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Opal seems to have some mystic virtue as the color of certain accessories, it being decreed that a tailor made shirt of opal crepe be worn beneath the coat, while a special ballooning cap of fine opal crepe, in jelly bag shape, must be completed with an opal silk veil.

Herald New York 28 Mar 1907

Discouraged? Not for a Moment!
The HERALD'S special cables from Paris this morning tell of Mr. Santos-Dumont's latest aeroplane experiment at St.Cyr [[?]] and the practical destruction of the machine by an accident before the trial was fairly under way. Most men would be thoroughly discouraged by such a catastrophe. But Mr. Santos-Dumont? Not for a moment. Just crawl out from the debris, gather up the remains of the wreck, utilize anything available, get to work again on a new aeroplane and strive still further for success. That seems to be his principle.
And a good principle it is, in aeronautics or plain everyday affairs of life. That is sort of pluck and determination that with in the end, whether it is Mr. Santos-Dumont and aerial navigation or Mr. John Smith, say, and prosaic business undertakings. A tip worth remembering.

Record Long Branch N.Y.
29 Mar 1907




BALLOONS FOR ARMY
Experiments to Be Made By Uncle Sam at Fort Omaha.
AERIAL STATION ESTABLISHED
New Department of War Service For the Study of Airships-Those Purchased Will Be Unlike Foreign Type.
Military Use of Balloons.

Although this government has been slow to take the same interest in aerial navigation as European nations, it finally has recognized the uses of the balloon as in war and established a flying corps as a regular branch of the army. Leo Stevens, the aeronaut, has received an order from the war department for $12,000 worth of balloons to be used at the aerial station established at Fort Omaha, Neb., says the New York World.

Three balloons will be shipped there shortly, and orders for more will follow. A hydrogen gas supply tank has already been constructed, and as soon as the big bags arrive at their destination experiments will be started under the direction of General James S. Allen, commander in chief of the signal corps of the army. He has been delegated to supervise the new department of the war service.

While the balloons are intended chiefly for signal work, they will be large enough to carry deadly bombs to drop into the camp of the enemy. This will revolutionize, as aeronauts have long predicted, the practice of warefare more completely than have modern battleships, high power guns and high explosives.

What finally prompted the government to take up balloons was the successful experiments made with them in France and Germany, although the character and description of war balloons of most nations are practically unknown, so guardedly have the tests been carried out. Such will not be the case here, however, as no secret of the experiment at Fort Omaha will be made.

On the other hand, the government desides [[decides]] to encourage the other aeronants in this country to perfect the present type.

The balloons ordered are not of the cigar shaped typed used abroad, nor are they to be steered by means of propellers or rudders. They are simply large bags with baskets attached, to be set free to sea with the wind. In only one way are they like French balloon, and that is that they are to be filled with hydrogen gas.

So far the only balloons experimented with by the war department have been captive ones, which would be useful only to study the position of an enemy.

Balloons have been used in almost every war for a century. The first Napoleon took a number of them into Egypt in order to impress the Arabs with the superiority of Europeans [[?]]

In the siege of Paris, 1870-71, the attempt was made to establish postal communication by means of airships between the beleaguered city and the national authorities outside, but this did not work so satisfactorily as the carrier pigeon service. After all, the principal military use of the balloon hitherto has been reconnoissance, and one officer after another has testified to the help thus received. Lord Wolseley has asserted that he finished his campaign in the Sudan far more quickly than would otherwise have been [[??]] because of such aid.

An observer in captive balloon is exposed to great danger from the enemy's guns. Even Coutelle over a century ago was threatened by a cannon shot and was obliged to let out more rope for insure safety. Today the Mauser and other rifles carried by infantry soldiers have a range of three miles or more. At Santiago showers of well directed bullets flew around the signal officers who were on duty and whose elevation was at no time greater than 1,500 feet. There were narrow escapes from instant death on that account, to say nothing of injury from premature descent had the balloon been badly punctured.

The important part to be played in war at some future time by free dirigible balloons or by flying machines in not doubted by men of as practical mind as Mr. Maxim, for instance, who has written: "When the first flying machine succeeds its first great use will be for military purposes. It will at once become an engine of war not only to reconnoiter the enemy's position, as has been attempted by the so called dirigible balloons, but also of carrying and dropping into the enemy's lines and country large bombs charged with high explosives."



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