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Show I Airship No Joke. Only n llltlu while ago It wns Hit fashion to Joko about airships which lly llko n turtlo and swim like n monkey, In tho past few months achievements In aviation and ballooning balloon-ing have been chronicled In rapid succession. suc-cession. Count Zeppelin's motor balloon bal-loon for 12 hours carried 14 men among tho hills of Switzerland, and for a day or two drew attention away from aeroplanes. Tho "human Inter-i Inter-i est" of Count Zeppelin's success lies In the fact that ho has given half his life and all his fortune to his ox-i' ox-i' perlments. Henry Farmnn won the Anuengaud prize for staying In the air IS minutes on an aeroplane Hlcrlot remained In tho air eight rnlnutos on ' an Aeroplane, und traveled flvo miles. Almost the same day tho Juno Hug, an aeroplano mado at Hnmmondsport, N, Y.,'by tho Aerial Experiment association, as-sociation, went a mllo and described a complete circle. Beforo tho summer sum-mer Is done the government will have 0 tested the machines of the Wright ' brothers, Mr. A. M. Herring, and others. Prof. Langley's experiments, I- which In apparent results canto to I nothing, may bear fruit after his j. death, like tho work of many a man ' at whom tho Phlllatlnoa have scoffed. k For his aerodrome, which has been looked up' in tho Smithsonian institution, institu-tion, has become- Interesting again to the war dopnrtment since the success of other mechanical birds. Lnngley's great difficulty was with engines, but the building of light, poworful motors has mado much progress slnco his experiments. ex-periments. All the great governments are interested In airships, and Invont-ors Invont-ors aro being supported as novor be-; be-; ' fore by public and private money and encouragement. |