The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1909-06-24
NOVELTY IN A|RSH|PS
Unique DirigibIe Being Construct
ed by Captain Baldwin.
CRAFT FOR PLEASURE TOURS

SALOON Ordsrsd BY New York Yachts.
man viii Be Equipped With Sewers
AwtemebiIs D~sviess-othsr Radiea
Observation-Disclosures to Hold -Four
People and Cost 1900.
That the time In rapidly approaching
when the popular mode Of pleasure
touring WIFI be aerial flights over the
land instead Of by motor cars on dusty
highways received practical con1rma-
ito recently when an order was given
BY q member OF the New York Yacht
club to Captain Thomas F. BALI win
Tor \ dirigible airship. 1t is required
10 carry three passengers besides the
operator. and It's maximum speed will
be twenty miles an hour. The ma
chine will cost about $1,000 and will
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 a~utomobIllsts
My. Captain Baldwin has learned a
Few things, be 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 Its 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-
dern, Will be covered with an Alumni.
I'm hood. with the radiator in front
similar TO that Of automobiles. The
engine will also be equipped with a
mufier. Both OF these nre entirely
new departures IN d~irigibles.
Still another radical departure viii
he 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 wifi be inclosed by a railing
around which Will be upholstered seats
for the three passengers. the operator
occupying a seat in front al the wheel
OF the motor. Here. again. Captain
Bald win has devised q simple scheme
FOR the operation Of the machine that
II far In advance Of the method adopt
I'd 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 a
lever conveniently arranged OF the
right hand side Of the operator con
trois the vertical direction In rising TO
greater attitudes or descending.
The radical nature of these improve
iments may be better appreciated by
contrasting this new machine with
OF the government dlrieible No. /.
where. It WIN be noticed. two men are
required to manage the ship, the sec.
ond man. who steers, being far to the
rear, while the man Mt the motor con
trolls the planes In front. causing the
machine TO rise or fall. as desired. I
There is no muffier on the engine OF
the government ship. and when in OPP
II IL impossible for the two /,
operators TO hold any oral eommunica- {
ton. Lieutenant Lahm has Just had a /,
speaking tube attached to the ship 40
that instructions may readily be un-
by the two men.
The government machine II ninety
feet In length and OF 1900 GU
bic feet capacity. The new ship will
100 feet long, the envelope having
coNacttv 90 90 onn a,,btc foot and II
he frame. which viii be constructed '
II Oregon spruce. will be eighty feet .
ong and four feet wide. Ii Will be 5
suspended ut n much lower distance u
rom the gas bag than has been done :
n other dirigibles. The cockpit for
he passengers win be eight feet long. :
The planes viii be situated four feet u
o front Of the motor and will extend q
tx feet on each side OF the frame. A y
Of other improvements be "
ides those mentioned have been W
out by Captain Baldwin. n VI
Z which will be attaching the cross
In steel sockets. and when com
this 100 foot alrshlp will ex-
the latest Ideas In design and y"
OF operation In dirigible Il
aiioon construction. II
The motor Is now being built at CT
Ia~mmondsport. y, Y, where the 81
will also be constructed. and pi
he balloon will be made In Captain sd
aldwin's shop at Tuckahoe. The y
ssoline tanks. carrying twenty gal I'll
MS, will be placed under the seats. Oh
the machine will be capable of an
laking q seven hour trip without III
'ming TO earth for fresh supplies Of DC
lel.-New York Times. W.
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