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Show in the study of the airship and bal-ioon bal-ioon will have several pages to ndd if the balloon trip across the continent contin-ent should prove a success. En route Capt. Baldwin proposes to make meteorological observations and to map the currents of the air. This would prove as a guide to future voy-ngers voy-ngers along the same lines. flights and tests will bo made, Capt. Baldwin, to further demonstrate that to manage a balloon in long flights, Is one of the great scientific problems of the day, proposed to make a balloon flight from Seattle to Boston. Tills is the longest balloon trip ever Lilked about and if attempted will be the greatest in history. While tho date for the start has not as yet been ret. It is expected that Capt. Baldwin Bald-win will leave the exposition grounds during tho coming summer, at a tlino ubc-n atmospheric conditions are night. Capt. Baldwin will take this haphazard hap-hazard voyage through space not be-j cause he is In search of adventure but because there is a scientific pur- pose back of it all. II. Helm Clayton, of the Blue Hill observatory, one of the mo3t noted students of atmospheric atmos-pheric conditions In the world, is be-l be-l ind tho proposed Baldwin ballooning expedition from Seattle to Boston Clayton, by the use of kitC3 and the modern meteorological instru-mcnts.has instru-mcnts.has fetched just enough knowl- edge concerning that mysterious toace overhead to the earth below to venture tho opinion that at an fie--atlon of about 13,000 feet there Is always a steady wind from tho tho westward. Now Clayton further believes be-lieves that should a balloon bo kept constantly at this, or even a nigher elevation, the great bag would enjoy en-joy the full power of this eaJy wind, and should if all theories per taming to ballooning prove correct, AIR CURRENTS TO BE MAPPED. The balloon and airship have suggested, sug-gested, in keeping with aeronautical progress, that there is a possibility of mapping the air currents, and an attempt at-tempt to do so Is about to be made by Capt Thomas S. Baldwin, famous balloon expert. Since the very latest types of the airthip and the big modern gas bags are to be exhibited at the exposition at Seattle this summer, and numerous. traverse the continent rapidly. Again it these same atmospheric conditions were exactly right at the time, Capt Baldwin will land his balloon on Boston Bos-ton common within four days after departing from the Seattle exposition. exposi-tion. Flying through the air at a ra'.e of rpced yet to he attained by tYo fast express trains would no doubt be a nerve racking experience, but Capt. Baldwin believes that the men who .will write the scientific progress made. |