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1907. June 3. Monday at Baddeck Gazette Pittsburg 31 Mar 1907 ITALIAN [[?]] TEST THEIR AIRSHIP Make Partially Successful Flight While Large Crowd Watches Them. Several hundred people witnessed the test yesterday afternoon at Liberty avenue and Twenty-seventh street of an airship designed and built by John Di Lorenzo and Aurelio Sabin Fadda, two young Italians of Pittsburg. While no extended flight was made the designers are confident of the ultimate success of their machine. The model which was used for the test is about 5 feet wide and 15 feet long and I sequipped with wings and a large propeller. It is built of wood and fitted up to use compressed air as power. The whole weighs 256 pounds. In the test made yesterday, the machine rose to a height of about five feet with Di Lorenzo operating it. At this height the machine flew through the air for a considerable distance. It was found, however, that while the wings and propellers worked perfectly, the model was too heavy for rising to any great distance. Satisfied that they are working on the right lines, the designers will at once begin the erection of another model, using the lightest materials possible, and with this they expect to be able to make long flights. The inventors have secured patents on their machine. Port Dispatch St Louis 31 Mar 1907. The Board of Governors of the St. Louis Aero Club decided at its meeting during the week to appropriate $5000 for special prized to be competed for at the international "aero" contest in St. Louis next October. The contests thus provided for will be in addition to that in which the Bennet cup is competed for. All kinds of aerial craft will be included in the scope of the contests. It is intended to make an opening for the Wright Brothers of Ohio, to make good their claim that the actual flight without gas, made by Santos-Dumont in Paris is merely a suggestion of what they can do with the flying machine they are said to have tested in secret and secretly found to be a solution of all that is left of the problem of "navigating the air." [[?]] New York 30 Mar 1907 A SCHOOL FOR AIRSHIPS. It is Recommended to Rich Men as a Worthy Object of Philanthropy. To the Editor of The New York Times: The benevolence of philanthropists has been, up to this time, mainly directed to libraries, schools, universities, and other institutions of learning. There are manual training and technical schools, but there are no institutions where untold numbers of capable and practical men, especially workingmen Herald New York 30 Mar 1907 AUTOMOBILES MAY FLY IN AIR, ACCORDING TO NEW DEFINITION Broad Scope Given the Term by Society of Engineers Also Includes Machines That Skim Water or Dive Beneath If the definition given the term "automobile" by the Society of Automobile Engineers be generally accepted it will be quite proper to speak of automobiles flying through the air, skimming o the water or living under its surface, or of delving into the earth. The definition adopted by the society at a meeting in this city a few days ago forms article 1A of its constitution. It follows:- Definition:-The term "automobile," as used by this society, is intended to cover any self-propelled vehicle operating on or under the surface of the earth, or water, or in the air. This definition and its freedom from any connection or affiliation with any other association makes the Society of Automobile Engineers the Broadest in scope and work independent of any similar organization. E. T. Birdsall, of Rochester, is secretary-treasurer of the society. Record Philadelphia 31 May 1907 Santos-Dumont's New Aeroplane. [[image]] Since his famous flight of 240 yards at the Bagatelle Training Ground last November, says the London Graphic, M.Santos-Dumont has been busy with the construction of another aeroplane, which is now completed and ready for trial on the first favorable opportunity. This new flying machine, though built on the lines of the "14 Bis." differs from it in many important details. The rider sits below the wings, thus giving increased stability, and the long steering apparatus in front has been replaced by a lighter rudder behind. The supporting surface has been greatly reduced, while the Antoinette motor has been exchanged for a more powerful one.
