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not be lost sight of [[words torn on top of page]] a machine as his can be made for not to exceed $3,000, while $100,000 would not buy a Lebaudy airship of the gas bag design. As soon as the public becomes accustomed to the operation of these airships they will be as numerous and more popular than automobiles." "More than anything else the achievement of Santos-Dumont will compel other inventors to come into the open and make public what they have accomplished." said Mr. J.C. McCoy, who made many ascents in Paris last summer in company with Lieutenant Lahm and as his own pilot. "It marks the beginning of a new era in aeronautics," he added. "and I think the achievements of the near future will far surpass that of yesterday, wonderful as it was." Stimulated by the feat of Santos-Dumont, Dr. Julian P. Thomas yesterday renewed his experiments with aeroplanes, which he abandoned last summer for ballooning. Dr. Thomas was associated with Mr. Israel Ludlow in the experiments which resulted in the almost fatal accident to the latter in Florida las spring when his airship collapsed. DR. THOMAS' SCHEME. "Without in any way discounting the achievement of M. Santos-Dumont," said Dr. Thomas last night. "I believe I have discovered a more correct principle of maintaining equilibrium than his appears to be. I know from my experience in ballooning that one is more than anything else anxious to know how he is going to land. When that problem is solved the rest is easy. "I have already set to work carrying out my own ideas. Like all other inventors, I expect, of course, to succeed, but at least I have enough confidence in my plan to risk my own neck in trying it out. I shall have the aeroplane finished within a few months, and by next spring at the latest I shall probably either have succeeded in proving my theory or disproving it to my own cost." Mr. A. M. Herring, who has been experimenting for a dozen years with gliding machines and aeroplanes, said that M. Santos-Dumont's feat was chiefly of importance as having been the first public demonstration of the practicality of flying with a machine without the air of a gas bag. "It is furthest from my thoughts to appear to disparage M. Santos-Dumont's performance," he said, "And he deserves extreme credit for what he accomplished, but the fact remains that the Wright brothers in this country have far exceeded his feat, although not in public tests. I do not blame the public for being suspicious of claims which are made without proof, however, and the fact that thousands of persons saw with their own eyes the flight of M. Santos-Dumont entitles him to all the praise which has been accorded to him. CONFIDENCE NEEDED. "With the experience of additional flights, he ought to gain confidence and a greater facility in guiding his airship. He is proceeding on the same general principles as almost all aeroplane inventors nowadays and his ship is probably the type of what will finally become the standard airship when the automobile and even steam and electric lines are displaced for all except freight hauling and short distance runs. "All who are working on the problem nowadays," added Mr. Herring, who himself has an airship almost finished with which he expects to win success next spring, "are agreed that the problem is not one of power combined with lightness, but of equilibrium. "It is not a question of making a machine which will sail in still air, but of perfecting the airship so that it will be able to maintain itself in a strong wind. The airship must be able to maintain itself when the air is displaced, otherwise it cannot be called practical. "M. Santos-Dumont regulated himself in light air all right, but the machine of the future must be largely automatic in adjusting itself to the air currents if it is to be at all safe. By many accidents it has been determined that the mind of man is not quick enough to act in these sudden emergencies." DAYTON AERONAUTS ARE NOT SURPRISED DAYTON, Ohio. Tuesday. - M. Santos-Dumont's aeroplane feat in Paris on Monday brings the problem of aerial navigation no nearer to solution than it was a year or two ago, according to the opinion of Mr. Orville and Mr. Wilbur Wright, of this city, inventors of probably the first successful flying machine. "The latest flight made by M. Santos-Dumont does not appeal to us with the same degree of importance that it does to the people on the other side of the water, where the aeroplane is comparatively new in the problem of aerial navigation," said the Messrs. Wright to-day. "In fact, the flight does not equal one which we made nearly two years ago, at Kittyhawk, N.C., with our machine, and which we have bettered several times since. At that time, with a 12-horse power gasolene {gasoline} engine, we covered twenty-four miles in fifty-nine seconds in the face of a wind above the normal velocity. Our motive power, furnished by a gasolene {gasoline] engine, was only one-fourth