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They [[new?]] all the disappointments of patents and patent litigation and therefore avoided at first the patent question.  However in order to have some kind of protection they had filed a preliminary [[strikethrough]] statemen [[/strikethrough]] patent in the United States so as to cover [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] broadly their invention with the intention however of waiting the proper time of filing supplementary patents.  Afterwards came his [[red underline]] flights in France and in Germany and in Washington [[/red underline]] a considerable time after sneering skeptics kept on denying the report of their first flight.  He says the frenchmen treated him with much enthusiasm but had a hard struggle to pronounce his name in their french fashion.  He says [[red underline]] the size of the flying machine [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] is limited in about the same way as the length of a metallic wire is limited. [[/red underline]]  A metallic wire of a certain length has a certain tensile strength and can carry a considerable weight without breaking, but if you indefinitely increase the length of the wire, the moment will come when the wire will break off by its own weight.  So it is with the flying machine.  But [[red underline]] if you use a bi-plane [[/red underline]] you have certain structural advantages which insure for the same size, greater strength. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] His first patent specification [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] were all [[red underline]] for monoplanes [[/red underline]]
He still [[red underline]] considers the monoplane [[/red underline]] as the most graceful, and easiest to construct for small sizes.  Says has now a [[red underline]] stabilizing device [[/red underline]] which is quite successful.  [[strikethrough]] Thinks [[/strikethrough]] the value of a stabilizer much overrated mainly by a public which reasons theoretically and does not seem to understand that