VHAV, I°l° 14 NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, ST NOVEMBER «. Aeroplane Motors Are Harder to Understand Than Women "newspapers had his finishing time com- puted, and then his motor stopped, and so did but not Leblanc and his Hl^riot. Many Ejcperts 'Belie %Oe Man Will X/aj^arics qflShese CranKy Machines Which until they had broken off a telegraph P'>l^ /tetter ten feet from its base. Learn to Fly Safely UntilHe In-Vents Ha.*Oe Caused Death, Wrecks or Lebtaae'a hopes and the Bleriot and t<\u25a0!"- graph pole all smashed within a ml'.e and Motcrlcss Wings. Loss a half from the finishing line. Why? Be- the of Trizes. cause the feed pipe connection to his mo- in 1 minute :>J.4.» seconds l,»on Morane, prises that motors often spring. Bta i 'Until flies with motor less wings— thought, and when they don't move they tor broke, swore in Frenchman, m man beetanc filiassasil the held the world s record for not even permit him to rej: i r as a con- ,•'• , with motorless wings are now the wont, and no mule can outdo them in French, but his r.m-mej distance, flown, fresults not at Jewelled that however, o\>r a five- testant. lie was flying to the Judges' nm<l 1 revolving small j I dream of engineers as well as poets— the mulishness. motor. "No'm." as the kilometre course instead, 1-\ UrvMs to leave shipping directions for the trophy, occupy Charles Hamilton. lightest boy said if , ba vagaries of motors will his most K. Die heavier- when hfs mother bsQUlred he said flying the n»w racer around the •when four cylinders went cold. The boy's momentous moments when in the and than-air operator that ever hailed from would wash his face LshhUM 1 i air like to smaller course added fifttrn aticonrtl to his heart was broken as nearly as boys" hearts >•<* th« (subject of his studious night Connecticut, daring in the extreme, pre- swore at the committee, the weather, and time, which, in « ompiirison wit'- Moraas'a break, and his minor bruises were oiled up*\ thoughts during the witching hours when tended not to hear the taunts of his motor most of all at his mechanicians. a:i<l par- ' j .iccompllsiim.nt. would hiin- 1ir\ill.- s ap- In the- nearest home for the injured. Th-» \u25a0-\u25a0•: aviation are banquet halls de- the day he from New York to Phila- tl.ularly he swore at one, but he ordered fields like flew proximate sased to 1 machine gave up as soon as motor serted. delphia and return. At New Brunswick, his motor carried tendeii) shed. The ; minute H secossas the -.•— to Its pius. or thirteen the tired, and White, of flying motor without at N. J.. one cylinder of his eight pouted ami pride and joy of the suffered stronda better thai Claude Grahame- Kn^- A machine least French team record. land, was the hero of the day. one vagary! The farmer for the first time soon refused to pay with the others. A such atony in defeat that he wept and figures '>>' "Whether it was the motor always \u25a0 paw the giraffe under the circus tent in few miles further on the "road to yester- such anger that he discharged one of his These were not mads knows that the Wright ,-v brought down the Curtlss intermit: Posey County, Ind. He saw it for nine day" another took its dolls and sat down In mechanicians an<l sent him adrift in v brothers the time. To-msr flier* ' *"ie strange be time fig- could not be learned. However may consecutive minutes. Just then the giraffe's a corner. Hamilton knew enough of country without one warping win* row would enough, whoa the that * be. these machines fame down head disappeared through an opening be- characteristics of his power plant to real- If the had had no vagary ths ures would speak for then Its* trie with quite a motor continuous patter on the tween the scallops of the tent, and the ize that the only chance at winning the next International not he Ik-i*1. great race was won. OrvftHs's tests nail lawn. race wood Grahame-White used 100-hor-eponer farmer, ticklinghis chin fringe, said to his money for his trio was to talk placidly to in England, lt is shown the baby racer to b«- ease a seemingly w*U founded Bl£riot, equipped - wife: "There ain't no such critter." himself as tbougl he were ignorant of the that the cup. except for the sudden vaca- speed equal to >-i«iitv miles un bout with the Gnome revolving tagging along. required disporting, cylinder motor. This remarkable engine The dramas that have been lived and fact that two idl'rs were tioning of one-half the eight \u25a0 vlimt- is on that was was not too a v one lightest nome day may be written for Which the When the Gowrnor of Pennsylvania and would re- wind, fair women in boxes, the h';^>- of the and most powerful yet Brookins'a Wright racer have the cylinders vagaries of motors have already been re- countless voters of his state sheered Ham- mained in America, despite re- German band in the grandstand, ;m>l the built. T!ie and the crank ca** Curttss's ring sponsible! The fears and tears, the heart- ilton UDon his arrival near the gas tank fusal to to keep it here. Walter blue ribbon of the year would !