Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1921, Page 44

4“4 |ETTERUPHOLDING (| CURTISS S ISSUED Dr. Walcott’s S*atements T Bive Facts of Langley Air Machine Test. Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, yesterday made public the letter which he sent to Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, secre- ta Aeronautical So- ' ciety of London, in regard to charges by Griflith Brewer before the society. in which he attacked Glenn H. Cur- iss’ cxperiments with the Langley & machine in the summer of 1914. present at Hammondsport on May 31, 1914, and saw the machine with the original engine giving only two-thirds of the original thrust and with wings approximately of the orig-* inal design, but far rougher executed. get under way from rest and fly gracefully, carrying besides a man, . over 300 pounds of floats in excess of what the machine designed to * declared Dr. Walcott in his m still confident that wh these _relatively adv nstances is far inferio ble of doing in its original ' Smithsonian Institution, ) statements of offic rday, possess a motion pic- ture film of the Langley airship in flight during the 1914 tests, and these pic- tures, together with the word of Dr. Walcott, they declare, constitute ir- refutable proof of the success of the flight, and of the claim that the Langley machine was the first ma- chine built capable of safely trans- porting a human being through the air and being properly controlled in such flight. 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High Shelf Extra Easy Credit Terms at “The National.” Smithsonian Institution, in reply to; Mr. Brewer, stat i “I would have been amazed at the comments of this paper by Mr. Grif- fith Brewer had I not, upon reading it. immediat recalled the great similarity between a large portion of | the statements made in it and the | very bald statements made " in the | affadavits of Mr. Orville Wright in| the suit of the Wright Company ' versus the Curtis Aeroplane Company Price for Monday $59.75 No Payment Down in 1915, in which Mr. Wright claimed elf and brother” the credit, Pay a Little a Week o t ‘that ha - : r Ing thae hag been achiov ! at “The National” s oa eate tion from the beginning | of time, and had dismissed everything | that went before as ‘mere speculation and_theory excepting.’ as he described | it. ‘the desultory experiments of men | like Lilienthal” and Chanute. with powerless gliding machines, and like | Maxim, Ader and Prof. Langley, with minfature models and experimental | full sized machines, which never flew, nor were capable of ‘flight.” | “In_fact, it appears upon a review | of this aflidavit of Mr. Orville Wright, | that the present paper by Mr. Brewer : is merely a condensed statement of the assertions, arguments, specula- | tions_and errors of this affidavit by : Mr. Wright.” | An answer to the Brewer lecture by ! Dr. A. F. Zahm, who was concerned in the experiments, states that “the short flights of the overloaded Lang- . ley aeroplane in May and June, 1914, proved the propulsive system of the | 1903 machine powerful enough for prolonged flights.” i “I take pleasure in saying at the: start that the Smithsonian Institu- | tion fully recognizes the well de- : served success of the Wright brothers in being the first to make actual flights in heavier-than-air_ power- | propelled machines,” states Dr. Wal- | g < and have Music =V in Your Home ; Pathe November Records READY NOW! Hear These Big Hits No. 20616—10-inch Fox Trots, 85¢ “ILO” and . “Why Don’t You Believe Me” No. 20618—10-inch Fox Trots, 85¢ ad . l‘MA’, fllld “When the Sun Goes Down” Like Cut. —will add its cheer and warmth As Sketched by the Artist. to)ithe) Home, A reat tite We have never assembled such a remarkable value. 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This being so, I am | not prepared to concede that the, Wrights were the first to construct such a_machine capable of flight ' Dr. Walcott then takes up Brewer's | claims, as they appear to him. and denies, glving proofs, that the Ham- mondport experiments were made for i Curtiss' ends at Curtiss' expense; that | the changes made in guying the wings were indispensable to prevent their collapse; that the changes made in the engine were indispensable to make it run; that the changes in the propellers were indispensable to give them sufficient thrust; 4hat the changes made in the form of the, wings were indispensable to flight;| that the changes made in the rudder were indispensable to flight, and that the Hammondsport tests of the original machine did not result in flight, but merely in hops. —_— CHICAGO FIRE’S EXTRAS. 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