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flights at Providence, Rhode Island; Worchester Massachusetts, and London, Ontario, Canada.  Then flights were made in Knabenshue's "Toledo III."  While flying at Providence, the engine stopped in flight, but Hess, hanging from the bottom frame rails by his legs, and holding to the top rail with one hand, was able to reach under the frame and restart the engine by pulling on the rim of the flywheel.  Knabenshue's "Toledo III" was equipped with a two-cylinder, two-cycle engine with the flywheel being a circle of scrap iron laced to the hub with bicycle spokes.  This engine was equipped with a mixing value instead of carburetor and was very temperamental in operation.

After the London, Ontario, engagement, Knabenshue went back to Toledo for a new gasbag on which the 210 pound test suspension cords were fastened to grommets set in canvas strips sewn to the side of the gasbag.  When it was completed, the rebuilt dirigible made one of its first flights at Greenville, Ohio, on August 27, 1907, piloted by Charles E. Hess.  Trouble came when the bag ripped open and the dirigible fluttered to the ground.  The pilot was unhurt.

While Knabenshue sometimes received as much as a thousand dollars a day for putting his airships into the ari, there was considerable expense involved beyond the initial construction cost.  One expensive and necessary item was the large hangar-tent which was specifically constructed to house the dirigible while it was idle on the ground.  This tent consisted of long poles which were set in parallel rows and guy wires were attached to the top of the poles.  These were set through holes in the canvas roof of the tent while it was

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