NEW DEPARTURE IN FLYING MACHINES.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 19, 11 December 1906, Page 8

NEW DEPARTURE IN FLYING MACHINES.

CONEY ISLAND SHOEMAKER BELIEVES HE HAS SOLVED PROBLEM OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. After many secret trials and experiments Rudolph Dressier, a Coney Island shoemaker, has perfected a flying machine on entirely new lines, which he declares will make the navigation of the air a simple and easy task. The first public trial of the machine will be given at Coney Island in the near future.

Dressler’s experiments have covered a period of many years, and his study of aerial navigation nearly all his lifetime. He has carefully noted the experiments of Prof. Langley, Maxim Lillienthal and other noted experts on the subject of flying machines, and the result of these studies is the new machine, with aerial planes running free on a *od, thus giving the rod its first momentum for actual flight. This, says Dressier is the only feasible manner of navigating the air.

A kite-flying machine is connected by wires with pulley-rollers on a rod The car and centre weights are placed about five feet below' the supporting planes, forming a sort of parachute. When the propellor starts to revolve it shoves the car forward and brings the planes to an acute angle, the speed supporting the weight. Dressier declares that such a machine can be guided in all directions by the operator. METHOD OF LANDING. Tn alighting the machine is turned against the w'ind, and the propellor stopped and the car falls back to the centre weight of the planes and becomes a sort of parachute again. The inventor says his experiments show that if the car is running as fact as the opposing w’ind the landing will be made without a jar. ‘When people see how easy it is,' says Dressier "they will wonder why they did not: think of it themselves long ago. Many students of aerial navigation have made the groat mistake of trying to imitate the flight of the bird. The centre of gravity of a flying machine cannot be placed in the centre of pressure, as in the case of bird flight. "The starting of the car is the greatest puzzle to in vectors. Maxim uses wheels on rails, Langley had a cata-pult and other reels, but the easiest and most practical way, I find, is the rod on which the aerial plane flying machine can roll along, and receive a gradual and propelling forward movement for autaal flight. "Another mistake in building machines in the imitation of the bird is placing the propelling power too near or in the supporting planes, as this makes the supporting and ascending angle hard to obtain." The inventor when not pegging away at his boots and shoes, spends all his time in the study of the subject of aerial navigation. He is a fine mechanic, intelligent, and very, much of a philosopher.