New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-16
FRENCH AVIATOR
FAILS TO BRIGHTEN
Statement That Ocean Flight
Was Impossible Discount
ed by Aero Club.
LACKED FACTS ON
NEW STYLE MOTOR
Once Said Trip Could BE Made,
and Had Planned to
LOOP the Globe"

/ Tie statement made by Jules Ncdrines.
} the French aviator. that flight across the
/ Atlantic ocean. which Eodman Waua-
maker is planning. was impossible was
| discounted Yesterday by Henry Wood
! house. of the marine flying and dirigible
p balloon committees of the Aero club Of
| America
/ "Nedriuess statements Mr.. Wood
house said. have puzzled those interested
! in American acronautics because it was
/ : lderstood that Vodrines started on his
I hirnt from Paris TO Cairo. which he per-
| formed easily with the intention of con-
I tinung Oh around the world
1t is a known fact that had il not been
/ for the unfortunate misunderstanding
which led TO quarrel between the avia-
tor and Rene Quinton, president Of the
French Aerial League. Ncdrines would
have continued on to kharioum-the fight
which was successfully made by Marc
Pourpe instead-and then would have
started again for flight from cairo
across Africa to Cape Town
THAT was 10 he the first leg Of the
trip around the world Nedrincs himself
said that he did not care il aviators We're
looping the loop. He said he would loop
tho globe"
Everything considered. Mr.. Woodhouse
added. the conclusion TO be drawn from
Ncdrincss remarks derogatory 10 the
transatlantic flight was that his plans did
not include crossing the ocean at such
a broad point as that now contemplated.
1t is possible ne said. that Nedriaes,
being in Africa. had not learned that the
plan OF the American expedition is not TO
use an aeroplane Of the ordinary type. but
one specially built, equipped with motor
designed for long fight Had he heard OF
that there is little doubt that he would
have admitted the venture was possible
because he said 10 me during the Gordon
Bennett race Of 1912 that he considered II
possible 10 fy At = speed Of 20 miles an
hour. provided ne could construct the ma
chine 80 that the speed could be reduced
10 100 miles an hour to insure safety In
landing"
The Baron d Estournelles de Constant.
a member Of the French Senate. Judge
Of the Hague Court. winner Of the Nobel
Prize and chairman of the aeronautical
commission OF the French Senate, in
letter to the Aero Club made public yes
terday said:
who could have predicted the extraor-
binary achievements in aviation which we
now witness daily when we waited DAY
by day at Auvours in 1903 for Nilour
Wright to demonstrate that man could
ny?"
Commenting on the letter. Alan r. Haw-
ley. president OF the club. and Nice-ire
dents Henry a. Wise Wood and Charles
Jerome Edwards said that in the aston
ishment OF Baron de Constant was eX-
pressed the sentiment of all those inter-
ested in aeronautlcs.
The conquest OF the air liz fact
said Mr. Wood, and henceforth we must
expect 70 see the application OF the aero
plane solve the problems of transporta-
ton
THE long flights made by innumeranle
men in the last twelve months, which
eliminated In score OF flights from
twelve to sixteen hours duration; Bider
massage Of the Pyrenees. from Pau 10
Paris; BielovuccIs flight above the AIDS
ParmelIn's over Mont Blanc. Gevasco
trip from Lake Maggiore over the Apen-
mines to Genoa and Garros's two nights
across the Mediterranean all bear unim-
peachable testimony 70 the contemp,
which the flyer now has for the nature OF
what lies beneath him