A NEW AEROPLANE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 24, 11 January 1912, Page 8

A NEW AEROPLANE.

A bipiano built on original principles, without a rudder or a balancing device," imd "'at variance, apparently, with all the accepted ideas, has been very successfully tested at Mineola, near Now York, by Mr. Frank Bolland,' the inventor. According to experts who watched the flights, some of whom wore rather predisposed to favour the conventional type of biplane, Holland's machine flies just as well as any other. All sorts of new flying machines are invented in the United States almost every other day, but Holland’s claims the chief attention, because ho ignores existing contrivances, and at the first effort flew continuously for fifteen minutes at an altitude of 500 ft. Tire new craft looks like the usual biplane, but lacks a tail and rudder, and ailerons or other warping devices. Holland’s machine simply has a triangular jib at either extremity bej tween the wings.

In some way that only the inventor knows, tin's device acts both as right and left rudder, and as a balancing device. Why it should be so efficient none of the exports can discover. In front the machine carries an elevating plane just like any other biplane, but it differs from all other machines in having practically no snrve to its plane surfaces, and it has no “angle of incidence,” which has been regarded as the fundamental requirement of all aeroplanes. The driver sits in the craft like a chauffeur in a motor-car, and manipulates his controls exactly like the latter. If he wishes to go to the right he merely, turns Ids steering-wheel in that direction. He handles In's motor throttles just as they are handled on a motor-car. The motor on the machine is built by Holland. The craft is 29ft Gin wide, and only lift long. Its upper and lower surfaces are separated by the usual interval of sft Gin. Mr. Holland can fly straight away, the same as the Wrights or other aviators ; and, according to the enthusiasts who have witnessed his experiments, he has a nice little list of spiral dips and dives for exhibition purposes. At first Holland, was regarded as a crank, and his secret experiments were ridiculed. Now lie comes into the air with a machine which infringes no previous patents, and apparently he is considered by many as a very important and interesting factor in the realm of aviation. Holland himself modestly says: “We know such a very little about air-ma-chines, that it is not surprising to find there is more than one type to develop.”