HUMAN FLIGHT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9166, 14 August 1908, Page 3

HUMAN FLIGHT.

AN ENGINEER'S REMARKABLE CLAIMS. M. Marcel Deprez. a French savant, an engineer, and a member of the French Institute, claims to have solved definitely the problem of human flight. In an interview a French newspaper representative had with him, M. Deprez said he had discovered the secret of the flight of birds. "I have not the least doubt," he added, "that in a very short period, in a very few years, it will, on any day, on which there is sufficient wind, be quite a common thing to see thousands of human beings soaring about in mid-air, just as you now see thousands of people skating whan there is ice on the lakes and rivers." "Have you actually succeeded," t!i2 reporter asked", "in making a heavier-than-air instrument that will support the weight of a human being and enable him to fly?"

"Yes," he answered. "I have not only made such a machine, but what jj better still, 1 have made it soar in mid-air with the weight of a human being."

"Have you flown with it yourself?"

"No, that is a matter for much men than I. I am very shortly about to give a practical demonstration before a small commit tea of the French Institute, and then before Pre3S representatives." "The question of equilibrium I have—it goes without saying—also solved but some practice is required before the average person could safely soar. That is why we want the aid of sportsmen and aviators."