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1910 - 0864.PDF
\JWE. •.',*•'• •• " •»- - •".:. •.-..•J-.-;.*-*.' •"•.'•,-.j; 1 R^SflBRS :. Wr^^r' .^•4 ^S*!l^ iJlit IP" ""J V '-- :J1PBB OCTOBER 22, 1910. entrance fee on Saturday. Cards were issued broadcast to all who cared to ask, and one had the unedifying sight of countless beggars selling tickets at the very doorways for what they might fetch. Then, again, the officials taking tickets, not having any receptacle into which to throw them, simply threw them, torn into two pieces, on to the floor. After the first few hours the entrance hall resembled an English voting room after a municipal election. Inside, whilst each stand was as a rule extremely well designed and mounted, the general effect was not as attractive as is usual in France. The passages between the rows of exhibits had in places a covering of fine yellow sand which soon spread itself over the scarlet carpet of the stands. Still, perhaps these criticisms are a trifle captious, and they in no way detract from the general excellence of the exhibits. This year there is a notable absence of freakish machines. The money of harmless lunatics is doubtless not inexhaustible, and the patience of the gullible section of the public is dead, perhaps, but certainly there are few aeroplanes shown which have not, in General view, down the centre, of the Paris Flight Salon.— In the foreground is seen the Turcat Mery-Rougier machine and the Compagnie-Aerienne stand also, prominent aloft being the small spherical balloon over the "Continental" exhibit, the Hutchinson "Astra" balloon, and on the left the nose of "Zodiac III." who naturally takes the greatest interest in an industry which he has done so much to encourage. One is accustomed to give the French every credit for the exceptional artistic and satisfactory manner in which they decorate and arrange spectacles ol every sort, but one cannot refrain from one or two criticisms of some of their methods at this Exhibition. In the first case no one save the veriest imbecile thought of paying an Maurice Farman control at the Paris Flight Salon.—The pedals are used to actuate the ailerons, the wheel is turned for steering and moved backwards and forwards for elevating and depressing. 862 Details of the landing-skid and chassis, engine and propeller of the R.E.P. monoplane at the Paris Flight Salon. appearance at least, a prospect of future flight. There is a general tendency to adhere to certain root principles of form. Among biplanes there are perhaps three or four general types to which most double-planed machines conform, and in monoplanes perhaps two. Of the helicopter there is but one example present, the Vuitton, and that differs but little from the model displayed last year. Some of the more exceptional features of certain machines have dis appeared or have been greatly modified, such as the vertical curtains on the Voisin, which machine now maintains lateral stability by means of the customary ailerons. The R.E.P., once the strangest of monoplanes, has now come into line with ordinary practice as to the tail and rudder, with what great success can be judged from recent results. The majority of aeroplanes have a similar type of control to the H. Farman ; that is, a foot-bar for steering, and a hand- lever combining the necessary movements for elevating and gauchissement. Another class has adopted the Voisin wheel control, the wheel being pushed backwards and forwards for elevation and turned one way or the other for gauchissement. A few follow the Antoinette practice of separate controls for each of the three movements. Absolute originality is scarce, and none of it very promising. As to chassis systems, these are extremely diverse in type, the Farman and Bleriot methods being perhaps more often adopted and in a modified shape. The monoplane, generally speaking, has altered but little in essential design during the year, the increased success of the type being mainly due to the great improvements made in aviation motors. The use of ailerons has almost entirely disappeared before
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