OCR Text |
Show AIRSHIP LIKE DUCK feet long and the wing area to be 75 feet long. The wings are to be 25 feet long. The 6 feet between their ends. This would make a wing area 75 feet long by 56 feet wide. The air propeller to have 18-foot wings and the water propeller 2-foot wings. The machine is to be operated by a 64-horse-power steam engine, weighing weigh-ing 750 pounds. This machine, by Mr. Harrison's calculations, would have a 2,100-pound lifting power. The machine which flew away was a model of this proposed airship, two feet in length. It was built just like he proposes to build the big one. He never made another model, but had an engine made for a big machine. ma-chine. About that time, however, he says other business distracted his attention. at-tention. Mr. Harrison sold the engine to a Japanese servant, and the Japanese went to New York, saying he would-consult would-consult the Japanese consul there and try to construct an airship on Mr. Harrison's ideas, but the Japanese has not since been heard from. NEW CRAFT WHICH CAN FLY AND ALSO FLOAT. J. W. Harrison, St. Louis Millionaire, Who Has Made Successful Model, Says His Plan Is Sure to Be a Big Succcess. St. Louis. Aerial navigation is not a very difficult problem, according to John W. Harrison, millionaire manufacturer manu-facturer of this city. Mr. Harrison recently told a reporter that he had a plan upon which he has worked for more than four years, for an airship that would also float on water, and he says he is sure the machine will be successful, because he made a model of it and the model worked perfectly. "I know it is practicable and will work successfully," Mr. Harrison said, "because I made a model some time ago which did all I thought it would and more. The only trouble with it was that it sailed completely away, and I never found it or any trace of it." Mr. Harrison made his model along the lines upon which he has plained a bigger machine. It was two feet long and operated by a big clock spring. He liberated the airship from the roof of his home, and it flew away. He watched it until it was out of sight, and as far as he could see it the contrivance did not drop or show any defect. Mr. Harrison fully described his contrivance. The machine is to be built of aluminum, the roof and wings to be of oiled silk. It is to be provided pro-vided with two propellers, one for air and one for water navigation. The body is boat shaped, of aluminum. The propellers are to be of aluminum. Aluminum columns on the boat will support the roof, which is to be of oiled silk, surrounded by huge, rigid wings of oiled silk. The dimensions are to be as follows: fol-lows: The aluminum boat is, to be 54 feet long, the silk roof is to be 25 |