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Show TAKES FIRST FLIGHT: Successful Trial Voyage of California Inventor's Airship. ALAMEDA, Cal Der. 3. George E. Heaten's airship "California Messcn-Ber,, Messcn-Ber,, had Its Initial flight and behaved In a satisfactory manner. Heaten's airship Is seventy-six feet long, twenty-four twenty-four feet In diameter when fully expanded ex-panded and is Bhnped like a cigar Tho vessel Is driven by a double cylinder cylin-der gasoline engine weighing sixty-eight poundH and It v stated capable of developing devel-oping fifteen-horse power- Attached to the engine are two funs with a surface of eight yquare fceL Theso fans are screw shaped and not only do they propel pro-pel the voseel, but the current they generate gen-erate acts on the rudder and steers the ship. |