A Pronounced Success.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 128

A Pronounced Success.

On the 15th of January of the current year the people of the Dominion read in their morning papers a most suggestive and important statement :—: —

London, January 4. " M. Henri Farman has won th<_ Deutsch Archdeacon prize (£2000) with his aeroplane, which covered 1100 }^ards in 88 seconds. " The aeroplane described a circular course, through goals, and came back amid great cheering. M. Farman then repeated the performance." In the evening the newspapers further stated that the machine alighted with the easy grace of a bird.

M. Farman's machine, which, is built of wood, aluminium, canvas, and steel wires, is in some ways like M. Santos Dumont's first aeroplane, and is composed of two wings which are like a huge box kite, with the vertical partitions removed, connected with a tail which is similar to, but slightly smaller than, the wings. The motor, which is placed in front between the two wings, develops 50 horse-power. Our illustration shows Santos Dumont's "14, Bis " in its famous flight. With the above description it is "not very difficult to form from the picture a good idea of Farman's aeroplane. The next thing we shall probably hear will be that M. Farman is to try and win the