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the exhibition of aeronautic appliances at the Jamestown Exposition. The board of governors has set aside $15,000 which will be used chiefly in the erection of this building, but financial arrangements have also been made for free transportation and space for all but commercial exhibits.
     
In addition to the building there will be an aerodrome for the testing of machines and ample space for balloon ascensions. The chief interest in the exhibit to the public will lie in the practical demonstrations which will be made by aero planes, balloons and airships.
     
The expert balloon corps from the armies of France, England, Germany, Japan, Russia and Spain is expected to give demonstrations at the Exposition. It is also expected by the members of the Aero Club that Santos Dumont's famous aero plane, "Bird of Prey," will be brought over for the exhibition. Israel Ludlow of the Aero Club of America will be in charge of the exhibits.




Post Express Rochester
6 Mar. 1907. N.Y.

Air Navigation.

Scientists who have devoted the best years of their lives to the subject of conquering the air believe that the time is not far distant when motor balloons and aeroplanes will be as common as automobiles. One enthusiast, Charles R. Flint, of New York, senior member of the firm of Flint & Co., of London, Berlin and St. Petersburg, goes so far as to declare that the era of aerial navigation will be opened this spring in Berlin, when the Wright brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, will demonstrate before the German Emperor the practicability of their power-propelled aeroplane.
     
Little has been heard of late of the experiments of the Wright brothers. More or less vague rumors of their success in navigating the air without the assistance of a balloon have been received from time to time from their home city. Their policy of silence has been criticized by military attaches whose business is to obtain information of value to the governments without paying for it; the newspaper men have been disappointed in not being able to get more information for their readers; and scientific men have wondered that the Wright brothers have not exhibited their aeroplane before the experts of the United States government. Mr. Flint explains the reticence on the part of the inventors. The brothers have made flights aggregating 160 miles, says Mr. Flint, the longest single flight being twenty-six miles; and they are ready to make a demonstration provided a contract is made beforehand by which a proper compensation is made for the years of industry and labor that they have devoted to the development of their aeroplane. Such a contract this government will not give, but the German Emperor has concluded negotiations with the Wright brothers, by which they will give a  demonstration in Berlin sometime during the spring. If the aeroplane is successful in this preliminary test, the German government will purchase the invention for military uses.
     
France and Germany have been very liberal in encouraging balloon construction and experiments toward eliminating the gas bag as a factor of the aerial machine. England is taking no part in the promotion of aerial navigation, but is content to look on. Eventually, of course, she will adopt the best types of machines developed. This country is almost as indifferent as England, although she did aid Professor Langley in his experiments with his unsuccessful aeroplane. This government, however, has not manifested the slightest interest in the series of remarkable experiments conducted at Dayton by the Wright brothers. In spite of this indifference these American inventors have produced the best aeroplane or flying machine yet known. The Wrights have never worked with a balloon. They realized from the beginning of their experiments that the perfect flying machine is one that can always be kept in full operation and control without reference to the direction of the air currents. To accomplish this the balloon feature must be eliminated. What is more, the perfect flying machine must be heavier than the air, and the apparatus must be sustained by being propelled through the air at a speed so high that the pressure of the air against the plane surface or surfaces will keep it up. This is the type of aeroplane constructed by the Wrights. Their machine looks like a great box or double-decker kite and flies broadside forward, a suction propeller furnishing the motive power. A public demonstration of this machine would be a matter of great interest to the scientific world, and it is to be regretted that the first public demonstration of such an important American invention is to be held in a foreign country.




Mitbürger wissen von den heimlichen, aber ungeheuren Fortschritten zu erzählen, die unsere Heeres-Verwaltung im Kriegsluftschiffbau gemacht habe, so daß wir mit dem ersten Kriegsluftschiff vor die Welt treten und ihr damit diktiren würden.
 
