Another Air-Ship.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 118, 22 October 1901, Page 3

Another Air-Ship.

Paris, October 20. M. Santos-Dumont ascended from Pare Proit atique in hia navigable balloon and easily rounded the Eiffel Tower at a height o? 250 metres and regained the point of departure in 1755 seconds, whilst in a second attempt he covered the distance in 1849 seconds. On the return journey he encountered a strong »ind. The Aero Club Committee d-cided that Dumont had won the Deutach prize by forty-four points, M. Deutsch personally considered that Dumont had won. Crowds who wis. nessed the aiceufc showered flowers on M. Dumont. M. Santos-Dumont is a rich young South America, and is a native of Brzil, His air-ship is a cigar-shaped balloon, pointed at. b >th ends. Attached to this, at a distance of several feet below, is a long spar, in the centre of' which M. Dumont sits on an ordinary bioyc e > addle. In front of him is a double gasoline motor of the description u ed' in motor oars, whioh works the shaft of a propeller twelve feet in diameter, made of strong silk stretched in a frame of woo 1. At the rear point of the b»Uoon itself is the rudder, a diamond shaped oontrivanoe, also made of silk on a woolen frame. The prise) referred to in the cable m-usige was one of. £4OOO offered by M. Henri D.-utsch for the most successful air-ship. The competition was to have closed on May 31st; but was extended to the 31et of the present month.