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[[?]] February 2 Saturday  at Baddeck

[[?]] New York

[[?]] Nov 1906

[[?]]Machines [[?]] All England

[[?]] Topic of Conversation [[?]] Everywhere in Aeronautic Circles.

[[?]] Brothers Praise

[[?]] of Aero Club Says That the [[?]] Seem to Have Probability of Their Side.

[[?]] M. Santos-Dumont

[[?]] Maxim Says There is No Question of Achievement on the Lines Laid Down by Him

[[?]] Cable to the Herald

[[?]] European edition publishes [[?]] from its correspondent:- [[?]] Saturday.-The problem of the [[?]] to be the absorbing topic, and [[?]] where one goes the subject of [[?]] is bound to crop up. The [[?]] of the Wright brothers and their [[?]] been considerably increased by [[?]] interview this week, which [[?]] widely quoted all over the [[?]]

[[?]] suspend judgment on the Ohio [[?]]till we actually know more of [[?]] said a member of the Aero [[?]] Great Britain to a Herald [[?]]. "Some people discount the [[?]] the Wrights, others sear by [[?]] one seems able to prove [[?]] behlaf.

[[?]] I find that most members of [[?]] think they have accomplished [[?]] in their trails that will enable [[?]]from the problematic to [[?]] stage of aeronautics.

[[?]] Wright brothers say they have [[?]] distance and steered their [[?]] will. There are many people [[?]] many parts of these tests, [[?]] testify to teh fact that they [[?]]machine travelling in the air.

[[?]] the American inventors seem [[?]] probability, not alone [[?]] side. It is only natural, as [[?]] despatch says, that they [[?]] to keep things secret. They [[?]] spent large sums on their [[?]] they are entitled to reap the [[?]]

[[?]] Awakes to the Subject.

[[?]] about England?" remarked [[?]] correspondent.

[[?]] big prizes offered are causing [[?]] to be displayed. Several [[?]]been submitted to the club [[?]] within a few days we hope [[?]]number. In fact, we have [[?]] to hold a test meeting next [[?]] want models to work with.

[[?]]  only are of no uses for [[?]]. We want to get down to the [[?]] people seem to think we [[?]], always ready to [[?]] optimistic person who fancies [[?]] the secret of the flying [[?]].

[[?]] take it so, judging from [[?]]. First one, then another, [[?]] he is certain that if he only [[?]] $1,500 he could test his [[?]]and it would prove a [[?]]of money certainly is to be [[?]] until we are shown the model [[?]] that has been tried and will [[?]] consider applications."

[[?]] Maxim's Praise.

[[?]] Sir Hiram Maxim says he [[?]] that has been obtained [[?]] brothers is greater than [[?]]by M. Santos-Dumont.

[[?]] written by these brother to [[?]] build they succeeded in [[?]]

[[?]] New York

Here's the Orthoptere, Newest Champion of Freak Flying Machines.

Grotesque in the extreme is the latest machine now on exhibition at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in the Palais de Cingartenaire, at Brussels. In appearance it resembles a gigantic wasp, as the accompanying illustration indicates. There have been many fantastic [[?]] weird models of flying machines [[?]] the past, but the "orthoptere," as [[?]]one is called, easily takes first place in the rank of the freaks.

This invention is the joint work of three members of the Aero Club of Belgium. They are Baron de la Hault, Capt. Marga and M. Jansen. They have spent much money and some years in perfecting their extraordinary ideas. A model of the huge wasp has been successfully flown, but the big machine itself has not yet had a public trial.

This wasp is of 60-horse power. It depends upon its wings to raise it from the surface of the earth. These wings or planes, are made of oiled silk. In addition there are gigantic aluminum propellers which revolve at the terrific speed of 30,000 revolutions a minute. The 60-horse power is supplied by a Buchet motor.

There are two sinks to the body-an outer one, covered with a heavy cloth resembling dark brown velveteen, and an inner one of aluminum. There is an air chamber between the two skins. The aeronauts take their places inside the body, which is lighted by four windows-two on each side-and an "eye" in the front of the head. In the extremeity of the tail are three large balls filled with air. These are intended to soften the concussion when the machine comes to the ground. The six legs are put on for purposes of balance and also to complete the resemblance of the machine to a gigantic wasp.

The inventors are enthusiastic over the completion of the machine and feel sure of its success.

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World New York 
24 Nov 1906

A WOMEN'S AIRSHIP. 

Miss Todd's Invention To Be Exhibited at Aero Club Show. 

An airship constructed in a New York studio by a women who never made an aerial ascent in her life, who never had a lesson in manual training and who got almost all her knowledge of aerial navigation from books' will be one of the exhibits at the coming exhibition of the Aero Club at the Grand Central Palace, from December 1 to December 8. The inventor, Miss E. Lillian Todd, does not even know whether her machine will fly or not. She has never had an opportunity to try it, and is awaiting the coming test at the exhibition with peculiar interest.

"Theoretically it ought to fly," Miss Todd said to a Tribune reporter yesterday, "but theory seems to count for nothing in aerial navigation. You can't tell anything about it, except by actual experiment.

"Are there any novel features in my machine? Well, of course, that is a secret, and I really have no idea myself whether the thing is worth anything. I am sending it to the exhibition to find out. But my car is something of a novelty, and I don't mind telling you about it. The usual car is simply a skeleton, and if anything goes wrong at either end you have to crawl out on the small edge of nothing and fix it. Mine has a solid bottom from end to end. I prefer to sacrifice lightness for security."

Miss Todd began experimenting with airships simply for amusement, about four years ago. She had only her evenings to devote to the work, and was interrupted for two years during the time by absence from town. Her interest in the subject was aroused by having seen the dirigible ballon of the Spencer brothers at Ranelagh, England. She had an opportunity to inspect this machine carefully, but otherwise has had little personal acquaintance with the navigation of the air. She has twice been in active blooms, but never made a real ascension.

"I had an opportunity to do so in France," she said, "but was afraid to, because I could not speak the language. I thought if anything happened it would be unpleasant not be able to communicate with my companions in peril."

Though Miss Todd's interest in airships is reset, she has always been fond of mechanical work. She has pursued her bent from childhood without any instruction either in the use of tools or in drawing.



Transcription Notes:
This is a duplicate of the prior page in which the left hand side is not cut off. That page, however, has an additional paragraph at the bottom of th Woman's Airship article.