New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-18
WRIGHT AEROPLANE
NOW FOOL PROOF
New Stabilizer Will RevO-
lutionize Flight, He
Tells Aero Club.
ANNIVERSARY OF
HIS FIRST FLIGHT
Outlines What He Has Done in
Ten Years and Prophesies
Even Greater Things.

From the books kept by Orville and
Wilbur Wright
December Il. 1903 Kitty Hawk, \. c.
L. s. A.-Wibur in the machine; time, %
seconds, flew $50 feet on fourth test fight
Wind twenty miles an hour. This was the
first actual flight with one OF us In the
machine. which demonstrates that we
have pow>r and control over the ma
chine"
December II, 1918 Orville Wright at the
Aero Club
1--WE have invented an automatic stabIl-
ity device which will revolutionize night.
1t is more accurate than any aviator can
be- and will make flying fool proof or as
nearly fool proof as anything can be
nave flown many miles with II without
touching my controls. We are now sim
next spring"
Briefly Orvllle Wright summed up at
the Aero Club last night the results OF the
ten years effort which have won him his
reputation az one of the-some would say
the chief-mechancal geniuses OF the
world. Without Dragging and without
false humility. he gave his view Of the
influence which his invention would have
on the commerce snd the social and in
tellectual progress of the world. and
many Of the members OF the club who
heard him went away saying that they
were prouder of this man than of any
American now alive.
Our device" he said ENSURES lateral
as we'll as fore and aft stability, and we
are now simplifying ii. 1t depends In part
on electricity. and we shall soon have the
mechanism so perfected that il won't get
out Of order, and that means safe flight.
Most of the accidents in aviation have
been due to what we call 'stalline' The
aviator lets his 81 eed sag below certain
point-the point necessary to secure suffi-
cient wind pressure on the wings 10 sus-
tain the machine-and il falls. Nothing
can stop il. If he is travelling on an even
keel when he thus reduces speed. the
plane will pitch forward II he rises too
sharply, thus reducing speed below the
danger point his machine will slide hack,
tail-frst, TO the ground. Our device pre-
vents the plane from rising too sharply,
and If the speed falls below the danger
point it automatically directs the machine
to the ground. so that It will acquire speed
enough to sustain II.
"The future of the aeroplane? Com
mercial, for wherever men need speedy
transportation over vast distances, and
especially over deserts where water is not
available, they will use the aeroplane.
Mails will be so carried, in all probability,
over stretches of Texas, Utah and New
Mexico. The aeroplane has already car
ried twelve people and is practical at its
present stage Automatic stability is all
that is needed TO make IL wholly so, and
though do not as rule like TO say much
about what we are going to do. or even
about what we have done, ] can say that
we have practically solved them problem
Resolutions testifying TO the clubs es
TEEN for Mr.. Wright and its admiration
for his achievements were presented 10
him, with book containing testimonials
of regard from prominent men of the
country. Mr.. Wright took 1t in silence,
replying TO the praise OF Congressman
Sharp with brief 81 thank you
Among those at the reception were Dud
ley Field Malone, Collector OF the Port;
Stuart Blackton, Thomas L. Watson, r.
jefferson Newbold, Redmond Cross, j.. II.
Valentine Charles r. Edwards and Alan
r. Hawley.