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1907 April 24, WEdnesday, at Baodeck
Post Houston Tex
24 Feb 1907
Aeronautic School in Germany
Arrangements have just been completed to establish at Chemnitz, Germany, a training school for aeronauts and constructors of airships. A similar school has been in operation in Paris for a year past. The Chemnitz Institution will be the second enterprise in the new pedogigical field. A one-year course is contemplated for the present, the school to be opened in May, 1907. This course, at the outset, is limited to the construction and use of balloons. It will be enlarged so as to include aeroplanes as soon as practical working types have been developed.

Gazette de France
24 Feb 1907. Paris
Aérostation
Les dirigeables de guerre:
  Les magnifiques expériences due dirigeable militaire français Patrie ont donné de si brillants résuliats qu'il est question de cré de nouvelles unités qui, ajoutées au Patrie, constitueront notre flottille aérianne de combat. Des pourparlers ont été engagés avec MM.Paul et Pierre Lebaudy et leur savant ingénieur Henri Julliot.
  Il se confirme aujourd'hui qu'lls sont sur le point d'aboutir. L'accord définitivement conclu, on mattrait en chantier á l'aérodrome de Moisson, trois nouveaux aéronats, d'un type très rapproché de celui du Patrie, qui a fait ses preuves.

Daily News New York
26-Feb 1907.
BIG BALLOON'S FIRST TRIP.
(Special to the Daily News.)
  WASHINGTON, Feb 23.-The big racing balloon America ascended today with four members of the Aero Club of New York, and after two hours and thirty-two minutes of perfect sailing landed safely fifteen miles southeast of Washington in Maryland, at the village of Coombe, five miles from the quaint Upper Marlboro. The aeronauts who made the ascent were James C. McCoy, owner and pilot of the balloon; Augustus Post, secretary of the Aero Club; Alan R. Hawley, one of its governors; A. Leo Stevens, a professional aeronaut, all club members from New York.

Post Express Rochester
25-Feb 1907.
AIRSHIPS AND SUBMARINES
King Haakon Things Nations Should Prohibit Their Use in War.
  Trondjhen, Feb. 25-King Haakon, at an after dinner discussion of the coming conference at The Hague, said he recognized that there would be extreme difficulty in arriving at any international agreement on the reduction of armaments, but thought the conference should seek to reach an agreement prohibiting the employment of airships and submarine vessels in war.

Press New York 24 Feb 1907.
BALLOON CROSSES POTOMAC
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Tribune Detroit Mich  [[strikethrough]] 47 [[/strikethrough]] 135
24 Feb 1907.
AIRSHIP IS PLANNED BY ATLANTA ENGINEER
Proposed Invention of W.C. Shearer Attracts Favorable Attention==He Will Construct Model.
  The question of aerial navigation may be successfully solved by an Atlanta man. After twenty years of thought and study, W. C. Shearer, who is a member of the board of examiners of engineers for Fulton county, has planned an airship, which he believes will prove the best ever built.
  Owing to the lack of time, Mr. Shearer states that he has never constructed a model of the proposed machine, but proposes to do so as soon as he can obtain the necessary assistance. The inventor gives the following description of this plans:
  Canvas over the car is 25 feet wide and 35 feet long, with light frame and braces and guide lines from braces of canvas to the car below. The mast consists of pipes or poles. The propeller is eight feet in diameter, and is made of canvas stretched tightly on the frame of each wing, the pitch being about the same as in the case of propellers upon vessels. The power may be obtained in whatever manner desired.
  The frame is placed upon wheels so that the car will move forward when the propeller is operated. The start should be made in a road or field where there are no overhead wires. An apron is placed on the front canvas so that when raised the current of air underneath will lift the front of the car, which is already elevated as compared to the rear.
  Owing to the manner of construction, neither side can be raised without nearing all of the weight, and the car is thus always kept under the canvas. Mr. Shearer is one of the best known engineers in Atlanta, and many to whom he has explained his plan are confident that they are entirely feasible.

Standard [[?]] NY
25-Feb 1907
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