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" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [Pennington-L] William Pennington - Chicago, IL > > > Rene'e Davis <[email protected]> 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 > >