Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1909 — GUSTY WIND STOPS WRIGHT [ARTICLE]

GUSTY WIND STOPS WRIGHT

Official Speed Trial of Aeroplane la Postponed Once More. Washington, July 30.—A squally wind caused another postponement of the ten-mile official speed trial of Orville Wright’s aeroplane. Wilbur Wright announced that it was not the rain so much as the uncertainty of the wind which caused his brother to give up the flight. “I made several flights in France while it was raining,” said Wilbur, “and it seemed that the machine traveled faster when it was wet I suppose this was because the canvas, becoming moist, was made more airtight, resulting in less atmospheric friction. It slipped through the air better, so to speak."