A FLYING MACHINE AT LAST.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2270, 26 June 1880, Page 3

A FLYING MACHINE AT LAST.

Professor Picholl, of the United States, proposes to make a voyage to the New Pole in an aerial machine inrented by himself. This machine, a working model of which he has prepared, does not differ materially from one made by the Professor about two yearns ago, and exhibited at. the Philadelphia Exhibition, where its performances excited wonder and surprise. It went up or came down at the wish of the operator, went forward and backward, turned round, remained in one place, or went to any desired point. In short, it did all that a flying machine could be expected to do, with one exception, namely, that under certain circumstances it declined to fly. This little defect has now, it is said, been remedied, and the machine to be constructed after the model will it is anticipated, be a thoroughly efficient airship. The Professor is very sanguine as to the results of his proposed expedition, and thinks his scheme is far more likely t 5 succeed than Commander Cheync’s “I will,”’says Professor Eichell, “go to the North Pole in my air-ship, and the very reasons that will keep Captain Cheyne from reaching the Pole will be the ones by which I will be able to succeed.” He believes that he can make headway against wind blowing at the rate of iO miles an hour. The machine has already travelled against a six-mile wind at a fair speed ; and what it has done is nothing to what the Professor intends it shall do. The speed of the machine is really, however, a secondary consideration. We have waited so long to get at the North Pule that a few hours’ delay in reaching it is not a matter of any great importance. If Professor llichell performs the journey there and back in reasonable time no one will have a right to complain.