Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-26 | Page 8 | Airship Makes Wonderful Trip

AIRSHIP HAKES 1SJMI TRIP Captain' Brown's Machine Was Under Perfect Control for 42 Minutes. TRAVELED A DISTANCE OF FIFTEEN MILES Circled Towers of Government Building, and Sailed Between Be-tween Them. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 2S.-Capt. Brown's airship, "City of Portland," today to-day made a wonderful flight of twolvo or fifteen miles, bolng completely under the control of Lincoln Becchey, tho navigator, navi-gator, for tho whole distance. "Went in Every Direction. Tho big machlno was up forty-two minutes, min-utes, sailed In every direction and Ilnally landed on tho samo trestles that It started start-ed from. Rising to a height of about olght hundred hun-dred fuot, the ship flrst went to tho Government Gov-ernment building, circled tho towers and then nailed between them, paid a visit to North Alblna, then wont to East Portland Port-land and St. Johns, and finally headed directly di-rectly for the troll. Its starting point. Weather Conditions Perfect. Tho wind was blowing about three miles an hour, and there were no adverse currents cur-rents In the upper air. These perfect weathor conditions are thought to have had much to do with tho success of the flight