The Morning Post of Friday publishes an interview with M.
Weiller, the head of the French Syndicate which will buy the Wright aeroplane as soon as the conditions of the contract are fulfilled,—viz., that the inventor shall make a flight of fifty kilometres in a wind of not less than eleven miles an hour. M. Weiller disclaims any commercial motive in his intention to purchase the Wright machine, stating that it is not his present idea to put it to military or naval uses. Ile declares be is doing it because "science and civilisation are passionately interesting" to him. For the rest, he has the highest opinion of the genius, sterling character, and modesty of Mr. Wright, and his belief in the invention is so absolute that he has wagered that within six months Mr. Wright will fly from Calais to Dover in twenty-five minutes.
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