Show LONG TRIP JN IN THE A alit AIR lit AFLOAT LONGER LONCER THAN ANY PREVIOUS BALLOON tl two balloons only have gone further farther md anil kiy only huly afew new ew instruments tested 0 HE amount of 0 attention 6 devoted de to 1111 navigation of the air la Is constantly on Y the increase both in america and AA V europe the remarkable 4 experiments in i aich kites have been six an important factor which were carried on in the vicinity ot of this city during last summer and tall fall are arc still fresh in the minds ot of most moat persons they dem the feasibility of lifting heavy heaby weights by the force ot of the wind exercised on the kites and will no doubt prove ot of immense advantage to future aeronauts aero in the way ot of enabling them to direct their ballons ballans bal lons those who are interested in following up such matters await with extreme hopefulness the result ot of the proposed voyage to the polar regions by swedish scientists which was postponed last summer at the critical moment owing to unfavorable winds and weather but that the subject is receiving close attention Is shown by the remarkable voyage recently made by a balloon named touring club which accomplished the journey of kilo metres miles from paris to agen this record has never been surpassed in length except by two ascents accents during the of paris by the balloon in nor way and the general chanzy which landed at ausbach alsbach Au in bavaria both of 0 these distances exceed the record of 0 the touring club by a few kilometres kilo metres only only one of 0 the forty tour four ascents accents made under the auspices at 0 the society tor for aerial navigation ot of berlin and only the two mentioned ot of the sixty tour four balloons sent up during the ot of paris have equaled the distance record of the touring club incidentally the record tor for length ot of sojourn above the earth was also exceeded and many new instruments were tested and will have a wide bearing on the proposed sed international study of atmospheric conditions by means ot of stationary balloons the balloon itself was made ot of china silk and had a cubic content ot of 1700 ni metres etres five hundred kilograms ot of ballast were taken making the total weight including instruments and balloonist lo kilograms altogether something over a ton the two aero were george betsacon and maurice farman the anchor carried was ot of an original design a grapnel with two stocks the valve was studied with particular care permitting the gas to escape rapidly when the balloon was to make a landing without requiring a continued strain on the cord to bring into play special mechanism the latitude reached was never very high and it required an hour to attain two thousand feet the theory of 0 mr air demacon being that when one undertakes an extended voyage in point of time it is necessary to remain in a low altitude so as to husband the supply ot of gas the sweater portion of 0 the voyage wats was made at a height ot of about seven hundred feet the balloon asien fied at paris early in the morning and followed the direction ot of the railroad line to orleans Or lenns the descent was made at a quarter past three on the afternoon of p the next day in the neighborhood a 0 f agen lutc having been in the air more than th thirty ty hours the rate of 0 travel ot of the bat 1 loon varied from rom fifteen to fifty in miles I 1 an hour one of 0 the features of this voyage was the distribution ot of printed primed blanks asking certain questions abio were to be filled up lip and returned by whoever found foaud them nine thousand of these were sent out during the voyage and about one hundred and fity afif j have been returned furnishing Imor important tant data |