The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-10-28
AERIAL NAVIGATION NEARf
COUNT ZEPPEIINtS SUCCESS GIVES
NEW HOPE,
Two Satisfactory Tests OF Ills Zig Airhip
show More Progress Than Was Looked For
tie Has Worked Along the Same Lines
for IhlEIN Year Plana for the RntnIa.

since tho frSt balloon TIP was made the great
problem Of aeronautics has been 10 achieve thao
snmr control ~ a ship OF tho air that tho
sailor has over tho ship In tho water. Tho prob
lem was twofold, Il required the achiev smens
OF propulsion and Of direction. In tho aegre-
cato millions ~ dollars. hundreds Of years. and
score, of live, ha,r been devoted to tho solu-
ton. From time to time announcement has
been ~triuinphauuv uadc OF an airship that
could b. st"ercd, bat n SINGLE trial OF the con-
trivanco has ended In failure at the best or dis
ost'r At III" worst ~ late Investigators have
turned from the ida Of the balloon TO that OF
th" sonring apparatus, .ceking to initiate the
bird rather than the steamship in their efforts
to navigate th" air h1t ono student Of aero
nautics steadia-tiy hold TO the line ri the gas
airsh,p and now, ~ the losing year Of tho nine-
toenth century. Count Zeppelin announces to
tho world that the d rigi5ie airship is a demon-
strated fact.
Two successful Nights form the basis OF Count
Ieppeltn's assertion which IL universally ac-
certrd since his most rocont experiment on Oct.
II at FIR eirich,hnfou "A German town on 1aks
Constance. In each ro demonstrated that his
atr'hlp could 10 raised. lowered and steered In
any direction at Hll while carrying five passen-
gers. This amounts, broadly speaking, to this:
that tho first step forward lts been made In
aerial navigation since h"'ight ol the first haG
loon. At the beginning 4 hallpouiug il vas
shown that the greet gas bulb could be- raised
or lowered TO some oNtoni m acroriauco with
the will of the operator. Iu M the years since
,.7 - ~ ','''..t - 'a,etal
air currents until the German Count built his
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oeCtatlon OF the event hHd opportunity OF Ner-
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was moved out from ltS no9tlur bOathpuse Tor
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was not like any balloon that any Of the Specta-
tore had over hefore aeon and indeed i, waa
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balloons, seventeen of them In all. inCloSed In q
frame NJ aluminium treIlis work That dav no
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began Beneath 'he o"uS "l 'U' u''ooh huns
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equal distance from the other end containing
two other passengers The operating of tbs
craft was done from these two ClrS The eager
multitude below. with their field and opera
glasses, could see from the decks Of the foet OF
excursion boats mos; Of the details of operas
ton. on a cable suspended beneath the body