The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-29
THE california
Arrows FLIGHT
Aeronaut Knabenshue Declares de
Made a Complete DEM
onstrati0n.
AERIAL NAVIGATION has PASSED
FROM mere POSSIBILITY TO FACT.
Only For Unfortunate OF
u,s Engine He would Have Made
a. Perfect Demonstratton--WiAi
Make Another Flight Thursday
weather Permitting.

st. Louis, Oct. ga. r. Knaben-
shue, the a%eronaut who MADE the
flight. Tuesday, in Prof. Baldwin's Cal
ifornia Arrow" says of the trip:
81 consider the flight of the airsaip
as made by me from the Aeronautlc
at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition to a point in Illinois 10
miles away, a thorough test for n
merits of the machine and a complete
demonstration of the fact that aerial
navigation has passed from the POUNDS
of the possible and the probable to the
realms OF accepted scientific fact
at is true that from the time the
airship left the Transportation Dulld-
ing, during the remainder OF the nlgnt'
the gasoline engine of the apparatus
was not working, and from that fact
the control | had owe the steering APP
paratus was not as great as 1t u
have been and was not so great as 1t
was during the early portion OF the
voyage. when / exercised complete con-
troll 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 gaZed at the
machine as it moved from boundary to
boundary of the Aeronautic cOncourse
and sailed in a great letter IS out
over the fair grounds and around the
Administration building TO the Trans
portation building, where my engine
went dead. From that point OF the
voyage | must acknowledge that l and
the machine were at the mercy of the
/ ten-mile breeze in WHICH we had be-
come entangled, and until the landing
was safely made over in Illinois n a
a higher power than mere machinery
stood between me and destruction.
No Fear of Personal
although l had not been directly
connected with the development of MI
Baldwin's PINS for his airship, l lac
taken great interest in the progress OF
his machine. | had been connected
with the work in the AerOnautic con-
course ever since the opening of the
exposition, and was we'll 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.
$50 far as the machine in which the
trial was made is concerned, l was alb
solutely confident that the secret Oh
aerial navigation had been reached,
and prepared for the trip with the as
surance. as far as l myself was con-
cerned, that little personal danger was
attached so long as the machinery was
in working condition.
Claims 1t Was Successful.
"Successful? Of course it was sue
cessful in the fullest sense of the term
At every stage of the voyage previous
to the unfortunate accident to the en-
CINE. the mechanism was absolutely
under my control. Currents and cross
currents were safely navigated, ant
there is every evidence that the dream
of science for generations has at las
been realized"
Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin, of SaI
Francisco, the inventor of the airship
the California Arrow" which mad
the voyage Tuesday afternoon, states
that he would make another tril
Thursday, if the Weather condition
were favorable.
He is satisfied with the work don
by his ship at the initial test, Tuesday
and is not the least discouraged by tn
failure of the gasoline engine to NEE
the emergency. He says that the con
tingency may hardly he expected t.
arise again, but he will carefully guar
a repetition. Thursdays voyage, he l
sanguine, will be even more successful
than Tuesdays.
AS Tuesdays voyage made hir
eligible for the grand prize, he Wi
have the incentive of the 500, 900 priz
to spur him on to the greatest exer
tions. Knabenshue will again be tn
navigator at Thursdays flight.