Show NOW Its It's the WINGED BICYCLE ITH t the e return of sports in France Franco there theta W WITH is a decided revival of interest in winged bicycles s or flying In the days day before the war there was no end to the tho numerous attempts at flying without power other than that generated by bythe the would would-be flyer himself AU All sorts of queer contraptions with the conventional bicycle as t the e foundation were entered in these iI I iI I i LY G f 1 33 fI il This Winged Bicycle Is Said to Have Hopped Bopped About 40 Feet cont contests and months upon months of strenuous training pr preceded ceded most attempts Little came out of these contests however for the good reason that too little was known about aerodynamics to tomake tomake tomake make flight possible with the small power avail avail- able There now comes from irom Paris a report that winged bicycles are arc again appearing in largo large numbers and there is much strenuous training taking place among contestants for the best flight carried out with no other motive power than that that furnished furni he by the pilot It is announced that the well weIl known French cyclist had made a hop of 12 metres at a height of 1 metre Nen UiO I his speed being 9 0 kilometers an hour In the accompanying illustration is shown a winged bicycle bi bicycle bi bi- cycle or as the French call these little machines A story has been going round the press accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied by a n photograph stating that a mo mo- airplane has hns been raised by man power at the Field Berlin to a fla height of ot BO 60 metres The Thc machine in the tho opinion of a writer in the S Scientific Am American rican is apparently the fuselage and undercarriage of the earliest type Fokker monoplane fitted with shaped gull-shaped wings of at least 25 feet span The Germans claimed at one time to be super One of the them n must certainly be a super-man super if this machine machine ma ma- chine ever left the ground |