A FLYING MACHINE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1116, 23 November 1883, Page 2

A FLYING MACHINE.

Mr H. C. Linfield, the inventor of a flying-machine, conducted an experiment with his invention lately between Coinbrook'and West Drayton. The apparatus, which is described as a steamsailing machine, is constructed of light wood, amLis shaped like the frame of a four-wheel carriage, with two large wheels in front and two small ones behind. Motive power is to be obtained by steam, which will work a nine-bladed screw, and the inventor’s idea is to propel the machine by steam on land until it attains a speed of thirty to thirty-five miles, a velocuy which he calculates will be sufficient to lift the machine into the air, when it will be navigated by means of the sails with which it is fitted. From the result of his experiment, ho is confiient that it is possible to fly in the air at the height of a mile. By permission of the Great Western way Company, the experiment was made M on the newly finished portion of the railway to Staines, between. Coinbrook and West Drayton, and the inventor was accompanied by Mr Trevethick, the Locomotive Superintendent of the Company at Paddington. The machine was placed on a truck and connected with an engine, from whence the steam derived, and the gearing was manipulated from another truck. The operator succeeded in getting the machine lifted from the truck into the air, and expressed himself fully satisfied with the result of the trial.—London Standard.