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1907. June 14. Friday at Baddeck
Herald Boston
29 Apr—1907.
PLAN TWO DAYS TRIP IN BALLOON
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28, 1907. The America, a balloon of 8000 cubic feet capacity, will ascend from Main and Rutger streets tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock, if weather conditions are favorable, on a trip of at least two days. J. C. McCoy of the Aero Club of America, New York, will act as pilot, while Capt. Charles D. Chandler, United States signal corps, of Washington, will accompany him.
They will travel over 402 miles if possible and expect to go to Washington, an air line distance of 816 miles.

Herald Boston
29 Apr—1907.
Famous Inventor Says America Will Soon Revolutionize Science of Warfare.
[Special Cable Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
[Copyright, 1907, by New York Times.]
LONDON, April 28, 1907.
Dr. Alexander G. Bell said tonight that it was only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation would make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe. He also said:
"I am confident that it will not be long before flying machines will be everywhere. The developments of the next few months will be unprecedented, but the most interesting point is that only very few know how near America is right now to solving a question which will revolutionize warfare throughout the world—I mean the construction of a practical aerial battleship.
"I hope to be able to add much to what is known of aerial flights by experiments at Cape Breton island this summer. My problem this year will be to propel my kites with a specially constructed engine of 15 horsepower, weighing 120 pounds. I hope to get a machine of the heavier than air variety that will support a man and the necessary equipment to operate it at low rather than high velocity.
"Last December I constructed a vehicle that supported itself and a man in a 10-mile breeze. I want to fly a machine carrying an engine at 10 or 15 miles an hour. If I can accomplish this, there is hope that the navigators, or the men who are trying to solve flight on the bird plan, will be able to avoid fatal accidents long enough to learn how to fly.
"Even a bird has to learn to fly, and, as with the bird, one of the first considerations is safety, so that man must learn to go slow before he goes fast."

Sun. Hamilton O.
29 Apr--1907.
BALLOON TRIP POSTPONED.
ST. LOUIS, April 29.—The proposed long-distance balloon voyages by Aeronaut J. C. McCoy of the Aero Club of New York city, and Capt. Charles De F. Ch [?] Signal C.

Record Philadelphia
29 Apr 1907.
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Telegram. Portland Oregon
29 Apr-1907.
DINNER IN AMERICA; BREAKFAST IN EUROPE
Inventor of Telephone Says That in Brief Period Airships Will Cross Atlantic in 20 Hours.
LONDON, April 29.--Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, is quoted in an interview which has appeared here as saying that it was only a question of a brief period when aerial navigation would make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast in Europe the next morning. breakfast in Europe the next morning, covering the distance across the Atlantic in less than 20 hours.
Dr. Bell said that he expected an airship would be perfected capable of making 175 to 200 miles an hour. He was also of the opinion that the next step in aerial flight would take the form of such improvements as would make possible the creation of aerial battleships. He was of the opinion that America would be the first country to [[?]] aerial battleships.