The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-20
Flying Machine that Will
 Remain Stationary
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Whitehead's life for the past decade had been little else than a series of
 hardships and privations. Occasion
 ally he obtained listener as he unfold ed his dreams of aerial navigation.
 Once in a while he would obtain a
 financial packer But his headstrong
 persistency in carrying out his own ideas has almost always resulted in his
 losing the support of his partners and
 he has found himself time after time
 with a half finished flying machine on his hands. No Jess than half a
 hundred such has he built time after time. and each has brought its les son.
 Whitehead became convinced nearly
 a year. ago that the aeroplane is inn
 out, to have such a device on your
 hands if you must first go by train along your proposed route to pick out suitable landing places en route. He
 knew that if one is to build high fence many yards in diameter about
 condor or an eagle. the bird is just
 as much a prisoner as if in a solid steel cage. The bird must first run
 over the ground to gain momentum be- fore it can use it's aeroplane wings to
 soar from the ground.
 He watched big birds in flight. then he watched the humming birds that
 gathered in the flower garden near his
 little home in Holland Heights. and he decided at once that the humming bird is the model that must be followed in the construction of the airshiD.
 Whitehead gained his knowledge of aeronautics not so much from books
 as from practical experience. though he has read practically everything that has ever been written about aerial navigation. He tested a certain type of helicopter and found under certain conditions it would develop pull of p
 pounds. This he adopted as his type.
 But what good, he argued, are any amount of helicopterS if your motor
 goes bad? Suppose you are one
 thousand feet or more above ground,
 what are you going to do when your spark, or your gas, or something else goes wrong? You're going to fall just as sure as Isaac Newton's apple.
 So Whitehead decided it was safer to have couple of engines avail able. He has completed one engine | Whitehead motor, a four cylinder two cycle engine, which develops 100 | horse power. The other is nearly | finished. These are to be installed ill | the flying machine. Eventually he | will probably have eight engines of i 25 horse power each, five of which l would suffice to sustain the machine. He plans to have 60 propellers
 each developing pull of 25 pounds | to lift the machine and 60 to drive | IL OIWdIO or DoChW IHC pIO- pellers have been turned out at the
 Fairfield Aluminium foundry. Each | is ball bearing, and the transmission | is made upon a silk cord capable of bearing 1,500 pounds. The silk cord l Whitehead says, is the most efficient
 means of transmission.
 When you're walking" argues Whitehead, you may feel a slight pain in your leg. You limp, favoring | the limb. You have been warned that something is wrong. Maybe the pain disappears. If it grows worse you stop, perhaps for liniment, per- | haps to rest. That's the way with a helicopter machine with eight en- wrong, the others are sufficient to sustain the machine. If two fail, you take warning and descend, because when the third one goes bad, you | can't fly any more. The first engine break down is like the pain that reach the man who walks. It's a warning. The second break means danger, and the third means that you must descend or take desperate Whitehead's engine cylinders are drilled out of solid bars of nickeled steel. The frame of the machine is made of steel, bronze and aluminium. | The propellers are of aluminium. With the capital that has recently been | placed at his disposal he has built and equipped a modern machine shop on | his little piece of land in Holland Heights and three experts are working every day hurrying the machine to | completion.
 Whitehead's dogged persistency des.