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Navigator in yesterday's voyage: A. Roy Knabenshue of Toledo, Ohio.
Length of gas bag: 52 feet.
Diameter of gas bag: 17 feet.
Capacity of gas bag: 8,000 cubic feet.
Wooden frame substructure: 40 feet long.
Weight of gasoline motor: 66 pounds.

On October 27, after advertising a flight would be made, a very large crowd assembled. Interest was tremendous, as the public was beginning to realize that the flying machine had arrived, and that it was only a question of time when it would be possible to fly from one point to another. About three o'clock we were ready and the machine was walked out of the hangar and placed on the saw horses previously mentioned. Baldwin had secured the services of an expert to go over the motor, and it was with more confidence that we listened to the purring of the two exhausts. 

Baldwin made a speech, in which he explained to the crowd that he would make a short flight, as a result of which he would issue to me further instructions. He had fastened a twenty foot rope to the frame just forward of the motor, and told me to run along under the ship and to not let go no matter what happened. We started along the side of the hangar. With the trail rope interfering together with resistance of the rope I was holding, he could not possible steer; the result was a broken propeller. We placed the machine back on the saw horses and I proceeded to make repairs on the propeller. It was a piece of patchwork and to make it look better I daubed aluminum paint over the repairs. I used glue, small thin pieces of spruce held in place by soft iron wire and screws. I had something new to worry about. If