Show aen VW 0 4 I 1 TY I 1 I 1 it 1 1 1 I I ta yv LONG llono 1 PHOt TEI z I 1 I 1 r I 1 I 1 Z t I 1 clr i 7 im remarkable SE voyage THAT I 1 WAS RECENTLY I 1 1 f k 7 1 afloat longer I aban A other bubon 1 BU Ban oon I 1 traveled three hundred ant d seventy I 1 i five fire rues HU sew NOW we 1 r t felted 7 1 1 I 1 IM HB amo amount of attention orL devoted to navigation of the air is constantly inconstantly on T the increase both in I 1 I 1 america and europe 1 says the new f york herald the I 1 1 remarkable experiments in which I 1 z kites have bave been I 1 an importing Import important int f bac tor tar which were w carried on in the vicIn vicinity sty of 01 this tado city during last summer and fall ore are still lmh in I 1 the minds of most persona they demonstrated the feasibility of lifting teavy weights by the force of the wind exercised on oil kites and will no doubt prove of immense advant ange to future I 1 aeronauts aero in the way of enabling them to direct their balloons those who are interested in following up such matter await with extreme hopefulness tul ness the result of the proposed voyage to the polar regions by swedish scientists which was postponed last summer at the critical moment owing I 1 to unfavorable winds and weather but ithac that the subject is receiving the closest attention is shown by the remarkable voyage recently made by named touring club which accomplished the journey of kilometers miles froni from paris to agen this word acord has never been surpassed in length except by two ascents accents during the siege of paris by the balloon ville dorleans dOr ieans which landed in norway end and the gen G en chanzy which landed at ausbach alsbach Au in bavaria both of these distances exceed the record of the touring club by a few kilometers only only one of the forty four ascents accents made under the auspices odthe society for aerial navigation of berlin and only two mentioned of the sixty four balloons sent up during the siege of parts paris have equaled the distance record of the touring club Ind dently the record for length vt rf sojourn above the earth was wai also alm exceeded and many new instruments were tested and will have bare a wide bearing on the proposed international study of atmospheric conditions by means of stationary balloons the balloon itself was made of china silk and had a cubic content of 1700 meters alive hundred kilograms it ballast were taken making the total weight right including instruments and balloonist lo kilograms altogether something over a ton the two aeronauts aero were george besancon and maurice parman farman the anchor carried was of an original design a grapnel with two stocks the valve was studied with particular care permit permitting Ung the gas to escape rapidly when the balloon was to make a landing without requiring a continued strain on the cord to bring I 1 nto into play special mechanism the latitude reached was never very high and it required an hour to attain 2000 feet the theory of mr betsacon Be Ile being that when one undertakes an extended voyage in point of time it is necessary to remain in a low altitude so as to husband the supply of gas the greater portion of the voyage was made at a height of about feet the balloon ascended at paris early in the morning and followed the direction of the railroad line to orleans the descent was made at on the afternoon of the next day in the neighborhood of agen after having been in the air more that than thirty hours the me a ate rate of travel of the balloon varied from fifteen to fifty miles an hour oxe of the features of this voyage was the distribution of printed blanks asking certain questions which were to be filled up and re turned by whoever found them nine thousand of these were sent out during the voyage and about of them have been returned furnishing important d alta |