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1907. June 12. Gazzetta del Popolo 9 Apr 1907. [[?]] NUOVI esperimenti cogli areoplani a Parigi. PARIGI, 8 aprile (Per telefono) - L'areoplano di La Grange ha fatto stamane ufficialmente degli esperimenti per la Coppa dell'aviazione. Percorse una cinquantina di metri all'altezza di quattro metri; poi essendo stato spinto del vento al disopra degli spettatori, per evitare accidenti, venne fatto cauere. L'areoplano cadde, riportando leggiere avarie. Herald New York 9 Apr - 1907 NO BALLOON ASCENSION. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Monday.-A snowstorm to-day caused the abandonment of the balloon ascension planned to be ade from her to-day by Alan R. Hawley and Leo Stevens. The men left for New York to-day after stating that the next ascension from Pittsfield probably would be made in about two weeks. Les Sports Paris 9 Apr - 1907. L'AERONAUTIQUE Dans les airs L'Aero-Club No 2, monte par MM. Ernest Barbotte, Delebecque et Malsa, parti samedioir, a 10 heures, du parc de l'Aero Club, aeures, a Wesel-sur-le-Rhin (Westphalie), soit50 kilometres, apres avoir passe Chateau-Thierry, Arlon, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dusseldorf, Esen et tourne vers la Hollande. L'Albatros, de MM. Alfred Leblanc et E. Mix, ui a traverse Paris dimanche matin, est desendu a Montmirail (Marne) sous un orage. Le Faune, de MM. Rene Gasnier, Zens et Tissa dier, a jete l'ancre a Congy (Marne). Le balloon du Jardin d'Acclimatation, que nontait M. Emile Carton est descendu a Cououroy, pres Esbly (Seine-et-Marne). A l'Academie Aeronautique Jeudi 11 avril, a 9 heures du soir, M. Pillet, vice-president de l'Academie Aeronautique, fera la mairie du XI arrondissement, boulevard voltaire. Sue-Seen-newyork 9 Apr-1907 BALLOON CONTESTS. St. Louis Amplifies International Race Programme. The Aero Club of St. Louis has decided to offer prizes aggregating $5,000 for contests between dirigible balloons and aeroplanes, the events to take place in conjunction with the international balloon race in October next. The big event is scheduled to occur on Oct. 19, and it is intended to have the other contests both before and after the main event. The competitions may thrown open to the world, in which the latest developments along the line of heaven he shown The [[?]] score was among 9 to 0 through many persons who Wednesday at Baddeck 77 Post Dispatch St Louis 9 Apr 1907 AERO CLUB TO AID IN TO PERF Personally and by Letter They to Enable Them to Construct One Believes Solve Problem BALLOON and airship inventors been appealing to the St. Louis the perfection and patenting [[?]]-ing to the originators, will make flight more comfortable undertaking than of each of these is like that of "the poem. "Chill penury has repressed the the genial current of their souls." Almost daily Secretary Kearney the club gets some communication this kind, usually by letter, though some instances inventors have [[?]]in person with insistent invitations visit their homes and see the wonderful airship models, which are ready astonish mankind as soon as the necessary money is forthcoming. Among the big bunch of letters from inventors which fill one ample pigeon hole in Mr.Kearney's desk are [[?]] which bear the earmarks of genius' centricity. All are interesting in [[?]] particular. One writer begins. "I take the liberty of writing to you not knowing whether you will appreciate it or not, as I do not know whether or not you are worried to death parties wanting assistance to develop their ideas, but I hope you will not so disgusted as to be unwilling to [[?]] and consider this letter. He Has "the Goods." Another says with engaging frankness that he is neither "a crank, nor nutty." "I have the goods," he writes, "all I want is someone to help me deliver them." He says he can refer the club to hundreds of prominent men and that which only two persons, both army officers of standing, have seen his plans [[?]] say he has "won out." Of his proposed airships, he says: "It will not be absolutely at the direction of the operator in most any wealth as to altitude or lateral control. The speed will be at least 100 miles an hour. The motive power costs nothing as it made by the operator at will. The carrying capacity will be from 500 to [[?]] pounds." He concludes with a bit of delicate flattery, which all but caught Secretary Kearney unawares. "It occurred to me," he says, "[[?]] you, being a progressive western [[?]] might like to get in on this before turn the whole thing over to a [[?]] corporation." The writer is an old newspaper [[?]] and he requests Mr. Kearney to "keep quiet" in any events, as he does not want "the boys to think he is [[?]] nutty." He Has an Idea. 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