. Rod and gun . , speaking to the writerafter the flight, said: The sensation ofmoving through the air in such a machineis a glorious one. There is absolutely novibration such as you get in a motor boat,automobile or any vehicle travelling onthe earth, just a delightful sensation of to explain to the uninitiated why we donot do so. Of course, these flights we aremaking are only experiments, and occa-sionally during a flight, when we havegone scarcely more than one hundredyards, some little piece of mechanism getsout of adjustment, and we have to alightto fix it. Then, again, the machine willru


. Rod and gun . , speaking to the writerafter the flight, said: The sensation ofmoving through the air in such a machineis a glorious one. There is absolutely novibration such as you get in a motor boat,automobile or any vehicle travelling onthe earth, just a delightful sensation of to explain to the uninitiated why we donot do so. Of course, these flights we aremaking are only experiments, and occa-sionally during a flight, when we havegone scarcely more than one hundredyards, some little piece of mechanism getsout of adjustment, and we have to alightto fix it. Then, again, the machine willrun along, as you have seen, for twentymiles Without a hitch. The aerodrome ishere to stay, and after it is somewhat moreperfected I look to see it employed by thebig powers of the world during times ofwar to carry despatches, do scouting work,etc. The question of lifting weight doesnot enter into our calculations anv more ;.


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