Anytime :>) Rene'e Davis ARD, Family Groups PRA - Group 9 Pennington Research Association, Inc. www.penningtonresearch.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Penningtn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [Pennington-L] William Pennington - Chicago, IL > > > Rene'e Davis <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Fred, > The front page of the newspaper was dated Jan. 31, 1891 and the column > spoke of the 30th. I understand there were two attempts to get this thing > off the ground. The day before, the battery would not hold up for the > demonstration. > > Rene'e Davis > ARD, Family Groups > PRA - Group 9 > Pennington Research Association, Inc. > www.penningtonresearch.org > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Penningtn" > To: > > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:22 AM > Subject: Re: [Pennington-L] William Pennington - Chicago, IL > > > > > > > > Rene'e Davis wrote:Hi Gang, > > Sometime ago, I copied this article from the Arizona Republic for the > Pennington's list and of course it has been buried ever since. > > Jan 31, 1891 - Front Page > > " THE AIR SHIP > > Fairly Satisfactory Test Made of a Thirty-Foot Model > > Chicago, January 30 - The airship invented by William Pennington was tried > again today and ?? appearance it was thoroughly demonstrated that a craft > has at last been invented that permits feats of aerial navigation never > before accomplished. The propelling and steering ship tested today is only a > thirty-foot model, made of oiled silk and the practicability of using > aluminum which was to be the material of which the full -sized ships will be > built has to be shown. > > The car which carries the passenger was not attached today and the ship > floated in the air and was propelled by a wheel like that of a propeller, > the motive power coming from storage batteries on the floor, attached by a > light wire. The rudders being set at different angles, the ship traveled in > a satisfactory manner around the exposition building. The speed attained was > not great, but the inventor is sanguine of much better results with a > satisfactory battery." > > Does anyone know what family his Gentleman belongs? > > > > Rene'e Davis > > ARD, Family Groups > > PRA - Group 9 > > Pennington Research Association, Inc. > > www.penningtonresearch.org > > > > > > ==== PENNINGTON Mailing List ==== > > Threaded archives can be found at > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/pennington > > or for a search engine try > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > Jan 30 is not enough to go on for a date. Need Year ,please ! Fred P. > > > > > > ==== PENNINGTON Mailing List ==== > > This Pennington mail list is hosted by Rootsweb. > > To subscribe to Rootsweb, and show your support of their efforts, see > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > > > > > > > ==== PENNINGTON Mailing List ==== > To search over 7000 archived messages from this list see > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > Thanks------Fred p. > > > ==== PENNINGTON Mailing List ==== > To search over 7000 archived messages from this list see > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Threaded archives can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/pennington > >