Flying Machine.
The London Globe has the following with referenoe to Mr Maxim's flying machine .: — " Mr Maxim's experimental flyine machine is really a steam kite, lßft long by 4ft .wide,' and propelled, through the air by. a . ♦ light, screw, making 2500 revolutions a minute. "When properly inoliued and the screw going at a certain speed the kito moves horizontally through the atmosphere. With a higher speed it ascends, and with a lower it descends The inventor is now engaged in building a much larger kite ior practical purposes. It will be 110 ft by 40ft wide, and be driven by a screw 18ft in diameter. ' Tho power is to be supplied by a petroleum condensing engine weighing 18001bs, and capable of raising 40.0001bs of load along with tho kite. Tho estimated weight of the flying machine complete with two engineers on board is ll,8001bs; Mr Maxim therefore calculates on being able to carry 10 or 12 tons of freight or passengers through the air." : .
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 29 August 1891, Page 3
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164Flying Machine. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 29 August 1891, Page 3
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