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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXV, Issue 4454, 17 January 1910, Page 2

Professor H. L. Twining of Los Angelos (U.S.A.) is constructing a flying machine that flaps its wing* as does a bird. His machine consists of a pair of great wings, carefully modelled after those of an eagle measuring 27ft from tip to lip, attached to a frame of bicycle tubing. The weight of the entire machine, minus an engine, is 1001 b, and its wings have a sweep of 15ft. Many inventors have endeavored to fly with wings, but according to the Professor, they have overlooked the fundamental principles of bird flight, “The trouble with machines that have previously been modelled after was that it was not considered fiaaejjtJgJ to

NEW FLYING MACHINE.

have the wings attached except to the forward edges and above the centre of gravity. When the wings are attached all the way across they are not able to perform the work that is done by the wings of real-birds. The power must also be applied very close to the body so that with a slight movement of the wings may be given a great sweep, The up-stroke"of [the wings is another important feature of bird flight that has been previously ignored.”