Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — One’s Sensation in Airship. [ARTICLE]

One’s Sensation in Airship.

“It is a singular fact,” says A. Roy Knabenshue, according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “that when one is going as much as fifteen or twenty miles an hour in an airship one has no sensation of moving whatever. The air beats in your face as you move along, but it only creates the impression that one is standing still in a strong breeze. ' “There are no objects flying past you as when you are traveling 6n the surface of the earth, and as you must keep your eyes looking ahead of you, you observe only distant objects, so distant because of your high point of view that you approach them apparently so slowly you do not seem to move at all. I consider this one of the queerest sensations in a trip through the air, and the impression of scarcely moving or of not moving at all is so strong, even on the most experienced aeronaut, that it is probably due to this so many of them push their motor to the extreme limit and it ‘dies’ in consequence. When a speed gauge is invented for an airship it will cause fewer breakdowns of motors due to crowding power.”