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One of the new type of Burgess-Wright biplanes, 
which are being manufactured by the Burgess company 
and Curtis of Marblehead has been purchased by the 
United States government and will be used by the war 
department in conducting experiments with a view of de- 
termining the actual value of the zroplane in military 
and naval warfare The government machine will be de- 
livered on July 1st and until that time the Burgess com- 
pany will manufacture the Burgess-Wright machines for 
their own use and for private parties. 
The Burgess company is the first company inde- 
pendent of the Wright brothers, which have ever manu- 
factured a biplane carrying any of the Wright patents, 
and both Wilbur Wright and W. Starling Burgess, the 
two most prominently interested in the future of the new 
biplane, are confident that the xroplane will prove the 
safest machine, which has yet been flown. 
Although the biplane is typically a Wright make, 
several minor details are different from those employed 
in those manufactured by the Wright brothers. ‘The 
most important changes is in the manner in which the 
slender posts which connect the upper and lower planes 
are joined to the broad wings. Steel supports have been 
used in holding the supports firm; while in the Wright 
biplane only common cord made stronger by glue is used. 
In making this departure from the Wright machine the 
safety of the aviator only was considered, and Johnstone’s 
fall and death at Denver, Col., last November, is believed 
to have been caused by the weakness of the connection 
which held the upper plane to the supporting upright. 
The biplane is furnished with the 35-horse-power Speed- 
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well engine, which is always utilized by the Wright 
brothers, and is capable of developing a speed of 45 
wiles an hour. 
The two propellers and the mechanism for working 
the planes are identical with those used in the Wright bi- 
plane and were manufactured by the Wrights at Dayton, 
Ohio. 
The biplane has as an aviator, W. Starling Burgess 
himself, who recently was taught to fly in a Wright bi- 
plane at Augusta, Ga., by Aviator Harry Coffin of the 
Wright school. The Burgess company has established a 
flying school at Mineola, L.1. Aviator Burgess will in- 
struct a class of pupils in the art of flying in a Wright 
machine, while Aviator “Bill” Hilliard will instruct 
another class in the manipulation of the Burgess model D 
biplane, which is similar to the Farman type. 
Aviator Burgess, as soon as he becomes proficient 
in the flying art, will probably be seen at the various 
flying meets in the country and he has already decided to 
enter the Harvard-Boston meet at Squantum next sum- 
nier and is considering several other invitations to partici- 
pate in aviation contests, At the present time no pro- 
fessional aviators, which have made the Wrights famous, 
will be developed and all the flying in the Burgess air- 
ships will be done by Mr. Burgess himself and Aviator 
Hilliard, although in another year a Burgess team of 
aviators will be seen at the aviation meets throughout 
the country. The “Baby” Farman biplanes, which were 
built by the Burgess company for Graham-White and 
shipped to England during the winter months, have proved 
tc: be successful in every way. The “Baby” Farman and 
the Burgess-Wright biplanes are expected to give the 
Burgess company a prominent place in zronautics and - 
will probably cause many orders for biplanes of the 
Purgess make. ; 
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