Evening star., 1922-08-05
GLIDER CONGRESS
+. OPENS NFRANcE
MotorIess Flying Machines Of
Many Designs to Be Seen
in Contests.
By the. Associated Press.
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By the, Associated Press.
CLERMONT FERRAND. France, Au-
gust b.-Optimism over the future OF
motorless fying prevails at Camp
Mouillard. where the glider contests
under auspices Of the First Internation-
al Experimental Congress Of Motorless
Airplanes begins tomorrow. to continue
until August 20.
The builders, pilots and officials liv-
ing In the canvas city near the top
OF Mount Combegrasse are sanguine
that machines propelled by manpower
or merely by the wind are destined to
make as much progress In the next
twenty years as the gasoline ne-motored
planes have achieved since the Wright
brothers made their test flight at
Kitty Hawk. N. c.
Conneat By Gen. Large.
Gen. Large. commanding the l3th
Army Corps whose soldiers are keeping
glider" pilo;ed by Lieut. Thoret
maneuvering 5000 feet above the camp
dipping. looping and volplaning-said: :
Amy one prophesyin8 this fifteen
years ago would have been interned In
a lunatic asylum.'
A pessimistic note, however. was
struck by French peasant harvest
ing In a nearby field, who practically
repeated the words ascribed to two
Ohio farmers upon reading Of the
Wright brothers first short hops.
View Of the Wright Test.
One farmer, as he scanned tho big
headlines In the newspaper he had
the crossroads. declared with hnAi-
ity:
No man will ever fly like a bird"
and the other echoed the sentiment
with: And II a man ever does. he
Won, wont sail from Dayton. Ohio. by
What the French peasant said. after
watching Cuondeton- -Chardon ma
chine fly for four minutes. was 1T
cannot be done" And. prodding his
team of oxen, he numbered away.
Fiftsen of the motorless a'rplanes.
which are entered in the contests.
have arrived and some OF the ma.
unofficial flights. An American mono
plane entered BY the Aeronautical
Engineering Society is being held up
in some railroad yard between Cler-
mont, Fefrand and Hayre. from which
latter port is was shipped eight days
ago. Edmund Allen will pilot the
American plane.
Like Bata aad Fishes.
The gliders already at Camp Mouil-
u AhSA oNS "HsH sAAS A0p
ping wings of the bat and types re-
sembling the flying hsh, which are
propelled by human muscular motive
power and wind-propelled sailing
planes with canvas wings. mobile
and stationery. The machines are OF
the monoplane. bip!ane and trfplane
types. Those with stationary wings
are called "stitfs." and those with
mobile wings "happers."
A Swiss-designed, stationary. thick
winged monoplane manufactured by
Francis Chardon and piloted by NJ.
Guendet. remained in the air four
minutes yesterday. covering about q
mile and three-Quarters In q half
circle with a loss in altitude Of about
300 feet
"Flapper" Parasol Type.
A "iapper'' parasol machine built.
piloted and propelled by Daniel Mon
tague Of France covered about 200
yards at an altitude averaging between
s and 10 feet. 1t landed because the
human motor gave out The wings of
this machine are worked by a con-
trivance somewhat similar to that
used on the chainless bicycle.
Most Of the pilots and builders on
the ground express the determination
to break the records for duration In
motorless flight held by Harth OF Ger
many. This record is 21 minutes. One
hundred thousand francs will be dis
tributed among the winners.