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a number of members of the Aero Club present from New York, including Courtland Field Bishop, president of the club. The ascent will be made at 10 a.m. Mr. McCoy is one of the foremost aeronauts of the world and, it is said, holds a certificate of proficiency from the French government, having made the requisite ten flights within one month to qualify.
Following the flight in Washington there will be the annual banquet of the Aero Club at the Hotel St. Regis, in New York, March 14, when prominent aeronauts from all over the world will be present.
Press. Binghamton N.Y.
21 Feb 1907.
WANTS $5,000 TO SHOW HIS AIRSHIP HERE
Binghamtonians will undoubtedly have the privilege of seeing an airship sailing around the city and its vicinity during the week of the Binghamton Exposition next Fall. Roy Knabenshue, the famous aeronaut who is negotiating with Manager J. P. E. Clark to give an exhibition here was in the city again a short time ago and submitted a proposal to come to Binghamton during the exposition for $5,000. This is considered a high figure by the Binghamton management but Mr. Knabenshue obtained the sum from the Brockton, Mass., Fa[[?]] Association last year and they are desirous of getting him again this year.
He offered to send one of his air ships to Binghamton in charge of an experienced man for less money, but the management of the Binghamton Exposition decided it would be preferable to have Mr. Knabenshue at an increased cost, and an effort is now being made with probabilities of of success to close a contract with him at figure less than $5,000.
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20 Feb 1907.
TO EUROPE IN FIFTEEN HOURS
George L. O. Davidson Predicts on the Future of the Airship——What might Happen in Case of Accident Half Way When Inventors Have Been Wrong in Their Ideas
Voyaging across the ocean in the swiftest transatlantic liner or rushing across the continent in a lightning express must be a tediously slow process of locomotion to George L. O. Davidson, a Scotchman who has just passed through Boston on his way from Liverpool, Eng., to Denver, Col. Speed which to the average traveler might seem of breath-taking velocity must seem to Mr. Davidson a snail's pace for this reason: That he fondly believes the future will develop a fifteen-hour trip to Europe, leaving this side of the Atlantic, say at six o'clock this evening, the voyager might lunch in Paris or London or other foreign city tomorrow at noon. The imagination can have little exercise in guessing that the means of transportation which he has in mind is the airship.
It need hardly be said that Mr. Davidson is himself an inventor, and that his brains and his efforts are devoted to the cause of aerial flight by man. That such flight, absolutely controlled and protected against all adverse elements, is a thing of the future he is positive of; just as positive as he is that the airship which he has now in process of construction in Denver is modelled upon the only lines of aerial navigation. He admits conversation, that his views may hardly sane, but claims that in all wonderful inventions handed down posterly the attitude of the public ways has been that of incredulity scoffing first, then a gradual weakening and awakening to the merits of the invention until its full scope is real and applied to the daily existence.
When the time comes, airship routes to all parts of the world will be established, with great terminals in the large cities. These terminals will have mammoth roosts upon which the mechanical birds will alight, their voyage ended, and disembark their passengers into trains and other vehicles of distributionary propensities; for the time will not come, thinks the inventor, when the airships can be utilized for anything but flights of long distance, hence there still will be uses for the railroads and electric roads for shorter haul purposes, and freight.
Regular schedules will be established for trips the world over. At a stated hour, one airship flaps its wings-technically known as lifters-rises high in the air, say a mile or so; the steersman takes his route from the compass and with slow forward movement, gradually increasing, the ship is off for Europe. Swifter and swifter it moves, until its speed is anywhere from 200 to 300 miles an hour. Everything is "battened down," to use a seaman's expression (probably there will be more appropriate aerial expressions in future). for if one of the passengers should stick his head out of a window to view the passing scenery his head would be blown off. Of course there will be plenty of fresh air stored within the ship, just as in a submarine boat.
When some hundreds of miles away from the foreign terminals the "brakes" (another expression needed) will be put on, and gradually the speed will lessen, until finally the great ship is stationary over the terminal. Gradually, then, it is allowed to sink to the framework supports and the passengers alight. During the trip they have occupied themselves in their several ways. Some have simply spent fifteen hours in their ordinary business occupation; for aerial flight will have none of the bumps and jolts of the railroad train, nor roll or pitch or throbbing of the engines of the ocean liner to guide the point of the pen elsewhere than the writer wishes, or cause the eye to perform gymnastics in trying to follow the reading matter before it.
"Might there not be some accident about in mid-ocean which could causes the ship to imagine itself a sea gull?" was asked.
There might be accidents' undoubtedly would, said Dr. Davidson. Supposing one did come and the airship lost its power of remaining in the air: It would be so high up, in the first place, and moving so rapidly that its descent would not be as that of a heavy body falling vertically, and of course the steerseman would descent in sweeping circles which would have the tendency to keep the ship longer in air. Meanwhile, he would keep his eyes open for some passing ship, the officers of which would look aloft and see the great bird descending. They would realize its plight and endeavor to affect a rescue of the passengers. Of course the airship would of necessity be a body which could float, also one which would not be battered into helplessness by great waves.
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As to the effects which the currents of air would have pon his machine, Mr. Davidson thinks that the power and weights of his machine would be such as to insure its equilibrium in the face of all conditions. As he puts it, "the garoscopic force exerts by the lifters insures lateral stability."
The ship which Mr. Davidson has building in Denver, and which he means to have transferred to England soon, is 70 feet long from its beak to tail and 75 feet from tip to tip of its lifters. The body is about fifteen feet high and the total weight is two and one-half to three total weight is two and one-half to three tons. The car, completed, will carry a dozen people. Each of the wings, or lifters, has 5000 parts. The ship will have two Staley engines.
"Do you expect to fly far on your first experiment?" was asked. "I'm a Scotchman," said Mr. Davidson, "and my first venture at flight will be with the ship securely attached to the each, with sufficient play to enable it to rise a few [[cet?]] and see if the different parts do their work. I shall not be discouraged if the first test is a failure, for where there are so many parts it is almost impossible to have them perfect from the start. But I have no doubt that my idea is the correct one and that eventually it will prove the solution of the problem which is now most vexing to man."
The inventor is a man close on to fifty years, rugged and well set up. He developed in fondness for inventions early in life, he states, and declared that sone day he would make some great invention, but it must be original. Twenty-five years or so ago he turned his attention to the airship and has been working at the problem ever since. BY watching the light of birds he "tumbled to the right principle" the one which he is working out. He is of Aberdeen, Scotland, and came here last week on Cunarder Saxonia.
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