Flying Machine

a device for enabling man to navigate the air. The feat of flying has been often attempted; even among the ancients it was ~ tried, and we are informed, succeeded to some slight extent. The most notable modern experiments with a view to Sige this end have been conducted by iram Maxim, of England, and Prof. Samuel P. Langley, of Washington, D. C.; the former constructing his machine on the plane system, and the latter designing his somewhat in the form of a fish. The flying machine proper is heavier than air, depending on the motions of mechanically propelled wings for its support. But the more usual and hitherto most succe ful type is the manageable balloon. _ In such a one Santos-Dumont in September, 1901, succeeded in winning the prize of $20,000 offered to the aeronaut who should first (under given conditions) circle the Hiffel tower, in Paris. Other notable and succe ful experimenters include the Wright Brothers, Dayton, O. See AERONAUTICS; BALLOONS. Flying Squid, in zodlogy, an appellation given by sailors to certain mollusks which can leap out of the water so high as often to fall on the decks of ve els. They are used as bait in the Newfoundland cod fishery, and are the principal food of the dolphins and cachalots, as well as of the albatro and the larger petrels. = MAXIM’S FLY Flying Squirrel, a name given to such squirrels as have the skin of the sides very much extended between the fore and hind legs, so as, to a certain extent, to sustain the animal in the air when taking long leaps.