EVE OF FLYING ERA.
SIR HIRAM MAXIM HOPEFUL OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. LONDON, Dec. 6. In about a fortnight's time Sir Hiram Maxim will leave England for America, where he expects to remain about two years. Sir Hiram explained to a newspaper representative that: he has a twofold object m making a long stay m America- ' In the first place, he hopes to cure a troublesome throat complaint ;and, secondly, he intends to carry out an important series of experiments with a view to building a flying machine. "While I am m the States," he said, "I" shall cany out a number of experiments with flying machines. "If I do not build a flying machine myself it is quite possible that I may become, the consulting engineer on the subject for the St. Louis Exhibition, but. of course, if I am a competitor myself. T shall certainly refuse to take any official position. 'It appears to me that we are coming very near the era of successful flying machines. I think there are about' 100 different parties experimenting at the present moment. The greater number of these, however, are experimenting with balloons: but balloons, m tliie varying nature of things., cannot succeed. "I think the minimum speed for a true flying machine will be forty-two miles an hour, and the maximum 100 miles "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9637, 12 January 1903, Page 3
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