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Show Toy Plying Machines. Toy fh'ing machines aro now made in gTcat varietj- as to st3-les and sizes and range in price from 25 cents up to $r50. The lower priced toys of this sort, aro littlo metallic airships which do nor. actually fly, but when drivou hy a propcllor wheel operated b3 clockwork, clock-work, swing out and describo a horizontal hori-zontal circle .in tho air whilo suspended suspend-ed at the end of a cord. Thoro aro flying machines of this kind fashioned in imitation of the Zeppelin Zep-pelin airship in various sizes up to a length of eight or ten inches. Thcro are also clockwork, bird-shaped flying machines eight or ten inches, and with the propcllor whocl placed iu front, that soil for fiO cents and 75 cents. Tho most striking of tho clockwork flying machines that aro worked to swing around suspended is one modeled mod-eled after tho Wright flyiug mnchino, with its planes about n foot in widti. Tho niachino sells for $G. Tho machino that sella for 50 will actually Jlv, It. weighs five pounds, its length is flvo foot four inches and its spread of wings or planes from tip to lip iivo feet six inches. Tf. has a fraino of wood, supported on the rogu-laiion rogu-laiion roller wheels, thrco in number, 011 which il. rolls along the ground pro-iiaratorN' pro-iiaratorN' to starting on itf flight. Tt has four wings, placed horizon Uillv and all in tho sanio plane, two on each sido, ono back of tho other, and ':!. Ins a regnlai.ion propcllor wheel of wood with two narrow blades, Iho wheel being be-ing about twenty inches in diameter. Power for this niachino is supplied bv a stout, thick strip of rubber, which extends from tho extreme- front end of mnchino's frame along itn top to tho wl.eel at t.ho back, and which is free except at tho oxtronio onds. Tn get tho power In movo this machine the rubber strip is twisted by moans of the propeller wheel used as a crank. Thus when the oropoller is released- tho rub b"r nncoi!s itself along its lotiflli, enw--Mi'-icatinir nowor to tho propeller, Thia tpichinn will fly two blocks. |