THE AEROPLANE.
NOT A SCIENTIFIC MACHINE.
(Received >Last Night, 10.50 o'clock.)
LONDON, January 3. ' The Times, in an article on aeronautics during 1910, declares that "/flying is largely empirical. Shiph, birds, submarines and dirigibles all inherited a tendency to keept right side up. The aeropla i e, on the other hand, did nothing of -he kind. It turned turtle with thf slightest provocation. The problem of equilibrium must, according to the Times, hj& solvoS after much laborious scient'fij investigation of each of its compuwnt parts, before the aeroplane could rank as a scientific machine.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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94THE AEROPLANE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 4 January 1911, Page 5
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