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per l'equilibrio laterale e per la direzione, Una coda si allunga posteriormente per assicurare la stabilità. La macchina è già in costruzione presso una officina meccanica della nostra città. Essa pesa, montata, 200 kg. Ha un motore leggero di 50 HP, un'elica di 2 m. di diametro, del passo di m. 1,20, una superficie d'ala di 40 mq., con un rapporto fra peso e superficie d'ala di 49/230 = 1/5: La velocità richiesta per l'innalzamento è calcolata a 10m, al 1", La macchina è sorretta da due ruote robuste simili a quelle di una bicicletta, poste anteriormente, e da una piccola ruota posteriore. Times New York 3 Mar, 1907 The Rise of a Balloonist. Most of the sky pilots who putter around among the clouds in airships, aeroplanes, flying machines, and the other variously named aerial craft are graduates of the gas bag school. In fact, a majority of them notably the successful members of the cult, are still plain balloonists. They may look forward expectantly to the day when the big silk bag will lie idle while they glide smoothly through the air on kites propelled by a fifty-horse power engine. But when it comes to being hoisted up so far from the madding crowd that street cars look like water bugs, they want something tangible to do it, preferably 20,000 cubic feet of gas in a strong bag. One of these rarefied air breathers is Roy Knabenshue, who has at various times sailed in triumph and a cigar-shaped balloon over New York. Knabenshue is an ambitious young man who has aimed at the moon in the strictly literal sense of the word. He is a firm believer in balloons and a scoffer at the new-fangled air machines. His only concession to advanced ideas on the subject has been to hitch his balloon to a gasoline engine and a propeller. When he was 18 years old Knabenshue first went up in a balloon. It was tied by a long rope to the grand stand in the fair grounds at Toledo, Ohio. The youthful aeronaut offered to take the rural populace up 500 feet in the air at 50 cents a head. One man only accept-ed the dare. It was Carl Knabenshue, the pilot's brother. So from a financial point of view his initial venture was unsuccessful. He liked the idea of kiting through the air, and later on he decided to unhitch the long rope and see what would happen. The big balloon shot up and took him flying over his native city at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Then it dropped him in Maumee Bay. He was dragged out half drowned and wholly full of muddy water, but his spirit was undaunted. He proceeded to build as many balloons as his means would allow, and he sailed all over the northern end of Ohio in defiance of the speed and suicide laws. Then came the dirigible balloon, which Knabenshue adopted at once, adding improvements of his own designing. A former baseball magnate took the young man under his wing and financed the numerous expeditions which have proved highly profitable. The big stogie-like airship is in constant demand by country fair associations, exhibits, and even conventions have sent generous offers for an ascension. That the young balloonist realizes the precarious nature of his work is evident from some of his comments. "I expect to be killed some day," he once remarked. "At that, I'll live longer than lots of people who are wondering now why I take such risks. "Never start till you're good and ready," he advises, "and after you do start, keep on going. "If fate decrees that you're going to be killed in a balloon, you might as well go ahead until it happens. You won't dodge it by taking up golf or motoring. "I may never see all the world, but i see more of it at one time than most people. "I never make an ascension expecting accident. But it wouldn't surprise me if it came. "Aerial Navigation will never become a commercial proposition. It may develop into a popular sport-and a costly one. "There is no special brand of nerve needed to become an aeronaut. Any average man could do it-after he had tried a few times. "An obstinate balloon is a good deal like a balky horse. You can't force it to behave but you can generally coax it around. "I never get dizzy up in the air. I might if I had nothing to do but stand around and think about it." Pe 1121=1123= Commencing tomorrow an Sideboard in the house at a it to your house without We will discount the on a piece Fur Post-D publica Price, 25 Cents [[image]] drawing of the face of a wooden a sideboard [[/image]]
