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Show STEERS AIRSHIP OVER. I LONDON AND SUBURBS y aaaaaaaaaaaaataa-aj Btinlrj Benr. SPENCER'S AIRSHIP, IN WHICH HE SAILED OVER LONDON. Stanley Spencer of London has proved that he could steer his airship successfully at will, nail lu any direction direc-tion l.o liked, nnd mako fairly good tlmo against the wind. Mr. Speuccr is a veteran noronaut and built h.s airship after his own design. Recently Recent-ly ho started from tho Crystal palace, sailed over St. Paul's, went ns for west as Haling, circled nhovo that suburb, Balled northwest against tho wind und landed at Eaatcote, near Harrow, at C o'clock. Tho trip of thirty mlluH was mado without u hltcn I In an hour and forty-ilvo minutes. Pcrclval Spencer, referring to his urother's trip through the air. Raid It exceeded tho longest trip of Santos- Dumont, thu lirazllinn uuronaut, by noarly twenty miles, Spencer's airship has a blunt tall nnd nose, differing In that respect from tho dcBlgn of Santos-Dumont'B balloon. Tho gcnernl lines nro thosu of a bottle-nosed whale. Tho bag Ib Bovcnty-flvo foot long and contains 20,000 cubic feet of gns. Tho framo Is of bamboo. Unllko Santos-Dumont'B machlno, Silencer's airship ifl propelled In front. A simple presBiiro of n hut-tun hut-tun Bets tho airship going and atopa It. It 1r worked by n motor of three horso power, placed at a safo distance from tho gaB vnlvo, danger of explosion explo-sion being thereby minimized. |