Show AERIAL NAVIGATION A Michigan Man Who Could Give Pointers to Jules Verne HOUGHTON Mich July 18Prof W W McEwen of Jackson proposes to revolutionize aeronautics by using an immense rocket for his ascensions instead I in-stead of the timeworn balloon Various modes have been experimented I ed with and a great deal of careful test work done with various materials and different forms of rockets At last a model has been produced which has made three highly successful ascensions ascen-sions and Mr McEwen has begun work I in Chicago upon the sixtyfoot rocket of aluminum and other things which I is to carry him two miles into the air I in fewer seconds by many than mortal I man has ever traversed that distance on earth or through the atmosphere I Professor McEwen says there will be no stick to this gigantic cloud piercer but that otherwise the general form of the ordinary rocket will be retained The various devices for the propulsion of the monster the steadying of its long flight through the air the provision provis-ion of air to its human occupant and the mechanical filling of the parachute at the crucial second when the rocket j has reached its highest and would otherwise fall to the earth at a rate faital to the rider all these will be thoroughly covered by patents in the I United countries States and the leading foreign |