| Show u A VIA TI 01 Y By Y 2 P Pw w 4 M S n X Y t a n J w Yv w x i 0 1 w Ld fh Tre fc hay Iia ha hannd undoubtedly turned t nt to flying IHK a nIJ as the most i vital at ot I prey It tt tiny day possibilities sorting ng circles tire abandoning the e auto for the tb pair machine titled tilled t and wealthy sportsmen ona aeroplanes of ot various kings I nd now extol extol the above abate the jockey Jock or Europe IH is mad F f mIE to Wilbur r and a nd Orville Wright mu mt mys t ever d be awarded W the Mistook the first practical awl and a real I aero zero Aeroplanes aeroplanes planes jet yet today In were 11 II re exist not one oDe nor a It dozen dozell hut but many Score core of aeroplanes equal to the two fly in n machines with which each brother almost at the same moment astounded two taro continents Both Doth of the Wright brothers are now Ut leg Oo to t atte their patent eat t Onille Orville In to September made a new record for high flying with his aeroplane at Berlin Probably Delagrange II and ILK uti Latham are the three European aviators n held bald In to the tile highest esteem Glenn H Cirtie C beat by n It few tew seconds only in the tue speed tests during durin Rheims aviation weeK and Delagrange has bas made m de som om tome wonderful flights In a atun tun hine of type s sAll All AU of these thee th e men are famous ramous but new records are being made almost dally daily The Th latest project watch has already begun to fascinate a number of Euro European European European is the attempt to cross the Mediterranean toa foo at the Straits of Ol I Z The man who first flies Bloc ill from f om Bui Eu Europe rope to Africa will undoubtedly always have bate a place in history and with the Immense Im Immense Immense mense strides being made in the science s of ot flying its successful accomplishment tt V v DI DIe t ro F iH e it 3 feti e ff rl z r I is probably only a matter teJ of a few months t t f f I riot Is shown In the machine with which he crossed the Channel while white Delagrange Is shown in the machine he used at Rheims which Is also exactly li modeled after the aeroplane used by li of Amateur Undoubtedly the most striking differ difference ence between the status of flying in Eu Europe Europe Europe rope and In the United States is the fact fl ct that scarcely a n dozen here are arc capable of Intelligently handling a flying machine while in Europe there are arc at least a n thou thon thousand thousand sand men who understand bow how to manip manipulate manipulate a mono or a biplane Ot Of course it itis itIs Itis is in and near Paris that the navigators of 01 the air now by International consent called caU d aviators aviator congregate cong There aro ore are constantly c on the favorite grounds over I which flying machines are ar exercised ex ei rc has kar karto to many as a score of aviators There fh re are are also a n dozen noted tracks for trying out aeroplanes and at least three enclosed aerodromes in which thousands gather to watch the tactics of the aviators flying their machines All of or these are arc in or near Paris but hut at Zurich and at nt are two tracks marked out with extending 00 feet in the air These stake out the h aerial track for tor aeroplanes and this they must follow during the flying races which are a weekly occurrence in Europe So the airship or rather the aeroplane hap hall become commonplace In Europe and andin andIn andin in i any of the great capitals they no longer loeger draw crowds by their t appearance overhead There are arent at least halt half a dozen establishments In Paris exclusively engaged en ged In building aeroplanes nero planes to too order sad and two factories which h are building aeroplanes on special patents p and rare are arenow now pla placing them oa on sale Even two J j i 1 r r I big department stores in Paris have aero acre aeroplanes plan plans planes on saleIt sale saleIt saleIt It is 13 illuminating to realize that in Europe one no longer argues concerning whether man can fly with an nn aeroplane but there is a heated discussion as ns to which of or the several brands of or aeroplanes Is the faster taster and which makes the quick quicker er cr turns Also the subject of the best engines is a matter matt r pf of debate In other words the aeroplane bas baa reached the same scale and station as the automobile ten years back when the adherents of various types claimed theirs were the only good and worthy models Dirigibles for Wars AVan Aeroplanes for Sport The development of the two means for navigating the air has become very dig dis distinct now The big dirigible balloons have been d by individuals in and for or amusement and sport the aeroplane I Is almost unanimously adopted It costs costa wy At N x q ww c y E c Bi AS 9 fi A L LD h 7 D t r is Y c much less and is easier casler to handle and to move more about j But nut the e balloon big in size and far slower and leas less certain In Its movements is none tho the less lees considered by br byall brall byall all military experts as so far tar much more valuable for use in war The aeroplane can carry but bat two men and these men must be careful to sit still and rigid to avoid disturbing dangerously the flight of the machine Obviously two men so placed in a flying firing machine could do little damage to an enemy underneath them and andas andas andas as they fly only a few hundred feet from the ground they could also evidently be crippled or killed with comparative ease It is the dirigible balloon like that of ot Count Zeppelin which appears to hold holdout holdout holdout out an nn opportunity to turn tum old war meas measures measures measures ures upside down Quite naturally both the French and an English governments were decidedly startled by the widely heralded achievements of Count Zeppelin the French answer to the German war balloon bal balloon balI loon was the huge dirigible the I lique of which a n photograph is shown This balloon was recently destroyed by byan byan byan an explosion and several men were killed With such air machines actually exist existing lag ing there can be no longer doubt that the th I next neat great continental war will find tile battles between the air and tile the surface most important In deciding the issue of or arms Latest Aeroplane Developments While the European governments are exclusively ex exclusively building and studying the big dirigible balloons for war purposes all ail aUthe the sporting and scientific circles oc on the Continent and In England are busy basy bu y de developing developing eloping and learning to fly the aeroplanes The photograph shown of ot Hubert Latham depicts that famous aviator avator in the ma machine m machine chine with which he has sailed over oer much of the English Channel Notice th seat s nt which closely resembles r the seat In an ordinary rowing shell for boat racing facing purposes The l under his right hand band contracts or expands the wings of his aeroplane much after the manner in which a bird expands its wings It Is with this wheel that he changes the direction of his flying machine and has baa under the gaze of thousands turned countless circles over toe the tte tossing waves of the ocean The lever seen through the tha steering wheel is the tAe one that controls the engine and thereby the propeller which has given this same machine the speed I of forty miles as hoar hour The other photo photograph pho photograph graph of Latham shows Us lB in fall full flight lie hal boa just bent beat his hll great at wings to his bis aeroplane and is turning a wide wI e circle to tile the left lett 1 Aside from the UN dirigible le balloons and the tile aeroplanes patterned after the tile 01 is inal Wright machines m Buro has lias a third type ranch muck less lees known iet het et its ita Inventor Paul Cornu Corns metes mates great 11 for tor hi bit machine which Is called a This Tills machine e has BO so propeller pr peller but hut screws Its way directly upwards upward from the earth by a special apparatus which M Cornu claims Is marvelously effective Altogether Alto the wealthy young man io la fai i Europe nc ys considers rs an as aeroplane as n bI to his governments gov governments are spending la In with big t 11 tB and the theair airs air is full of gossip about abat aviation and spotted here and there with the hardy I pursuers of airship fame tame |
