AEROPLANE IN WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 3

AEROPLANE IN WELLINGTON.

Throughout tho wide world inventors are wading through hydrostatics, dynamics, and such towards the much-sought-after, safe, and successful flying machine. In Wellington, for months past, a syndicate, consisting of Messrs. TV. Forrester, P. Ellis, Baldwin, and Rayward, assisted by Mr. H. D. Vickery, has been working on an aeroplane, and the gentlemen concerned are confident they are on the right track. A machine, when complete, will be fitted to lift and carry a man. It consists of a single plane some 15ft by 6ft, below which an aviator is suspended. Tho inventors are relying more on the high velocity of the propellers than on the spread of plane-surface. The purpose of the plane is to facilitate alighting. The propeller shaft at any time will always be parallel to the plane. Below is a 25 horse-power motor, the connecting driving ger being a bevel-toothed gearing shaft running from the engine to the propeller shaft. The propeller blades are so shaped as to give a lifting action to the machine. Vertical control will be gained by altering the angle ot the propellers, and the side movements of small vertical planes acting as rudders. It is said the machine rises from the ground with great ease. The inventors claim that their aeroplane can ascend in any weather in perfect safety. It is further claimed for the machine that it assures eqxiilibrium and rigidity, while the possibility of capsize is reduced to a minimum.