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1907 [[?]] 3 [[Thursday?]] at [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] 20 [[April?]] 1907 Anent the Big Ballon Race. The St. Louis Aero Club has brought the United States the ballon in which Lieutenant [[Lahm?]] sailed to victory in the international contest abroad last year. After October there will be two locally owned prize winning balloons—St. Louis Republic. The aeronauts of the Mound City are full of enthusiasm and mean to spiritually compete with their distinguished balloonatic visitors in the approaching international races. It will be the most notable event in the [[annals?]] of aeronautics. [[?]] [[?]] 20 [[April?]] 1907 DELAGRANGE'S SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ---- His Aeroplane Covers a Distance of Two Hundred Feet in Trial at Paris M. Delagrange's aeroplane during some experiments at Paris, travelled a distance of two hundred feet, at a height varying from six to twelve feet from the ground. The first trial of the aeroplane was made about 10 A.M. to test the working motor. During the second trial, the aeroplane rose about three feet from the ground, and later the great white flying machine attained a height of six feet, and remained in the air during a flight of about seventy-five feet, which it took four and one-fifth seconds to accomplish. Finally, about one o'clock, M. Charles Voisin, who was piloting the aeroplane, made another attempt, and this time rose easily and swiftly from the earth, and flying straight ahead he remained in the air until he had travelled over 200 feet, and came to ground without accident.The time taken was six seconds, or at the rate of about 33 feet per seconds. The spectators, among whom was M. Santos Dumont, gave the successful aeronaut a warm ovation and carried him shoulder high. The aeroplane weighs 384 pounds, and is driven by a 50 H.P. motor. [[?]] [[Telep-?]] [[?]] 22 [[april?]] 1907 NEW 54-LB, AIRSHIP ENGINE INVENTED ---- Roy Knabenshue Builds Marvelously Light Machine That Will Develop 18-Horse Power. ---- TOLEDO, Ohio, Monday— After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful gas engine ever constructed. It is the new engine which Knabenshue is using in his new airship, built to carry two or more people. The engine is built entirely upon new and original lines and is particularly wonderful because it weighs only fifty-four pounds and generates by actual test from twelve to sixteen horse power. When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of that size weighs from three hundred to one thousand pounds the full extent of this creation can be realized. Naturally enough Knabenshue is jealous of his proud achievement, and many of the details of its construction he refuses to give out. However, he has sanctioned the publication of a few general facts concerning the engine. The engine is of a two cycle pattern, and runs nicely at 1,000 revolutions a minute. The engine is [[valveless?]] and starts absolutely without fail with a half turn. It will work with any carburetor. One of the features of the engine is the spark coil, which is also a freak. The coil, instead of containing, as do most coils, two windings of wire, a primary and secondary, contains six windings, the last five of which are looped in series with a battery of condensers. [[?]] [[?]] 20 [[April?]] 1907 The Army to Experiment with Balloons ---- An Aeronautic Station to Be Established at Fort Leavenworth-Signal Corps Will Participate in the Trials. It is reported that Lieutenant Lahm, U.S.A., who last year won the international balloon race at Paris, will be detailed at Fort Leavenworth to take charge of the experiments in aeronautics to be carried on by the Government. The was balloon, now being constructed in the East, is expected to be finished and to arrive at the fort some time next month, when experiments, not only in aeronautics, but also in signaling from balloons and in testing the balloons as an aid in wireless telegraphy, will be begun. Major George O. Squier, assistant commandant of the Signal School for the army at Fort Leavenworth, is to have charge of the letter. Lieutenant Lahm, who is an officer of the Sixth Cavalry, is now in France, where he is to compete in other balloon races, then take part in the St. Louis races and shortly thereafter come to fort for permanent station. The balloon now being made in Washington, D.C., by Lee O. Stevenson, one of the most noted aeronauts of the country for the army, is to be the largest ever constructed in the United States. The Bag wii be sixty-five feet in diameter and will hold 28,000 cubic feet of [[?*]] [[?**]] hind which there is no evidence, is to make trouble for all who indulge [[?]] as the experiences of Harry Thaw [[?]] strate, whatever is the end of his [[?]] Political hysteria has no better [[ou-?]] Clear-headed men are more than [[do-?]] of the "rich men's conspiracy" [[stories?]] cause so far no tangible evidence has offered to support them. "They say' [[?]] hearsay, though admirably [[calculate?]] [[?]] produce excitement, are unsafe [[sta-?]] points for serious political action. ---- USING A STALKING-[[HORS-?]] ---- (From the Haverhill Gazette, Rep.) Henry M. Whitney is the hero [[of?]] hour in his "grand renunciation" [[perf-?]] ance, in which he declares that he [[?]] sacrifice his own gubernatorial [[amb-?]] and possibilities and run as the [[no-?]] for second place with ex-Governor [[I-?]] las. Mr.Whitney wouldn't like to [[?]] against Governor Guild for several [[rea-?]] and it is barely possible that results [[with?]] [[?]] be far more to his liking if he [[were?]] candidate for the second place on [[?]] ticket, and the opportunity were [[affo-?]] for demonstrating the relative strength the ex-governor and himself. ---- A LA WHITNEY ---- (From the Charleston News and Courier, [[?]] ) Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt would accept [[?]] ond place on the ticket with Mr. [[Brya-?]] ---- THE CALL OF FIELD AND [[W-?]] ---- (From the Hartford Courant) If you haven't taken a rumble [[through?]] the fields and woods this spring, [[nows?]] your time. The maples, the birches, the becehes are not yet leaved out, you [[?]] tell from afar where mountain laurel [[?]] later be found, and on closer inspection [[?]] be revealed the hiding places of the [[ea-?]] flowers. Nature is about two weeks [[behind?]] hand in bringing them this year, but [[?]] few now in blossom are all the more [[?]] come for that. The hepaticas are [[us-?]] the first comers; during the past few [[days-?]] [[?*]]
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