Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-30

Arrow" which made n successful
flight at st. Louis last year, Roy
Knabenshue Of Toledo. o., being the
aerOnaut. For the Lewis and Clark
exposition events. Captain Baldwin
constructed a larger airship. which he
called the Angelus. Lincoln Beachey.
who has been working around balloons
and airships I'VE since he was thir.
teen years old. came 10 Portland with
him as q graduate student In the air.
ship profession. and Captain Baldwin
promoted him to the position of chief
aerOnaut. Beachey has a mighty Level
head for a boy. and he possesses the
kind OF nerve that stands him In sod
stead when up In the air. He made
several flights In the Angelus. but
was not able to combat the upper air
currents very successfully. though he
never failed to make a safe landing
and several times he proved con-
clusively that the ship responded to
It's rudder.
Captain Baldwin recently completed
another ship. hardly more than haIf
as big as the Angelus. which he has
named the City OF Portland In CON-
pliment to the exposition city. Beach
ey went up In the new craft a few
days ago and succeeded in sailing
around the United States government
building at the exposition, a feat no
whit less remarkable than Dumont's
circum navigation Of the Eiffel tower
In Paris: and he did better than Du-
mont by returning to a point within
a few yards Of his starting place, with
In the a%eronautic
Beachey's second trial Of the City
of Portland was ever more successful.
He started from a couple Of saw-horses
In the concourse, went up about 700
feet, crossed above the trail. headed
southwark. sailed above Portland,
tackled to the northwest. came back
and made a beautiful landing. his guy
rope being caught when his machine
was over a point not twenty feet from
the saw.horses. The assistants pulled
1.-THE City Of Portland down on the
saw-hOrses from which 1t had started
just twenty minutes before. after sail
Ing three or four miles. and Beachey
stepped out to respond to the cheers
Of the crowd, which had witnessed un.
doubtedly the most remarkable airship
flight ever performed.
Two or three times a week. during
the rest OF the exposition period,
Beachey will make flights. in the City
of Portland. The ship sails as grace.
fully as a bird. 1t Is built like the An
gelus. with the propellers in front, and
lie operated by a gasoline motor. The
big rudder. like the tail OF a fish. Is
Operated by tiller ropes, and Beachey
It's able to guide his vessel at will. He
can sail II at a speed OF ten miles an
hour right in the teeth Of the wind
The aeronaut stands upon an ap.
parently frail framework of Oregon
spruce. which Ia said to be the lightest
and most durable wood for the pur.
pose. He says he feels just as safe
Ia thousand feet up In the air as on
terra firma. and his expressed intention
IL to stick by airship work until he a
demonstrate to the world that II is
practicable to navigate the air with
safety and that the airship may ba
made a thing Of commercial use.
Beachey Is coached for his flights
by Captain Baldwin. who enjoys the
distinction Of having been the first
aeronaut to make a descent In a
parachute. Captain Baldwin is a mod.
est man. who works along scientific