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ROY KNABENSHUE. The first man in America to navigate an airship successfully. The keel of his ship is seen over his shoulder. 

BALDWIN'S AIRSHIP, "CALIFORNIA ARROW" LEAVING THE CONCOURSE. Baldwin's ship sailed into the wind on this flight, hence the curious indented shape of the front of the balloon.  It was Santos Dumont who discovered that the faster an airship travels the greater the danger of blowing out the tail of the balloon, owing to a release of the air pressure due to speed.  His airship was reinforced at that end.  In his No. 7, which did not compete, he had a propeller at both ends, but Baldwin had one propeller at the front, because he found that it steadied the ship, which would not be the case if the propeller was at the rear.  Santos had a basket in the keel of his ship, but Knabenshue stood up the framework, and changed the direction of the ship up or down by moving back and forth of the frame.