Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1902 — Has Pennington Returned To Earth? [ARTICLE]

Has Pennington Returned To Earth?

I According to press dispatches | from Sooth Bend A. Van Dorston ,of that city claims to have solved aerial navigation abid proposes to begin building two airships within j sixty days, and expects to make his first attempt at flight through the ! air in a trip to the St. Louis Exposition. He says the capital necessary to carry out the plans of the ships will be $25,000. He is a machinist and years ago inventedjT boiler whioh he will use in his airships. The boiler will be operated by means of gasoline, and the inventor says five gallons of the fluid will carry his ship from South Bend to St. Louis. In operating tbe ships he will use what he calls a “cyclone foroe,’’ a series of lifting wheels located on each side of the ship in vertioal tubes. The wings of tbe ship will be stationary the wheels supplying the lifting foroe. The ship will weigh 1,500 pounds and will be 109 feet long. All of which sounds very muoh as though Pennington had got back into Indiana again, under another name. The only thing that sounds new about it is the term “oyclone foroe.” That is a new one on us We have forgotten just what Pennington was going to use, but think it was “etberic impulse.”