Show UNCLE DICK 9 11 DIRIGIBLE AIR SHIP I ELL 1 suppose youve you've started I w in again to wrestle with the three said Uncle Dick Rs R's Rs Tommy as aa h he entered the woodshed one Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day IlY shortly after the tho reopening of school Yes indeed answered Tommy More particularly the last R R. R I thought ought fractious fractious frac frae- both refined and vulgar ar were hard enough to understand But this year and I 1 dou dout t we c have hac hi higher her mathematics mind telling you Uncle that some of or the thc problems are so EO high that we ought to 0 o have bae a flying machine to chase om cm em up Very true Tommy but you k keep p right righton on climbing after them and after a 11 while you IOU will find they're really not so hard to reach after all Speaking of flying machines what do you say to building to-day to Tho The nonchalant way in which Uncle Dick proposed building an aI hip in a aday aday aday day rather look took Tommy s 6 breath away and he looked so astonished that Uncle hick Dick hastened to odd I dont don't mean mealy one that you ou raft can go O u up uJ iu lu yourself b but t just a a. l little one to have fan fun un with ith Ive I've just been overto over ocr overto to the tho automobile factory talking with Bill Smith He's Hes s to so daffy on the aerial on question qu stion that he be cant can't talk about anything else It seems teems he wao wa over oter in New ew ew Jervey Jer trying out a new model touring longing car and nearly got ot shaken apart Theres There's a good stretch of road load near Kah- Kah tah way was va much used d by automobiles and also used as a n stalking ground by a slick constable con r stable table who is fast growing ioS wealthy collecting col col- collecting lines fines for or O Of cou course some of the machines sot got got iway away awny from him bim ro IO tip he built a l few bumps iu in the road that compelled the motor to slow dow up iron h for or him to nab them Now ow Mr l' l Smith didn't know anything about this Im- Im tn- tn in the road when he came hurtling hurt burt hurting ling ing through space at el eighty m milf miles an hour with his bis mw car carl I He tIc wasn't looking for trouble as ho hu had b been en over therond iso HO o many times before and was giving all his to lo the tho new llew wrinkles ia to the mechanism mechanists when when up zip up up tho car went about two f feet t in the air r The going o ng up wasn't want so 50 bad bad but when the th machine landed Mr Ir Smith mith lost beet a couple of teeth Before he hI could stop top the car ar he be went over I Ilo two o more bumps and be he declares that that about half balf the hair was jarred off bis his bead b ad I Well be p paid id his fine and re returned to the factory determined to get et every even with the countable In lu about two weeks he bad had Contrived Cd a pair of ot folding aeroplanes to attach to tile the sides Ides of ot the car Now when ue lie fells eels ls the t e need of a little relaxation be he c tuns runs OV over l' l to Railway iud cud soars oars over o lh those e bumps bump and watches the constable throw r fits That was the beginning of ot his bis flying ing machine craze Now ow be he doesn't thin think or of talk of anything else Ho lIe hasn't decided iI I i 1 y 4 FT r r a INSIDE E WIRE fR-AM fR r r 11 P c l r r- r e Y BAG PAPER t. t 4 e I l S t u FILLING 6 H G WITH raw J TING GASTo GAS To FOUR 1 GAS BAG aye t i 10 1 L o 0 1 p f 0 If f f 0 IY i 0 D I f PI PROPELLER BLA BLADE E. 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S t 1 ER r COPYRIGHT r P THE s-BY-THE BY THE N V Mi W YO K LD LU CO AH All flights o I yet set whether to go bO In n for or a u dirigible balloon or a heavier hea tb then thun n aft air ail machine Now ow let stop talking Iud and so go to work Heres Here's a u yard and aUlI a half of ot glazed mus mus- lin I bou bought ht it ou the tho thoa a way over paper over paper muslin th they y call it iu tar tut t stores tores I rues guess you on ca cap p t t-caio up the r rust roat t of the materials necessary This wn was a matter of ot small difficulty I as IS Tommy never throw threw anything away uway that mj might como come in handy There Thero were Wele parts of two or discarded is clock clockworks I I works work pieces of wire of or thick thick- and a d all w sorts of ot odds o ds and ends both metal and wood on the s shelf helf shelf or hanging m on nails and pegs in the wood wood- died After getting things s rca ready r Uncle Dick T tummy's assi uh- uh toned tho the iu wire he game mme for the balloon bal bal- loon was made from a of wire that bad already done good service ice in m holding a in position The glaze glazel 1 muslin Jin that Dick nick ha had bad purchased purchased pur pur- chased was wa a yard rud wide This made the tho tholas las gas bat bag about n a foot fool in ill diameter und and uncle Die Dich decided to make wake the bag Laz four our feet long Tommy Lad had ha a bottle ottle of or prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared glue with the scams beams were fastened a 1 hole in ono one end being left Idt to admit the gas Next c t the outside wire frame was bent on the same kind of wire re being used Then t the lo gentlemen n set It t Tommy whittling out our the Cub Club propeller bla cs lotI rudder from froll row li light ht pine wood keeping e cr everything as J light us Ut possible In the meantime ho hu was shaping the pieces of or w wire rc for the shaft baft and aDd to twist the rubber lubber bend on Y You u sec sec Tommy said Dick most t boyo get bet ct rattle i when they are are Ir confronted with tho the Plo problem of oC tucking making thlu things s or of metal because you cant can't whittle it with a J. J jackknife Now ow just ace how easy this j is And Aud Tommy looked attentively atten tHen lively on while his uncle undo flattened out the rite end o or 01 the shaft shan lull aud tiled le it into I I shape Of f com comae c your vho io with the anvil attached is tho the best best to use but an anold anold old smoothing iron will it I do tho the trick At t first Uncle Dick Diel Marled to tn turn the propeller with a J. J spring but finally J ed ell to use uie u c ca a rubber baud as ab il it was wa sint bim pier lummy IU had hall just tLc iLc stud Iud he lie wanted want want- I. I i I ed cd n m good thick suil of ut cla elastic clastic tic about a 1 afoot afoot j I foot root and a half lon Ion long The which Tommy U c u trout from Ire OIK- if of f the I I clockworks was leall really the only thing that I i required arty any degree of u iu in the th ml- ml I I ju stud and lull as Unc Dick said saidU U sou u I could cut l. l that lat out as us it only serves s the theof purpose o of seeping t tlc illo 1 tubber from un winding too Quick quickly At fIrst Tommy didn't understand wb why the kinks were bent into the wire frame but Jut soon vcr per pcr-j pcr that they were intended to holt hole the propeller in position when hem It wai learned by r where it wool Toul best Lest balance balanc the gasbag It took tool goo soo gooi deal el to do all th Uh c e things thins than thon i does to rea read about them and by UJ the tim the job tent wai wn finished the thu seams fI lIn were vere dry So the con contraption I was 33 ca carefully r fully carried to o the hou a and in l over oter a X pas as fix ture lure The rudder lUdder iu der was tas bent ent ever so EO to one side idE and after ane the rub rubber er band I had wound 1 i wound an and wound I just us IS far as ns it il would woul stretch stretch- Tommy held Id it p lI Ins h's s and am lot ler go 0 Slowly it soared upward the pr like a bird the tho slight twist of the rudder it to 0 l e in a circle about a feet in diameter And just as IS it all l lInt ut completed the circle lp the the motor ran down Then it t gut cot ot t n tangled ed up in a tree trpo hut hilt Tommy rescued it with- with the fhe M e There said Uncle Dick that contraption contraption con con- OD ln cost t about twenty cents and any bright boy can make one io to half halt aday adI a n day dI |