At last Man flies!

At Issy, Paris, on January the thirteenth 1908, Mr. Henry Farman, the son of the Paris Correspondent of an English newspaper, won the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize for the successful flight of an air-ship heavier than air over a circular course measuring one kilomètre. Mr. Farman's machine consists of a central box-kite formed of two planes. Behind this stretches a light iron frame-work, at the extremity of which is another box-kite with wings for stability. In the centre of this rear kite is the vertical rudder. The horizontal rudder is right in front, and the motor is between the two central planes. Below the framework are wheels on which the machine runs before it rises. During the successful trial the æro-plane rose to the height of about twenty feet, and it attained a speed of thirty-one miles an hour.