. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . MILITAKY AERONAUTICS—SQUIEK. 135 The motor is an eight-cylinder Antoinette of 50 horsepowerweighing ITG pounds, and developing about 38 horsepower at 1,050revolutions per minute. The propeller is a built-up steel frame covered with aluminumsheeting, Ti feet in diameter, wnth a pitch of 4 feet 7 inches. It ismounted directly on the motor shaft immediately in rear of the mid-dle of the main surfaces. The framework is of wood, covered with canvas. A chassis of steeltubing carries two pneumatic-tired bicycle wheels. Two small
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . MILITAKY AERONAUTICS—SQUIEK. 135 The motor is an eight-cylinder Antoinette of 50 horsepowerweighing ITG pounds, and developing about 38 horsepower at 1,050revolutions per minute. The propeller is a built-up steel frame covered with aluminumsheeting, Ti feet in diameter, wnth a pitch of 4 feet 7 inches. It ismounted directly on the motor shaft immediately in rear of the mid-dle of the main surfaces. The framework is of wood, covered with canvas. A chassis of steeltubing carries two pneumatic-tired bicycle wheels. Two smallerwheels are placed under the tail. The total weight of the machineis 1,166 pounds. The main surfaces support a little over 2 poundsper square foot. The machine has shown a speed of about 28 milesper hour and no starting apparatus is used. On January 13, 1908, Farman won the Grand Prix of the AeroClub of France in a flight of one minute and twenty-eight seconds,in which he covered more than a kilometer. It is reported that onOctober 30, 1908, a flight of 20 miles, f
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