Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 71
fore this was done he was killed by afall from his machine while in the air. Before the death of Lilienthal his efforts had at-tracted the attention of Octave Chanute, a distin- 70 FLYING MACHINES, guished civil engineer of Chicago, who, believingthat the real problem of the glider was the… … Chanutes two-deck glider. Chanute proposed to accomplish the same end bymoving the wangs automatically. His attempts werepartially successful. He constructed several types ofgliders, one of these with two decks exactly in theform of the present biplane. Others had three ormore decks. Upward of…
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