New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-03
NOVEL TY IN A|RSH|PS
Unique DirigibIe Being Construct
led by Captain Baldwin.
CRAFT FOR PLEASURE TOURS

Balloon Ordered by New York Yachts
man Will Be Equipped With Several
Automobile Deviees-other Radical
observation-disclosures to Hold Four
People and Cost $11 900.
That the time is rapidly approaching
when the popular mode of pleasure
touring will be aerial flights over the
land instead of by motor cars on dusty
highways received practical confirma-
ton recently when an order was given
by member Of the New York Yacht
club to Captain Thomas F. Baldwin
for dirigible airship. 1t is required
to carry three passengers besides the
operator, and its maximum speed will
be twenty miles an hour. The ma
be finished in June
This new pleasure airship, while
constructed on the general lines of the
government dirigible built by Captain
Baldwin last year and accepted by the
war department after the tests at
Fort Myer, will embody many i'm
prOvements, in the nature of refine
ments In DETAIL" as the automobiles
say Captain Baldwin has learned a
few things, he says, from his past ex-
perience In building airships, and as
this new creation Is designed chiefly
for pleasure he has worked out some
interesting features, which will make
the machine unique in It's class.
The thing that will first attract the
attention Of the average observer will
be the neat arrangement Of the motor
and the passenger quarters. The mo-
tor, a twenty horsepower Curtiss mo-
tor, water cooled and Of four cylin-
ders, will be covered with an Alumni
um hood. with the radiator In front
similar to that Of automobiles. The
engine will also be equipped with a
muf1er. Both Of these are entirely
new departures in dirigibles
Still another radical departure will
be the arrangement OF the passenger
quarters, which will be directly be-
hind the motor, resembling the cock
pit Of an open launch power boat. The
cockpit will be Enclosed by railing.
around which will be upholstered seats
for the three passengers, the operator
occupying a seat in front at the wheel
Of the motor. Here, again. Captain
Baldwin has devised simple scheme
for the operation Of the machine that
10 far in advance Of the method adopt
ed in the government dirigible. One
man will be able to manage the big
airship. the wheel guiding the horizon
tai left and right movements, while
lever conveniently arranged on the
right hand side Of the operator con-
trolls the vertical direction in rising to
greater attitudes or descending.
The radical nature Of these improve
ments may be better appreciated by
contracting this new machine with
that Of the government dirigible No. I.
where, 1t will be noticed, two men are
required to manage the ship the Sec
ond man, who steers, being far to the
rear, while the man at the motor con-
trolls the planes In front causing the
machine to rise or fall. as desired.
There Is no muh1er on the engine OF
the government ship. and when in op-
GRAFTON 1t is impossible for the two
operators to hold any oral communities
ton. Lieutenant Lahm has just had
speaking tube attached to the ship so
that instructions may readily be un-
derstood by the two men.
The government machine is ninety
seven feet in length and Of 10000 GU
bic feet capacity. The new ship will
be 100 feet long; tbs envelope having
a capacity Of $4,000 cubic feet. and
The frame. which vii! be constructed
Of Oregon spruce, will be eighty feet
long and four feet wide. It will be
suspended at much lower distance
from the gas bag than has been done
N other dirigib1es: The cockpit for
fle passengers VIZ! be eight feet long.
The planes Will Be Situated four feet
in front Of the motor and will extend
six feet on each side Of the frame. A
number Of other improVements be
sides those mentioned have been
worked ont by Captain Baldwin, one
Of which will be attaching the cross
bars in steel sockets. and when com
| pleted this 100 foot airship will ex-
empllfy the latest ideas in design and
convenience Of operation in dirigible
| balloon construction.
/ The motor is now being built at
Hammondsport, y. ". where the
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