1914-07-09-sc-p14-spokanes-first-monoplane
July 09, 1914 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 14:
TO TRY SPOKANE’S FIRST MONOPLANE
Local Builders Are Nearly Ready to Launch Craft Made in This City.
A trial flight of the first monoplane ever built in Spokane will be made in about 10 days at the aviation field in Parkwater. Resembling, when ready for flight, the wings of a huge bird, the planes of the air craft have a 36-foot spread from tip to tip and are 22 feet long. The motor which will drive it will develop, at 1200 revolutions per minute, 60 horsepower. The weight of the machine, ready for flight, including the operator, will be about 650 pounds.
It was removed Wednesday after- noon from the shop at E612 Montgomery avenue, where it has been under construction for more than two months, to the aviation field. The builders are Martin A. Denine, designer; Harold C. Deuther, an experienced aviator, and Albert Martz, a student. M. Macklenberg has given financial assistance to the enterprise.
“The machine is built on an entirely new design, using old principles,” said Mr. Denine, the designer. “It is the bird type, and, with a partially automatic balance, would be more easily managed in case of accident in the air.”
Mr. Deuther has made exhibition flights at several of the large eastern cities and in Canada. Mr. Denine operated the Bower machine, built near Harrington a year ago, which succeeded in getting off the ground but did not make extensive flights.
