The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-11-09
SUCCESSFUL AiRSHIp
Captain Bdldwin's Machine
SulveS Problen
st. Louis, Mo, Nov. 2, 10

q number of very rGm2fkdD.e eNoiutiohs
during the recent airship i'll. The wird
was blowing from the northwest ct the
rate of ten mics an hour. rapidly in
creasing TO eighteen; but in the teeth of
the breeze The vessel moved easily back
and forth at the height CT from 800 feet
and upwards over the exposition grounds,
ard twice returned neatly TO tho point
from which it set out Just as it had de-
scribed in The ar a huge figure eight for
the second time the sp3rk of the gazoline
engine was raj ed a Little too high and
the motor ceased to work, the vessel be-
ing at The time about 600 feet above the
Plaza of st. An hory, etWee tie pal
aces of Transportation and Varied In
dustries.
But this accident only serve to ennpha-
size the triumph; fer even hen, after the
propelling apparatus could no longer be
used ard the machine was adrift on the
wind, the aeronaGt was sill abe, simply
by tie shifting Of his own weight and the
manipulation CT the rudder and the ball
las. to turn the craft around, raiso and
lower it in the air. and to control, TO q
considerable extent. the direction Of is
movement. Mr.. Knabenshpe decided just
where It was bet TO land, and gen-iy
sank down at Valley Junction, East s..
Louis, ami alighted wi hout the sl.ga est
injury to either himself or lie m lehiae.
Could the motor have been used
throughout the tip the landing woufe
have been mad without any difficulty in
the ~aeronau.ic grounds at The sam point
from which the ascension had taken
place.
The ascent ard evolutions were wit
nessed by thousands of e-posi ion visi-
tors, ard greatest enthusiasm was
aroused by the perfect success with
which the apparatus was propelled II
any desired direction. either with, across
or against the wind, so long as the engine
remaired in order.
The california Arrow is the pro1er y
Of Captain T. S. BALDWIN and has been
constructed after his plans. representing
the final outcome of thirty years of s.uly
and experimental ion. It has a cigar
shaped gasbsg of varnishe~ Japanese
silk. ffty-two feet long and seventeen
feet in diamter. with a capacity of s,ooc
cubic feet. On the upper surface and AT
the ends the SILK is bed and at The
points of greatest strain trcb,td. The
car. forty feet lorg, is a light frame
work of VIII G cedar byaced wi h piano
wire. 1t is, in sec ion, a perfect cqu.lat-
eral triangle. so that the whole is ia the
shape of a right Prism, save that II
grows smaller ard smaller towards the
ends 1t is pulled through he air by
two-bladel silk propeller. eleven feet
from tip to tip. set at en- angle Of twenty
degrees at the from e0d OF the car. The
draught of ar carecd b. its 200 revolu-
ions a minute serves to prevent explo-
SONS By constantly cooling the 1Isrlu'ee
gaso' inc engine set about eight feet from
the forward end OF The cav. The engine
weighs only sixty-six pounds. bat pe~
forms 2.500 revolutions Z m'nate ard has
a working capacity Of seven horsepower.
The aeronaut has n sen and coming
platform about twelve or thir cen feet
further back. and lie can move from en-
end 10 the other of the car at VII
though a charge CT position Of less Than
two feet is sufficient to cause he Graf,
to ascend or desocrd in the air by rats
ing or lowering the c~'evation % the
beak. At the rear there is a rudtie" o.
six feet by ten made Of lght clrvas
stretched on a bamboo frame. The toial
weight OF the whole apparatus Is crly
about 220 pounds. Tie mayinUm speed
thus far at aimed, by means # ns own
engines, not taking the wiad into a.
count, is twelve m.les an h-ur, b1t The
usual rate is on'y about eight illles an
hour.
Inc success t-nteNed-CGu4fHtlilE tNe
sensational reports Of prcyio.is u.aIs
made at Oakland, Calls ~ lie ilore
remarkable, in view of he fact thai tue
meteoro,o g.cal cond tons were reeul,tr.y
unfavorable, owing 10 the strong nnd
shifty winds and the in eFmii pi3eg cus-
rents Of air OF different tempertlu es,
causing a constantly varyins pc safe q
the gas. Moreover. the "~aato-la Ar-
row IS It.le more thar a small AND
cheap'y-bullt vo king model with a
well-rnade ergire and thoroughly uo-to
date carburator, such as tnose with
which one Of the larger Baldwin airsaips,
now at Los Angeles. Cal, Is be ing
equipped. such accidents win no longer
be liable to occur.
The Baldwin airsh.p will hencesnrta
make asccrsfons here every two or three