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[[? ]]a prop[[? ]]ich are two meters in [[? ]] peller has been placed in front[[?]] of that it will have a better [[?]]e air. Behind and below the [[?]]e seat for the operator. It is [[?]re than a tricar saddle, but from [[?]]umont can direct and manoeuvre [[?]]tus. The helm and steering gear [[?]]e rear, with side rudders on the [[?]] controlling the equilibrium or [[?]]ine. The whole aeroplane weighs [[?]]ilos less than the "Bird of Prey." [[?]]nted on a single cycle wheel equip[[?]] and automobile tire, for the pre[[?]] run before the aeroplane mounts. [[?]] Dumont discarded the two wheels he used in operating the "Bird of [[?]] upon the theory that the less con[[?]] with the earth the faster and the [[?]]ater the rise into the air. The trials [[?]]egin as soon as the ground at St. Cyr [[?]]fficiently hard to give a good running [[?]]ce.

Eve. Mail New York
11 Mar 1907.
DUMONT'S LATEST AIRSHIP DEVICES
Novel Features of New Aeroplane
Built to Compete for 
$10,000 Prize.
Paris, March 11. - Santos Dumont's new aeroplane, constructed to compete for the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of $10,000 for the first "heavier than air" machine to cover a distance exceeding one kilometer and return to the point of departure, is much smaller, more rigid and more powerful than the "Bird of Prey," with which he won the Archdeacon prize with a flight of 220 meters last fall.
In the new machine the canvas of the wings has been replaced by very thin polished wood, and the framework is of light mahogany.
The two wings, constructed like Hargrave box kites, meet at an angle of eight degrees and have a spread from tip to tip of thirteen meters. Their width is only sixty centimeters.
A fifty horse power motor at the center will operate a propeller the alumininm blades of which are two meters in diameter. The propeller has been placed in front in the belief that it will have a better trip on the air.
Behind and below the motor is the seat of the operator. It is a little more than a tricar saddle, but from it Santos Dumont can direct and maneuver the apparatus.
The whole aeroplane weighs twenty kilos less than the "Bird of Prey." It is mounted on a single cycle wheel equipped with an automobile tire, for the preliminary run before the aeroplane mounts.
Santos Dumont discarded the two wheels which he used in operating the "Bird of Prey," upon the theory that the less contact with the earth the faster and the straighter the rise into the air. The trials will begin as soon as the ground at St. Cyr is sufficiently hard to give a good running surface.
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For this same [[ ]] to get him to draw the sk [[ ]] companies this article. The sketch was made, none the less, and gradually the inventor was persuaded to talk about his new experiments, which probably are the most interesting developments at the moment in the history of aeronautics. If Gillespie finally does make a substantial advance in human flying it will in a great measure be due to what he has worked out in motors. Practically, the position up to date has been that motors that would fill the bill for stability have weighted down each airship