Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-12
WILLIAMS MAKES GOOD BY FLYING
 N HIS MACHINE
CDouelas Interaationall

Williams has flown successfRily in his latest heavier than ail machine After months of hard ana patieZ work, never discouraged. never Nearying, neeer aesitatIng and ever confident of ultimate success tho Douglas inventor has won his. vic tory. Yesterday afternoon he proved the success of his Invention with aisht of more than a mile and q aalf, attaining speed of fifty miles an hour or more, showing perfect control of his machine and alignting with delieaey that occasioned hardy @ jar. Difficulties had been overcome and A. N Williams had made good. had vindicated his judg ment and proved his inventive abil- lilies.
 All Douglas knows how X. N Williams has been working for months to perfect 9 heavier than air machine He was working on the nrofect when Hamilton was here. Later he believed he had achieved success, but defective mechanism caused failure. Still undaunted, he kept on and at last has won. Dur Ing the present month it is likely that the sight of his asroplane fit ting above the city win become so common as 10 excite little comment
 For some days past Williams has beers tuning up his machine prepara | tory to an initial flight. Such q flight was announced for yesterday l afternoon and nearly half a hundred interested Douglasites motored or drove or walked 10 the field he had 1 selected three miles north of the ] city. They were well rewarded for { their trip, since they saw a fine flight and a splendid exhibition of i aviation. Williams gave the final lest to his machine by skimming about on the ground for a time without attempting 70 leave the eash and then announced he was ready l The Williams aeroplane, started out slowly. It's momentum increased and after a dash of about 125 feet 1t rose | gracefully and swept upward and
 away. At first the onlookers were lbreathIess with interest and then they burst forth with hearty cheers. Williams had won at last, he was up
 in the air. He was actually flying.
 Rising ever upward it was a hundred
 feet above the earth. it dipped and rose, sI times attaining 200 feet eie- l machine is equipped with an FL var1on, and then Williams turned, af ter sl flight oi mile or more His preliminary trials had used much of his gasoline and he had not re filled the tank before the flight, So that he was compelled to alight just before reaching the startins point. This he did with ease, sue cess and deftness that again brought loud cheers.
 The Williams aeroplane Is made entirely of Oregon spruce with five . or six laminations in the rihs IT give additional strength It is guyet with Rolling aviator cable. and Ii \ covered with best grade Naiad silk whie5 has 80 pounds breakins 4 strength. It is supplied with alum inH1n sockets throughout and eact | wire terminates in turnbuckle. Thil machine is a little different from : moloplane. but has practically ths ! same controls; it has more support ! ing surface on account of the higf | altitude. but is the only machine tha I has single elevator that works iI ! coniunction with the rear stablizer if the front elevator breaks the syi ator still has his machine under Der
 feet control from the rear. The rsin hing gear is made of Shelby colt
 drawn steel tubing. and is equippe' with special wheels. It Is the smal
 lest machine that has been known | ! fly and is the first to solve th
 problem of flying in high attitudes
 The weight of the complete machin
 with aviator and fuel for an hour
 flight is 600 pounds; it carries 2 r. 1 lbs. per square foot.
 N In comparison with the Curt
 machine, in which Hamilton mad
 his flight in Douglas about yea | ago the Williams machine flies wit I 130 square feet less of supportin
 surface, and carries 7-10 lb nor | per square foot
 | The propeller used by Williams i ! bis own design, made by the Par, ! gon Propeller company of Washin; I ton, D. C., and this company hay
 been watching with great interest h;
 ability to fly in high attitudes, to tet
 the efficiency in thrust in blade
 which Williams especially designe
 for this purpose. and for which
 took long study to work out th
 curvature and thrust necessary. Thi
 bridge 60-horse power engine of th
 latest type.
 Alfred N. Williams is the son Richard Williams of Morenci. wh
 has been in the employment ( Phelps-Dodge & company for man / years