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[[note 1]] Daily News New York
27 Nov 1906. [[/note 1]]
PEARY LIKES AIRSHIP IDEA

(Special to the New York Daily News.)
HALIFAX. NOV. 26. --Commander Peary and Mrs. Peary left Sydney today for New York by rail. The Roosevelt will be overhauled and a new crew engaged.
   Commander Peary said he could make no announcement as to another Arctic trip until he meets his friends in New York. He believes that the airship, when perfected, will be the best means to reach the Pole.

[[note 2]] Herald Rochester NY
27 Nov 1906. [[/note 2]]

Another Prize for Aerialists.
London, Nov. 26- Another prize of £500 is offered to aerialists. This will be given by the new automobile racing club to the first heavier than air machine which makes a circuit of the club's three mile track, now being built at Weybridge, within eighteen minutes under given conditions. There is now £17,000, besides numerous valuable trophies, awaiting capture in England by the world's flyers. In addition there is £12,000 and various trophies in France.

[[note 3]] American New York
27 Nov 1906 [[/ note 3]]
FRANCE BUILDS BIG FLEET OF AIR CRAFT
Squadron of Fighting Aerial Vessels After Lebaudy Model Preparing,
AN ASTONISHING FLIGHT
Dirigible Flies Sixty Miles and Is Stored as Close and Easily as a Yacht.
Special Cable to New York American/
Paris, Nov. 26.- France will soon have a navy of the air. A fleet of aerial warships is to be built- indeed, a squadron is already being constructed.
The dirigible war balloon of MM. Lebaudy, built on the plans by the celebrated engineer, Juiliot, has made an astonishing flight, absolutely unattached, and has proved as much under control as a first-class yacht.
The scene of to-day's flight was at Moissow, near Mantes, Department of Seine-et-Oise, and the distance made was sixty miles. This success following that of ten days ago, when the machine stayed in the air two hours and twenty minutes, has created the greatest excitement in the French War Department, which is now convinced t hat the day of a possible warfare in the air is at hand. This airship of the Lebaudys is named La Patrie, and is driven by a motor which gives the propellers an average of 850 revolutions per minute. She is cigar-shaped, but much larger and more powerful than that of Santos Dumont.
The experiment to-day was the more brilliant repetition of that of November 16. After several trials made when the airship was but a foot or so above the earth to see if the motor was working well, six passengers, including an engineer from the War Office, entered the car, and at 9:20 the motor was set working and La Patrie rose gracefully from the ground to a height of 600 feet. All present, including the specially appointed officials from the War Office, expressed admiration at the rapidity and ease with which she answered her helm. She was completely under the command of her pilot, and the officers declared that the perfect airship had at last been built.
Soon after rising the Patrie sailed off gracefully in the direction of the village of Lavacourt at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. She then circled around the village, turning to the left or right with ease, and finally moved off to the hills bordering the Seine, swerved around toward Moisson, coming back toward her shed at the gait of twenty miles an hour. When over the shed and about 200 feet in the air she slowly and gracefully settled down to the ground amidst the waiting squad of soldiers.

Pam and Pierre Lebaudy have been persistent for years in experiments with dirigible airships, and at last they have succeeded. The French War Department has taken a keen interest from the first in the brothers' experiments and have officially adopted the Lebaudy model for the fleet of airships now under construction.
It is understood that the airships will be fighting craft of the most terrible description. They will be provided with powerful searchlights for the discovery of the enemy's whereabouts, and with torpedo tubes so constructed as to be able to drop the most powerful explosives at any spot desired. It is held that the effect of the attack from the air will be as destructive as it will be demoralizing.

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[[note 4]] Herald New York
27 Nov 1906 [[/note 4]]
LEBAUDY AIRSHIP GOES NEARLY SIXTY MILES
The Military Balloon Patrie in Speed Tests Satisfies the French Government.
[Special cable to the Herald.]
Herald Bureau,
No. 49 Avenue de l'Opera.
Paris, Tuesday,
The Herald's European edition publishes the following:-
The military balloon Patrie made an ascent yesterday morning, remaining in the air from nine o'clock till half-past eleven. It made tests of speed endurance under particularly favorable circumstances and more than satisfied the conditions of the contract made between the Minister of War and the constructors. 
The airship started from the balloon shed at Moisson and returned to the starting point, having covered a distance of ninety-three kilometres (nearly sixty miles).

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