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Show Airship Air Motoring No 1 .rj More Dangerous 1 ': than Land Motoring m U II By WILBUR WRIGHT 9jE a( Airship Fume 1 j-S5555 No alr8m'P wil1 cver ai' fr" Nc' 'ork to Paris. , f S 'J'Jint seems to me to be impossible. Wlmt limits the M flgllt '8 t,l(5 n,olor No known motor can run tit tlio ; M j requisite- speed for four days without stopping, and M (H you cnn't 1)0 s,,ro of fi,u"g tlio proper winds for 3 T M soaring. The airship will always be a special nicsscn-1 nicsscn-1 V ' g.or' "ovcr a Ioa(1-cnrricr lJt the history of civiliza- i A 5r t'on I,ns U8Un"y shown that every now invention has II ftfa)lJl brought in its train new needs it can satisfy, and 11 liferH 80 W'mt "lc "irslliP eventually bo used for is H--imV Prouau'y wlmt we can least predict at the present. HQgfQm There is a misconception about the safety of ily- S--S-l3 ing machines, if the motor stops. Wc can glide to II 1,10 cartl1, 'J llc higher We arc, then, the wider our W range of choice for places for descent, and, in a half I ft mile radius, one ought to bo able to select some safe ground. Perhaps j the greatest danger, at first, lies in the fact that we've recently changed 5 our system of control. Ill the first machines wo lay in a cradlo qr deck, and by moving from sido to side we regulated the lateral roll. That was too tiresome to the neck muscles, and wc decided a scat would bo the permanent necessity for comfort. This necessitated lovers for manipulat-i manipulat-i ing the wings. Sly hahdd have been trained to the old manipulating without thought, and I have now to learn the new way. f But I've made bo many descents that it doesn't worry me much, and I although I know I take chances, they're hardly greater than in an auto-El auto-El mobile. And it isn't any more dangerous after all than our gliding ex-!, ex-!, . perimcnts. |