THE "RECONNOTTRE" FLYING MACHINE
. « A WELLINGTON INVENTOR'S SCBEME. Mr Joseph A *b with, carpenter and joiner, of Woiliogton, is the la'est aßpirant to fame a • an inventor of a oontrivaDce for aerial flight, and has designed a complicated machine, for which he is about to apply for a patent, under the name of " Tha Heconnoitre Flying machine." Mr A sV with has long studied the sutject, and the d» "si.n which he hua at length produced is a combination of the balloon and the winged machine Its inventor is sanguine that it could ba brought into praciical use for military pucpofces, soaring over an c emy, dropping •hot or shell into hts ranks, and then returning to fri« ndly quarters, being under control all the timo. 'lho elevating power is to consist of a large ga3- balloon preßßure gauge* and bßcipe valves within reach and sight of the operator), and a large horizontal rotary fan, which can be reversed, like the propeller of a steamer, for the purpose of lowering the machine to Urra firma, again, the gaa being at the anno time allowed to escape from the balloon, l orizontal propulfcijn is proposed to be obtained by means of a veriica propel or placed m front of the operator, which ag-un, can be reversed m order to obta n backward moti n The motor is to be a large driving wheel, worked by the aeronaut's knee, and its power being raultipl ed to an enormous degree by a series of co:-whee'a. A set ot uilk wings at the hack and tides of the machine, to be actuated by c rds worked by the operator's feet, are to be the steering apparatus, The development of Mr Aakwith's device by actual oxp riment will be awaitud wi h : nterest. — ■• Post "
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1783, 7 March 1888, Page 3
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299THE "RECONNOTTRE" FLYING MACHINE Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1783, 7 March 1888, Page 3
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