The Forrest City times., 1904-10-28
THE CALIFORNIA
 ARROWS FLIGHT
Aeronaut Knabenshue Declares He Made Complete Dem-
 onstration.
AERIAL NAVIGATION HAS PASSED
 FROM MERE POSSIBILITY 10 FACT.
Only For Unfortunate Talking os His Engine He Would Have Made Perfect Demonstration--Nf III Make Another Flight Thursday, Weather pcrmittins.

St. Louis. Oct PA. R. Knaben- shue. the aeronaut HEo made the flight. Tuesday in Prof Baldwin's Cal ifornia Arrow. says of the trip:
 "I consider the flight of the airship as made by me from the Aeronautic concourse at the Louisiana Purchase exposition to point in Illinois b miles away. q thorough test for the merits of the machine and complete demonstration of the tact that aerial navigation has passed from the bounds of the possible and the probable to tAe realms of accepted scientific fact
 "It is true that from the time the airship left the Tran ;portation build ing, during the remainder of the flight the gasoline engine of the apparatus was not working. and from that fact the control 1 had over the steering ap- paratus was not as graat as t should have been and was not so great as Il was during the early portion of the voyage when I exercised complete con trol over every movement of the vessel.
 Thousands Watched Him.
 Hundreds of spectators watched me as rose in the air and thousands and thousands of Worlds fair visitors from all parts of the grounds sazed at the machine as it moved from boundary to boundary of the Aeronautic eoncourse and sailed in a great letter "S" out over the fair grounds and around the Administration building 10 the Trans portation building, where my engine went dead. From that point of the voyage l must acknowledge that and the machine were at jhe mercy of the ten mile breeze in which We had be come entaneled. and latil the landing Was safely made over in Illinois that a higher power than mere machinery stood between me and Ges;ruetion.
 No Fenr of Pcr>unal Danger.
 Although I had not been directly connected @ith the development of Mr Baldwin's rSns for his airship l had taken great interest in the progress of his machine. l had been connected with the work in the Acronautic con course ever since the opening of the exposition. and was well acquainted with the details of construction of all the ships which have been planned there and which were intended for en- try in the grand prize contest
 So far as the machine in which the trial was made is concerned. I was ab- solutelr confident that=the secret Of aerial navigation had been reached, and prepared for ihe trip With the as- surance. a. far as myself was con eerned. that little personal danger was attached so long az the machinery was in working condition
 Claims it Was SucccSsfnI
 Successful Of course il was sue eeesful in the fullest sense of the term. Al every stage of the voyage previous 10 the unfortunate accident to the en- zine the mechanism was absolutely under my control Currents and cross currents were safely nav1gated. and there is every evidence shat the dream ot science Tor generations has al last heen realized
 Capt Thomas s. Baldwin. of San Francisco the inventor of the airshiD the California Arrow. which made the voyage Tuesday afternoon. stated that lie would make another trip Thursday, if the "ea;her conditions were favorable
 He is satisfied with the work done by his ship al the initial test. Tuesday. and is not the least discouraged bv the failure of the gasoline engine to meet the emergency He says that the con tingency may hardly ae expected to arise again but he will carefully guard a repetition. Thursdays voyage. he is sanguine. will be even more successful than Tuesdays
 As Tuesdays voyage made him eligible for the grand prize. he will have the incentive of he s1oo.ooo prize to spur him on 10 the greatest exer- tions. knabenshue will again be the navigator al Thursdays flight.