Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — CABALLERO’S AIR-SHIP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CABALLERO’S AIR-SHIP.

Description of the Newest Device for Navigating the Upper Air. The invention shown in the accompanying illustration Is described in the Scientific American as follows: Among the many efforts constantly being made to construct a vessel which will be gble to trgvel and carry passengers through the air, those which depend largely upon the use of the aeroplane for their support in motion, and for making use of the air currents to the best advantage, seem to have of late attracted the most attention. An air vessel of this class is shown in the accompanying illustration, and forms

the subject of a patent recently issued to Estanislao Caballero de los Olivos, New York city. In a suitable light, but strongly made, basket or car is carried the best obtainable type of engine for operating sustaining screws on the upper ends of shafts journaled in a light framework, to which is pivoted an elongated ring surrounding the screws. To the latter ring is plvotecL In a manner to form a universal joint, an aeroplane, which may be inclined in any direction relative to the sustaining screws, and held adjusted in the position desired, by means of ropes or equivalent means, the aeroplanehaving a central opening of sufficient size to allow it to be so inclined without impinging upon the framework or the screws. The ascent and descent of the vessel are designed to be controlled by the operation of the screws, aund when the aeroplane is set at an inclination to the [plane of the screws, the reaction of the affir striking the inclined surface causes a forward movemeat in the direction of the highest point of the aeroplane If the vessel is ascending, and in the opposite- direction if the- vessel is descending, the direction being changed or reversed without altering the spend- of the engine or the position of the screws.

NEW AIR-SHIP.