Show GERMAN AERONAUT TO 0 SAil OVER ATlANTIC Dr Br Expects to R ReDis BeDish ReDiscover cover America in an anS S Airship S Special Cable to Berlin April 16 Dr the li liGerman German aeronaut who Id tends to at attempt attempt attempt tempt to traverse the Atlantic ocean in inan Inan inan an airship has given the following par particulars particulars of ot his scheme I shall be accompanied by Herr Bruck Bruckner ner the editor of a Frankfort news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper by a physician and by one OM engi engineer engineer neer fleer I intend to start about the middle of oC May Hay from either Cadiz Cadis Spain or from This time of the year ar is chosen be because because because cause cause then there is an en easterly wind which blows from the European to the American continent continuously and with a force of nearly thirty miles an hour bour It was waa to this thu wind that Colum Columbus Columbus Columbus bus owed his success in discovering America Amerl I desire to be an aerial Columbus and starting approximately from the same sanc point to be the first to o reach America through the air My Iy course would lie across the Atlantic ocean to Porto Rico passing Cuba Cuta and then across the gulf gul to New Orleans The distance of my ty y course would be Just over miles I l estimate that I should cover this distance in five da d s My Aly airship now approaching completion is a combination of an ordinary balloon and a dirigible airship p The length of the balloon see sec section tion lion is 17 feet and its diameter which is cigar shaped is fifty feet The motor is power Owing to the favorable wind which I shall utilize I only intend to use the motor in case of necessity because Itis It ItIs ItIs Is not possible to take Sufficient ben benzine benzine benzine zine to keep the motor going for five days das The cubic contents of the balloon are quite sufficient to keep the airship aloft for hours That Thit would be six days or one day da more than thon I require forthe for Sor forthe the passage Perhaps the most interesting feature forty feet long of my m airship is a cage and ten ien feet lIMIt wide In case ca e of oC necessity nece I this can be sailed on the ocean as a motor boat and if I run short Of f ben hen benzine benzine zine it can be he sailed as ag a sailing boat beat because I shall take a portable mast with S S me meSo So far as human foresight for ight can con fore foresee foresee foresee see my m enterprise must succeed A num nurn number ber her of s will wUl be on the lookout for forus forus I Ius us between European coasts and the West v est Indies |