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Show SALT LAKE MEN OVERCOME ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY Have Submarines, Baron Munchausen, and Kaiser Left at the Post--Beaten to a Standstill hat would you say if some one told you that there has been perfected per-fected an aircraft that has overcome the attraction of gravity; that may be stopped in mid-air indefinitely, or will hover within alighting distance of the curb and remain stationary; that will flit away faster than a rifle bullet can follow; that has made the trip from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles An-geles in an hour; that has made the trip from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and return in one night; that will go through a four-inch door; that will make the trip from Salt Lake City to the German lines in a few hours; that but, really, what would you say? Well, we haven't seen any such machine. We do not vouch for the truth of the story. But that is the tale that is being told. And, really, in these days of the wireless, of the telephone and the submarine, we can believe almost anything. There is no. doubt that there is something doing in flying fly-ing machine circles in this part of the country. The light of an aerial boat of some kind has been seen at Delta, at Beaver, and at numerous places throughout Utah at night. Even Bob Stoddard and others have seen it over this valley. The following story of the source of these demonstrations that are fast becoming the talk of the country is clipped from the Beaver Press: The mystery of the airships which have been seen over southern Utah has at last been explained. E. H. Althoff, J. Henderson and John , Volkenburg . have long been working on a new aircraft and have been doing their experimental flying at night. Their machine has made the flight from Salt Lake City to Washington in one night, returning the next, and has crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains, going from Salt Lake City to San Francisco in less than an hour. The inventor claims that the machine can be held in the air at one place long enough for loading or unloading without letting the machine touch the ground or other solid foundation. In other words, they can go, to the top of a mast and repair the halyards without with-out touching the mast for support. They claim to be able to ascend to an elevation of 5,000 feet and to be able to attain a speed of over 600 miles an hour, to be able to go from Salt Lake to the German lines in eighteen hours. Their greatest difficulty now is to be able to protect the operator from the cold. They have offered their invention to the government and the government govern-ment now has the plans and has experts ex-perts investigating its utility. The machine has been in the air for over sixty hours at o,ne time in order to convince the government that it effuld do some of the things claimed for it by inventors. If this machine can do all, or one-half, its inventors claim for it, the aerial warfare will be revolutionized. E. H. Althoff, one of the inventors, is very well and favorably known in Beaver county. The other meh are slightly known here. There are a lot of people who are anxiously awaiting the report of the government engineers, which should soon be given to the public. |