Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-08-26
KNABENSHUE FLIES.
His Airship Again Scars Over
New York City.
DIDN'T CIRCLE FLAIIROy BUILDING
Otherwise Toledo Inventors second
Experimental Voyage In the Me-
tropoiis Is Up to His own
Expectations.

NEW YORK, Aug. 24-From Cen
trail Park West to Madison square,
high above sky scraping hotels and of.
flee buildings, sailed A. Roy Knaben-
shue in his airship, going fully 1900
feet above the street level, and he
learned something more about the
wind around the Flatiron building than
is known by those who have met the
gusts at the street level, the strong cur
rents defying his efforts to circle the
tall building.
His ship moved without hitch and
apparently with as much ease as a
bird, responding 10 every movement of
its operator. The propeller worked to
perfection, the rudder did It's full duty.
and Knabenshue had the satisfaction
of successfully maneuvering his big
airship and of alighting where he
agreed after a spin through the air of a
half hour.
He came down on the ball ground in
Central park in the midst of fully 49,
600 people, who gave deafening cheers.
Hats were thrown in the air, and the
Brooklyn bridge crush seemed to have
moved uptown. SO eager was the
crowd to get at the aeronaut that the
mounted police were unable to cut
their way through.
Knabenshue started directly east
with his ship from Sixty second street
and Central Park West. There was a
favorable air current, the wind blow
ing at velocity of about eight miles.
Going as far south as Eighteenth
street and east beyond First avenue,
Knabenshue made the turn. In order
to do this, especially as he was going
against head wind of about twelve
miles, the gas valve was opened, and
feet In this altitude the turn was
made, and the gas valve was closed
On the uptown trip the ship behaved
perfectly. Isaac Ludlow, who with
DR.. Julius Thomas, had been following
the flight of the Ship in DR. Thomas
sixty horsepower automobile, said that
he never saw machine behave better.
'Knabenshue had it under full con-
troll all the time, and it responded per-
fectly to every demand. / congratulate
him ON the success of the trip" said
Ludlow.
At Fiftieth street, as the ship was
over Third avenue and about thou
sand feet above the ground, Knaben-
shue again pulled the gas valve and
steered the ship due west.
When over Central park the aeronaut
again turned the ship and headed it
north. Meanwhile the gas was being
released, and the ship was gradually
nearing the ground. Knabenshue so
manipulated the valves, the, propeller
and the rudder as to alight ON the ball
ground of the park at Sixty-fourth
street, the ship practically falling into
the arms of his employees, who had
followed its flight in an automobile
The airship contained 5000 cubic
feet of gas, thousand feet for every
seventysi pounds of weight which it
carried. After the ascent Mr.. Knaben-
shue said:
81 believe that the trip was a COM
plete success. The ship acted perfectly.
1t was probably the best ascent 1 ever
made. l have no special plans for the
future, except that / do not intend 10
make any more ships. l believe this
one will do the business. l will make
frequent ascents from time to time"