Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Aeronautical Society:—The flying machine—a working model of which I have now the honour to submit to your critical inspection— is the invention of M. Anton Weczera, a Hungarian architect, who has devoted many years to the study of a question which has such a special interest for your Honourable Society.

I, too, have devoted considerable attention to this subject; but whilst studying the construction of the many flying machines that dispense with the use of an air–bag, I have invariably failed to find in any of them an adequate and reliable lifting capacity, which, in my opinion, is the most essential element in all of them, and without which there can be no practical success.