The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
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Boston TRANSCRIPT.

An aerostatic Bostonian recently con-
fded to the Listener that somewhere
out west, in an enclosed racing park,
a flying machine without any balloon
attachment is going round about twenty
feet above the ground, under full con
troll. g.. -,,s~t-'.,' .4-
The Debats, whose weekly edition is
a resume of all that is going on in
Paris, and is a serious, reliable au-
thoritys on all in the better life of that
world center, treats the problem of
aerial navigation Gin the latest number
received here) as if it were already
as good as settled. .rt h. ~ &
The Debats' writer arrives at this
definite conclusion thru the two or
tary authorities with the airship Gle
baudy,' eliminating in it's recent as,
cent with the minister Of war on board.
1t seems that it is the invention Of
M. Julliot, the engineer of Mr.. Le-
baudy's sugar refinery. ,. Ill -.
The history Of aerostation is a COM
paratively brief one, all told. The first
For a hundred years or more practically
nothing additional was achieved, until
Santos Dumont proved that balloons can
be made to move in any desired direc-
ton and return to the point Of depart
ure, in specially chosen still weather.
The advent Of that other French in
vention. the automobile, meanwhile i'm
proved the means Of propulsion by
engines Of the lightest weight and most
condensed form.
In fact, If we are to believe the De-
bats, and the Debats is no more a SEN
sational journal than the Outlook or the
Nation, NJ. Julliot s final triumph came
thru his discovery from observing birds
that in flight they present large fiat
surfaces which seem to glide with ease
between two currents. He, therefore.
gave the balloon fiattened form, and
he fixed behind it and around it sew.
eral very greatly extended horizontal
planes, some of them fixed. others NOV
able. and also some vertical surfaces to
steady the tendency to roll. The first
attempts demonstrated that all this as
semblage Of planes comported perfectly
we'll in the air with the highest speeds.
Such was the mother idea, which has
resulted IN the defnitive triumphs: of
tical engineer, distinguished for his &C
cnracy in calculations, and he has CT
"phered out details as to the operation
Of the balloon, the machinery, the sys-
tenn of braces, the hydrogen gas; en-
p1oyed, all the conditions of working
success. until he has even secured auto
matically such constancy of pressure
ply and maintain thru the gas alone
that chief desideratum, rigidity, for
driving the ship against the wind.
The Lebaudy being able to travel at
forty kilo1neters an hour, is ready to
battle against winds Of velocity up
to eleven meters a second-winds which
are, rarely encountered in the temperate
zone. This conclusion has not been
reached without a multitude Of tests.
For three years It has been under the
hands of, the experimenters fol. the gov
eminent, and in. eighty ascenslons with
four to. six persons on board, running
to: distances often up to hundred kilo:
meters without using half Of its pro:
visions, it has not - had the least acci:
dent, except that twice its envelop has
been torn by fierce. squalls throwing It
against branches of trees. It has riser
to 1870 meters above the level Of the
clouds and far beyond the, carrying
power Of any: artillery; ~ :, In short, sa "
ali mechanical difficulties; thanks. tt
Messrs. Lebaudy, whose generosity has
permitted the realization of the firs1
true :.dirigible, France, which has seer
nearly all the great inventions born OF
her soil, has at last assured in com
plete fashion the conquest Of the air:
The automobile. radium and the air
ship are but three of the most recen
additions to the modern world contrib
uted by that acute, studious and =. re
sourceful people which the Anglo-Sax
on has been taught from infancy to, re
able frivolities and hilarious iindecen
cies. We can usually find what W
seek for in human communities any