New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
MEN WILL SOON FLY WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY SAYS WRIGHT
F famous Altman Tells Of Devices Which In
sure Stability and Says There Is No
Limit in the Matter Of Specialize
Advent of the New Wright
Acrobat and Its Strik.
ing Feats.

levers and grab hold of some part of the
machine. There is no reason why any
other machine could not do the same
thing IL properly built.
These things that are spectacular are
hardly ever dangerous. Beachey Is one or
the best flyers there are. None of his
flights is ever dangerous. He knows just
how far he can go. In making steep
dives he never fiattens out abruptly as
many novices do-he knows or instinc-
lively feels just what the machine will
safely stand"
The effect of a decision in favor Of the
Wright patent would be that only the
Wright company and its licensees would
continue to manufacture aeroplanes now
using the Wright system of control. This
will make for improvements.
In dwelling upon this point Mr.. Wright
said:
ANY one is free to improve upon our
machine. A patent is not to stifie, but 10
encourage advancement. When one can
not copy he must invent
THE great profit was in the early part
Of the industry We introduced the flying
machine. All others had given up. AT
the time Octave Chanute went to Europe
in the spring of 1902 Ferber was the only
one experimenting. Had 1t not been for
Ferber, Archdeacon and Voisin never
would have gone in.
WORK OF THE voIslNs.
"Chanute got Archdeacon interested
and he called the machine he built
Wright machine The Voisin brothers
were young fellows out of school work
ing for Archdeacon. They didn't start
until Chanute described our machine. Our
system of control was not used until after
the patent came out Chanute said enough
about the rudder and warping 10 get US
in trouble in Germany.
Were it not for this we would have
had a patent there on varying alone.
Chanute told them that We maintained
lateral balance by peculiar contortion OK
the wings.
Mr.. Wright believes that the slump in
aviation is over. In the automobile in
dustry and the stock market there are
ups and downs. Aviation has been, par
ticuarly in this country, in an almost
critical decline The game" Is now
starting an upward trend.
In the earlier years the American pub
lie was highly enthusiastic and thousands
Of young men wanted to fly A large
number copied the pioneer machines Of
the Wrights, Farman ard Curtiss, bought
motors from marine engine builders and
tried to fly. Many were fairly successful.
Some even developed into the well known
flyers of to-day.
This big crop of amateur builders made
market for motors and a number OF
motor boat and automobile engine manu-
facturers lightened their engines and put
them out as aeronautical engines Al
most suddenly this class died out and the
engine makers found themselves without
prospects Many were the causes for this
beginning, in 1910, of the slump.
Some Of the machines failed even to
iy-through ignorance, poor copying, bad
construction. Some failed to fly because
the builders. who tried to learn TO fly
by themselves with no advice from those
who could fly, made mess of it-where
the machines were not at fault. Many
saw a barrel of money in the exhibition
Il.