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[[?]]
New York.
1907
AS TEST IN ST.
rest of International Forty-three Miles.
17.--A test balloon a J. K. campbell in the [[?]] balloon races to be [[?]] auspices of the AEronauts were up 160 minute miles northest, land trip was declared a sued used for the races.

new York 18 mar
43-MILE AERIAL [[?]]
[[?]], March 17,--A test [[?]] was made to-day by [[?]] in the interest of [[?]] balloon races to be held here under the auspices of the America. 
Aeronaut was up two hours [[?]] and travelled 43 [[?]] landing at Sorrento, Illinois was declared a successful gas to be used during

NewYork 18 mar 19
NEYMOON IN AIRSHIP
EXCUSE, March 17,--J. Albert Miss Amelia Weller his friends to-day by a honeymoon in an airship idea of the machine came by inventor two years ago in began work. He finished here in his barn. machine is run by fans [[?]] horse power motor and mile wind can go forty miles says the inventor. It will with fuel enough to last
plans to go to France fly his machine in the Hey says the secret of [[?]] is so simple that navigation themselves when they said

[[?]] Troy 77 18 mar
Text Balloon Ascension.
[[?]], Mo., March 18.--A [[?]] [[?]] was made yesterday [[?]] of St. Louis in the inernational balloon here in October under the the Aero Club of AMerica was up two hours and and traveled forty-three [[?]], landing at Corento, [[?]] declared a successful test used during the races.

AERIAL ROUTE FROM FRANCE TO RUSSIA OF
Count de la Vaulx (1st Voyage)
The final race left the two [[?]] the previous race again [[?]] positions. Here is [[?]] of the event:
[[?]] Henri de La Vaulx, [[?]] thirty-five hours and [[?]] of voyage at Korosti-[[?]] traveled at a bird's flight [[?]] kilometers (1,193 miles), [[?]] of departure. Maximum [[?]] (18,810 feet).
[[?]] Balsan, descending [[?]] Russia, after twenty-[[?]] twenty-seven minutes of [[?]] a bird's flight distance [[?]] (145 miles) from the [[?]]. Maximum altitude, [[?]] (582 feet).
[[?]] had made distance from 530 to 950 kilometres. Vaulx was naturally the [[?]] in Paris, for had he not nautical records both for [[?]] and duration of voyage, [[?]] within a fortnight in [[?]] he not a Parisian?
[[?]] has been able to [[?]] extracts from the Centaure. "After day has [[?]] says, "we are in a country, Bavaria, without country ended with a mark [[?]], nevertheless. "This." Vaulx deseanting upon the [[?]] "is the charm of the [[?]] balloonist becomes an [[?]] are a young man who [[?]] a little, you would [[?]] you want to penerate the [[?]] you are tied down at home [[?]]. At noon, you have [[?]] your family, and at 2 [[?]]. Fifteen minutes later [[?]] a commonplace denizen [[?]] town; you are an [[?]] unknown, an explorer [[?]] who melt in Africa or [[?]] Arctic. You do not know [[?]] you are at any given moment, and as for knowing where you are going or when you are going to get there, why, that is all a guess. See how amusing it may be! It is principally chance and the winds. Yet you have something to say about it too-something depends upon you, your skill, your nerve, your wisdom, your experience. Then, when you decide to come down it is really jolly to speculate upo nwhat country it may chance to be.
This mad race through the clouds continued all day. The two ships of the air were flying neck and neck over Southern Germany and Bohemia. In the early morning the rivals began a series of competitive maneuvers- the yachtsmanship of the atmospheric ocean. When the Centaure threw out the ballast and rose above the mist of clouds the St. Louis followed suit. When the Centaure let out a little gas and descended nearer to earth, the St. Louis lost no time in executing a similar movement. So near together were the racers at one moment that De La Vaulx and Goddard in their repective balloons were able to make out the identity of their competitor. At 9 o'clocl they passed over a large city, but they could not get its name. In an hour they passed another town, also a wide river, and still they did not know where they were.
"Ealsan is always mounting," says the Centaure's log book. "He has passed in front of us and is working more toward the south. This is continual mounting," it is recorded with evident satisfaction, "will doubtless shorten his trip."
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the sun was clouded over, and the balloon suffered such a great condensation that they were compelled to throw out several sacks of ballast, and even at that fell near enough to earth to have a good view of a large city which they thought was Posen.
"Our rival has disappeared," notes the log book of the Centaure with an air of triumph and finality.
Such is fairly comprehensive record of one of the more remarkable episodes in the annals of aerial navigation.