Union Francaise Aerienne
Baron G. Onffroy de Verez
M Couronneau
Paris
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M. Quinton, founder of the Ligue Nationale Aerienne, France.
The French National Air League was founded on September 2, 1908, in
Paris with the purpose of making France the global center of
aviation (due in large part, without doubt, to the birth of the
German Air League, very recently formed by Count Zeppelin in
Germany)
La Revue Aerienne Organe Officiel de La Ligue Nationale Aerienne
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Union Francaise Aerienne
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C.A.M. French Commission Aerienne Mixte
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Aero Club of France
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Aero Club of the United Kingdom
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Aerial Flights.
Elaborate experiments in aerial locomotion are in progress at Dune Park,
Northern Indiana, near Lake Michigan, under the direction of Mr. Octave
Chanute. The experiments began two months ago. Since then the machines
have been reconstructed. Mr. A. M.
Hering
is assisting Mr. Chanute, and has invented a regulator, which is attached
to the apparatus. Beginning September 1, a large number of flights have
been made without a bruise or a break. A distance of 300 feet has been
covered, at the height of say 30 feet from the ground, with less jar and
shock than a ride in a rubber tired carraige. Two men carry the apparatus
up the sand hill. At a height of 35 feet up the machine is lifted, and Mr.
Hering fits himself under it and allows the wind to raise it. His arms
fall over the bars provided. He makes two or three quick steps toward the
lake, and the machine soars from the ground and darts through the air with
a velocity described as rivaling that of an express train. The motion is
horizontal, without any swaying motion. To stop the machine, the operator
moves his body enough to tilt the apparatus slightly upward in front, when
it coasts gradually and slowly to the ground. The experiments of September
10 were considered unusually favorable, because [they were] made under
somewhat adverse conditions. In a strong wind the aeroplane soared
suddenly and unexpectedly,
carrying with it four operators who were holding the ropes, and lifting
them 100 feet into the air.
The combined weight of the four brought it down again soon, without
accident; while the performance of the machine in this emergency was
peculiarly gratifying to the inventor. The apparatus is modeled after the
general form of an albatross, but has seven wings.
[Originally appeared in Scientific
American, 75, October 31, 1896, p. 329.
[ ] Question the spelling of Hering or Herring. Sci Am had one r.
Proper is rr
for
Augustus M. Herring ]
Chanute's study list misses Cayley and also
Walker, etc. Look to James Means books for more.
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