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Show HUGE AIRSHIP IS BE1 BUILT Monoplane of Dinosauric Proportions Pro-portions Will Carry Eight or Ten Passengers. ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR PLANNED Colossal Aerial Craft Represents Repre-sents First Attempt at Commercial Com-mercial Utility. NEW YORK. Dec. C The largest hoavler-than-alr nylng craft in the world n monoplane is nearlng completion at Genesseo Valley park, Rochester, and will make Its flight beforo Christmas day. It Is as different from the present typo of aircraft the Wright, Curtlns and Blorlot machines as the Lusltanla Is from Fulton's Ful-ton's Clermont, though It embodies the first principles of the preceding craft, Just as tho Clermont's working principle Is found In tho big Cunardor. Inventors, managers and aviators who have seen the machine John F. Cooley Is constructing at Rochester, say that it will solve the one big pronlem of aviation avia-tion safety. The Cooley craft is of dlno-eaurlc dlno-eaurlc outline and proportion, and carries the suggestion still further In general appearance. It weighs 2800 pounds, 13 equipped with two six-cylinder ninety horse-power Elbrldge engines, which will run Independently of each other, and when used together, are capable of driving driv-ing the plane at the speed of 125 mllcn an hour, cnrrylng eight or ten passengers. It Is constructed of Fpruce wood, tipped off with piano wire. The soaring apparatus ap-paratus is of Irish nlaid aeronautic cloth, especially prepared for this purpose, and will conslnt of 15 IS square feet, modeled like a bird's wing. Four Sets of WingB. There will bo four sots of wings, eacn Independent of tho other The wings are set at right angles to the car, and aro held rigid In that position by 12S piano wires of a tested strongth of 2000 pounds each. The mechanism Is entirely closed, nnd the engineer and aviator aa well as an assistant aie housed In a closed cabin with portholes covered with glass, similar to those of a ship. Tho rraft combines nil the features which by expert aviators are considered consid-ered essential to ncronnutlcal navigation, and tho first serious effort of actual com-morclal com-morclal utility Is made. , The craft is equipped with a complete Hrctrlcnl devlco for signaling nnd also for Illumination. The pneumatic control Is oporatod by carbonated gas carried in a lank, and tho tubular lubricating system sys-tem Is so arranged that the engineer doos not have to leave his seat to oil any part of tho mechanism. Movablo SpartJ. One of the special features is the movable mov-able front and rear spars, by which thj plane Is mado to take tho air. The spars, which are attached to the axles, aro arranged In Buch manner that they can be thrown up or down, ' causing" the planes and car to tilt up or down. "There would bo but ons setback to prevent the flight of our monoplane," snld Manager Goldcnson today, and he hailoned to explain. "All the established laws of nature would have to go back on us. Our entire weight will be less than two pounds to the square foot of supporting surface. Machines weighing five pounds to the foot have flown. Our motive power Is also proportionately greater. "Ninety-eight per cent of tho weight of the monoplane Is downward weight below the wings' surface and tho wings aro at right angles to the weight To Illustrate my meaning more clearly, a side wind would not tilt our plane, but would move tho whole machine sideways. We have proved this In tests of our models. We have started models upside down and they would right themselves In the nlr and settle down to earth Just as you have seen thousands and thousands thou-sands of pigeons do." |