Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-02
BALDWIN BUILDS
ANOTHER A|RSA|P
NEW MACHINE KNOWS AS CITY
OF LOS ANGELES"
TWENTYMILESAN HOUR SPEED
inventor Declares Latest Aerial Vessel
Will surpass All Rivals
Not Excepting the
"Arrow"

Capt. Thomas Baldwin is assembling
the parts of a new and much larger
airship than any he has yet attempted
and when this new aerial wonder
mounts into the element for which
she is intended she will be christened
the City of Los Angeles.
Just wait until you see the new
City of Los Angeles and then we will
show you the finest airship that has
ever been built and one the city for
which she is named can always be
proud Of" declared the builder of ships
that fly.
G. M. Curtis, the gas engine wizard
of Hammonsport, New York, has been
commissioned to build an engine that
shall be as near perfect as science and
money can make 1t. Curtis and Bald
win have held several long conferences
and the engine man has taken great
interest in the plans of the aerial
navigator and has designed an engine
fitted to the ideas and requirements
of his friend.
The new motor is expected to develop
sixteen horsepower or more, will have
four cylinders and will weigh nearly
one hundred pounds. The gearing is
to be arranged in a new and novel
manner and the whole will be so bal
anced that the navigator in charge of
the ship can get at his engine and
start and stop it at will. Altogether
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lightness and strength.
Gas Bag Arrives
The huge gas bag for the new ship
has arrived and is stored in the aero
dome at the Chutes 1t is tremend-
Gus affair, being over seventy feet long
and twenty feet in diameter. To in
flate this cigar-shaped bag of Chinese
silk $4,000 cubic feet of hydrogen gas
must be generated.
Capt. Baldwin is designing the frame,
which is to be sixty feet long and pro-
portioned accordingly. 1t will take
some time to figure out the exact
scantling requirements, as the designer
is looking for speed as well as staunch-
him the most is to get the various
necessary weights where they will
balance the ship rather than list her
in either direction.
This new vessel will be a ship indeed
and if Capt. Baldwin's plans can be
builder but the Los Angeles famous
the world over. The captain confident
ly expects her to plough through the
air at the twenty-mile clip, carrying
several passengers.
AT the present time Knabenshue and
Baldwin are working hard on a new
frame for the already world-famed
California Arrow. The aerodrome at
the Chutes has taken on the appear
ance of an airship factory and the re-
suits of great deal of experimenting
are stored there.
The skeleton frame which will make
the little Arrow look more yacht-like
than ever will soon be completed. The
three stringers are each built of three
layers of Oregon pine glued together,
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frame to the other without joints. This
skeleton body which is now under con-
struction is larger in every way than
the old one, being forty-two feet over
all.
Builds New Engine
A new eight horsepower cylinder en-
gine for the Arrow is expected to ar
rive from the Curtis shops In few
days and will be installed in the new
frame. This motor weighs only seven
ty pounds. and according to the in
ventor will improve the speed and
handling OF the Arrow In a marked
degree.
Capt. Baldwin is enthusiastic regard
ing this engine and says "I have had
the men in that shop working by the
tions not to hurry, but to make it per-
feet. 1t is without doubt far superior
to the motor which we have been
using"
The new frame is expected to bal
ance better than the old one and
Knabenshue will be able to start the
engine while in the air should this he.
come necessary.
Rugged as she has been in the past
the Arrows speed is fifteen miles an
hour, but with a better adjustment Ut
the weights and the advantage of the
new motor she should make better
time as well as being more reliable.