HUMAN FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 8

HUMAN FLIGHT

CYCLIST'S EXPERIMENT.

Experiments in human flight have taken place at Longchamps which recall the first efforts attempted • by Santos Dumont in tho early 'nineties, only in this case there is no motor. Gabriel Poulain (says the Paris correspondent of tho London Daily Telegraph), tho once champion cyclist tried to fly some time ago with a machine of his own invention which he calls an "aviet'te." It. is nn ordinary bioycle surmounted by a couple of parallel planes. On the rear wheel of tho bicycle is fi,\ed an arrangement the manipulation of" which enables the maohine to leave the ground. On 18th June, experiment* were very encouraging, and justify the hope that tho problem of flying without a motor will be solved. Poulain was able to fly about ten yards at a" height cif eifihteou inches from tha ground. In the" fivo trials ho made ha landed, quite normally, arid his achievements in this new mothod of flight are looked upon as being equal to those* made by Clement Ader, the brothers \V right, and Santos Dumont. The tests will shortly be resumed on a truck, and there is every hop© that Poulain will win the prize of 10,000f. to bo awarded to the man who flio.i ten t yards in both directions without the aid of a motor.