Show TEST fOR WAR P PURPOSES Navy Department to lo Witness Aeroplane Flight From Prom Deck of Warship ar Washington Nov Nor No II lIThe The proposed aeroplane flight by Eugene Ely of San Francisco from the deck of a naval vessel will be observed by the navy de do department department as an unusual test of the value of ot the heavier than air machine for tor usages of naval warfare This an announcement announcement announcement was made today at the navy ravy department together with details of the proposed t test st The point which will wilt be determined will ill be practicability 1 of launching an airship from a scout cruiser cruller at sea I The trial will be made on the scout cruiser Birmingham by Ely in a Cur Curtiss Curtiss biplane The machine iv ll 11 be placed on the vessel in Hampton roads and taken up Chesapeake bay for quite a n distance where the airship will be sent away The distance the cruiser will wUI willbe willbe be carried from shore chore has not been de tIe determined determined The President previously has refused permission to aviators for the use of naval vessels for airship tests but it itis ItIs itIs is said laid at the navy department that there will be a government trial de designed designed signed to determine the war usefulness of the airship |