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1907. January 29. Tuesday News Sheffield 10 Nov. 1986. NEXT BALLOON RACE Of the Aero Club of America To Be Held in St. Louis. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 10.0-Announcement was made today by officials of the Aero club of America that next year's balloon race for the James Gordon Bennett Cup will be held in St. Louis some time between May and December. A meeting of the Aero club will be held in New York City next week at which time the decision of the officers will be officially confirmed. Journal Paris 9 Nov. 1906. LE DIRIGEABLE MILITAIRE "PATRIE" [PHOTO] Le nouveau ballon dirigeable Patrie, construit par MM. Lebaudy, pour le compte de l'administration de la guerre, est en voie d'achevement au hangar de Moisson (Seine-et [[?]]Oise) sous la direction de l'ingénieur Julliot et de l'aéronaute Juchmès. Ce dirigeable est du type du précédent ballon Lebaudy qui, après avoir effectué, à Toul, les hrillantes expériences dont nous avons rendu compte, se trouve maintenant a Coalais-Meudon, pour servir aux exercices d'aéronautique militaire. Le Paiyie comporte divers perfectionnements; le volume de son enveloppe a élé legerement augmenté, la forme de sa partie arrière a été modifléo. Actuellement, comme notre photographie l'indique, le gonflement est achevé, et l'on procède à l'armement de la necello et à la mise en place des gouvernails. Incessamment, on commencera les essais de ce nouveau dirigeable, sous le contrôle de M. le commandant Bouttiaux, directeur de pare de Chalais-Meudon, et de son adjoint, M. le capitaine Voyer. -SALAGNAC [right side] Herr Hofmann and His [[?]] [photo] FIG. 2. [photo] HERR HOFMANN. FIG. 1. The knotty problem of aerial navigation is occupying the attention at the present moment of hundreds of scientists and engineers in all parts of the world. Naturally, in Germany, the home of theories and science, this complicated question has been specially to the fore, and, quoting the words of one of the best known German aeronauts, the numbers of inventions in this direction that have been made lately are legion. Despite the ill success that has attended all efforts hitherto, German inventors have not been dismayed and have redoubled their endeavors to achieve a happy solution of the task. Among these enthusiasts there is Herr J. Hofmann, who has been tackling the prolem quietly and in seclusion for the last fifteen years, and in the opinion of such ballooning experts as Baron Hewald, Captain Hilderbrandt, Mr. Percy Alexander and Captain Krogh stands a fair chance of carrying off the victor's palm. Through the courtesy of Herr Hofmann, who has hitherto denied the attempts of prying press men to obtain a glimpse of the aerial monster that he is constructing, your correspondent was able to view the new airship in a factory in the north of Berlin where it is being put together in secrecy by a few chosen mechanics. Herr Hofmann is a decided adherent of the "heavier than air" theory, and believes that the problem can be solved only by a machine capable of raising its own weight from the ground without the aid of gas bags. "Look at this diagram." he re[[?]] "On the right hand side you [[?]]serve a bird, meant to be a st[[?]] on the left a monster, which dep[[?]] stork as if it were not to fly a[[?]] has fashioned it, but as a 'dirig[[?]] you see, in order to lift its own [[?]] the stork must be fitted with a [[?]] five meters in length and one[[?]] half meters large in diamet[[?]] stomach to be filled with hydro[[?]] "You have only to imagine a [[?]] of this description equpped with [[?]] wings, head, tail and legs, and [[?]]
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