MASTERY OF THE AIR.
SUCCESSFUL AEKIAL NAVIGATION. New York, May 10. The brothel's Wright in their airship covered 25 miles in North Carolina, partly against the wind. FAIUIAN'S SUCCESS. Paris, May 10. Farnian's aeroplane made several successful flights near Paris.
In January last Mr. Farman won a big prize for a successful flight, and in March he made an aerial flight of a mile and a-half. From subsequent information we see that two days after the official trip in January, the inventor experimented to ascertain 'how much weight his machine would lift, and found that some 30!bs was about the largest weight 'he could carry successfully. It therefore seemed evident that without some improvement of its conditions the machine would never (lv long distances. He has since constructed a machine of a totally different type, having super-, posed wings set. at a dihedral angle. The opinion in aeronautical circles when the last mail left was that tfiie new type thus evolved would be capable of considerable greater lifting power. It is plain, therefore, that the achievement of March, which bettered the single kilometre of Jannarv to one mile and a-hnlf, represents a substantial step m advance. It will be interesting to learn from the accounts when they reach us whether the machine came to earth m March at the cud of this step f»r want of fuel. As the speed could not have been much less than 30 miles an hour, the expenditure of fuel could not have been much over two or three gallons From which it seems Safe to conclude that the machine could have (lown far further. On the other hand it seems reasonable to suppose that if the machine had been ablo to fly longer it would have done so, and the fact would not have escaped mention in the telegraphed summary. All the attention „f the Parisian world is not monopolised by Henry Farnian. Paris is the le. juaiters of tlle rlew science of avion I Hi' r leiC the ex P erilnen ts are done on the life-size and the working scale. iese include trials of everything, from the whole and complete machine under „ .I n 6 c , ondlt l ons ' to the details of en-' gme and parts. The engine, one soon I been tvT" I"™* 8 on all - sideß > taa b tn the mam trouble of Mr.. Farman as i the others. It has been found by experience that the usual type of gasoline : r r to Henl\i ' S 'i 1 the Rlr for some time, .tors an/? d f ° r more roli aMe moi creasing flights"''.that" the bette? typet conditions obtaining j n aerial
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 120, 12 May 1908, Page 2
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537MASTERY OF THE AIR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 120, 12 May 1908, Page 2
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