>•• worn are one f>iece of metal. being machined red-haired "lero did say one unkind Brookin*, 8 down from a heavy casting. ad- burns and deaths their fickleness has the not \u0084 a:i is said and done, is around the DSCk of the HSU Who Mew The temperamental twins. L.ike vantage of revolving cylinder design caused in the comparatively brief time that •word about his the most .ni :t aviator in the Wright Wright the 1» I* elapsed Wright a fond mother, he petted them, sent to town its immunity from vibration, due to the ah- has since Wilbur flew first camp. The work of Hoxsey and John- It would he- cruel to UriKt-r long :t on this over the sand dunes of the North Carolina for iust the sweetest oil that they were praise unnecessary. sence of reciprocating parts (the cylinders stone renders further th»i;-.e. When Brookins, got out of the hOS- J coast less than seven years ago! Readers fondest of. and when asked before starting travel in a circle around the crankshaft There is not much doubt that Brookns pitai ii was the one t'aing he nlshod t<> of th« daily newspaper know how men in back if he would go to Grant's Tomb for and the pistons in a circle around th» would "whack up" his last 10-cent piece lorget. Saved for the big race as jockeys the prime of life and flushed with the joy cood measure said, behind his hand, so as at any crankpin) and the elimination of fty- time with Wilbur and Orville were of old, early to bed tor two weeks the of doing wonderful things on high are not to be heard by his engine: *'lf my wheeL Wright Miss Katharine "Wright said last and on a diet, happy to the limit as he picked up all too frequently in these early motor is willingIwill." that boys" that BrooUM August 2*. ISO?. Glenn Curtisa won th<» \u25a0• week "the fe!t took his seat in the fastest machine that days of the science of aviation dashed to Perhans it was for the best. But that was very near cup and $5,000 at Rheim?, France, making to them. flew, and vowing to himself that not «:i unrecognizable mass, the sport of mo- was an awful te,=t of a man's lntentness him the fastest time for twenty kilometres. :; Wright built the baby could keep him from bringing ths Janus tors with ungovernable whims. on winning:a prize. For five hours sunk In Orville and tested minutes GO 3-3 seconds, a speed of 4T.OK mile? racer; Brookins to day be- Gordon Bennett trophy to the Wright tents Wilbur Wright says aeroplane motors will a swamo. compelled to caress a motor that was fly lt. The an hour. He from M. BI«:\u25a0: by ap- the when it was all over, young, handsome won ne\-er he much more trustworthy than now. went heartlessly on strike when within fore international race Orville flew In It proximately five seconds. over "Brooky" forgot the cute little sur- Are motorless wings, then, necessary if twenty-five miles of the coal. the two and one-half kilometre course about In the 1910 James Gordon Bennett Ci»j» flight by man is to become anything like Just a ouick dance abroad at dawn or race the silver trophy went to the Royal general? A thrashing machine company a summer's morning, and Hubert Latham, Aero Club of the United Kingdom and Is the latest recruit to the number of in- the Idol of France, found himself literally 55.000 cash to Grahame-White for making vestigators In the field of aeroplane motor sitting In the sea while he smoked a cigar- the fastest time for one hundred kilometres perfection. Perhaps no judgment should ette. The Antoinette had left the shore at (62.1 miles) flown over a course of fltTe **> formed until the thrashing machine Cherbourg twenty minutes before, the kilometres (3.1 miles) in 1hour f minute 474-100 seconds, the average speed b^-ins 61 miles an hour, or an increase over la^t THE GNOME REVOLVING CYLINDER 50- HORSEPOWER MOTOR USED year's record of about 30 per cent.