Show The he Worlds World's Great S Airmen S 'S WHO WAS DESTROYED BY THE WEIRD DEVICE THAT 1 WA WAS TO SAVE HIM M. M 5 5 By Mon 0 O. Plane ErI Early last Jut summer in ill a a. little Lancashire Lanca- Lanca shire village a 11 young O engineer r. r h helped b by a car carpenter friend wae 08 busily burny engaged hO fashioning a. a monoplane With It ho lie S. S hoped to win ln a a. 11 l goodly roMI pat of ot the lie that had S beep been offered ft d b by HlO ho British got gOV- for war aeroplanes The in- in n fl CX Co dark daric Ick was walt a short Wiry with a 8 uel an and amid of ot mS stron ne nervous hands handl la N rot Not t a mun man many words orda lie Ilc gave avo one tho the lion IM 0 of b being 1 n J 4 of much reserve resene POWer f an and strong opinions opinions-a PIn on ona a characteristic character character- Into of inventors U 11 the tho world over o th tho U littie workshop wandered one another inventor with Ith a II n model a a. now new self rl righting hUng device ic e IO looked J over O th tho visitor anti antl his Ms el n IL a kc hien n aul Quick glance with IL somewhat t bored bore sio as a expressio lie he who has seen IliA II quietly S to ny nr Well are uro you yuu ready Tb S stranger was 31 The trials took h on a larj adjacent pl or of tana amid Aud c waste t to iitti little only 01 Oil tIC self was dr I k Some days daya lat r lal-r r Fenwick f decided to i Incorporate the tIme safety l Ilea Idea a into hi his plan Then he changed his mind fully Eully satisfied Ith the performance of r th model ho lie later e expressed pr doubts as to t the he ad of the tho device lc to a 3 full fun sized rna machine Literally lu ho bu pre PI-C- to tf feel feci eel that his hiI fate tate was waa in Iii hi his own troll strong read ready nervous ou hands H lii 1 J had more faith in the efficiency of his brain and amid levers than In any IUt automatic Wen Welt for the preservation or recovery of or natural stability Late In iii August all tho the tamo famous aviators and amid aeroplane bull builders of England and France the Lime war minister army officers and ami the tho military attaches of the foreign were fO gathered on Salisbury Plain for fr th the great orcut warplane trials Tho rh smallest t and amid lightest on Oil tho tIme ground and amid tho the most moat novel no too wa was mn Mersey monoplane U Jl land hind never neer proved its stabIlity It Il was a frail rail craft 1001 looking moro inure like a u to toy than Ulan a i serious machine machine- but Fen wick had Im hn irn- irn faith In Jn It Older aviators shook shou their heads hOls when nhen they saw aw it its iti tIn tiny liny wings They whether it would h he In a high wind Th The evening canio when the youthful L was to nJ lo hl his trials With 1111 a calle 6 of or hi his hand l lck I ick shot off ott from tim tho earth th a ea Tim IIII monoplane liP a at l once bc began ann aJl to experience trouble in ill the tr fresh h wind its vinga 1118 flapped I t ac violently that thit all nil who d tim tho ti de de- did KO so with feelings that thal some some- thin timing thing dreadful d wa was about to IIPP II Their rude foreboding ol proved ii lo In be well founded tom for the lIl further Fec- Fec ivick then flow the moru difficult the tho work of or controlling th the machine Then as OUt a H t lai-t fort to maintain his hili balance h he lOld made a n series of or sharp and abrupt dh dives I The Thic frail tr emU craft plunged to earth arth sideways from ro 11 u a height of ot about aboul 20 feet The rime result wn wax Instinctively cl known Soldier mini and aviators a I u m from all nil directions to the time Scene oll es Volt in alarm broke broko from th tha crowd crt but Fenwick had pa pas passed sed beyond oIl nil hu hU man h hIV lp before betor anyone d him B By tho the Irony of ot fate the tho very cry thin thing tho discarded Invention Iu was jUi de n j.-n J to prevent prevent prevent-a ra a. a side aide slip and attendant death was was the meano means of or lck undoing Also Abo the Inventor who ho a few weeks before be be- be fore oro hind had offered the tho luckless aviator tho use uso of hl hH hi device do witnessed the fatal fall fail And Jill an as Fenwick lay hay dead deat th there Te carno canie to tho Inventor a n of or that thal gusty morn mont lug Ing nn tin In iii th tin morning when l congratulated him ou his 1118 Sue Sue- ce tC w und mind ejaculated tel It wc its it's I II I y Poor POOl had spoken the tho truth |