The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, May 26, 1908, Page SEVEN, Image 7
II FLYING MACHINE THAT FLIES.
Bp Wright Brothers' Aeroplane, Whi
They Are Trying at Kill Devil
? Hill.
ftach McGlice in Columbia State
iManteo, N. C, May 17.?K
pevil Hill?that's the place whe
Bie Hying machine is, and where t
lav before I started out to look f
,t, it got smashed up?is, as 1 ha
ilready stated, far out towards tl
stormy dangerous eastern shore
North Carolina, some 10 or 12 mil
lie other side of the end of wor
rhich is at Manteo. It is hill u
Iti which some several lunidn
ears ago?the histories and sto
looks know when?the Indian ehi
Kanteo, or some other "heap I)
fijun," killed the White Doe,
Which the spirit of Virginia Da
.JJad taken refuge, lie killed til
fflMhiitc Doe with a silver arrow pi
Merited to him bv Queen Elizabet
|And when he did it, there was grc
Srejoicing in Injun land, becau
Jrthey thought the White Doe, whi'
Vliad been wandering for years 1
[and down the shore, was the dev
t\ihI now this Hying machine h
'.taken its first flight from this sar
|)evil Mill, the first time in t
y of the world that man h
flown successfully in a hea
lan air machine, soaring ha
forth up and down the ble
among the sand dunes, sai
and pebble-lilled winds of t
Is it the soul of Virgii:
, the first white child born
ica, or is it the devil ?
altering a fisherman's bo;
died by a greasy chu-chuin
bing gasoline engine, I gat
together a small parly at Ma
ml hied me away across All:
; sound for Kill Dcvill lli
s 1 lead was.our first stop. ()n
was an old pirate by the nai
chvard R. Teach, who had 1
on the narrow strip of lai
li encloses Albemarle sour
I few miles below Kill Dc
He had an old nag upi
;e head he used to tie a lante
E^ht and drive her up and dov
each. It was a particularly da
its slioaly shore there and sa
?ut at sea going past would s
ight moving and think it w
it. Since the sailors were havii
?tty hard time of it themselv
seeing the other boat movii
ithly along, they would stc
vessel toward the suppos
to get into a better chann
II low. they would strike t
Is. This was what the old pirn
wanting, and he would go 01
knives through the sailors ai
their gold and jewels. He w
arp rid pirate, and if he liv
lie present day ht> would ha
office in Wall street instead
hat desolate place, which w
cd after his horse.
fter the usual experiences wi
motor boat's engine, somewli
niobilious, you understand, ai
r climbing ovpr a few sai
es, marshes.t' quick-sand ai
gs, we reached Kill Devil Hi
there, sure fcnough, was t
ig niachine-jriiailed up in box?
' say. I kndfw only that it w
living, and* if it existed an
re, it wasJ11 the big barnli
se they cafled the "camp."
/he only '/natives" anywhere
sight of the/ whole neighlx>rho<
j ^\vcre some j'w or eight life savers
,, JHtchnically nr professionally so-ca
* ?flri?at the)Lrnited States life savii
' fi&itiou henide the roaring sea,
^BE&rt distance from the camp. The
llfllilB*av0,'S l,avt' ')COn at this stati<
1S78, during all of which tit
V never been known
wreck to
|9fiifln?Hccia 11y seems to be, not
but to kill time. This 111
ggppgffllter reason for calling t
rauXill Devil Hill. Old Fatli
the devil, as ma
3Bg^||j^?are (|uite willing to attest.
