The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-11-02
SECOND SUCCESSFUL
FLIGHT OF AIRSHIP
BALDWIN,s VESSEL MANOEVERt
FoR THIRTY-sIx MINUTES.

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Upon Which He Had Decided to Land
"A Fifteen-Mile Flight to be Under
taken To-day, the Direction to be
Named by Newspaper Men-Trayels
Against the wind.
St. Louis, Nov. LA second success
full flight of the Baldwin airship was
made at the worlds fair to-day, under
the guidance Of A. R. Knabenshue Of
Toledo, O., who manoeuvred the Cali
fornia Aorrow' aat will high above the
western portion of the exposition
grounds and descended in the stadium,
adjoining the aerial concourse, amid
cheering thousands after a fight Of
thirty-six minutes. Yesterday Knoben-
shue took the airship up to an alti-
tude of 1000 feet and circling around,
edscended in the aerial concourse with
in 100 feet of his starting point. To-
day he went up to an altitude of about
1000 feet and descended on the exact
spot upon which he had decided to
land Owing to the large crowd gath
cred within the concourse enclosure,
Inventor T. S. Baldwin admonished
/ Knabenshue at the start not to attempt
to land in the concourse enclosure, but
to choose some spot without, and near
/ by, where e would not be in danger
of striking: spectators. Knabenshue
chose the adium enclosure and came
odwn just as he intended to do.
Satisfied with the demonstrations of
the airship over short courses during
these two trials, Inventor Baldwin an
nounced at the conclusion of the fight
that Knabenshue will tomorrow un-
dertake a fifteen mile fight over a
! designated course, the choice of the
course to be left to newspaper men,
and the flight to be made regardless Of
the wind conditions
"a light, breeze Of probably three miles
an hour was blowing from the south
west when the '.Aarrow' was brought
out of the aerodrome to-day. With
ldifficulty the guards cleared a passage
way through the dense crowd into the
open area. The airship with Knaben-
shue standing in the rigging, fioated
buoyantly and obediently after Bald
win, who held the anchor rope, had
made his way through the crowd to
a point where two supports had been
placed on which to rest sThe Arrow
After a final and close inspection
Knabenshue was instructed by Mr.
Baldwin to make a flight of half an
hour ana to manoeuvre in the vicin-
ity of the concourse, but to land OUT
4 side the enclosure
! Lightly as a bird the airship rose
above the heads Of the cheering spec
tators, gracefully cleared the high fence
and proceeded due north, rnountaingt
y higher and higher each instant. After
reaching an altitude Of about 300 feet
n Knabenshue waved his cap to the spec
4 tators and then turned his rrdder to
tveer the Arrow to the south AL
most before the rudder had completed
the turn the Arrow began respond
ing ana slowing swung around in a cir
A Gle until the prov pointed to the south
west, against the wind. Then Knaben-
shue tilted the PROV upward and began
ascending. His course was directly
across the concourse and his move
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H motor seemed to have suddenly died
down and he began working at the
A controlling lever After a moment the
motor seemed to gain renewed energy
4 and the propeller revolved with speed
The young aeroriaut then threw out
some ballast sand and stood toward
the rear of the framework fitting the
lprow upward at a greater angle. The
Arrow shot toward the zenith until
an altitude of probably 1900 feet had
been reached, when Knsbenshue, head
ed directly for the southwest, breasting
the wind. Then he made conplete
turn and came directly back over the
4 lconcourse.
! Once more he turned andproceeded
Ito the southeast Then the airship
pointed toward the southwest and pro-
oeeded in a straight line for a mile un-
til directly over the southern boundary
of the exposition grounds
\ The airshlp circled to the east, turn
Led again into the north, veered to the
northeast and at a good speed came
back to the vicinity of the concourse.
i When almost above the concourse the
Arrow changed its course again and
A proceeded directly east for half a mile.
then made d turn and returned until
Iwlel over the stadium when it swung
Ito the northwest and proceeded until
lit had passedalmos a mile northwest
and proceeded until it had passed al
most mile northwest Of the exposition
Il grounds. A turn was then made with
in radius Of presumably seventy-five
Ifeeet and Knabenshue headed toward
4 the east and bac kover the concourse.
He then performed a series of man.
Il 4louvres, shooting In one direction for a
lshort distance, turning quickly and
shooting off in the opposite direction.
ltraversed letter 49, course, dipped
4 and came down several hundred feet:
Tilted the PROV and ascended again to
the original altitude, and completed the
series by turning the airship in such a
short space that it seemed as if the
vessel swung around on a pivot The
thousands of spectators looked on in
silence and when Knabenshue again
steered to the northwest they cheered
him so Justify that he waved back his
acknowledg dgments.
Proceeding to the northwest until he
had hearched about the point Of his
previous trip in that direction, he
turned the airship sharply around, and
lhe said later, pulled the rope that
81 releases the gas. Then he inclined the