Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1907 — A Successful Airship. [ARTICLE]

A Successful Airship.

Tr -would seem that Count Zeppelin, the - "Gennaff-enthttsinst who—bas—exluuistsdhis fortune in aerial accomplishments, has at last won a triumph which bids fair to delay or perhaps render impossible the victory of the aeroplane over the dirigible balloon. He has driven his latest air-

ship at the rate of thirty-eight miles an hour. In his recent trial, Count Zeppelin completely circumnavigated the Lake of Constance, remaining in the air tof four hours and seventeen minutes, leaving astern the steamers that tried to keep up with hkn, passing over five different states and making evolutions before the windows of the royal castle aU Friedrichahaven.