MORE STORIES AND THEORIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 158, 29 July 1909, Page 2

MORE STORIES AND THEORIES.

Invcroargill, Last Nignt. Airship stories and theories continue. News is to hand that a strange light was seen over Orcpuki last night, and a correspondent writes to tlie News stating that on Saturday night lie saw wnat appeared to he a bright light that moved in the centre of n. dark body. To-night about 200 people in the streets of Invercargill saw a moving light in the sky that drifted south and then disaD-l poarod. It may possibly have been a tire balloon.

i Mr. E. L'E. Barton's invention relating to controlling mechanism of aero- , nautical machines, for which patent : rights have been completed, provides , means whereby such machines are balanced and controlled by a single lever (writes the Hawcra Star). An important feature of the invention is the twisting of the side wings of the niachin to approximate somewhat to tueform of a screw, or so distort the wings or the outer portion of the wings on each side in opposite senses as to produce a section of a screw, which, as it is propelled through the air, will tend to cause the machine to rotate on its axis of flight as it is propelled forward in a right- or left-hand movement. The distortion of the wing of the aeroplane into the screw form during flight will, by canting the aeroplane to any desire'd angle, counteract variations iii the atmosphere of a local character such as are met with, and enable the aeroplane to maintain its equilibrium.