Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-10-25
ERIAL NAVIGATION.
To Go Around the World in Five Days.

A syndicate of Englishmen and Amer jeans has been in session in Chicago sev eral days and filed a certificate of incor- poration of an erial ship company with capital of $20,0O0,000.
 That its feasibility has been fully dem onstrated and that immense works will be at once erected, and the building of air ships and cars begun.
 The first will be ready inside of sixty days; that it will be perfectly controllable, and with it the trip anound the world can be made in five days.
 WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE. A description of the proposed air ship has been obtained ill as definite terms as the designers at present are willing to permit. Aluminium is to be the chief material em- ployed in its construction. The metal Is remarkably strong and light, and by a new process said to be owned by the com pany, it can be made surprisingly cheap.
 The claim is made that the ship com pines safety, speed and comfort, and IS so perfect as to be under the absolute con i trol of a crew of two men. It IS shaped much like the hull of an ordinary vessel It has on either side large wings, arrang- ed so as to turn into parachute Tn case of accident, and at the corners of these wings there are propeller wheels, enabling the ship to be raised or lowered at will. ! A large propeller wheel at the box gives the ship power either to go backward or | forward.
 Above the buoyancy chamber is a rud- i der for steering horizontally. Just i'll the rear of this is a smaller one to steer either to the right or left The cabin or car is suspended immediately beneath this i framework, and beneath this are the stor- age batteries, which also act as ballast.
 ELECTRICITY USED.
 In front of the car is a place for the pl- lot, who is provided with levers for switch ing the electric appliances-the rudders and propellers being controlled by cleo tricity.
 The inventors say the chief secret in aerial navigation problem has been alum mum. In addition to this, all the ma chinery Is of new design and of the lightest weight possible. It is also said that in order to cause the ship to fail or to be lost control of at all, the rudders the wings, the propeller wings and the buoyance chamber must all break at once for any one of them would keep it sus- pended. But even should this happen the automatic parachute formed instantly by the wings, would allow the ship to de scend gently to the earth. and as special cars will be made for crossing the ocean even should this happen in mid ocean | float on touching the water.
 OBSTACLES OVERCOME.
 "When it Is first presented to you, saiC one of the projectors, w. c. Dewey, '1 seems simply impossible, but it is really the simplest and most practical matter Il the world. The inventors and the mem bers of the company have met every ob stacIe suggested by the few to whom they have revealed their plans, with th' most convincing proofs. When it wa decided to go to work at once on the con struction of buildings and that the frs ship for travel should be completed an, in Chicago within sixty days, there art those who said that such things could on ly come after years of preparation and de velopment. But these years it was show have already been spent.
 "Hundreds of partly successful attempt have been made in the same direction and the reasons why until to-day 1t ha , never been successfully aecomplishe, were that electricity has not reached high enough perfection, and aluminium , the only possible material for construc tlon-was not sufficiently cheap or vel enough understood. Matters equall stupendous were sneered at few year l ago, yet are now in ordinary daily ust } The first car will leave St. Louis for Mt Carmel within two months and will the come to Chicago, where the men and l few invited guests will take days vaca tion for trip, probably to the Paciti Coast"