The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-10-19

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nfty seven varieties OF each class.
The biplane does not dap its wings
up and down In flight az does the goose
or that other celebrated bird Of pass
age. the turkey. The wings remain
stationary and the onIv thing about
the biplane that flops is the tail and
THIS goes around at the rate of four
million revolutions per second. When
Dipiane is doing It's durndest 1t
makes noise which resembles cross
between q saw mill and d boiler fac.
tory. Il rattles like the bones end of
minstrel first part and sends forth
an aroma like that Of combination
tannery and glue factory
The quietest one / have heard
sounded like a so automobile going
over a corduroy road with its dia-
phragm banging against it's rear axle.
don't know where the gmokestack
is on the biplane. They keep ii care
fully concealed and don't know when
they dump their ashes. They stay IN
two or three hours at a time and
never spill thing on the crowd ex-
cepting. perhaps. a few monkey
wrenches and now and then a me-
chanicfan or an aviator.
The nonoplane is the most grace
full and the fastest or all air craft
II carries its revolving tail in front
and travels like a soft shelled crab
going to war. The aviator rides on
top of IL the same as one would ride
a bucking broncho or a wooden gi-
raffe on merry -go-round. The en-
CINE OF the monoplane is SO arranged
that YOU do not have to crawl under
meath It and lie on your back to fix
1t as was often the case with the older
type of automobile. / do not think
that a single aviator has ever crawled
under his machine to fix IT while IT
was In the air.
The main difference between a
monoplane and a biplane is that In a
monoplane you have only one chance
while in a biplane you are said TO-
have two, but whether it Is two chanc-
es to get killed or two chances to es-
cape / really have forgotten. think
1t depends a great deal upon which
kind is sold by the party from whom
you are getting your information.
understand that aeroplanes are
now being perfected which cannot
fall. A hangar is a hangout for the
aeroplanes when they are not flying.
/ have spent a great deal of time
around the hangers conversing pleas
antly with men who seemed to be not
only willing but anxious to give out
interesting Information. was told by
one OF these men that the aeroplane
cannot possibly fall is now in course
of construction. A man said that he
had invented biplane which could
not be coaxed down out OF the air.
even with lump of sugar or an ear
of corn. He said that the only way
they could pull his aaroplane down
was to hook a hauser to 1t and pull
II down with high power locomotive.
On the first trip his pet aviator could
not get the machine down and had
to stay up FIVE days. When they
finally arranged a cannon and shot
line over the machine and pulled IL
down by means of a freight engine
the poor aviator was almost starved.
The aviators get ga q minute for
staying up in the air. and / couldn't
but reflect upon the inequality OF
things in this world. have been up
In the air for several years, but have
received no such price as 81 minute
for 1t. There have even been times
when | have had to pay for the
privilege.