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The active and enthusiastic movement, now in progress throughout Fauce in favour of aviation has, says the Paris corrcs porient of the Ti-er, created an entirely a industry-namely, that of the con straction of aeroplanes.

tests of actual experience, and thuir 100- thines have proved their stability under conditions analogous to those in which Mr Wilbur Wright has performed his marvel-

Intimations.

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FRIDAY NEXZ, JANUARY 1ST, 1909,

the Distingnishad Patronage of

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los Aights. They possess, moreover, the and experienco, as is the case with the advantage of not needing a pilot of skill Wright seroplane. Their lateral stability UNDE SER F. D. LUGARD, is excellent, and in describing curves they automatically nesume the requisite degree of inclination. The Voisin worka can turn out four aeroplanes per months, and the cost of a machine of (he Farman type is £1,000.

The Voisin machines, however, have not

Factories are being erected in many places, which will probably at no distant date be greatly extended, and very nam arhor mechanical workshops and engineer- iug establishments are engaged upon medels for flying machines. Moreover, yet been used for flights exceeding 40 to the announcement is made of the formation 45 minutes in duration, whereas Wright kas un several occasions remained off the of a special company to equip a factory in which 50 aeroplanes on the Wright systems ground for nearly 13 hours. The writer asked Mesure Voisin if they could explain ace to he put in hand forthwith. Thero the cause of this. inferiority in the already unists, however, an es ablishment respective performances. It is no doubt which has made a special study of the con- the fault of the moser, and this is tha | 'structive of flying machines, and is provid-question which just now is receiving serious

ed with the requisita plant that of the attention on the part of the firm, brothers Voisin. It was this firm that produced the famous machines of Farman and Delagrange.

Mesas Voisin Frores rank among the earliest of the pioneers of aviation in France. Captivated by the exploits of Lilienthal, which were then being made widely known by Captain Ferber, and the raports of the experiments of the brothers. Wright in Amerim, they i egun, in 1903, saries of patient trials of apperatas, with Loit moters of any kind, resembling that

d by the Wrights The difficulties and the dangers they encountered in the curso of their experiment ultimately lid Kem to abandon the models they had mado, and to produce am untirely new type of machine of their own design. Out of these dabove arose the bi-plane fying apparatus, which is now so well knows, and one of which, under thi guidance of Farman, has just completed the journey from Chalons to Bheims, the firat din ct aerial voyage in a machine of

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