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Hotel Raymond in Pasadena, California, carrying Walter Brookins, the former Wright Exhibition Team pilot, aloft as a passenger. According to reports, the dirigible rose very readily with its passengers and its 40 horsepower engine performed perfectly. As a result of the 15 minute flight, Knabenshue decided to have a passenger service established from Pasadena to the ocean beaches, charging $100 per ride and also sight-seeing rides lasting 20 minutes for $25, later dropping the price to $10, as there was no great rush of aerial passengers.

Knabenshue probably became the first of a long line of business men who found that aerial transportation was often a non-profit venture.

With a large dirigible on his hands, he decided to take one more swing through the country, putting on aerial exhibitions and taking passengers aloft for aerial sigh-seeing trips. In 1913 and 1914 he used the dirigible extensively throughout the mid-west after he had re-built the gondola.

In 1914, Knabenshue flew his carrot-shaped dirigible, now named "White City," extensively in the Chicago area. It could carry five or six passengers in addition to the pilot in a series of cockpits provided in the gondola framework suspended below the gasbag. it was propelled by a forward mounted engine driving [[strikethrough]]a [[/strikethrough]] 2 propeller.s 

The pilot sat in the [[strikethrough]]rear  [[/strikethrough]]front cockpit and an assistant at the rear could reach the appendix to the gasbag if necessary to release gas from the bag. A series of  [[strikethrough]]six [[/strikethrough]] elevating planes were fastened to the gondola and [[strikethrough]]a [[/strikethrough]] vertical rudder,s sporting an American flag above it, was used to steer the dirigible. A large white sign fastened to the side of the gasbag read "White City,"