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Show M Tfl FIV TIL i ill i LI Wright Brothers Confident Confi-dent of Working Out the Problem New York, Oct 13. Wilbur-Wright, whose brothers, Orvillo and Lbrln, are about to begin experiments on. tho North Carolina coast with a new type of flying machine, was here today At his hotol ho discussed freely tho experiments ex-periments which ho and his brothors are conducting. "There Is no secret about this new machine.' ho said. "It 1b elmplv a development of nil that we have learned learn-ed by a study of flying and cxjKjri-ments cxjKjri-ments In flying. Anybody who has scon the buzzard fly knows that there Is a method by which man may bus-taln bus-taln himself in the ulr onco ho gets thero. What a bird con do, a man can do. as Darius Greon said. Of that thero In not the 'Slightest doubt. The only difficulty is that nature blessed the bird with the means to stay In the air without exertion, while a man has got to study It all out "It may take years to nccomplisji this result Perhaps we are all urong In thinking that we have solved the uroblem. We will not know until wo have given a practical test to our Ideas. That 13 what my brothers have gone to North Carolina for. The world will know the result almost as scon as we will. "Thero scqms to be great curlositv . about whether wo expect to use a motor mo-tor or not. Well, at tho start we don't expect to use ono Tho problem Is to find out whether, onco wo are In the :iir, we can stay thoro for an indefinite indefin-ite period. Birds cap do It. Why can't men? "At the samp time It must be remembered re-membered that birds can not rise Irom tho ground without exertion. Thoy keep flapping their wings until thoy reach a certain height. Then they stop working ,and sail along without further effort If- we can start a machine from n great height, maybe we can keep It In the air with-out with-out a motor for an Indefinite period. But If we have to start from the ground, we will have to have some power to got us up. Once up wo can shut off the pqwer"and stay up as long as wo llke that Is, if our machine proves successful. "Whether we use a. biplane or a monoplane really makcB no difference, but I will say that in the experiments we are about to start we w,lll use a biplane A biplane enables you to take advantage of the slow currents. "We aro doing in these experiments what wo did with our original machine ma-chine trying to work": out the! scientific scienti-fic sldo. Tho practical, material side will take care of itself. It' may take years for men to fly like the birds fly, but there Is no doubt that ho will ultimately achieve it" s |