Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 18, 2025
The night wore on. Above the earth, like some gigantic meteor, flew the airship, her propellers forcing her onward and onward. Now and then some of the machinery needed attention, but very little. The gyroscope stabilizer worked well, and as it was automatic, there was no need of warping the wing tips, or of using the alerons, which were provided in case of emergency.
Furthermore it is stated to be fitted with a small gyroscope in the manner of the torpedo used in the seas, for the purpose of maintaining direction during flight, but upon this point there is considerable divergence of opinion among technicians, the general idea being that the torpedo depends upon an application of the principle of the ordinary rocket rather than upon a small engine such as is fitted to the ordinary torpedo.
For, as the night wore on, the wind seemed to increase in power. Only the mechanical strength of the Abaris enabled her to weather the storm. "We could not possible do it were it not for the gyroscope stabilizer," declared Lieutenant McBride. "We would be on our beams ends all the while. It's a great invention." "Well, this certainly is a good test of it," agreed Mr. Vardon, with pardonable pride.
"I beg your pardon I was only looking at it from the purely scientific point of view. Who is it, do you suppose?" "How do I know? Some amateur, I guess. No professional would butt in this way." Kennedy took a leaf out of his note-book and wrote a short message which he gave to a boy to deliver to Norton. "Detach your gyroscope and dynamo," it read. "Leave them in the hangar.
We remonstrated with him when he sailed toward you, but he said he was only trying to show you what a superior machine he had, and how much better his mercury stabilizers worked than your gyroscope. But I really fear he meant you some injury." "I think so, too," said Lieutenant McBride, "and I am glad to learn no one else was in the plot."
He threw off all disguise now and with authority from Norton directed the repairing of the machine. Fortunately it was in pretty good condition. The broken part was the skids, not the essential parts of the machine. As for the gyroscope, there were plenty of them and another dynamo, and it was a very simple thing to replace the old one that had been destroyed.
Vardon, "but if we do, I think we can weather it." "How does the gyroscope stabilizer work?" asked Paul, who with Innis, had made Dick's house his home while the airship was being built. "It does better than I expected," replied the inventor. "I was a bit doubtful, on account of having to make it so much larger than my first model, whether or not it would operate.
"And I'm sure HE did it!" he added, pointing an accusing finger at the retreating form of Lieutenant Larson. "You must not say such things!" cried the aviator. "You have no proof!" "I have all the proof I want as far as he is concerned," declared Jack. "Maybe he didn't intend to kill us, or hurt us, but he sure did want to wreck the machine when he tampered with the gyroscope."
The twenty thousand dollars was duly paid, and Dick gave the United States government an option to purchase his patents of the Abaris. For them he would receive a substantial sum, and a large part of this would go to Mr. Vardon for his gyroscope. "So you'll be all right from now on," his cousin Innis remarked. "Yes, thanks to your friend Dick Hamilton. My good luck all dates from meeting him."
"This is the mechanical brain of my new flier," he remarked, patting the aluminum case lovingly. "You can look in through this little window in the case and see the flywheel inside revolving ten thousand revolutions a minute. Press down on the gyroscope," he shouted to me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking