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known Lyons [[/]], is shortly to be tried near that city, to enter the contest for the $50,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for the first successful aeroplane flight from London to Manchester. M. Collomb came to the conclusion a short time ago that the screw so commonly used in aeroplanes has numerous defects, owing to the small power developed, the large amount of space required, and its lack of facility. He says that the ordinary propeller screw, while excellent in water is quite useless for an air machine. He has, therefore, replaced the screw used by Santos Dumont and others by a special kind of propeller of great strength and small size, exerting great lifting power, and capable of being handled with perfect ease. M. Collomb's machine consists of a chassis about six feet in length and four feet wide, made of sheet iron, running on four light wheels provided with thick pneumatic tires. The motor-a 50 horse-power Mors- is placed in the middle of the chassis. The total weight of the machine is 330 pounds. The lifting power which the new propeller has given in experiments is 60 pounds per horse-power motor M. Collomb estimates that he has a lifting power of 3,000 pounds, or about nine times as much as required to lift the machine. Nevertheless, M. Collomb, in order to provide against the possibility of accident in case of the sudden stoppage of the motor, has attached to his machine a sort of parachute arrangement so as to lessen the shock of a sudden descent. In a few weeks M. Collomb will make his first trial trip, and he asserts that the results will revolutionize all existing ideas about the building of aeroplanes. This New Airship e obtained by means of a [[text cut off]]tructed electric motor. This f twenty horse-power, in elow that of the ordinary same power, and is ex d the airship along at the r seven miles an hour. agency, such as gas, will be rials to be made during the flight of the machine will ly on the action of the air of the angles, assisted by r. Medwin says it is ready in the water after the new ached. rial is over on the lake apparatis will be attached and an effort will be made n an operator aboard to machinery and guide the or Bell and family will ar eck early in June.