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"But she'll be speedy for all of that, for the engine will be very powerful." "Will she be safe?" asked Dick. "As safe as any airship. I am going to incorporate in her my gyroscope equilibrizer, or stabilizer, as you suggested." "Oh, yes, I want that!" said Dick, in a decided tone. "It is very good of you to allow me to demonstrate my patent on your craft," the inventor said.
I wish I had that chance!" exclaimed Larson. "I'm sure, with my mercury balancer I could " "There you go again!" cried Captain Grantly. "I tell you your idea is all wrong about that balancer! Wing warping is the only proper way." "But that isn't automatic, and what is needed is an automatic balancer or equilibrizer," insisted the lieutenant. "Well, we won't discuss it now," went on the captain.
"Of course I am not anxious to throw money away, but I want to make a success of this, and win the prize, not so much because of the cash, as to show how your equilibrizer works, and to prove that it is possible to make an airship flight across the continent. "So, if bigger hydroplanes are going to make it more certain for us to survive an accident, put them on." "I will," promised the aviator.
Vardon announced would be his temporary workshop for possible repairs. The rest of that day, and all of the next, was spent by Mr. Vardon in taking his wrecked machine apart, saving that which could be used again, and looking particularly for defects in the gyroscope stabilizer, or equilibrizer.
"I realized that as soon as I began making airships, and so I devised what I call a gyroscope equilibrizer or stabilizer. A gyroscope, you know, is a heavy wheel, spinning at enormous speed, on an anti-friction axle. Its great speed tends to keep it in stable equilibrium, and, if displaced by outside forces, it will return to its original position.
I hoped to get you to adopt my plans for an aeroplane. But I have been delayed making arrangements, and by resigning from the army. "Perhaps I am not too late, though, to have you adopt my type of equilibrizer. My mercury tubes " "I am sorry, but you are too late there," interrupted Dick. "What type are you using?" the lieutenant cried, dramatically. "The Vardon. I might say that Mr.
"But, Larry, there may be other news for you around this Academy soon." "Real news?" "Yes. You probably heard what Mr. Vardon said about his machine being tampered with." "I sure did. And I think the same thing myself. It worked to perfection the day before, and then, all at once, she turned turtle. The gyroscope equilibrizer must have broken."
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