CYCLE WITH WINGS

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1926, Page 14

CYCLE WITH WINGS

FLYING AND RIDING AT WILL. “The most remarkable feature of the forthcoming Motor-Cycle Show at Olympia would hardly be suspected by the general public,” said Professor A. M. Low in London recently. “Olympia this year, with a demonstration of compressed power and light weight, will immediately Suggest the embryo airplane to the keen motorcyclist. “What is to prevent the motor-cycie, : with its similarity of control and balance to the ordinary airplane, having provision made for a pair of wing which I can be put into place, discarded when the long, uninteresting part of a journey has been accomplished, and stored until they are required again for the return trip? “It is a natural sequence which must come. Instead of considering light airplanes which are limited to aerodromes for their landings, and which are so made that the wings can be folded, why hot concentrate on the land machine with wings’” Professor Low added that a speed of GO .miles an hour on England’s new straight roads will one day be common and safe. “England is so small a country,” he said, “that it has been shrunken by the modern motor-cycle into a two days’ tour.”