ANOTHER AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 11

ANOTHER AEROPLANE.

—&— —,/ > • INVENTED IN CHKISTCHTJUCH. 1 lUy Telegraph,—Special Correnpondent.l ' Christchurch, September 27. Thr striking successes achieved "by . Continental and American' aeronauts bavo fared tho ambition of 6omo colonial invontors, who aro building machines' which ■ thejr -hope* .will, materialise- into aoroplapcs.'. Cbristchurcluhits 'already produced onoinventor.'of- a ; flymg machine,- andi to-day- a "News" representative interviewed another.; ; Tho newiinventor'ns. an elderly 'engineoi' who is employed in 'a largo establishment, in the ; city l , n «Ho invitetl, Jterepnrter to inspcct his modol,' which ho explained was at' present in an unfinished state. Tho inventor led ,the way : to, a dark- and dingy collar, and produced his machine model. . It ■is - a small, compact affair, which might easily be contained in a kerosene case. -'J-he principal part of the. mechanism is a- small /engine, .the building of : which gaye .'no.; small troiiblo. .Tho; inventor succeeded, however,, 'in**turriing' out a' very ingenious' little 'cotitr'ivanco;' .The engine was conriected with a.steam'.pipe'witTi an indiarubber tube, and when tho steam.'was turfied into the cvlipder the little ' machine workedfuriously. It provided the necessary connection to turn two side wheels, to which four ■.propellers will be attached. The propellers; it .appears, will bo controlled ..by-.tho? operator, who by shifting a crank will get them into any position desired. . The 'first ' position will cause , the *»>» : «>® machine from tho ground,' and -the next will send the . machine on'its! forwaTd ; 'flight. ,So far the inventor hasVniSt.'dttftclifed.-.&ny planes to' the machine,.biit-that wilble;,done beforo a trial is made. Patents have not yet been taken out,-but the inventor-will. <1?. this-;asjoon, as he has shown that -the; macninQ;- will -rise.