Fort Wayne Sentinel, Nov. 20, 1901, p.3

Fort Wayne Sentinel, The November 20, 1901

PLAN'S A FLYING MACHINE.

Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 18. In six months' time, if the plans of the capitalists who are backing the project mature, flying machines will be placed on the market for sale at a minimum cost of $2,000. Gustave Whitehead, the inventor of a flying machine which a few months ago demonstrated its ability to soar through the air, is building a new model in a long, low shed erected for the special purpose. There are fifteen skilled mechanics employed, divided into day and night shifts.

No one except the workmen is permitted to enter the building. Except to admit that a company has been formed for the manufacture of flying machines and -that it is intended to place the machines on the market in the early summer for sale,Inventor Whitehead refuses to talk.

The new calcium carbide motor which Mr. Whitehead has been working upon for a long time is said to be perfect and lessens the weight of the present motor power used in automobiles 75 per cent. "A flying machine will be put upon the market," said Mr.

Whitehead, "that will accommodate six persons and cost about $2,000 when the model on which we are now working is completed.

I propose to make good my assertion that I would fly to New York."