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[[strikethrough]]84[[strikethrough]] 70 1907. February 4. Sun New York. 2 Nov 1906 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell next read an extended paper upon flying machines. He began with a historical introduction in which he reaffirmed, as an eye witness, the facts of Prof. Langley's experiment of 1896 upon an aerodrome having a wing spread of 14 feet and propelled by steam. "No one," he said, "who had witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a steam engine flying with wings in the air, like a great soaring bird, could have doubted for a moment the practicability of aerial flight." He maintained that the later disaster proved nothing. He then described the machine of the Wright brothers. They have kept in the air for 38 minutes, and have described figures of eight. The weight carried was nearly two pounds to the square foot of supporting plane. Their velocity has been about thirty-seven miles an hour. Dr. Bell thinks, however, that such high speed is dangerous, at any rate in the infancy of art, although it is necessary if the weight is to be so great in proportion to the supporting plane. He also showed exactly why planes that are nearly horizontal are necessarily deficient in stability. For that reason, he prefers a structure built up of tetrahedral cells. He describes a kite made and flown by him. Each cell consists of two horizontal rods each about 10 inches long, one running, say north and south, and the other east and west, each end of each being connected by means of a rod of equal length with each end of the other. The two lower triangles so formed are covered with silk. His kite was built up as follows: The lowest layer consisted of 12 rows of 13 of such cells in each row; the next layer of 11 rows of 14 cells in each row, &c. Each layer had one fewer rows than the layer below it and one more cell in each row. Thus the twelfth layer consisted of a single row of 24 cells. There were 1,300 cells in all. These cells weighed about 40 pounds, and some strengthening material brought the weight up to 61 pounds. In a breeze not sufficient to raise whitecaps on the surface of the sea, this kite carried up, besides its own weight, 62 pounds of manila rope and a man whose weight was 165 pounds, making 288 pounds in all. This was about one-third the weight to the square foot of supporting plane that the Wright machine carries, but the tetrahedral structure is far more stable than Wright's at the same velocity. Herald New York 2 Nov 1906. MR. PEARY AGAINST ARCTIC BALLOONS - Explorer Has No Faith in Efforts to Reach the Pole by Aerial Contrivances - [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD] BOSTON, Mass., Tuesday. - Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Peary arrived here at fifteen minutes after nine o'clock to-night and left for New York on the midnight train. They spent the interval in the city as guests of Colonel W. E. Haskell, of the Boston Herald, who invited a number of prominent Bostonians to meet them at the Herald office. "While I don't want to appear as criticising the plans of others personally, I have no faith in the airship or allied means for reaching the North Pole," said Commander Peary to a correspondent for the HERALD to-day on the train en route to this city. "If it was possible to bring an airship to such a degree of perfection that it would be as reliable as an ocean liner and dirigible enough to withstand 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, these 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 manage-[[?]] Monday at Baadeck. Leu[[?]]fs, Paris 29 Nov 1906. Le Dirigeable << Patrie >> Mantes, 28 novembre. Après une semaine d'essais, au cours de laquelle sept ascensions libres ont été effectuées avec succès le dirigeable Patrie a été reçu par la commission désignée par la ministre de la guerre. Ce matin, l'équipage militaire en a pris possession et pour la première fois, sans la'assistance du personnel de MM. Lebaudy, a conduit le dirigeable. Le capitaine Voyer, assisté du lieutenant Bois, commandait la manoeuvre, et dans la nacelle, duex officiers du bataillon des aérostiers de Versailles, le commandant Aron et le capitaine Poran avaient pris place comme passagers. L'ascension a duré une heure et demie. Les Sports Paris 29 Nov 1906 Les dirigeables Zeppelin Un consortium berlinois vient de mettre à la disposition da comte Zeppelin une somme de 125.000 francs pour la continuation des essais de son dirigeable. L'aéronaute, qui a déjà sacrafié toute sa fortune, sera maintenant en état de construire, sur le lac de Constance, un hangar flottant pour son ballon, dans la baie de Fishbach. Il sera ainsi plus facile de conduire l'aérostat sur le lac pour prendre son essor. L'ancien hangar de Manzell, construit sur terre ferme, est cependant conservé. F.W. Les Sports - Paris 29 Nov 1906 Les frères Wright font quelques révélations - Les frères Wright, interviewés par notre confrère le New York Herald, à Dayton, Ohio, lui ont donné quelques détails sur leur aéroplane, tout en gardant le secret sur les bases même de leur appareil. 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