Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-04 | Page 1 | Airship Built to Rival Santos Dumont's Invention, Destroyed by Fire

AIRSHIP BUILT TO RIVAL SANTOS i I I DU INVENTION DESTROYED BY FIRE I It t NEW YORK Feb 4 Fire Fire at Denmead Hampshire has destroyed f I 1 Buchanan's airship which was built to rival the airship of 01 M. M Santos f I f Dumont according to a dispatch from London to the Journal and Amen Amerl- I 4 can The fire br broke brake ke out In the shed In which Buchanan's flyer was f 1 housed Tramps charged with starting t the e blaze h have e been arrested 4 1 This loss losa will be a serious setback for Thomas Thom Buchanan the English f I inventor who recently completed the burned airship after devoting f t S twenty years of thought and labor to its construction f fIn In constructing his machine Mr Buchanan Buchanan endeavored as closely as f possible to follow the outlines of a bird The steering gear was an alum alum- 1 f I num rudder shaped shaped like like a fish fin Ga Gasoline olIne motors entered into the f scheme of propulsion and and the Inventor planned to carry passengers inside f 4 I the body of the machine machin Instead of In an attached car y The inventor had not given a public demonstration of the working of 5 his machine t tf f ff f f J Ji r i