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Citizen Brooklyn N.Y
24 Mar 1907

WELLMAN, WITH WONDERFUL AIRSHIP NEARLY READY FOR FLIGHT TO POLE

  Modern air navigation will receive its most thrilling and difficult test next month, when Walter Wellman, Wash -

[image: Walter Wellman face]
[image caption: WALTER WELLMAN, CHIEF OF THE EXPEDITION BY AIRSHIP TO THE NORTH POLE]

ington correspondent of the Chicago "Record-Herald," will sail for the North Pole in the largest and best equipped airship ever built.
  Wellman's fight was scheduled for last summer, but it was decided to give another year's work at the factory in Paris to the great balloon and its wonderful car.
  Wellman, who has made two unsuccessful attempts at the pole by vessel, has been studying airships for years to the purpose of employing that means of transportation in a dash north.  He is now an expert.
  The party will probably consist of five.  Wellman will be the chief.  The others are:
  Maj. H. B. Hersey, well known as an enthusiastic aeronaut, at one time a member of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and now a member of the Aero Club of Paris; M. Gaston Hervieu, as aeronaut-in-cheif; Maxwell J. Smith, wireless telegraph expert; M. Paul [[Colordeau??]], expert mechanician.  Maj. Hersey recently won the balloon race across the English channel, and has a record of seven ascensions in ten days.
  The plan is to sail from Dane's island, northern Norway, at which place 
the 

[image: two men sit atop the ice automobile machine] 

[image caption: THE ICE AUTOMOBILE FOR THE WELLMAN EXPEDITION.  NOTICE THE GREAT DRUM-LIKE WHEEL IN FRONT.  IT IS BUILT BIG AND HEAVY AND IS EXPECTED TO BALANCE THE REST OF THE MACHINE IN CLIMBING JAGGED ICE HILLS, THE SPIRES OF SHARP STEEL WILL GRIP THE ICE.]

parts of the balloon will be assembled.  The party will go as far north as possible in the airship, and if it fails to carry them to the pole they will proceed farther north by an ice automobile which they will carry in the car.
  They will also have wireless telegraphy equipment and will attempt to communicate regularly with a station at Hammerfest, Norway.
  Wellman has been in Paris all winter watching the finishing work of M. Godard, builder of the airship, and he will start for the north in a few days.
  The airship, which has been building two years, is of the most practical balloon type.  The supporting gas bag is 164 feet long, with its gratest diameter 52 1/2 feet.  The surface of the bag contains 21,098 square feet, and is capable of holding 224,225 cubic feet of gas; its lifting power is 16,000 pounds, or eight tons.
  The car is entirely of steel tubing, measures 52 1-3 feet from stem to propeller, and contains an engine room and cabin for the crew.  Below this structure is a basket to carry the supply of gasoline, this weight also to serve as ballast.
  The ship has three engines, one of 70-horse-power, another of 25-horse-power, and the other of 5-horse-power.

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