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1907.June.7. 69 Journal Providence 7 am 1907. R.J. The Latest Thing in Aeronautics. The formidable list of trophies, including purses fat enough for a king ransom, that represent the standing offers for a variety of tests as pro-posed by aero enthusiasts, aero clubs patronizing periodicals, philanthropists in Europe and America, is significant to the sceptic of the wide distance that is measurable between actual accomplishments of aeronautics and the dreams of the aeronauts. The occasional spectacular flight does not rep-resent any serious menace to these prizes, although to one not initiated in the peculiar difficulties that confront the development of the airship the prescribed tests do not appear to be particularly difficult. Meanwhile it is to be noted that M. Santos-Dumon does not fly very far or very fast since he abandoned the balloon as the main dependence for lifting power. His second Bird of Prey has just gone to smash in the ordinary way of an auto-mobile running wild on the surface of the earth. Mr. Walter Wellman, pre-paring for his flight to the North Pole does not deem it expedient to adopt the aeroplane. It seems to be conceded that balloon construction has been developed to the limits of its efficiency and further progress in aeronautic must look for a new form. Contrasted to anything yet accomplished with novelties, however, the record of th balloon model continues to shine lustrously. The machine "heavier that air" i [[cut off]] still only the dream of the airship enthusiasts. The discoverer of any principle or the inventor of any form of construction that will accomplish what the second Bird of Prey went to piece getting ready to do will reap a golden harvest of trophies. And it is more then suspected that discovery o [[cut off]] invention will demonstrate a development on lines hitherto not yet revealed even in germ. Perhaps a gentleman of the name of Moses, in New York, has struck such an idea. He announces startling departure, surely, from any-thing heretofore exemplified when h proposes to "blow up" his airship. His machine may be of any design compatible with the convenience of the passengers or best available for freight according to the service it may be re-quired to perform. Fancy may indulge itself at great lengths in respect t model, but the lifting apparatus i markedly simple. His ship is to b equipped with air chambers from whic will project funnels, like the trumpet of so many talking machines linke together, At the start the trumpet will be pointed downwards. The ai from the chambers being explode through them will push against th arth and the ship is expected to moun gayly into the air, It seems likel that this result, or some other, migh ensue. Perhaps careful calculatio would be required lest the earth b pushed away from the airship by th rumpet blasts, thus leaving the ai hip stationary. Negatively, of cours his would amount to the same thin o far as the airship was concerne ut it might prove inconvenient for th arth. There is no dynamic doubt that e losions of air, or other gases and ce ain familiar substances can se hings skyward, with or without t ntervention of trumpets better irect the force. After the ship is cle f the earth, as the inventor poin ut, some of the trumpets may urned this way or that direct t lowing of the ship about whither t eronaut may please to be blown he inventor figures on an expe ental ship one hundred and fifty f ng by fifty feet beam, built of ste weigh two hundred and fifty to his is a mere detail, however, sin ite evidently, the ship may be of a e and any right, provided it hipped with air chambers and tru s enough to blow it as high as ired and thence on its coun eryone will wish to see Mr. Mo e his idea a practical test. Friday at Baddeck Standard Bureau Brooklyn 7 Apr 1907 AEROPLANE SHOW A GREAT SUCCESS LONDON, April 6.--More than 135 exhibits are on show at the Model Exhibition of Aeroplanes, which began in the Agricultural Hall tonight, and will continue until April 13. The exhibitors include men in all positions of life. M. Perrin, of the Aero Club, is most enthusiastic about the exhibition. "My committee never dreamt that we should have so many entries," he said, "and the success of the show is assured. "Many of the exhibitors are men that you would have thought were the last in the world to think of aeroplanes. One man I found in the attic of a Pimlico lodging house. He was a tailer by trade, and has been trying to solve the problem of the air for some time. "Another exhibitor is a scene paint-er who has been experimenting for the last six or seven years, while yet another is the valet of a well-known man in society. "Among the exhibitors is also Major Baden-Powell, while some dozen exhibitors are from Germany, France, Austria and Belgium. "One convict in Pankhurst Prison wrote to me that as a [[cut off]] experiments in prison with the bristle of a broom and the feathers of a bird he arrived at an idea for an aeroplane model which he sent to our exhibition. "A somewhat pathetic element is provided, however, by an elderly newspaper vendor who is among the competitors. This man has seen better days and has spent as much as eight hundred pounds on aeronautical experiments when he did not have to sell newspapers to earn his living." Herald New York 7 Apr-1907 Air Ship Model Show a London Attraction Seventy-Five Different Methods of Navigating the Air Exhibited by Aero Club DISPLAY OF BALLOONS Hon. C. S. Rolls Shows Three Cars, One, the Britannia, Having Won Fame. PATHOS OF THE INVENTIONS Machines Have Only Slight Variations from Principles Which Wright Brothers and M. Santos-Dumont Used. [SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD.] HERALD BUREAU, No. 49 AVENUE DE L'OPERA, PARIS, Saturday.} LONDON, Saturday.--Seventy-five different methods of navigating the air by means of aeroplanes are illustrated in miniature at the first exhibition of airship models held by the Aero Club of Great Britain and nd [[image]]
