NEW AEROPLANE INVENTION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 202, 14 August 1911, Page 11

NEW AEROPLANE INVENTION

YOUNG AUCKLANDER’S ! PLANS. Auckland. Aug. 1". One of the chief difficulties encountered by aeropianists has been the liability of all classes of machines to capsize, and many attempts have been made to over•onie the tendency of the machine .o depart from stability. A young Aucklander. Mr. IL E. N. Matthews. who has been for some time with the law firm of Messrs. Nicholson and Gribbin. and is a son of Mr. C. E. Matthews, solicitor, has prepared plans for an aeroplane, embracing several new and important features, one being construction by which it is believed that it will he almost impossible for the machine to capsize.

After working out the plans, which arc protected in New Zealand. Mr. Matthews submitted them to inspection by experts, who are loud in their praise of the ideas embodied in the proposed invention. Mr. Matthews is also confident that his ideas will bear a practical test, and for this purpose he has left Auckland, en route for London, to place the matter before the best-known aeroplane authori-

ties. The. details, which were; shown to a “Star” reporter, arevery interesting, but for the pre- : sent are not to he made public. | Air. Matthews left Auckland on: Monday, and on Saturday evening, he was entertained at a smoke con-, cert by his fellow-employees at I Messrs. Nicholson and Gribbin’s. 1