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     FRANCOIS SHIP IN THE AERODOME. It was so huge when inflated that it was too high for the doors, therefore a deep channel (was dug) in the floor and outside the doorway to permit it to be taken out safely. A twenty four horse power cylinder engine, mover four screw propeller fans on the corner of the central platform. It was steered by increasing or decreasing the speed of opposite fans by ingenious regulators. 
      BENBOW'S AIRSHIP ON THE FENCE. After each encounter with this obstruction the airships were not seen again for two weeks. 
     BENBOW'S AIR SHIP, "THE METEOR". T.C. Benbow, the inventor and operator, arrived on July 27, 1904. His cigar shaped ship, consisting of twenty-one longitudinal gores of plain silk, varnished, was seventy-four feet long and twenty feet in diameter at the center, with an ascensional force of 950 pounds when inflated with Hydrogen gas. The framework of the care was of angle  alaluminum and steel, located under the center line of the gas bag. The engine, a ten-horse power "Hercules", with four cylinders, weight I60 pounds and was capable of making 2500 revolutions per minute. It was fastened on a platform in front of the car. Its power was transmitted to a two four bladed fans, six feet long, on either side of the front of the car at the center of gravity, by means of broad leather belts over pulleys, giving a total weight of 600 pounds. Benbow did not develop speed on his trials, which were made at the end of a rope. He claimed to be much hampered by lack of gas, owing to the frequent breakdown of the gas making plant.