YET ANOTHER FLYING MACHINE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3837, 21 April 1899, Page 4

YET ANOTHER FLYING MACHINE.

An Austrian Samett Kress some time ago asserted that he had solved tiie problem ©fjiying, and trials with his apparatus are being looked forward to with the greatMos&ie&ist 20 years Kress has been trying to make |Hticttc*l we of the principle of the m&.**M&&~ he has succeeded in constrttfcting a system of several kite-like surfaces, which not only easily carries the aeronaut in a stedge, bat' also- the motor tod the yif-scr%w4H Tftfebettinte motor is so ingeniously constructed that only a weight of ten kilogrammes must be Reckoned for each horse-power. Beipre riij&g the apparatus runs along the ground for some metres, i^m^l^rm^^ga^tthe wind j with; hisc kite to start it, then ! ascendsfand by means of its screw, kbit* be driven iftrough the. air in Sfciy dirsetion. Tbeirigher the contrary wind the easier and quicker m of tiie machine. WHen 1 Ifrere Wats in> winfli'dr it S©%a; woul4 t fa3l!to groun<J, Hke an ordinary kite does, were it not that it has an a^fcc«nft%' yelbcity of its own pjneunting to 40 metres a second, ot in the most adverse case, when it has a violent wind "behind it, it merely loses some of the speed with which it advances. Although Kress is well on in theSixties, h6 will himself undertake ■jfche^first*«aeent -withihi| , dynamoawfittc flymg-^msbiA| % §H.e will stariTfrom the*Neusiealer"See, near Vienna, in order fo descend in the Iwater,- and thus avoid- the »«hcxlk. *Tb»ipparatuß is still in course! of construction, but thempst distmgsiishec^ technical aattfaDrities and me tetifenical circles have hardly a £$\>bt> that the apparatus will fly. d^e^^fgopM^io^ of ■ Engineers and jn.-%^nna has doubled itß;contribution to the expense iof making the machine.