"HEAVIER=THAN=AIR"

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 95, 15 January 1908, Page 7

"HEAVIER=THAN=AIR"

YET IT FLIES. LATEST AEROPLANE' TRIUMPH. bt TEi,iea*ru—l'UESs associltion—cpryaioifT; , (Rec. Jan. 14, .11 p.iu.) • tondon, January 14. ' M. Honri Farman has won the Deutsch Archdeacon prize (£2000) wjth his aeropjane, whiph oov.ercd 1100 yards .in .88 Tho aeroplane described li circular course, through goals, and came back amid great choerjng. . M. Faraan tlion repeated the -performance.'.- ' FARMAN'S WONDERFIjL MACHINE.' In flying nearly thr.ee-quarters of a milo in .88 seconds, Farman lias {added immensely, to tho accomplishments of those aeronauts who devote, tjiemsolyes to the' principle, as apart from tho gvidable balloo)}! A Uttle while ago M.'Farjn.an beat the aeroplane record .(proviousl'y li.t;ld by M. Santos-Dtimp'n'l) .by flying 813y.ds. 2ft. 3in. (77i'. 'metres)! tho time occupied,'according to one. repoj-t; boijig 52scc. On this latest occasion, by travelling circuitously from point to.'pqin.t, )te ,seems to have shown etjjl mpr,o convinf ingly itlio gui(}ability of tho aeroplane, i . The machine, which is built of wood,' aluminium, canvas, and sti'"el wires,!is in some ' ivays like M. Santos-Dumont's first aeroplane, ana is composed of t\vo wings, ij-hich are liko a huge box kite, with tho vertical partitipps removed, .connected with a' t}fl wthich is similar to biit ; slightly smaller tl)e" wijigs. The motor, which is placed jn front between the two wnujs, develops - r io horse-power. M. Archdeacon and . Ml I Santos'-!Dumont wagpred Comte d.o Dion ,a.nd M. Gliarron £200 that a flight of 500 nie.tro's'by a ifpavief-than-air tyno of aeroplane would be registered before January, 190 S. This wager , was'setticti when M. Farman made his 771' metres flight. The aeronaut at the same time won the prize of ,£BO .offered by the Aviation 1 ,Cl.\il) fle Fran'ne, for the first flight of oyer 500, motr,cs. Tho machine rns for'a few yards, ithen rises gracefully and flies to its destinaqoi). .