Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-06-14
NAVIGATING THE AIR.

lation and experiment.
Judging from the partial success
achieved by DR.. Andrews and his
associates lately in New York, it
would appear as though the problem
of aerial navigation by absolute rule,
is destined to be ranked among the
marvellous actualities of the present
century.
The results obtained few days
since, on the trial trip Of DIR. An
drews' new fying-ship, the "Aereon "
were highly interesting and impor-
tant. The New York World speaks
of them as follows:
Starting at a p. M. from the yard
on the corner of Houston and Greene
streets, and alighting half an hour
afterwards at Astoria, the general
course and results have been already
recorded in our columns. 1t remains
to give more particular detail of
the experience and observation Of
the enterprising aeronauts. Lifting
| herself out of the Enclosure, the wind
| caught the bow of the peerless ship,
as # to caress her with its first bless
&g, before the main part had fairly
risen from the premises, and, in order
to speedy height, was allowed to
carry her to an elevation of two
| thousand feet at once. At that point
the current showed fresh, strong
course toward the northwest. @ Then
the machine was directly over the
junction of Fourteenth street and
Fifth avenue. Here DR.. Andrews
| directed the rudder southeasterly,
and in order to take course dag
onal to the wind before going d.
rectly against it, SO as to estimate
the comparative opposition felt. In
stantly the machine righted herself
as ordered, and shot along at rate
that threw the astonished miles rap
idly behind her, while the sole SEN
sation of motion produced was the
blowing of the wind athwart the
faces of the company. That course
conclusively tested, the Aereon was
headed due southeasterly, or di-
rectly.
| AGAINST THE WIND.
The moment was critical. The
verdict of years Of toll, thought, sus.
pense, of life-felt, life wrought pur-
pose was committed to the result
Changing her course, the gallant YES,
sci, freigbted with SO many hopes,
veered around as directed, and, for
| five full minutes, whose luxurious du
ration seemed hours, she bore on her
unswaying, undertaking way, with
tremendous velocity, annihilating
space, and spurning the wind across
whose path she rode, and whose ad
vancing hosts she met and conquered
Navigation Of air was a fixed fact
Science had made another progress.
ion. The problem Of the centuries
had been solved. Calmly in the car
none other than himself directing the
beautiful queen, sat the man whose
boyhood resolve had at last been tri
umphantly realized, and whose graft
tude and righteous pride it were diff
cult to estimate.
The purpose Of the trip attained, {
change of course, at first, in diago.
nal though in different direction
applied, and equally docile, the Aereor
: tackled instantly north-easterly, will
undiminished speed and grace Ate
trying with the same success various
directions, all counter to the wind, tht
areonauts finally descended in Raven
woods woods, near Astoria,and came
as before told, to this city. In orde
still further to increase the efficiency
; Of the vessel, a further weighing 0
; the rudder was determined on, in or
der to counteraet wholly the tendency
of the currents to lap it up, With wa
slightly but not hinderingly the cas-
on Friday. 1t is also the design t.
fienghten the car some twelve feet from
either side Of the middle, in order tt
throw the centre Of gravity furtbe
J rearward, to make the angle of figh
acuter and the results faster Thus
for the present, endeth the story oftb'
fiying-ship, and our readers and al
physicists cannot BIO perceive tina
4 one Of the most important events ha
taken place, as well in its results nov
as in the sure improvements which
genius and study will yet involv
from this infant discovery.
, - II tell you," said a warn