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to such a degre [[?]] 
to be as reliable as an ocean liner and [[?]]
enough to withstand the sudden and remarkable fluctuations of circumpolar aerial navigation, and able to go to windward-all of which is not- then we might talk with reason about balloons and aeroplanes. However, there ideas of electrical sledges and airships as contrivances on which to reach the pole are based, it seems to me, on lack of knowledge of prevailing conditions up there. "An airship as it is at present would meet with insurmountable difficulties, rapid fluctuations in temperature there being about as fierce and as variable as the winds. Then, the heavy falls of snow weighing on the balloon would make a very appreciable difference in its weight, with consequent difficulties in its management. "The rise and fall of temperature to the extent of a difference of twenty-five degrees with or without the sun would naturally have its effect on the gas and on the mechanical operation of the ship. 

News Buffalo 28 Nov 1906. N.Y.
Aeroplanes will be the Fad next season 
In time they will become so cheap that even the poor may have them 

Santos Dument has found a [[?]]
predicts, will next year be the fad of society, and within a short time will become so cheap that the poor man can exchange his bicycle for one. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the Inventor said the other day: "The machine I am experimenting with is very large, having a surface of 80 square meters, but the practical aeroplane, which will be for the air what the ordinary bicycle is for the earth, will be much smaller. With ordinary flying machines it is necessary to increase the size in order to increase the power. With the aeroplane, on the contrary, the speed will be increased in direct proportion to the diminution of the resisting surface. My present aeroplane was intentionally built large to overcome main obstacles as to principles. But with increased power, which means speed, the size can be reduced. At the same time increased speed adds to the safety, as a powerful motor is more easily manipulated. We can, therefore, look forward to a practical aeroplane which can be comfortably housed in every home. From the standpoint of maintenance, the cost both of petroleum and repairs, the aeroplane will be much less expensive than the auto car. There will be no expensive tires to burst and no bad roads to jolt them to pieces. There will be no collisions. Next year people will be able to go to the seashore on their aeroplanes. It will become the fad and the commencement of a new industry." "What of the danger?" "The only danger would be the risk of a broken rudder, and I cannot see that a rudder could break itself. The aeroplane is immobility itself. The swerving which made me descend on Oct. 23 can be easily rectified by a second rudder to counteract any tendency in that direction. The practical difficulty, while the matter remains in the experimental stage, would, of curse, be how to control the supplementary rudders while the hands are otherwise engaged. My itnention is to attach the yoke ropes to my neck and maintain the equilibrium by the instinctive movement of the head. Later this primitive arrangement will be replaced by an automatic mercurial apparatus. "When the automobile was first introduced, the man in the street treated those who had the temerity to operate them as madmen, never anticipating the day when the fashionable thoroughfares with automobiles filled with nurses and newly-born children. Men will drive aeroplanes as they now drive automobiles. There will be a short apprenticeship, but that can be done on 

terra firma [[?]]
far distant means of [[?]]
the air the

[[?]] New York 
28 Nov 1906 

Wright Brothers 
Invited to Fly
Paris Herald in Leder Points Out That They Have the Opportunity 
Will they seize it?
If willing to compete for prize, why not try daily mail contest? Asks the Hearld. 
May become a necessity
On the hours of a dilemma, for, if they sell their invention to France, they must exhibit
Special cable to the herald. 
Herald Bureau, no. 43 Avenue de l'opera 
Paris, Wednesday 

The Herald's European edition publishes the following leader under the heading "Messrs. Wright have the opportunity to obtain money and fame in the Daily Mail's aeroplane contest. Will they seize it?" Whatever may be the practical value of the Wright's aeroplane it must be acknowledged that the two brother have succeeded in focusing the attention of the aeronautical world upon themselves and upon Dayton, Ohio. But, so far as Europe is concerned, this curiosity is clouded with sceptleism owing to the fact that available information regarding the invention is so small, while the results which its inventors claim to have achieved are socolossal. "Aeronauts, in fact, refuse to believe that the air has been conquered until precise details concerning the machine are forthcoming. Although the essential features of the Wright aeroplane are enshrouded in mystery the Herald's despatch, published to-day, throws a little light upon the reasons for the secrecy maintained by Messrs. Wright and oulines their views. "First, as justification for secrecy, Messrs. Wright explain that there is nothing patentable about their machine and that as soon as it is seen by experts it will be duplicated and practically opened to the world.' No one can blame inventors for taking every measure to protect, in order to profit from, a secret that has cost them years of laborious and expensive research. "Nevertheless, the brothers Wright are willing to compete for a prize of $100,000 for four lights of fifty miles each. "A single flight would enable the Wrights to win half that sum to-morrow, as our active contemporary, the Daily Mail has offered a prize of 10,000 to any one who may succeed in going by aeroplane from its London office to its office in Manchester. Further, prizes open to competitors of any nationality to bring the Daily Mail's offer to 12,000. Surely if the Wrights can afford to make four flights for 500,000f. they can make one for 300,000f. They may, indeed, find it not only advantageous but even necessary to seize the opportunity to recoup themselves. It is gravely assured that the French government has obtained an option to purchase the Wright's invention for 1,000,000f. after it shall have made a successful test flight of fifty kilometers. But there's the rub. The test flight naturally must be made before experts representing the French government. Now, will cease to be a secret the instant experts see the aeroplane. Thus they are on the horns of a dilemma. Unless they show the machine to a test flight of fifty kilometers they French government will not purchase it, and if they do show it their secret will become public property, for which the French government need not give a centime. The view of these circumstances Messrs. Wright would do well to win the Daily Mail's prize, with 'added money' of 300,000f., and Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's challenge cup. Otherwise they may not only lose the pecuniary recompense of their inventive ingenuity, but may even be nonsuited in a claim to rank as first inventors of a practical flying machine. History is likely to attach less importance to the 'affidavits'' of people who saw the brothers fly than to the undisputed and undeniable flights of M. Santos-Dumont.