Show Annual Influx of Strange Airplanes Begins at Roosevelt Flying Field as Inventors Prepare to Test Out Craft I Most of Them Never Rise From Ground Others Interest Experts By RAYMOND J. J J CROWLEY Associated Press Pres Staff Writer FIELD N. N Y Feb 11 Strange birds are coming to Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose velt field to see if they can fly Hy Almost any day now unless a belated be be- winter plumps down into springs spring's lap lop the annual Influx of flying machines such as never were seen on land or in the sky is expected to begin Reports from Long Island woodsheds woodsheds wood wood- other sheds Manhattan lofts and nooks where inventors inventors amateur amateur or pro wield pro wield their tools say that the number of airplanes of novel design under construction is greater than eve ever Most of them will never get off oft the ground Some few are arc arousing the theS interest of experts For instance behind be bc S hind locked doors In a Broadway loft engineers have been hard at work vork building a plane without wings It has four spindles Instead and it utilizes util izes a new principle of flight The whirling spindles react to much the same principle as a ship rotor i but by their conical shapes they do donot donot donot not set up so stable a series of ot air currents as to defy control ns os in the case casc of another rotor plane projected several years ago Small pockets In Inthe inthe Inthe the spindles are said to overcome most of the great drag set up by rotors Over at Curtiss Wright airport M. M B. B Bleecker a young college graduate ate Is working on a queer looking plane on which is said to have been spent already So far as asIs asis is known it has been off the ground only once but the experts are keepIng keep keep- Ing ig an e eye e cocked in its direction This craft sits on a sort of tripod on wheels Above a 11 short fuselage is the motor and above that four tour wings which revolve each having a propeller attached The theory is that the plane will rise straight up Into the air SOME ARE LAUG LAUGHABLE ABLE Sometimes the appearance of the planes gives aviators a smile Like the ore one brought here several years ago which reminded airmen of or a stack of doughnuts piled one atop the other The doughnuts were the wings This field one of ot the country's greatest airports has become a sort of gravitation center for freak planes All AU through the winter budding de de- signers come in to get parts At the first sign of ot spring out they come with their brain children some small some large but all bearing the sign of the amateur Airmen here pick up a pretty penny helping to get the craft ready for lor the theair theair air but in many cases the time to take them aloft never seems to arrive |