America's Early Free-Flight Models Continued

This is additional content for the December 2024 Model Aviation feature "America's Early Free-Flight Models" by C. David Gierke.   Early ExperimentersDuring the late 1880s and early 1890s, aeronautical experimenters in the heavier-than-air arena were faced with a multitude of problems, for which diverse courses of action were pursued.• Octave Chanute (American) insisted that the problem of automatic stability be addressed before any attempt at powered, manned, flight be attempted. Octave Chanute poses with his Katydid glider, 1896. • Sir Hiram Maxim (American…