A Wright Wing-Flapping Machine.

Progress, Volume VII, Issue 2, 1 December 1911, Page 900

A Wright Wing-Flapping Machine.

Yague. cabled reports state that the Wrights have built a new machine with flapping wings instead of usual screw propellers. . It is well-known that the

Wrights have been deeply engaged in the propeller problem for some time past, While not inclined to believe much success lies ahead of wing-flapping devices, it will be as well, pending more details, to give the Wrights credit for not being freakish investigators. _ Nevertheless I cannot help thinking that the fact that steamships are kept in motion by means of screw propellers instead ot big fins should serve to indicate that a parallel must exist for aerial loeomotion.