Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-04-01
ACHIEVES SUCCESS
ALONG NEW LINES
AIR CRAFT MoDEtED ON PLAN
or BIRDS MING. WORKS sue,
cEssFuLlY AND MAY REvoLu.
TionlzE NAVIGATION OF AIR.

According to telephone message
received from Lamoille about noon to-
day, a nineteen-year-old lad of Ruby
Valley has accomplished "a fete which
will cause his name to be echoed
around the world and in the genera
tions to come It will be linked with
those OF. Curtis and the Wright
Brothers. With an air craft of his
own construction, modelled on the plan
of a; birds wing. he made success
full fight from near Ruby City to La
moille, distance of about ten miles,
and over the Ruby range OF mountains
more than twelve thousand feet high.
AS this is the first successful flight
ever accomplished with a machine
modelled on this plan, and .as 1t was
over a course which even the most
daring aviator would not attempt to
essay in the types of aircrafts gem
orally used, there can be but little IL
any doubt that this new craft modelled
on the plan the Creator designed for
the flight OF birds will revolutionize
air navigation and make it as COM
mon as travel by steamship or rail-
road train.
For some months past the writer
has known that the young inventor
has been working on an aircraft, and
several weeks ago conversed with
him on the subject. His ideas seemed
practicable. but with the crude ma
terial for construction at his disposal,
his claims for his machine seemed
preposterous and 1t was difficult for
us to suppress smile.
The device is operated by means OF
a four-horse power gasoline engine.
The operator is seated a little above
and behind the engine and the wings
are above. With practically the en-.
tire weight beneath the wings the In
ventor claims that equilibrium is easi-
ly maintained and turning over is i'm.
possible. A belt from the drive
wheel operates a shaft, which with
gears and crank connections operates
the wings like those Of bird in flight.
A tail constructed fan-shape directs
the machine upward or downward and
a horizontal fan shaped device in
front permits turning one side or the
other. The fore part of the wings are
rigid but near the tips and the rear
part they are flexible. The gear
wheels are one TO a hundred, which
proportionsily increases the power,
and but one flap Of the wings is at.
tained with hundred revolutions OF
the drive wheel of the engine. Thus
with twelve hundred revolutions Of
the drive wheel per minute. one hun
dred and twenty flaps of the wings are
attained In the same period.
In his fight today the inventor In
tended to come to Elko but on CROSS
ing the Rubies, the engine, owing to
the altitude, continually missed fire,
so he set the wings and SCARED down
to Lamoille. He said, however, that
he would fly to Elko this evening,
The young man Is OF Swedish de-
scent an6 his name ie Lirpa Loot.
. His performances viii deiude the ciyi.
llzed world and make his name re.
nowned for ages to come.
The account Of this wonderful per.
formance was given exclusively to
the Independent and we give It to our
readers as the greatest scoop ever
achieved by any paper over It's con-.
temporaries. 1t completely paies to
insigniacance the false story recent.
ly published by local sheet which
declared that silver wac remonetized.
We vouch for the authenticity OF
this story with the certain reservation
that the young inventors name should
be spelled BACKWARDS.
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