Air-Ship Stabilizer

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 21, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 28.

Air-Ship Stabilizer

ELMER A. SPERRY has invented an aeroplane “stabilizer,” for which he has been awarded the first prize, of fifty thousand dollars, that was offered by the French war department for such a device. Orville Wright, the great pioneer in air-ship building, has also announced his successful completion of a stabilizing device for air craft. He says it will make the flying-machine as safe as an ordinary wagon or a rowboat.

The air-ship is one of the speediest mediums of travel yet invented. No roads have to be prepared over which it is to travel. There is a possibility that its development will make it as common a few years from now as the automobile is to-day. And there is a possibility, also, that it is one of the means of rapid communication through which God designs to hasten the close of His work in the earth. It will certainly be used in an awfully destructive way in the great war of Armageddon that immediately precedes the second coming of Christ.