The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-17
FIRST HANGAR FOR HISTORIC
 FAIRFIELD A. Holland Forbes Famous Amatner .AerOnaut = Will Give Wife
 Airship SHE WILL RUN IT
 AS OTHER LADIES
 RUN AUTOMOBILES A Hangar is Garage For Air Craft, But Anchorage is a Better Name - New Ship Constructed by Famous Builder.

A. Holland Forbes, wealthy New York Yacht Club member and vice president of the Aero Club of America, whose residence is in Fairfield, has just received from Capt. Thomas &. Baldwin the plans for a large airship. When the airship is built MT. Forbes intends to present it to his wife, who is the great -grandd laughter of Robert M. Livingston, the man who by his financial aid made it possible for Rob- ert Fulton to build the first steamboat in the world.
 Mrs Forbes, in emulation of her dis tinguished ancestor, may enter this adrship, which is the first aircraft ex- preSSly devised for a wOman's use in the $10,O0O prize Fulton flight which will take place at the Fulton celebration next fall under the auspices of The World.
 According to the plans Capt. Baldwin has submitted, this air yacht wdll have a gas bag 140 feet long, with a capacity of 30,000 feet of gas, and will carry a car, luxuriously equipped with up-to- date furnishings, capable of holding four passengers and a pilot The air. ship will cost $15,000. The motor is be- ing built at the Curtiss plant, Ham mondsport, N. Y. The gas bag will be made in Capt Baldwins balloon fac tory in Tuckahoe, N. Y.
 In order to house the craft properly MT. Forbes intends to erect on his his toric country estate, Garden Court, 7 near Fairfield, built by the uncle of Aaron Burr in 1759, an airship anchor age which will be the first permanent airship home built in America.
 .'The plans that have asked Capt.
 
 ship with all of the very latest i'm provements,'' said MT. Forbes, yester- day.
 ssThe motor will be thirty horse power, four cylindered and water cool. ed, and will have a muffler so as to obviate any annoyance which might be discommoding to the ladies who hope will frequently be the guests of Mrs. Forbes. It will have an a4u1ninum hood, such as you find in automobiles with a radiator in front. These are all absolutely new features in airship con- struction.
 'sThe pilot will be able to direct and control the machine absolutely alone.s He will have his steering wheel imnaed- lately in front of him, with a lever to regulate the inclined planes at one side. and will be just behind the motor, so that he can attend to this part of his machinery at any time it is neces- Sary.
 This I think, will be the largest air. ship ever built in this country for prac- tical purposes The frame under the airshfp plan to build will actually be longer than the bag of the government ship, being more than 100 feet long. It will be built of the best selected Oregon spruce, and will be about six feet wide. si
 "The gasoline tanks. with a capacity of twenty gallons of fuel, will be placed under the car, and will carry enough propulsive power to take the ship on a journey without a stop going at it's maximum speed of thirty miles an hour. This will enable the airship to make two hundred and ten miles with out coming to earth.
 My daughter, Natalie, twelve years old, is enthusiastic over the plan. She is a daring aeronaut and nothing gives her pnore pleasure than to go balloon ing with me.
 1T will build the anchorage or ham, gar, as they call it in Germany, about $50 feet away from my house. The pilot will have a place right in the hangar. This hangar will front on the Sound.