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98 1907 June 13 Thursday - at Baddeck State Washington DC 21 Apr - 1907 Prizes for Balloon Races NEW YORK, April 20,-Word has been received by the Aero Club of America that prizes aggregating $5,000 have been offered by the Aero Club of St Louis for aeroplanes and dirigible balloons. Contests will be arranged for the days immediately preceding and following the Race for the International challenge cup, which is scheduled to take place October 19 from St Louis. Inquirer Philadelphia 21 Apr 1907 SNAPSHOTS CITY FROM THE CLOUDS Captain Lovelace Gets Photos of Norfolk While 4000 Feet Up in Balloon NORFOLK, Va., April 20 - Captain T.T. Lovelace, who has an international reputation as an aeronaut and performer of dare-devil feats generally, made an ascension from the Norfolk Gas Works, with the intention of taking some birds-eye views of the Jamestown Exposition, but owing to the strong west wind he was blow in the wrong direction, landing at Virginia Beach after three hours flight. As soon as the balloon was cut loose at the gas works it shot up to a height of 4000 feet, and Captain Lovelace brought his camera to bear on the city of Norfolk, and as he swung over the city took several pictures from different elevations. No trouble was experienced on the trip or in the landing at Virgina Beach, which was accomplished without damage to the persons in the balloon or to the balloon itself. Captain Lovelace will make an ascension at the Exposition grounds on April [[?]], the opening day, and will take a series of photographs from the clouds of the opening ceremonies and the assembled [[?]]ets in the harbor, and if they are as [[?]]d as the Kingston earthquake pictures the hardy adventurer they be a [[?]]t success. Record Philadelphia 21 Apr - 1907 BAD WEATHER FOR AERONAUTS Led to Postponement of Proposed Balloon Ascension. Unfavorable weather conditions yesterday caused a second postponement of the proposed balloon ascension of Alan R. Hawley and Leon Stevens, both of New York, which was to have taken place from the Point Breeze Gas Works. The start was originally set for 12.30, but at that time the wind was blowing from the west at about 20 miles an hour, and the sun was occasionally clouded. This would have resulted in the balloon being carried directly toward the sea at an uncomfortable pace and the alternate clouding and shining of the sun's rays would have caused the balloon to rise and drop continually, as the sun first warmed and expanded the gas and then allowed it to cool. It was decided to wait for a time in hope that the conditions would change, but toward the middle of the afternoon when it was seen that there was small prospect of a change for the better, the ascension was abandoned for the day. A number of prominent aeronauts were disappointed to get away, and hopes were expressed that favorable conditions will prevail next Saturday, when another effort will probably be made. Times New York 21 Apr-1907 ENGLISH AIRSHIP RACE Will Form Part of the Programme for British Olympic Games. Lord Desborough and Sir Charles Howard Vincent have been appointed English delegates to the International Olympic Games Committee, which will meet at The Hague to-morrow [[tomorrow]]. The principal subject for discussion by the committee is the programme and regulations of the London Olympiad which is to be held in London in July 1908. It has been practically decided by the British Olympic Association to have an airship race in connection with the games. Rev T. de Conrey Loffan, one of the leading members of the association, is authority for the statement that a long distance race will be arranged, starting from the Stadium, which is to be erected at Shepherd's Bush, London. Pioneer Press St Paul 21 Apr - 1907 The Jamestown Exposition will outclass the world's fairs at St Louis and at Milan in its aeronautical exhibit. In Europe and America there is now a considerable fleet of balloons driven by motors. Alberto Santos-Dumont has evolved a flying machine, heavier than air, which has carried him three hundred yards. Orville and Wilbur Wright have brought their aeroplane to a point where they have navigated it over stretches of twenty miles in wind or calm and at a speed of forty miles an hour. All these air craft may be seen at the Jamestown Exposition. The ordinary drifting balloon is still the balloon of the sportsman and will receive much attention. Those who wish will have the opportunity to try limited flights in a captive balloon of an American aeronaut, Captain Baldwin. The winning of the James Gordon Bennett Cup by an American transfers that contest to America this year. The contest will take place at the exposition. Considerable space has been set aside for aeronautical purposes. There will be a special building for exhibits, the variety of which tell of a growing human, commercial and scientific interest in aeronautics. In addition to the actual air craft, the exhibit will show pictures, models, charts, maps and all materials entering into the construction of aeronautical craft and used by aeronauts for whatsoever purpose. These include a vast literature, motors, propellers, gas producing apparatus, rudders, guiding devices, nets, guide ropes, anchors, sand bags, megaphones, aeronautical toys, valves, meteorological instruments, pilot balloons, signalling outfits, &e. Post Dispatch 21 Apr 1907 Woman aeronauts are by no means a novelty. As long ago as 1784 Mme. Thible, a Frenchwoman, made an ascent in a balloon which she had not only designed, but made with her own hands. In much later years a woman, Mme. Poitevin, soared up into the air seated on a horse suspended from her balloon. Tribune Detroit Mich 21 Apr 1907 SCHOOL FOR THE AERONAUT Arrangements have just been completed to establish at Chemnitz France, a training school for aeronauts and constructors of airships. A similar school has been in operation in Paris for a year past. The Chemnitz institution will be the second enterprise in the pedagogical field. A one-year course is coutemplated [[contemplated]] for the present, the school to be opened in May. This course at the outset is limited to the construction and use of balloons. It will be enlarged so as to include aeroplanes as soon as practical working types have been developed. The successive divisions of instruction during the years course are as follows: Calculation of volume of balloons, methods of cutting the material, methods of rendering the material impermeable, construction of nets, gases used for inflation, the general theory of balloon ascensions, meteorological observations, ascents alone, ascents with passengers, special instructions for passengers, methods of landing and the application of airships. The tuition for a year's course is 600 marks or $143.
