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 "Mr. Horn described the flying machine he and Whitehead were commissioned
to make, and the outcome of the project.
'We made one of bamboo, guyed with piano wire and covered with
fine woven cotton cloth, a seat suspended between the wings to
support the operator, working two smaller wings for propulsion,'
'When completed it was taken to the estate of one of the sponsors
for a trial, which ended in no flight, which was surmised by all
concerned, knowing mere man power could propel the machine, which
measured about thirty-two feet from tip to tip, very light and
strongly made.
' We also made a glider, after the pattern of Lilienthal's with
which Whitehead managed to get off the ground for short distances;
a lighter person would have done better as his weight must have
been nearly 200 pounds.'"
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