Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ed. In September, sufficient pro-gress had been made to enable them to turn round slight bends,and on the 20th they succeeded in returning to their startingpoint. All these journeys were naturally undertaken with adriver on board ; latterly small loads of iron rods were also taken,which gradually rose to 2 cwt. The following is a statement ofthe best results obtained in 1905. On September 26th, a dis-tance of 11 miles was covered in 18 minutes 9 seconds.
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . ed. In September, sufficient pro-gress had been made to enable them to turn round slight bends,and on the 20th they succeeded in returning to their startingpoint. All these journeys were naturally undertaken with adriver on board ; latterly small loads of iron rods were also taken,which gradually rose to 2 cwt. The following is a statement ofthe best results obtained in 1905. On September 26th, a dis-tance of 11 miles was covered in 18 minutes 9 seconds. The FLYING MACHINES. 113 length of the journey depends on the amount of benzine carried ;in this case it had been supposed to be capable of lasting 40minutes. On September 29th, 12 miles were covered in 19minutes 55 seconds; on October 3rd, with a larger reservoir forthe benzine, 15 miles were done in 25 minutes 5 seconds; onOctober 4th, 21 miles in 33 minutes 17 seconds, and on thefollowing day, 24 miles in 38 minutes 3 seconds. Captain Ferber, of the Balloon Corps, and the editor ofUAerophile put themselves in communication with the. Fig. 65.—Archdeacons experiments on the Seine.(From Moedebecks Die Luftschiffahrt) Wrights in order to find out the exact position with regard tothese trials. The answer which Ferber received tended to showthat there had been much exaggeration in the reports. Chanute,however, stated in a letter that he had witnessed a trial trip overa distance of 500 yards, and had heard that great distances hadbeen covered; but a journey, which was to cover 40 miles in anhour, had been abandoned on account of the strong wind blowingon the day of his visit. In so far as the outsider is concerned,not the least mysterious part of the affair seems to be theproposal to sell the invention to the French Government. The work done by Professor Montgomery in California does A. I 114 AIR-SHIPS PAST AND PKESENT. not seem to have been so successful. He built an aeroplane
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