FOOL-PROOF AEROPLANE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 4

FOOL-PROOF AEROPLANE

JIB, OBYILLE WRIGHT'S ' ANNOUNCEMENT," . '."• Mr. Orville. Wright, ono of the pioneers of flightj- addressing the m\y York Aero Club recently, as tho chief guest at the annual dinner-) described' a new device for sustaining the balance Of an aeroplane. "We have developed a stabiliser," he said, '■which stabilises fore and aft and has proved its success." ''■',' Ho predicted that by next Spring he would produce a feokproof aeroplane % flia-t means, enabling automatic control to be preserved better than by any human hand. ''Ninetyvfive. per ceht. c.f the accidents, especially among Army ■airnte'n/'come froni breakdowns, especially of high-power machines." ■ ' Ho said that if the airman would keep his head.when life machine boggled and ivonld try not to right immediately there vvould be fewer "I am fiyiug with my .stabiliser nearly every-day. It works well, but wo shali not oiler the device to the public- Until «o eorroct a s'ffljill defect in the electric connection whifth mffkos the invention liable to corrode." . Mr. Wright answered affirmatively the following inquiry'by oiie ol tlio .guests: "Does that mean that anyone, will bo abki to operate an aeroplane?" He also said that the feat of. flying across the Atlantic in a vaternlano in seventy-two continuous hoii.rSi for which the "Dailv Mail" has. offered «. pri?;e of £IOi.OOQ, would be accomplished" in tihie.