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Show A NEW FLYING BOAT. British Army Officer Is Experimenting on Laige Scale. Ono serious obstacle In the way of constructing a good flying machlno hns been tho difficulty of making preliminary pre-liminary experiments. Tho Inventor has had to build his machlno according accord-ing to his theory ot what is the best form. If tho machlno flow, well nnd good; if It failed, it fnilod, and thero was nn ond of It. Tho Inventor Baden-Powell's Flying Boat could only thcorlzo what was wrong with It. MnJ. Daden-Powoll's flying machlno takes tho form of a boat fitted fit-ted with big aeroplanes, or wings. Tho boat glides down a chuto towards tho water, but, being uphold by tho aeroplanes, flies through tho air for somo distance beforo alighting on tho wator. Tho major is now making experiments ex-periments with his boat In tho lako at tho Crystal paluco by tho aid of a specially constructed chute. In tho Journal of which ho is Joint editor Knowledge he snys tho notion of tho wind on tho aeroplanes of a flying machlno ma-chlno is Uttlo understood, and, if nlr-sliips nlr-sliips nro to becomo useful, preliminary prelimi-nary experiment Is necessary with some apparatus progressing through tho nir nnd enrrying an aoronaut to direct its course. Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury. |