c. living machine was a boi
||Sa^^Pese poor fellows away there <
^^^^Klcsolate uninhabited shore, wl
|g||||B nothing to do nil the live lot
HnBhui sit and look at one atiotln
HBBe at the ocean make to;
house in sand. They watc
SBj^fthe wonderful performances
flH^Sflying men from the top of t
^^Bl dime, Each one of the li
.HHm's could tell wondrous thin
.^^ ;t it, and they each had a tlieo
(^ tt the puzzling Wright brothe
the problem of living. Ev
1 had struck the North Car
line I had found the air full
flying machine and the Wrig
^Bothers, not anywhere visible, h
^Rcrywhere in the air audible,
o ^Hizaheth City, on the boat going
v JMrtiileo, and. of course, in Manic
o ^Hhody could talk of anvthing el:
nionstrous.tJperformances ov
^ Kill DeviJvTiill seemed to occtt]
of all, men, women ai
flHj^^cn. Very few had seen
in ' \
\ H|. 1
I- I
though everybdy claimed to be on
intimate personal terms with the inch
ventors. Accordingly I was entertained
with the most wonderful
tales. At last 1 had reached folks
who had actually seen it. And these
.) live savers or time killers told me
ill about it, what was, what had been
re and what was going to be, not golie
ing it particularly strong, however,
or on the last, for they had little imave
gination. in spite of their intimate
he association with the mystic and maof
jestie sea. One of these fellows
es showed me a picture of the machine
Id in Might in a Xew York paper,
p- which by some wonderful, inexplica
ixl ble process, had been blown across
ry the wide expanse of water, shifting
ef sand dunes and a still wider expanse
ig ot ignorance.
in "Thar's the picture," said he.
re " I he fellow sho' got a good un."
lis It was an excellent picture ine
deed. and as 1 was admiring it and
h. envying the luck of the man wliu
at hail i r. an aged to take such a perfect
se photograph. 1 asked, "When was
ch this picture taken ?"
up "Thursday," he replied,
il. "\\ hv, the paper's daicd I bursas
day." I said.
ne " I hat don't make no difference,"
he lie *aid. " I bat ar' picture wuz Ink
as I luirsday. 'cause Tluirsdav's the
v- only time thar wuz two men in the
ek machine, and the picture has twe
ak in ii."
So lie bad figured it out. And I
. quickly figured it out that the mag'.,a
nilicent picture marked a "I'hoto1,1
graph ot the Wright [bothers
Aeroplane in Flight was a pun
Jit, take. It would have taken twe
ig, whole days to get a picture fron
b- there to Xew N ork. and two more
n- days to get the paper back.
At the hotel in Manteo I met ;i
l'1- whole bunch of newspaper mer
ce from Norfolk. Washington, New
n.e York. London. On the day of tin
Uij flight the woods were full of them?
111' the woods far away from the camj
K!j and from the big sand dune. Noi
one of these newspaper men saw
0,1 the machine fall, though they al
rn saw il fly. Some of the wildest acvn
counts had been printed in some of
"" the papers about this flying perll"
formance. A Norfolk paper print
ec ed a story that the Wrights bat;
as taken a flight of io miles out ovei
*5 t'le soa- The same paper after the
es accident said that the Wrights bat
cut their machine up into unrecog01
nizable splinters to preserve tlieii
secret. The newspaper men who saw
j '! it were at least a quarter of a mile
',L' I away, it is but just to those win
ltojdid see it and to the profession gen|
erally to say that Norfolk paper <li<
11(1 j not have a man on the scene at al
and tlie absurd stories were evident0
| ly written by some expert think-arXtl!
list in the home office. Other wil<
01 stories were printed in other paas
pers.
I be \\ right brothers would no'
th operate their machine when am
lat newspaper men were present. In ornd
der to see it. they had to stand a fat
ml off, and many humorous accounts ol
[id their experiences were related
ill, Some of these experiences were nol
he quite so humorous, though, at the
-s, time, such as getting blistered in tlu
as sun, skinning their shins climbing
v- trees, making a close acquaintance
ke with the enterprising and distinguished
Mr. Chigoe, who inhabit.'