Das kitzelt zwar die nationale Eitelkeit, ist aber doch nicht ganz wahr. Wir lesen in einem Berliner Blatt:
 
Phantasiebilder, die die Zukunft vorausahnend zu schildern unternehmen, werden oft wenigstens zum Theil durch die Thatsachen überholt. In dem Buche Rudolf Martin's „Berlin—Bagdad", dessen Beschreibung der Luftfahrten und Luftkriege in nächster Zukunft so überraschend wirkte, kündigt der deutsche Kaiser in seiner Rede am 1. Januar 1910 an seine kommandirenden Generale die Erhöhung des außerordentlichen Kriegs etats um eine einmalige Summe von einer [Milliarde?] Mark zur Erweiterung der deutschen Kriegsluftflotte an. Heute steht nun schon fest, daß das Deutsche Reich bereits vor dem Jahre 1910 eine stattliche Kreigsluftschiffflotte besitzen wird. Die Erwerbung der von Gebr. Lebaudy gebauten und von Gas getragenen Motorluftschiffe „Lebaudy" und „Patrie" durch die französische Heeresverwaltung und die Erbauung der beiden weiteren französischen Kriegsschiffe „La Republique" und „La Democratie" haben wohl die aeronautischen Bestrebungen der deutschen Heeresverwaltung beschleunigt. Der Kommandene des preußischen Luftschifferbataillons, Major Groß, ist mit dem Bau eines besonderen deutschen Kriegsluftschiffes seit Monaten beschäftigt. Ein großes Modell dieses ersten deutschen Schlachtfluftschiffes hat in den letzten Wochen wiederholt kurze Fahrten an der Leine unternommen. Das Modell selbst ist ein kleineres, vollkommen brauchbares Motorluftschiff, das zwei Personen zu tragen vermag. An dieser kleineren Ausgabe des künstigen deutschen Kriegsluftschiffes werden die Grundsätze erprobt, nach denen das große 
Luftschiff gebaut werden soll. Dieses erste deutsche Kriegsluftschiff wird weder dem starren System des Zeppelin'schen Aluminiumschiffes, noch dem nach Möglichkeit alle Metalltheile außerhalb der eisernen Gondel vermeidenden unstarren System des Majors v. Parseval angehören. Es steht vielmehr ungefähr in der Mitte zwischen beiden Systemen und ähnelt am meisten den beiden ersten Kriegsluftschiffen Frankreichs. Als das Ziel der deutschen Heeresverwaltung wird angegeben, bei einem Aktionsradus von mindestens 250 Km. dem Kriegsluftschiffe noch einen Munitionsvorrath von mindestens 30 Torpedos zu je 10 Kg. zu ermöglichen. Die Leistungsfähigkeit dieses deutschen Kriegsluftschiffes dürfte also die der beiden ersten französischen Kriegsluftschiffe bedeutend übertreffen. Daneben wird wahrscheinlich die deutsche Heeresverwaltung sowohl das Zeppelin'sche Aluminiumschiff von 11,000 Kbm. Gasinhalt wegen seiner großen Tragfähigkeit, als auch das Parseval'sche 
Motorluftschiff wegen seiner leichten Transportfähigkeit erwerben.




M'g Telegraph - New York 
9 May 1907
AERONAUT EXPECTS TO BREAK RECORDS

Largest  Balloon in the World Is Being Built for Dr. Thomas.

Dr. Julian P. Thomas expects to break all aeronautic records next Summer in the largest balloon ever built, which is being constructed in this city at the present time. He not only expects to go higher than any aeronaut ever went before, but he expects to make long distance trips, and by means of an invention of his own stay in the air for several days at a time.
     
The new balloon is to be so large that it has to be made in a number of different factories. When it is completed it will be put together probably in one of the local armories.
     
In his experiments this year Dr. Thomas will inaugurate two innovations, one of which, if successful, will revolutionize air flights and enable aeronauts to remain in the atmosphere for days at a time if they want to. This is a mechanical device for changing the temperature of the gas with which a balloon or airship is inflated. The other is a new propeller in the shape of a wheel, with a number of small, very thin steel blades instead of the large blades heretofore used.

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The text in Russian language I couldn't transcribe it. --It's German, with the Fraktur alphabet, hard to read.