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1907. June. 7 Friday at Baddeck 69 Journal Providence 9 April 1907. R.I. 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 proposed 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 the actual accomplishments of aeronautics and the dreams of the aeronauts. The occasional spectacular flight does not represent 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-Dumondoes 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 automobile running wild on the surface of the earth. Mr. Walter Wellman, preparing for his flight to the North Pole does not deem it expedient to adopt the aeroplane. It seems to be conceded that the balloon construction has been developed to the limits of its efficiency and further progress in aeronautics must look for a new form. Contrasted to anything yet accomplished with novelties, however, the record of the balloon model continues to shine lustrously. The machine "heavier than air" is 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 pieces getting ready to do will reap a golden harvest of trophies. And it is more than suspected that such a discovery or 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 he 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 required to perform. Fancy may indulge itself at great lengths in respect to model, but the lifting apparatus [[is?]] markedly simple. His ship is to [[be?]] equipped with air chambers from which will project funnels, like the trumpets of so many talking machines linked together. At the start the trumpets will be pointed downwards. The [[air?]] from the chambers being exploded through them will push against the earth and the ship is expected to mount gayly into the air. It seems likely that this result or some other might ensue. Perhaps careful calculation would be required lest the earth [[be?]] pushed away from the airship by [[the?]] trumpet blasts, thus leaving the airship stationary. Negatively, of course, this would amount to the same thing so far as the airship was concerned but it might prove inconvenient for the earth. There is no dynamic doubt that explosions of air, or other gases, and certain familiar substances can [[send?]] things skyward, with or without the intervention of trumpets better [[?]] direct the force. After the ship is clear of the earth, as the inventor [[points?]] out, some of the trumpets may [[be?]] turned this way or that, to direct the blowing of the ship about whither the aeronaut may please to be blown [[?]]. The inventor figures on an experimental ship one hundred and fifty feet long by fifty feet beam, built of steel to weigh two hundred and fifty tons. This is a mere detail, however, [[since?]] quite evidently, the ship may be of any size and any weight, provided it [[is?]] equipped with air chambers and trumpets enough to blow it as high as desired and thence on to its [[country?]]. Everyone will wish to see Mr. Mo[[?]] give his idea a practical test. Standard [[?]] Brooklyn 7 April 1907 AEROPLANE SHOW A GREAT SUCCESS -- LONDON, April 6.-More than 13 exhibits are on show at the Model Exhibition of Aeroplanes, which began in the Agricultural Hail to-night, 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 tailor by trade, and had been trying to solve the problem of the air for some time. "Another exhibitor is a scene painter 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 Parkhurst Prison wrote to me that as a [[?]] experiments in prison with [[?]] of a broom and the feather [[?]] he arrived at an idea for [[?]] model which he sent to [[?]]. "A somewhat pathetic [[?]] provided, however, by an [[?]] paper vendor who is [[?]] competitors. This man [[?]] days, and has spent as [[?]] hundred pounds on [[?]] experiments when he did [[?]] newspapers to earn his Herald New York 7 April - 1907 sures at [[?]] o $125,802.50 [[image]] MR. 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