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air machine will be in the application [[of?]] some scientific principle involved in the flight of birds and insects. To this end Dr. Von Lendenfield and his assistants have been making, and are still making, careful investigations.
They have established the fact that some property of air enables the larger and heavier birds to sustain their weight with comparatively much smaller wing surface; the larger the bird the smaller in proportion its wings. From this it has been worked out analogically that, given the secret of control of motion, a man weighing 200 pounds could sail through the air with a sustaining wing surface of about three quarter yards. Upon a principle of compressed air, therefore, may rest the solution of man's flight above the earth; and there is apparently nothing in the air-sac system of birds which should prevent the construction of a flying machine on similar principles. The Prague scientists are now studying the four-winged insects. They seek facts enough and significant enough to establish a theory so firmly that it cannot be moved.
Many other men in Europe and America are also experimenting on air crafts, some of them with enthusiastic hopes and confident predictions. It is expected that a great impetus will be given to these aims by the Jamestown exposition. It is stated that all the late inventions and contrivances of airship builders the world over are to be there, and will be tested in numerous competitions.
What is wanted is a machine that, without any gaseous inflations, will move through the air as fast as an express train's speed, and enable us to go in any direction at will with or against the wind, and land whenever and wherever we please.

Post Express. Rochester.
29 Apr 1907.
TO CROSS SEA IN 20 HOURS

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The Eagle Covers 100 Miles, but Is Beaten by the Micromegas.
PARIS, April 29.--The giant balloon The Eagle, which ascended from St. Cloud at 7:30 o'clock last night, landed near Blois at 10:30 this morning, having traveled 100 miles. The Micromegas, which is about ten times smaller than The Eagle, which ascended at the same time, traversed a distance of 192 miles, landing at Persac at 7:30 this morning. 
Thus the smaller balloon traveled ninety-two miles further than the larger, and did it in three hours' less time. The Micromegas, however, carried only passenger, while The Eagle had ten men aboard. The latter was consequently unable to carry more than 400 kilos of ballast, and it was not expected that it would make a long journey.
The ascent was witnessed by a large and fashionable gathering.

[[?]] Buffalo.
29 Apr 1907

N.Y. DINNER, AND LONDON BAEAKFAST
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Dr. Bell, Inventor of the Telephone, Makes That Prediction for Aerial Navigation.
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By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.—A London despatch to the Times quotes Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, as saying last night that it is only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation will make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe, covering the distances across the Atlantic in considerably less than 20 hours.
"My expnectations," [[expectations,"]] said Dr. Bell, "is that an airship will be perfected capable of making 150 to 200 miles an honur. [[hour.]] My opinion, however, is that the next step in aerial flight will take the form of such improveemnts [[improvements]] as will take the form of such improvements as will make possible the creation of aerial battleships.
"The actual problem of the navigation of the air has already been solved by the Wright brothers. Naturally there will be development along commercial lines, a feature of which will be a great increase in speed, but the most attention will be paid to adapting airships to the purposes of war. My belief is that America will be the first country to perfect aerial battleships. This belief is based on inside information and from the same source I get reliable statements on which I base my prediction of the early production of an airship of enormous speed.
Aerial Experiments.
"I hope to be able to add much to what is known of aerial flight by experiments at Cape Breton Island this summer. My problem this year will be to propel my kites with a specially constructed engine of fifteen horsepower, weighing 120 pounds. I hope to get a machine of the heavier-than-air variety that will support a man and the necessary equipment to operate it at low rather than high velocity. Last December I constructed a vehicle that supported itself and a man in a ten mile breeze. I now want to fly a machine carrying an engine at ten or fifteen miles an hour. If I can accomplish this, there is hope that the aviators, or the men who are trying to solve flight on the bird plan, will be able to avoid fatal accidents long enough to learn how to fly. Even a bird has to learn to fly, and, as with a bird, one of the first considerations is safety, so man must learn to go slow before he goes fast.
Flying Machines Everywhere.
"I am confident that it will not be long before flying machines will be everywhere. The developments of the next few months will be unprecedented but the most interesting point is that only very few know how near America is right now to solving a question which will revolutionize warfare throughout the world—I mean the construction of a practical aerial battleship."
Dr. Bell is in London to receive his degree of doctor of science at Oxford on May 2d.

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