AVIATION TRUST.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5488, 23 March 1910, Page 4

AVIATION TRUST.

WRIGHT AEROPLANES. ■" COMPANY FORMED. The Brothers Wright, with several • millionaires* behind thcui, have form- " e<] a combwiati>on to exploit flying machines, which In- r,<ason nf its ur- ' . tides of lineorporation, and its tlaia to what they caK "the basic principles 'of a\ii.ti<n," has apparently. I ' justified the sarcastic comment that the "Wrights own not merely the world below, but the air above." In announcing the formation of a £2Q0,W0 corporation 'loK the purpose of Controlling, both here and in Canada, "all aviation by means of heavier-than-air mac'h/nes, " one New Y,ork paper uses the pfar«/se,j '•' The American Sky Trust," and| fefter reading the articles of incorporation one concludes that the phase is hardly exaggerated. Nesrly aIT the men behind the Flying Machine Trust are prominent in ig business affairs, including" Mr A. Belmont, the financier ; Mr Edward Birwind, the coal king ; Mr Robert Collier, the wealthy publisher ; Mr Howard Gould. of the Motor -Plant, Mr Theodore Shonts, of the Tnterborough Railway System ; Mr Cornelius Vanderbilt, and young Mr Allan Ryan, who is -being trained to succeed his highly successful father in the financial world, The articles of incorporation not only 'mop up everything in ths flying world within sight, but the past an future as well, and, apparently, ignore the fact that, while the Wrights were still engaged in reiwriag foicyclcs at Dayton, Ohio, without ever ■dreaming of flying, (there were men in Europe who were already flying quite nicely, and that, as regards the basis! principles of aviation, whioh the American brothers claim to have discovered, the 'birds have been illustrating them to ' perfection from time immemorial. The capital of the company is modestly placed at £200.000, ani there is no stock tor stale. The company, which has been formed to take over the patents of the Wrights, and to prosecute JaU iaifringements, claims as cne of its assets even the principle of the I. plane and its Control of the equilibrium of the machine. II this ccntenticn is upheld t byj ihs Supreme Court, tiie company will have the monopoly of Vie air. Those "associated witll ths company are so confident that the IV rights wiW ibo sustained ilo aM. their contentions that they have announced thoir plans for the future. A sa'l^ro-om is to bo opened in the Night .a»i 'Day Bajnk BuilSn'ii'rjgi in New York, where orders will be taken for aeroplanes. Arrangements have ateo bepnjnade for a larjjft field which* * -to teach tb<?. rvircha-sors of muchines how to fly. This fic-ld'is to be In Florida thii- witi+ei. u»"i fait her north in the summer. A large factory is to be built near Dayton, and orders ta'kvjn now arc to be coml'lited by tht spring. . It is declared that a car ca* be b'.»ilt to carry 20 passengers, and it is now being planned to have the mails carried by fceroplames to remote places in the iWest, where speed is desired, where there are no ra'l roads, ond where the roads are unfit for motor-cars. Wilbur Wright will I>(s it he president of the new company, e«d his brother Or.ville vice-president. Mr Lamcey Nicoll, the patent lawyer for the Wrights, declares t*at his clients caw absolutely control the principles under which aerial flight is now ■accompli fixed, awl ttrat their . present machmc, with no change as to Piw?, is capable of flying 700 miles wjihout a stop.Avi a-tionj is thus to lie Wrought wHhiin the moans of alt classos, providing that one can furaiJh the minimum of £1500. "According to your artid.s of in-, corporation, nobody can fly except in a Wright machine. Wouldn't that create -a nfonoipoly/ of Vfche (air fl " queried one candid critic. •To which Mr Nicoll replied hotly: "What's a patent if it Vn't a monopoly ? ! " ' / The brothers, speaking thdAigth their jbusiness representatives ta>e the view that European flying machines will not be allowed to compete in ths American market, because the tariff on imported mn rhii»es will ifjve xhv>m a monopoly. Boiore th vintei is over they how lo mate flying as popular as inotWittg, but Americans refuse to bojlifsve it wilt be as safe for several j years to oome.

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