I
have flown in his machine, and it is the most marvellous biplane
I ever saw. Walter, I want you to get a Belmore Park assignment
from the Star and go out to the aviation meet with me to-morrow.
I'll take you on the field, around the machines--you can get
enough local colour to do a dozen Star specials later on. I may
add that devising a flying-machine capable of remaining
stationary in the air means a revolution that will relegate all
other machines to the scrap-heap. From a military point of view
it is the one thing necessary to make the aeroplane the superior
in every respect to the dirigible."
The regular contests did not begin until the afternoon, but
Kennedy and I decided to make a day of it, and early the next
morning we were speeding out to the park where the flights were
being held.
We found Charles Norton, the inventor, anxiously at work with his
mechanicians in the big temporary shed that had been accorded
him, and was dignified with the name of hangar.
"I knew you would come, Professor," he exclaimed, running forward
to meet us.
"Of course," echoed Kennedy. "I'm too much interested in this
invention of yours not to help you, Norton. You know what I've
always thought of it--I've told you often that it is the most
important advance since the original discovery by the Wrights
that the aeroplane could be balanced by warping the planes.
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