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1907. June 13. Thursday. at Baddeck 101
Times Troy N.Y.
22 Apr 1907.

Walter Wellman, who proposes to fly to the North Pole by airship, is said to have again postponed his trip, and it is announced that he will not go until next summer. On the other hand, Commander Peary, who sticks to the regulation if slower method, will start again in the steamer Roosevelt next July. Possibly it may be a variant on the old story of the tortoise and the rabbit. When the fast-flying Wellman does reach the pole he may find Peary already there.

Star Washington D.C.
22 Apr-1907.

NEW AIRSHIP ENGINE

Knabenshue Constructs 54-Pound Machine of 16-Horse Power.

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 22.—After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful air engine ever constructed. It is the 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 tests from 12 to 16-horsepower.
When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of that size weighs from 300 to 1,000 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 a two-cycle pattern, and runs nicely at 100 revolutions a minute. The engine is valveless, and starts absolutely without fail with half a turn. It will work with any carbureter. One of the features of the engine is the spark coil, which is almost a freak. The coil instead of containing as do most coils two winding of wire, a primary and secondary, contains six windings, the last five of which are looped in series with a battery of condensers.
The carbureter throttle and spark timer are also inventions of Knabenshue. The oil lubricator is different from most others in that it sends the lubricant into the machine with the gas mixture.
So powerful is the engine that it requires a great deal of experimenting to so fasten it in the frame of the ship that it would not tear itself away. This difficulty was finally overcome by supporting it with angle irons braced and counterbraced to the wooden frame of the airship, which is reinforced with steel pipe several feet either way from the engine.

Inquirer Philadelphia
22 Apr—1907
WONDERFUL NEW AIRSHIP ENGINE

Roy Knabenshue Constructs 54-Pound Machine of 16-Horse Power

Consists of Many Improvements and Additions to Any Engines Hitherto Used in Aeronautics

Special to the Inquirer.
TOLEDO, Ohio, April 21.—After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful air engine ever constructed. It is the 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 54 pounds, and generates by actual tests from 12 to 16-horse power.
Remarkable Feat
When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of that size weighs from

Sun Post New York
22 Apr 1907

BALLOONIST'S NARROW ESCAPE.

Nearly Dashed to Death Through Faulty Parachute—Girl Prevented from Making Ascent.
Newark, N.J., April 22.—John Mack, a balloonist, made an ascension yesterday at Hillside Park in the presence of about 1,500 persons. Because a parachute did not work properly he nearly lost his life. He had gone up fully 2,000 feet when he prepared to descend. Grasping the parachute, which he had never tried before, he let himself go, expecting it to open by the time we had dropped 100 feet. It failed, however, and the balloonist shot down with great rapidity. The crowd did not at first realize that something was wrong, but when it was seen that the parachute had not opened every expected Mack would be dashed to death. When, however, he was about 600 feet from the ground the parachute flared open, and, with the aeronaut hardly retaining hold after the sudden stop, it swung back and forth, and with gradually lessening speed descended on the Erie tracks at Washington Avenue.
Mack was found lying on the ground. He tried to get up, but his legs gave way under him, and he had to be taken back to the park in a wagon. He is still suffering from the effects of the flight.
A girl was to have made an ascent from the park, but the management decided not to let her go up, as her father had sent word from Camden that she had run away from her home there last Saturday, and that she was not yet sixteen years old.

Herald New York
22 Apr-1907
Airship Inventor Makes Wonderful Engine
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BALLOON FOR ROY KNABENSHUE'S NEW