 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 in utterly different fashion. Farman
always looks though loah to leave the earth. He
crOuches forward almost much and intensely
Wilbur Wright on different type of machine. Paulhan
sits bolt upright never seems to be exerting any
lar force Though often he is doing SOL and either
one hand rests it of the upright wooden struts
between the two main planes while every now and
again he shouts popular air. He is indeed born
ier for he worries and it labor to him.
He goes too, to the most giddy heights. Few people
realize that he has flown nearly mile Sheer off the earth
or fully the maximum authenticated height to which any
dlrigble balloon has ever been known to rise.
1t is true that, if you go ordinary spherical bal
loon that drifts at the will of the winds that blow you
do not feel gddy no matter how great the height but
that different experience from being driven through
the air at fortyve miles hour and sitting what
the equivalent of window ledge: for such is the stua-
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 like any other
er present day comparatively small light, and slow
machines he falls for spell swer than by gravity.
that his window ledge seat literally drops away from
under him. That is one reason why you never should
let 60 when you are sitting on aeropane:
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 far been
done with monoplanes of his making. In spite of the
himself will never be great designer; but he is
tainly great fer. have him fly at Rheims. get
thrown out by little monopane that has got utterly
broken up in the process of landing; and half hour
later he has gone out another machine which has
caught fire in flight and got burnt to before he has
done one lap of the with it. No manner of in
uries in the way of bruises, shocks, burns to
deter him.
Of strikingly different temperament is the dilettante
Hubert Latham also of cross Channel fame, who has
had the good fortune be associated with the only
make of flying machine that really looks like live thing
in the air; namely the Antonette monoplane. which
like an enormous dragon fly.
Monoplanes and Biplanes
AfONOPLANES or single surface machines differ
A'A from bipaneS two-deckers the fact that the
single surface ones have the in front and drawn
after it; Whereas with not notable exception,
the bplanes have the propeller propelers behind the
main planes. This requires radical difference in the
troll of what is called the flight pah otherwise the rising
and falling. In the bplane this is chiefly effected by
little minor plane, pair of planes in 'front.' which
be rocked vary the angle of their presentation to
the WIND thus; you want to nse you TIT them up
down. you tilt them down and get pressure on the
upper surface If the propeller is in front however you