Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-08-09

fly in the face of strong Honolulu
trade wind.
Pierre vedrime in his trip to Mad
rid, and Gilbert, who went more than
three-fourths of the distance, both
used the same single-surface machine
they started out with Conneau
Beaumont did the same thing In his
later trip to Rome. These records
were made In battling with the ele-
ments under all sorts of conditions
over diversified stretches of open
country. and exceed by double and
treble the endurance flight of Legag
neaux ut Pau last December. when he
mOnotonously reeled of three hun
dred and twenty miles in n marked
circuit with familiar air and selected
weather to help him. Although this
distance was made without stoppage,
the speed shown was only fifty-iive
miles an hour, whereas Vedrine In the
first division of his trip thrummed
along ut the rate of seventy-iive. This
performance brings home the fact that
the flying machine, since 1t was in
troduced to public notice by the
Wright brothers less than four years
ago, has outrun the early automobile
by giant strides in its advance tow
ards reliability and extended radius
of travel But II is asserted by many
experts, who accept as their guides the
Wright brothers. Won Parseval, Euler,
Farman, and Sommers, that the mon
ioplane made this remarkable showing
In spite of its crankiness and other
admitted defects.
II Is now u demonstrated fact that
with equal strength of construction
and spread of wing surface, the BIZ
plane apparatus weighs only half as
much as the single-surface type as
now constructed. Not only were the
machines used in the Paris-Madrid
and ParisRome tours encountered
with this superfuous weight. but they
We're fitted with heavy motors of more
than 100 horsepower that consumed,
say. an equal number of pounds of
gasoline and lubricating oil. The
critics add to this handicap faulty adj
justment of the centre of gravity that
made itself manifest in the capricious
llurching and frequent capsizing. Out
of the fourteen who began the Paris
, Rome-Turin circuit but four got to the
: second stage. and only one of them
Conneau-B Beaumont, arrived In tn,
n machine he started with. Geros broke
n up two, and Vidart and Frey on,
apiece.
Such untoward results were disap
p pointing to the advocates of the mono
q plane. The brave beginning In 1
thirty-mle wind indicated marke,
Improvement In CONSTITUTIONAL efiici
lency due to increased effectiveness O
the steering and stabilizing rudder
the controls that exhibited sucl
n weakness at the Belmont, New York
Y race track last October. Then tn
4 hangers of the monoplanes were lock
Y ed up and deserted, while their oper
n ators and attendants watched tn
e three American biplane pilots. Brook
y ins, Hoxsey and tombstone, Placid
: riding on the wings of furious hurri
g cane. the two latter at an altitude o
e a mile and half riding backwards, t.
8 be sure. but all Of them showing
I perfect mastery of their apparatus
: True, the last series of disabling acct
C dents to the monoplane came abou
e almost entirely from the forced land
t. ings to replenish the gasoline an
i lubricating tanks, landings made 4
e the moving strata of the atmospher
s CLOSETS to the earth's surface, wher
o there are swishing worthless able q
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