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LANGLEY PIONEER AERIALIST
Noted Experimenter Had Faith in the
Power of Men to Fly.
TROVED MANY OF HIS THEORIES
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Kren When IMrflrnlrA.
The story of Famuel Tlerpont IanKlsy's
study and experiment In aeronautics la
one that appeal not only to the engineer
and others directly Interested In the sub
ject, but to the public as well. It Is a
torv not generally known, since It start
bark In the year 1WT, some time before
r.iany serious nilndrd people considered
ai-rlul navigation prartlcal for heavier than
air machines, and continue for nearly
tJxteen years. During that time Mr. I-ang-loy
created and demonstrated many steps
now Invaluable to this modern and per
manent science.
In 1SS he became assistant secretary of
the KnilthHiyilan In.-ititution, and In the fol
lowing year, upon the death of Prof. Balrd,
he succeeded him as secretary of the In
stitution, whore he combined the adminis
tration of Its various branches with his
own Investigations and studies, until his
death In !!JB. In recognition of his scien
tific renrarc hi. Mr. lunnlcy was the re
cipient of decrees and medals from the
f.ireinoft universities and scientific so
cieties in Ktirope and America,
From his first studies with toy aero
planes propelled by rubber bands to his
final exnerinv-nt with a man-carrying; mi
dline propelled by a gasoline engine, the
like of which has hardly been surpassed
to the present day, the story of his en
deavors, handicaps, failures and successes,
holds the attention of the reader with an
Interest not unlike a romantic narrative.
The memoir Just published deals largely
.with experiments ni.il tueir results, which
are now accepinl n.s t : ( emu. t, f
At the time they inn mailt, hu.voxcf, they J
were the first steps of a great scientist
roping In the da-k, and he well deserves
the title given him as the First Bird-man.
Having secured a grasp upon the elemen
tary theories of wind resistance, and mat
ters pertaining to aviation, Mr. I-annley
Started In to build a model lieavler-than-alr
machine, the first that had ever been
built, slnco the nearest approach at that
time to such a flying machine, was an
Ingenious invention of the Frenchman,
J'enaud, who flew a paper toy, propelled
by means of rubber bands, for ten seconds.
Secretary Langlcy undertook to build a
larger and more practical machine, not
simply for proving the theories upon which
he had been working, but because he said
it was impossible to learn more about the
principles of flight without studying flight
Itself. In 1892 he started building the first
of his steam driven models, but It was
four years before successful flight was ac
complished. The problem waa difficult and
discouraging, especially for on who had
only a casual knowledge of steam en
gineering. There waa ample literature on
the subject, but there might as well have
been none for all the assistance It gave.
with steam engines rated light at 600
pounds to the horsepower. What Mr.
Ijangley needed was Just about one-hundredth
of that weight. Seeing- no other
way, he set about building an engine him
self, although practical engineer told him
It was Impossible, and he eventually pro
duced 'one weighing only twenty-three
ounces, which with the whole power plant,
burner, boiler and fuel weighed seven
pounds and produced one and a quarter
horsepower. 8uoces at last attended his
efforts, but only after & tremendous loss
of time and energy. Ten or twenty boilers
and as many blast lamp were made and
discarded before he secured a combination
that would keep up a pressure of ?d to 160
pound of steam for the time desired. And
In the meantime he had built and thrown
aside five 'machines before he succeeded
in making one sufficiently light and yet
strong enough to fly. Even after the com
pletlon of the whole machine he had to
atop until some method of launching; could
be devised. At last a launching apparatus
waa constructed which held the machine
on an overhead track until ready to fly,
when, by means of spring. It waa shot
out into the al? over the water. The ex
pertmental ground was a small creek off
the Potomac river near Wldewater, Va.
First Flight of Model.
At the end of four year' incessant
labqr, on May (, 1896, the first of these
model flew. It wa a model of a tandem
biplane, with a wing-spread of thirteen
feet and a total weight of thirty pound.
