Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-22
AfRON AUTO NOTES
Cross Country Trips Planned

Dick Ferris plans to fill the UNITED
States" with the hydrogen gas from tne
Knabenshue airship after Mr.. knaben-
shue finishes his flights at Pasadena
this week, and to complete the infia-
ton with coal gas. He proposes to
make n trial from Pasadena for long
distance eastern trip. Preparations
will be made so as to take advantage
OF the first favorable condition, and
the facilities offered by the Pasadena
Consolidated as company Will permit
a quick imitation. If the winds are
right any time after the middle of the
week the balloon will be ready to
make the trial.
The experiments which Mr.. Ferris
has conducted at Los angeles relative
to a long distance trip have aroused
the Aero club of Seattle, and its presi-
dent, H. w. Treat, who is now in New
York, has arranged with Capt. Thomas
S. Baldwin and H. II. Clayton, the
kite king" to attempt transcontinen-
tai trip from Seattle in May or June.
A new balloon of $4,000 cubic feet ca
pacity, or about the size of Dick Fer
ris' american" will be used, inflated
with hydrogen. Mr.. Clayton believes
the anti-trades will carry them across
the country in four days.
Novel Propeller Trials
novel feature of the first aeronau-
teal show of the Aero club of Califor-
MIA at Fiesta park next month Will be
a demonstration of the pulling power
of propellers by attaching them to
motorcycles and automobiles. utilizing
the propeller thrust alone to drive the
machines around the track, This will
show graphically the pull obtained
with an aerial propeller. Another nov
city probably will be an exhibition of
the Hall propeller, If the owners, the
American Aerial Advertising and
Navigation company, can get demon
strator ready in time. The Hall pro-
psller is so arranged as to permit its
use on the helicopter principle for ris-
ing off the ground, and when in the air
1t is shifted for thrust in the desired
direction Entries of exhibits for the
Aero club show have reached num-
Der which assures display of all the
leading types of aerial machines.
Knabenskue Will Fly
Weather conditions were so unfav-
orable last week that Roy Knabenshue
is keeping his airship at Pasadena a
number of days to make supplement
tary flights. If calm weather follows
the storm which started yesterday he
will attempt the fight up the noun
tain, which was impossible last week
Twenty Balloons in Race
The closing of entries for the Coupe
International des Aeronautes, the in
ternational balloon race for the Cor
don Bennett trophy, shows twenty bal
looms representing nine nations, listed
for participation. France, Germany,
Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have
three entries each, Spain has two and
the United States, England and Aus
tria have one zach. The race will be
started from Zurich as the. Swiss bal
loon won last year. Americas entry will
be decided after the national balloon
race, starting from Indianapolis on
June 5.
Wrights Selling AeropIanes
Nineteen aeroplanes have been pur-
chased of the Wright brothers In
Europe, and their construction is be-
ing pushed as rapidly as possible. Nine
are for Frenchmen, five go to English
men, two to Denmark, two to Russia
and one is for German aviator. One
of the French purchases was ordered
with the intention of using it for @
flight across the English channel.