15 AUGUST 1908, Page 3

During the past few days Mr. Wilbur Wright, the American

inventor, has given some extraordinary demonstrations of flying in his machine at Le Mans. The reports of the successes of the brothers Wright in America were generally disbelieved in France, but Mr. Wright has now proved that they were not exaggerated, and that he is in advance of all other men in mechanical flight. French observers themselves admit this enthusiastically. Mr. Wright hardly ever fails to return to the exact spot from which he started ; he also flies higher than Frenchmen have done, and his control over his machine is much better. He describes figures of eight in the air, and he has risen as high as ninety feet.