The first flight wa of a minute and
twenty seconds' duration, while the ma
chine covered a distance of 8,000 feet, al
though in subsequent flight thl distance
was increased to three-quarter of a mile,
at a speed of about thirty mile per hour.
No attempt at flight was made in high
vinos, out in a wind or twelve mile per
hour the model flew well, circled and rose
to a height of over loo feet, guided only
by Its own mechanism. Thus after I
lod of nine year of study and expert'
t the theory of mechanical flight was
esafully demonstrated and demon-
; uted as Mr. Langley said in the only
satisfactory way. by a machine reallv
flying.
Th government became interested in Mr.
I-angley' work early In' 1896, recognising
th possibility for the use of such a ma
chine in time of war. Through the Board
. tt Ordnance and Fortification, President
McKlnley asked Secretary Leuigley to
build a man-carrying flying machine. Th
secretary agreed to try, and coming re
luctantly from his scientific pursuit, b
commenced the work under an appropria
tion from the government. Many unfore
seen, obstacle were encountered a - had
been the case in the construction of the
model machine. Clasoline had been substi
tuted for steam as a more practical mo
tor power, and Secretary Langley. then at
th age of 62, found It necessary to delve
in the study of gasoline engine construc
tion. He had no desire to build a gaso
line engine himself, but after searching
in vain, both in this country and in
Europe for an engine-builder who could
make him an engine averaging in weight
only ten pounds per horsepower, he was
forced to undertake its construction in the
Smithsonian shop.
The finished engine, which was designed
and constructed by Mr. Charles M. Manly,
an engineer assisting Mr, Langley, was a
uve-c) unaer one. producing fifty-two
actual horse power, and weighing with
radiators, batteries and twenty pounds of
cooling water, only 317 pounds, averaging
a little lee than four pound per horse
power. J his memoir give th dotalls of
construction of this engine, which even the
builder of modern gasoline engine could
tudy with great advantage.
nearly everyone is familiar with th
termination of the experiment made with
th man -carrying machine. Early In
October, luS, the aeroplane was completed
and waa tried out at th testing ground
at Wldewater, Va. Prof. ey Insisting
that th flight be made over the water In
order to fiord protection, to the aviator
In IsJidlug, or in the event of ait accident.
Although several test had been made
previously on the launching apparatus,
them wa some undiscovered flaw, and the
machine waa twice, precipitated into th
Water directly from th lauinealnf ways b-
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for It got fairly Into th air. At th time
of the launching th engine waa running
smoothly, but, as the machine started down
th ways, th aviator in his car felt a
sudden retardation, due to the fact that
on of th wings came In contact with a
part of th projecting launching apparatus,
and although the aviator, Mr. Manly, at
tempted to adjust the balance of the
machine with the rudder, the aeroplane
tipped downward and plunged Into the river
before he could secure control.
Following Its recovery and repair, almost
Identical event occurred In connection with
th second launching, about two months
later. A before, it waa conceded by all
who sawth flight that the machine would
undoubtedly have flown had It not been
for th defective launching apparatus.
Nearly all modern aviators who are
familiar with th type and construction of
the Langley machine readily accord to the
pioneer in the science of aeronautic, that
his first heavler-than-alr machine, would
unquestionably have flown, and would fly
today, if fairly launched. The Smithsonian
authorities, however, have decided that the
machine will never be experimented with
again, but will be preserved a a monument
to the scientist who conducted these
original investigation.
Th Langley memoir on mechanical
flight, which form publication 1Mb of the
Bmlthaonlaa Contributions to Knowledge, is
in two part: th first by Prof. Langley,
himself, dealing with th preliminary work
and experiment up to the first successful
night of model No. 4, In 1896. Th second
part I by Mr. Charles M. Manley, Mr.
Langley'a assistant In th construction of
th larg gaaolln motor, and th man
carrying machine, and who acted a aviator
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