that used by M. Santos-Dumont, while our ballast exceeded that carried by the Brazilian several hundred pounds." BIG BALLOON SHOW AT JAMESTOWN FAIR Plans will be perfected at a meeting to be held to-night at the Hotel Astor for the greatest aeronautic display at the Jamestown Exposition next year that has ever been seen. Prizes will be offered for aeroplanes and balloons and for special devices in connection with all designs of airships. Cortlandt Field Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, has named J.C. McCoy, Augustus Post, Alan R. Hawley, Charles Jerome Edwards and Samuel H. Valentine as a committee to have charge of the competition for the Lahm Cup. It will be one of the conditions in attempts to win this cup that the contestant in making a balloon ascension must declare his intention of trying to beat Lieutenant Lahm's record of 402 miles, otherwise it might be won purely by accident. The cup will cost $1,000, and designs for it are now being made. the flying machine will eventually (be) the "poor man's" automobile, [[being]] faster and cheaper. In an [[interview]] said:- "The large machine I am experimenting [[with]] is very large, having a surface of [[?]] square metres, but the practical [[?]] which will be for the earth, will be much [[?]]. With ordinary flying machines it is necessary to increase the size in order to increase the power. With the aeroplane to the contrary, the speed will be in [[?]] in direct proportion to the dimun {{?}} the resisting surface. My present [[?]] plane was intentionally built large [[?]] come main obstacles as to principle [[?]] with increased power, which means the size can be reduced. At the same time, increased speed adds to the safety [[?]]] powerful motor is more easily manipulated. "We can, therefore, look forward [[?]] practical aeroplane which can be comfortably housed in every home. From the standpoint of maintenance, the [[?]] of petroleum and repairs, the aeroplane will be much less expensive than the [[?]] ??? [?] New York 14 Nov 1906 AERONAUTS IN CONGRESS. Scientific Investigation at the Jamestown Exposition. It is planned to hold in connection with the Jamestown Exposition next year the most [?] investigation of aeronautics that has ever been conducted in America. A meeting will be held at the Hotel Astor to-night which will be attended by over a score of well-known experimenters in aerial work, and the general plan and scope of the [?] investigation will be outlined. The work is in general under Government auspices. It is not only proposed to have a complete exhibit of all kinds of devices for aerial navigations, but to illustrate all the various ramifications of the subject. It is intended to have demonstrations of all kinds showing the machines in flight and to collect and display all sorts of data on aeronautics and kindred subjects. The plan proposes to wind up with a great congress of aeronauts, in the course of which it is expected that important advances in the science will be recorded. The list of those who have consented to serve on the General Committee, more than half of whom have signified their intention of attending the organization meeting to-night, is as follows: Gen. James Allen, Chief of the United States Signal Service; Frederick L. Allen of the United States Patent Office; Patrick Y. Alexander of Southsea, England; Emile Berliner of Washington, D. C.; Thomas L. Baldwin, E. B. Bronson, Courtlandt Field Bishop, William H. Butler, Carl Dienstbach, Charles Jerome Edwards, William J. Hammer, Alen R. Hawley, A. H. Herring, Capt. Homer W. Hedge, Ernest La Rue Jones, Wilbur J. Kemball, Major Krebs, Israel Ludlow, Charles H. Manly, J. C. McCoy, Dave Hennen Morris, John F. O'Rourke, Augustus Post, C. S. Holls, and Leo Stevens of New York, Alfred H. Chandler of Philadelphia, Octave Chanute of Chicago, Dr. David T. Day of the United States Geological Survey, Capt. P. V. Fournier of the French Embassy, Charles J. Glidden of Boston, James J. Gray of Norfolk, Gilbert H. Grosvenor of Washington, D. C.; Major Henry E. Hersey of the United States Weather Bureau, Dr. J. A. Holmes of the United States Fuel Testing Department, Lieut. Frank P. Lahm and Frank S. Lahm of Canton, Charles F. Martin and Willis L. Moore of the United States Weather Bureau, Major C. J. S. Miller of Franklin, Penn.; Major Samuel Reber of the United States Signal Corps, Richard Rathbun of the Smithsonian Institute, the Hon. C. S. Rolls of New York, A. Lawrence Rotch of the Blue Hill Observatory, Massachusetts; Albert Santos-Dumont of Paris, Charles D. Walcoot of the United States Geological survey, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright of Dayton, Ohio; Albert Francis Zahm of the Catholic University at Washington, and Count Henri de la Vauix of Paris. Representing the Jamestown Exposition there will be present President Harry St. George Tucker, T. S. Southgate, R. H. Sexton, C. S. Sherwood, Barton Myers, J. Taylor Ellyson, W. E. Cottrell, and C. Brooks Johnston.