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1907 - February 22 Friday at Boddeck

Dispatch Pittsberg 6 Jan 1907

A Perfect Flying Machine.
Gull are masters in the air. I have watched by the hour birds similar to these following in the wake of a steamer, but had never before had such chances with a camera. Often they poise, resting apparently motionless on outstretched wing. It is a difficult feat. A small bird can't do it. A sparrow hawk can only poise by rapid beating of his wings. the gulls seem to hand perfectly still, yet there is never an instant when the wings and tail are not constantly adjusted to meet the different air currents. Just as in shooting the rapids in a canoe, the paddle must be adjusted every moment to meet the different eddies, currents and whirlpools, and it is never the same in two different instants. A gull by the perfect adjustment of its body, without a single flap of the wings, makes headway straight in the teeth of the wind. I saw one retain a perfect equilibrium in a still breeze, and at the same time reach forward and scratch his ear. —American Magazine.

Post Dispatch St Louis 6 Jan 1907.
The selection of St. Louis as the starting point for the great international balloon race of the year is certainly a sporting event of international importance and incidentally of great commercial importance in showing that since the world at large discovered St. Louis through the World's Fair, it is not likely to forget the location of the city on the map. The race will have some scientific importance also, but chiefly in promoting the study of the upper air currents on which the weather of the continent so largely depends. For this study, the balloon will always be invaluable, though as a means of navigating the air, it takes its place this year far behind the flying machine, or aeroplane, which, if it flies at all, must fly without gas.

Eagle Brooklyn 6 Jan 1907
BIG BALLOON RACE IN OCTOBER NEXT
Aero Club Selects St. Louis as Start of International Event.
CITIZENS OFFER GROUNDS.
Adequate Supply of Gas and Mean' for Quick Inflation—Other Important Particulars

Stao New York 5 Jan 1907
LATEST VIEW OF WELLMAN'S FLIER.
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The cut is from the latest photograph if the flying machine with which Walter Wellman and his associates expect to journey northward in search of the pole. the flier will be stored in a shed at Spitzbergen for the winter. When the picture was taken this shed was in process of construction. The Frithjof is standing out in the bay.

Herald Tacoma Wash - 6 Jan 1907.
Notwithstanding their loss of a submarine recently, the French are going ahead with their fleet of under-sea fighters. Four submarine cruisers, says a Paris dispatch, have just been ordered by the admiralty. They are to be of 800 tons displacement, with a speed on the surface of fifteen knots and ten below. These are in addition to twenty submarines laid down last year. After a while we shall have submarine battleships as well as cruisers and torpedo-boats. And while France is thus filling the deep with fighting ships, she is also contracting for a fleet of military airships to carry explosives. Thus she will at the same time invade the heavens above and the waters under the earth. The next war will be fought more largely than any of it predecessors with untried agencies of destruction.

Herald New Your 6 Jan 1907
POLICEMAN STOPS WIND WAGON TRIAL
Dr. J.P. Thomas Operates New Machine to the Satisfaction of Broadway Crowd.
TO TRY IT IN NEW JERSEY

[[pro]]peller blades a foot in diameter. They now measure sixty inches from tip to tip, and yesterday they revolved at a speed of six hundred and fifty revolutions a minute.

There was no lack of spectators yesterday afternoon, for West Seventy-second street was crowded with automobiles and carriages bound to and from Riverside Drive and the half holiday brought out a crowd of persons on foot, together with hundreds of children.

When Dr. Thomas finally got under way there were at least five hundred persons and two waiting lines of automobiles and carriages along Seventy-second street west from Broadway.

Three policemen kept the crowd back from the front of the wind wagon when it started on its first trip westward. There was a man mounted on a motor cycle to warn person who attempted to cross in front of the vehicle, which moved at a speed slightly faster than that of an ordinary horse when trotting. Back to Broadway from West End avenue [[?]] the revolving blades, behind which on [[the?]] framework sat the smiling physician.

Then a graceful turn was made [[from?]] Broadway to Seventy-third street, then down to Seventy-first street and back [[to]] his residence. The demonstration ended there, when Policeman Brady interfered.

"Perfectly successful." said Dr. Thomas after Mrs. Thomas had come out of the house to congratulate her husband. "You see, I have a new brake now; so I can stop instantly. Now I will take it out into New Jersey, where I can run it at top speed."

Dr. Thomas has taken out motor vehicle licenses both in New York and New Jersey to operate the wind wagon.

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