New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
Inventor Of Aeroplane Thinks the Daring
Few Will Cease Within a Few Years
to Monopolize the Aerial High.
ways and Avators Will Be AS
Common AS Automobile
lists Are Now.

dare. AS fast as motors are perfected to
give greater power for less weight the
area of .aeroplane wings will be reduced
and the speed increased. There is no more
limit than there is to the velocity of a
cannon ball. No one knows al what speed
we will shoot cannon bail in the
future"
In answer to further interrogation as to
eventual reduction of wing surface To
nothing. MI Wright said that then the
propeller would have to be tilted up. That
would come only with enormous power
and minute weight
The machines of the future" he con-
tinued, will be equipped with automatic
stability devices. 1t will take no daring
on the part of any one in the next few
years to fly. ! have been flying every day
for a month or so with one of our ma
chimes fitted with automatic devices for
adjusting longitudinal as well as lateral
stability. Alex Ogilvie and Griffith
Brewer, of England, have been flying with
me in the machine so equipped.
This automatic device may be fitted to
any machine.
New Improvements. which are being
patented, do away even with the slight
oscillations noticed in using our first au-
tomato device a year or so ago, which
was actually flown as originally described
in our patents on the automatic system
This automatic system will really teach
man to fly and shows the inexperienced
Pilot his mistakes. 1t feels things a per-
son cannot feel. An automatic device
would never let a machine get at an angle
at which the machine will stall.
EASY AS MASTERING AN AUTO.
soon there will be no more learning to
fly than learning TO drive an automobile
OF course. a man will always have to
learn to land. Yet. with this automatic
device. even this will be simple. He can
have a mark on his machine showing at
which point the elevator lever must be
set for the machine to assume a proper
safe gliding angle. Setting the lever here
at the beginning of his glide to earth the
automatic system will take care of the
fore and aft balance the rest of the way
down.
Properly balanced, one Of our ma
chimes will even take its own gliding
angle. ] have Just had an experience OF
this kind myself After getting in the air
a few DAYS ago out at Dayton | iouhd
control wire TO the elevator had become
useless through the loosening of n turn
buckle / shut off the motor and the ma
chine landed safely, without any controi
over the elevator whatever.
Another thing which insures an aviator
against stalling is the incidence INDICATOR
on which we were allowed a patent by
the United States government on October
Is last.
The cause of most of the accidents TO-
day is flying at a wrong angle OF incl
dence Stalling produces dive, when
we have definitely calculated to be Tor
about two hundred feet Naturally, an
operator tries to stop the dive by pulling
on his elevator lever and this makes IL
worse-a man may then be absolutely
HELPLESS. The only thing 10 do is to point
the machine still sleeper and dive worse
in order TO gather an increased velocity
for recovery"
Mr.. Wright stated that he would short
~ issue a treatise on the subject OF
"stalIing" and would attempt to obtain
for it as wide publicity as possible that