OCR Text |
Show ' , 0 Upt as Memento. A X' ithat is left of the historic 1 Wright biplane with which Calbraith ' P. Rodgers flew from the Atlantic to v the Pacific two years ago is to be pre sented to the Carnegie museum at Pittsburgh by' the late aviator's mother moth-er The machine was badly-damaged when Rodgers fell to his death in the Pacific ocean a short time after completing com-pleting his wonderful flight Subsequently Subse-quently it was used by Andrew Drew until that aviator also was killed with it The machine has been restored to Us original condition. Both Rodgers' and Fowler's Wright machines have motors of but 30-horsepower, yet they flew across the continent in opposite directions at a time when the aeroplane aero-plane had not been equipped with the - 100-horsepower motor of today, which L- makes it much more stable, nor had 1 : it developed anywhere near the speed of which it has since shown itself to he capable. |