Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — French Inventor Triumphs. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

French Inventor Triumphs.

The new flying machine which has been successfully tested at the Crystal Palace, London, is the invention of August Gaudron, a Frenchman, who has been long an experimenter in aerostatics. It is rather an airship than a flying machine proper, from the fact that it depends for its support upon a cigar-shaped balloon seventeen

feet long by three feet in diameter. Beneath the balloon are fixed platforms, certain of these containing a motor and fan to supply the propulsive power. The platform in the middle is reserved for the aeronaut, Wlio there controls the steering gear On a windless day the inventor hopes to attain a speed of thirty miles an hour. M. Gaudron and his British backed Cecil Barth, have in contemplation the building of a machine which will accommodate five persons. The supporting balloon of such an apparatus would have to be 100 feet long and thirty feet in diameter.

GAUDRON’S FLYING MACHINE.