A WELLINGTON AEROPLANE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 4

A WELLINGTON AEROPLANE.

A email but' interested company assembled at the Masonic Hall, Bonlcott Street, yesterday moraine, to study the possibilities of an aeroplane model designed by Mri M. Juriss, of 'Wellington. There is a prize of .£IO,OOO awaiting the forhinate Australinn-born inhabitant of Australasia who can fly successfully in an "aero" of his own invention. Mr. Juriss is an Australian by birth, and has given some thought to the construction of aeroplanes. The result of his studies is the Juriss aeroplane, a machine constructed on the principles of the paper-dart beloved of schoolboys. Tho ruodol shown to the public by Mr. Juriss yesterday consisted of a superstructure of four dart-planes—the steering and lifting plane (combined), two lateral planes, ■ and a fourth plane fixed on the centre line and super-imposed on the others. At the stern was a stability plane, eurred. The framework was of triangular 'construction, and cords manipulating the planes were arranged to be controlled from tlie steering seat underneath, in> mediateiy above the triangular wheel base. There was no propeller fixed, the purpose of the demonstration being, simply, to show the "coastine" capacity of the aero-model. ' The inventor, after ' explaining the various points of the machine, then mounted a high stepladder with the model, while some ol the spectators held out a sheet to catch (lie machine as it came to the floor. The trial could not be called a successful one. Mr. Juriss, having mounted the ladder, then launched the miniature "aero" into the air. The "aero" described an arc— which gravity insisted upon—and descended swiftly to the sheet. The. fall disarranged one of the planes, and thedemonstration came to an end.