FLYING MACHINES FOR SALE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7381, 6 February 1902, Page 4

FLYING MACHINES FOR SALE.

A NEW LONDON INDUSTRY.

Anyone may buy a flying machine now — that is, anyone who can afford £950.

M. Santos Damont's daring flights and the success that has favored the brave have induced the , Motor Power Company to make flying machines or eteerable balloons for sale. Their production is called the Napier Flying Machine, and they are prepared to take orders at once. The day of general aerial navigation 60 long dreamed of in unsatisfied wonder is in sight.

The machine now offered to the public will be, broadly epeaking, on the lines of those in which M. Bantos Dumont has lately been flying gracefully around the Eiffel Tower.

The balloon is 75ft long by 25ffc greatest diameter, has a capacity of about 25,000 cubic feet, and is fitted with an air bag for equalising the pressure. The balloons are to bo made by Mr Spencer, the well-known aeronaut, and will, carry his guarantee.

There is an under frame 6Cfo long, taking the form of a latticed girder, and for lightness it is to be made of aluminium or other suitable material.

! The engine— the mover, the life |of the machine —is a 4 cylinder 1 Napier water-cooled petrol motor with electric ignition, giving not less than 14-h.p. on the brake. The connection of the motor with the propelling shaft is by means of a | friction clutch as used on motorcars. The machine is steered either by a rudder or by altering the direction of the propeller. The lifting power of this rapid air-ship is about 14001b — after subtracting its own weight. Mr S. F. Edge, director of the company, divides the 14001b as follows : -Weight of the motor and driving gear, about 5001b; frame, about 3001b ; sundries, tanks, petrol, water, and so on, 2301b ; and it is estimated that the aeronaut would himself weigh something like 1701b and would take 2001b of sand up with him. Just received, another lot of ladies silver keyless watobes, £1 each — a nice Xmas present foz a girl. R. W Sargent, watchmaker andj jeweller Hawera.— Advt