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But alas, the Cobweb didn't "come on." Some three or four minutes after the Golden Butterfly had alighted and been swallowed up in a surging, yelling throng of enthusiasm-crazed aero fans, the Cobweb fluttered wearily to the ground, unnoticed almost amid the excitement over the Golden Butterfly's feat. Mortlake raged, old Mr.
On January 25th the Brussels Exhibition opened, when the Antoinette monoplane, the Gaffaux and Hanriot monoplanes, together with the d'Hespel aeroplane, were shown; there were also the dirigible Belgica and a number of interesting aero engines, including a German airship engine and a four-cylinder 50 horse-power Miesse, this last air-cooled by means of 22 fans driving a current of air through air jackets surrounding fluted cylinders.
"I'm pretty well up in the aero field myself. I run that line at county fairs." "Yes, sir, I know that," said Dave, "and that is why I came to see you." "That's so you said it was business, but I must say you are early birds," smiled the showman. "We had to be," again spoke Hiram. "How was that?" "Why," said Dave, "I thought it was very necessary that I should see you first thing this morning.
I hope everything will go well; I shall soon know...." During February he made many experimental flights, and finally, on March 10, 1915, went up 600 meters. This won him next day a diploma from the Aëro Club, and the day following he wrote to his sister Odette this hymn of joy not long, but unique in his correspondence: "Uninterrupted descent, volplaning for 800 meters.
He climbed, swooped, spiraled, volplaned, and rose again, executing a series of evolutions that would have won him fame at any aero meet. And when, after half an hour's exhaustive trial, he swooped down toward the beach again, he found the plane alighted as easily as she had risen.
He feverishly confessed that he had for many weeks wavered between hating the whole war and wanting to enlist in the British Aero Corps, to get life's supreme sensation scouting ten thousand feet in air, while dozens of batteries fired at him; a nose-to-earth volplane.
"Where did you come from, Mister?" pressed the persistent Hiram. "Why well, I came from up north. Own a launch. Had some business this way, and got well on my way till the craft struck." Dave noticed as the man spoke that it was in a hesitating, evasive way. He seemed anxious to change the conversation, for he said: "You are taking me to the Columbus aero field?"
A contract was made for the delivery of a twelve horse-power engine to weigh not more than a hundred pounds, but this contract was never completed, and it fell to Charles M. Manly to design the five-cylinder radial engine, of which a brief account is included in the section of this work devoted to aero engines, as the power plant for the Langley machine.
Archie guns were raising a fierce distant clamour, the white puffs from their bursting shrapnel showing like gigantic snowballs in the glare, but no trace of the Fritz airmen was visible. A series of violent concussions and the faint high-up throb of aero engines were the only indications of his gambols.
With the instruments that were aboard the aero I can make observations to determine our position, and I shall steer for the Pike's Peak region." When the party had become accustomed to their situation, and had gained confidence in their craft by observing how buoyantly it bore them, they became almost cheerful in their demeanor.
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