in the little patches of woods all
iX' through this country. They saw tin
? long (if ht-mile flight, though, aiu
H- they learned from a reliable sourcc
ig through a man who was there at the
a time that one of the Wrights pressse
ed the wrong lever of the steering
'>n apparatus, causing the machine tc
ne shoot down instead of up. It shol
to into the sand, and as the speed wa>
fe. something like a mile a minute
to great was the fall thereof,
ay The flying machine consists ol
he two horizontal oblong discs, oi
or planes. 40 feet long, six and a hall
ny leet wide. A propeller is in tin
rear, run by a gasoline engine scl
mi between the discs or planes. Then
mi ! ? m ;angement to steer hv raisho
ing 01 iowering the edges of the
ig pbmes, :? id bv shifting the directioi
.m\ o? the ;>i ipeller. The engine is 2v
nd i horsepower, and weighs i^o pounds
Ii-I I'lie w hole machine when it tool,
of jits long flight the other day weighlie
ed. including the two men. i.ioc
fe pounds. There is no balloon >r ga.gs
j bag attachnient. nothing about tin
ry wliole thing which is lighter tliar
rs an. It it maintained in the air on
er the same principle exactly as a dist
o- sai'ed by throwing il laterally int<
of thi- ;.i:. The disc you throw is held
lit up by the motion imparted in tin
lit throwing. It this motion did nol
\t s| ei (I itself against the resistance
to of the air and gravity il would g'.
o. on forever. Now. what the Wriglil
>e. by i if hers have been trying to do i.*
er LC> put some motion-generator on the
[)y o.isc itself so that instead of the one
in! /impulse given to it at the start it
it/shall have a continuous force oper/
f
i ating upon it.
lie fore putting- a motor on their
machine, the Wrights practiced for
years riding on it as it was projected
into the air with one impulse
given it in starting. They have been
coining down to Kill Devil Hill for
seven years, getting upon one of
these sand dunes and gliding off on
a simple little track made of two
parallel planes. 15y climbing on top
of the hill and sliding down part the
way they would generate enough
motion to sail out into the air, ami
they would practice steering" it in
this way. \\ hen they had become
skillful in doing this and had contrived
a steering apparatus they
made a gasoline engine and continued
the motion, hor a long time
and until this year tliev would lie
down between the planes, but they
thought il would be better to sit up.
And that was the principal thing
they went to their camp for this year
to practice with the now steering apparatus
which had to be changed so
' they could handle il sitting up. And
that was likewise the reason of the
accident the other day. The steering
arrangement being changed, the
positions oi the levers were new to
them and by mistake one oi them
' grabbed hold of the wrong lever and
' shot down instead of up.
W hen they lly they keep verv
1 close to earth, from 15 to 20 foci
all the time. The longest (light tliev
have yet made was made three
} eai s ago at I )aytoii, ( )hio, which
; was 24 miles. T his distance they
made in thirty-eight minutes. They
llcw eight miles the other dav in
' about nine minutes.
J Now. this disc sailing principle
with the engine to impart a continuous
force is all right, so far as
l it goes. Iiut suppose the engine
1 should go wrong 01* something
should happen to the propeller or
other part of the apparatus, what
would happen ,'\\ ould the machine,
> men and all. like a bird shot in the
t wing, come tumbling down? There
is where the danger would seem t<:
1 be, for it must be remembered that
- there is no danger in going up in/c
t the air, unless you go prettv liigl:
up where the air is very rare and
- you might take cold or run out of
1 oxygen. I he real danger in al
aeronautic performances is in com
ing? down. I Jut a disc thrown int<
1 the air after the manner so well
- known does not come suddenly tc
the ground when the original force
imparted in the throwing is exi
hausted: it sails slowlv to the
) ground. This is what the planes
would do. It the engine is shut ol't
1 it would have a certain amount oi
1 momentum which is. must expend
- and this it would d<? gradttailv. and
- thus ii the steering arrangement is
1 properly manipulated the thing
would slowly glide down and light
like a disc thrown or like a bird,
t The momentum would be expended
gradually against the resistance of
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The Tair and i
the air and gravity, like a child ii
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Very simple ; isn't it?
Then, why don't you fly. It beat
walking all to holler?especiall;
over hot sand dunes iti the blister
itig sun.
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