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MR. HIRAM S. MAXIM gives, in the National, a brief description of his experiments on flying by means of aeroplanes. His flying machine, when finished and loaded with its water, its fuel, and three men, weighed very nearly 8000 lb., and the actual horse-power developed on the screws was 363 horsepower, with a screw-thrust of rather more than 2000 lb. The total width of the machine was over 200 feet. It was found that upon running the machine at thirty miles an hour very little load remained on the lower track, and at thirty-six miles an hour the whole machine was completely lifted.
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Science in the Magazines. Nature 50, 489 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050489a0
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