| Show AIR SHIP CHICAGO feb 15 the famous and flighty darius green was waa nearer success than the present operator of the pennington flying machine the machine flies files all right enough but it flies after the fashion of 9 toy balloon with a lifting force neatly nearly as great as that possessed by the little red circus toy in tact fact the effort of one finger is enough to bring the ship to the ground from its lofty position near the ceiling of the big exposition building on the lake front the public is invited to see tile the ship upon payment of the small sum of 26 25 cents to watch the greasy looking canvas bag float around for fifteen minutes utes it to is not an aimless journey this thia fifteen minute flight for the big balloon goes round and round bound with almost mathematical precision several thousand people see the big gas bag very every day and all but about a hundred of f these thousands are thoroughly disgusted with t the he caal claims nis of the I 1 inventors n this remaining hun hundred tired is made up of impressionable people who always stand aland ready to enthuse over ony anything thing new they are the same people who went wild over unfortunate marie crazy utterances in her journal naM SHE DONT NAVIGATE the mount carmal carm 4 air ship company has for months been promising to give a demonstration of the airships air ships success the big ship that was promised to make the trip tri p from st louis to chit ago over a month ago has never yet been seau the only air ship that the public has bas had a glimpse of at 25 cents a squint is tile the big sleepy looking wobbly gas bag at the exposition TheAe the aels tvs correspondent antle is not attempting to throw cold Wa water terona on a meritorious enterprise or display of inventive genius genitis he in in Cor common pinon with every other newspaper man in the city is disgusted with tile claims that the air ship people are making with so little foundation in fact all chicago is surprised that the management of the ship should not retire with its treasure rather than putting it up incomplete and un unsatisfactory satia for fora a picayunish admission fee THE SHIP the model which is not bilow now in ill successful demonstration at tion building is about thirty feet feel long in shape it reminds one or an abnormally large and fat sun bull fish some people say that it looks liko like a thick cigar perhaps it does it looks liko like most moat anything but an air ship it is made of varnished cloth and in fronton fron tofit it there revolves a two fan ller which is run by a apiece of twine biting that comes from a little motor that is carried under the machine the tall tail is the rudder and two awnings on the side allow tile the thing to settle to the ground easily the ship does not carry its own electric power the cells stand aland on the floor and a wire rt anns inc g from them to the motor that makes the propeller fan revolve there is no car for passengers and if there was the ship could not lift a wax do doll there is a canvass box under the long lona gas bag and on its sides are three or four windows put on with a marking pot the effect is amusing to a disinterested visitor but to an air ship enthusiast it is disgusting investor pennington claims that he will yet construct a ship of aluminum that will sail the air successfully anti and carry passengers there are few who have faith in him in a circular the management says that the big ship will be built he says the bun buoyancy yancy screw vacuum aeroplane and parachute will be the principles that will run the machine to successful demonstration the screw principle lie he says is used in this ship to propel the same as in water water is a fluid so is mr air the screw will work in air better than in water because the air is flexible the vacuum principle on this help is combined with the screw the blades on the screw are shaped to ho that after the air Is ie discharged on their outer diameter it is if deflected at a point aft of the center of the buoyancy chamber and it id is utilized to force the ship in the same direction that it is traveling the aeroplane principle is utilized the same way taki a sail is used on a vessel the parachute is used to retard the velocity of the air at sla in its decent it will be shown in the brief description of the lie ship how these principles are applied the anin part of the machine is the buoy ancy c hamber chamber tb this 18 in shape is an ob spheroid being larger janer at the cen ter and tapering symmetrically to a point at a either end slid and looks like a adge cigar ou on the inside of this chamber are two compartments compartment one is a receptacle for gas and the other is used as an engine room tho the engine that occupies this room is a three cylinder rotary and propels the large wheel in front of the ship the fuel that supplies tills this engine ne is gas and is fed direct the main shaft on tills this i engine is hollow and the lar large ge propeller is keyed direct directly lyon on tolt to it this nas shaft is made hollow to let the air pass through it in tile the cylinders to keep them thein cool on the top of the buoyancy chamber is 18 placed the sail tills this extends its full length and can be manipulated so that the currents will act to propel the ship as it does a sailing vessel in the water attached to this sail its is the rudder hat guides the bill ship either to the right or tho the left anti and underneath tills this rudder is the tail this tail is patterned after a birds tail and is used to raise or lower the still ship independent of the propeller wheels at the sides bides on oil the sides of the chain chamber are placed the wings these wings are BO made that when the ship isdo is do sc ending they improvise themselves into parachutes which makes tile the descent gradual on each of thee wings are placed two propeller pro pelier wheels for raising and lowering the ship mr pennington was doubtless very buoyant when lie wrote the above description of ills his sh ship lp more so than the ship itself ahelf the janews corri com u dent along with every other person in chicago would like to see the air ship succeed but it will never do so until its backers backer go out of the show business and send pennington ington and ids his big wobbly toy to the woods for some more thinking denver news |
