The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-09
OCTOBER
AT THE.FA|R
sANTo DUMoNT WILL MAKE AN
AERIAL FLIGHT
With BIG AIR SHIP
Personal Inspection of Six Air Ships
Through Courtesy of Professor
Baldwin.

deed, will be the person who chances
to be on the Exposition grounds dur
| ing the calm and clear days of this
glorious month of October. Ii he
turns his eyes skyward he will see
something altogether new and aston
ishing in the way of aerial perform
ances. There will be something do
| ing in the air, and it will be by far
| the most interesting feature of the
Exposition because SO unusual and
spectacular. To the crowd it will be
dazzling as mere spectacle; to the
scientific man it will be intensely in
teresting and instructive.
The departure of Santos Dumont
Off France with his dismantled air
ship makes the big airship races i'm
probable, but it will not prevent the
people from witnessing the perform
ances Of several great airships, two
| of which have already demonstrated
their ability to fly. Through the cour-
tesy of Mr.. T. S. Baldwin, of San
Francisco, one of the aeronauts, ]
was permitted to personally inspect
the six air-ships and one aeroplane
that are now housed in the great
laerodrome in the enclosure that was
built for the aerial contests. and to
obtain much information regarding
them. These machines which have
been in preparation for many weeks,
safe from the eyes of the public, are
now ready to fly and are only await
| ing a calm day for their first flights.
There is the big Is foot air-ship
brought here by 7. C. Benbow, of
Montana, beautiful and impressive
piece Of mechanism, which looks as
though it ought to fly. The mechan-
ism. which is suspended from an ell
liptical gas-bag IS feet long and 25
| feet in diameter, consists of rotary
| fan propeller with a 14horse power
gasoline engine. The length of time
it will stay in the air depends upon
the quality of gasoline carried. That
this machine is favorably regarded
by scientific men is evidenced by the
fact that the English and German
Governments have sent men here to
obtain photographs of it. One of the
most interesting machines is the one
built by Mr.. Baldwin himself 1t has
cigar-shaped gas-bag "a feet long
and II feet in diameter with ca
pacity of 5000 cubic feet. 1t is
characterized by extreme simplicity
of construction, having a rectangular
triangle-shape framework for keel
with a seven horse power gasoline
motor amid screw propeller. the
whole air-ship weighing only 900
pounds.
Navigating the air l. no. an expe-
riment with Mr.. Baldwin. He has a
worldwide reputation as an aero
maui, having ballooned' his way
around the world twice, touching in
China, Japan, Java, Sumatra. Aus
tralia and other PARKWAY lands. He
is the inventor of the parachute and
from his former home in Quincy.
ILL.,, he sent out in one year $50
Trained aeronauts to give public per-
| formances. That his airship is GER
tain to fly is indicated by the fact
that he has already made three sue
cessful flights at Oakland, Califor-
MIA.
There is also tht mammoth French
airship 100 feet long with four pro-
pellers, weighing two tons. and the
Barry airship which has a saucer
shaped gas-bag looking Ike mann
moth umbrella with a revolving fan
at the top and bottom of the mast
In addition to these there are the Nc
Garry and Reynolds airships and the
Chenutte aeroplane all ready to nav
igate the air as soon as the winds
subside
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