The DeLand weekly news. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1887-190?, 1906-03-09
BALDHNS SET ALRSHLI.
Beilsvoe by Experts TO Surpass any
flying Niaehins Vet ConsIruS ted.

flying Nisshins Vet Consiru1tsd.
Captain ThOmas BALDWIN believes
be has found q nay % navigate the air
with fair success. captain Baldwin.
te Il known, Is Americas foremost
aeronaut, hayins been engaged m the
profession VI sailing 70 tie clouds
longer AMI more continuously than
any other citizen OF tie republic. lie
BEGAN hallooning on the ordinary way
nearly a quartz OF a oeatury agO.
Then be Invented the modern type OF
parachute and In his inyeutiug aud "a.
perimenting. vent from one thing 70
another until h. hit non the dirigible
balloon type Of airship
Ia 'Ie past bal Iecade Captain
BALDWIN, who makes his home "a Los
Angeles, California has built Eve d.f.
ierent shy craft. all on this general
pattern, but each q aer.ut IA many re-
sperts from its predeCsssor lie hopesI
10 improve on even the new airshipI
which has recently been completed.
t3t The fart remains thar 'a.s latest
o.. ns machine Is - FAR superior 20
's'rything that has gone before Il that
o. IS well worthy Of notice.
n the new airsh.n the gas bag or
balloon which lif's % has \ caracity
~ l1,"'o cubic feet o. ras or nearly
fHire as much .. fr~ ~ 't.. one
which Captain Baldwin exhibited az
the 81. Louis Exposition n BE- male
Of Japan silk. oU.I inside and out
From this bag rbe-a o. suspended by
means % a net of cotton seine twine a
framework Which contains the PRO
polling and ste rHs apparatus % the
a.rhip and wi D B. known as the
k'.' In Captain Rnllw.ns earlier
inventions this Wa b.I 81 steel ta,.
ing AMI each frame cost 500. hut In
n" new airship tho Keel is Of Oregon
spruce. the lIrht.-t and strongest
wood In eXistence.
\ Powerful little EnEinc.
The engine which furnishes power
for driving the la.0On Is located about
midway on the keel II consists Of q
gasoline motor ycrv similar 20 those In
use on motorcycles The motor
weighs about IS pounds. Is capable Of
5000 revolutions per minute. and
aba 10 develop -. horsepower. but 70
Is seldom II ever that 80 mu.H energy
Is required even vhrn The aerial dyer
Is fagiug a heavy Mad.
Attached 20 the keel al the forward
end OF the airship Is the propeller,
which 10 eleven feet IN diameter and
has two is zach blades % painted can
vas. These blades whirl around az the
rate Of two hundred times per miaute.
but Il will De- observed that this pro
pcllor Is a, the fOrwari r"' q ta' ship
instead Of az TIE stem. vl.-, O. might
naturally o. okCt for. AMI tIis gives
the kcyuof. % one 81 Captain Bald
wins mos important Inventions.
namely. TIE heme % having tie RAJ
idly rryolsEu- propeller pull the sh.-
o., air instead Of pushing u
Is a ship IS pushed through the water
Nearly ffty feet from the propeller,
AZ the other eai Of the keel Is the rul-
der by which the steering Is accom-.
plisfal. tn rudder "a about * by
eight feet Il size and con ISIS %
canvas s,ref he'd upon wooden
frame Alta he'd 20 the framework Of
the keel g. also a tank v...I IS ca
Fable Of boiling two gallons % gasO-
line The navigator Of the new Bald
win airship has nothing IN the way OF
a platform on which 70 stand. but
mus balance himself on the skeleton
framework % the keel. tracing himself
By means ~ the net which suspends
the keel from the gas bag
Baldwin's new airship cost him more
than 81 s00 and By reason OF the Eas
REQUIRED 70 iniate II as well a. other
expenses. each ascension costs In the
% $3.50 The hydrogen
gas which Is employed 20 llft the bal
loon and 90 maintain u In position
where the propeller can DO iis work u
manufactured BY combining iron
nlinrs or horings. sulphuric acid and
water on the basis % one part acid
ami one part iron 90 four parts water.
This cas IL generated IN q big tank