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Professor Rotch then pointed out the difference between ocean navigation and air navigation, and the difficulties encountered in the latter. The aeroplane and the balloon can make no headway against a wind unless their velocity is greater...
...first intercollegiate balloon race was held on Saturday between Dartmouth, Williams, and the University of Pennsylvania, the last college winning both prizes, for duration and distance. The race started from North Adams, Mass., at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, and the Pennsylvania balloon landed at Peabody, Mass., at 10.20 Saturday night. The Pennsylvania balloon traveled about 130 miles...
...held in the Assembly Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. S. F. Perkins, who is the greatest authority on kites in this country, will talk informally. Mr. Perkins with A. R. Hawley won the yast race for the Gordon Bennett Cup in the International Balloon Race Contest, by a flight from St. Louis to Quebee, thereby retaining the race in the United States next year...
...entries comprised the best aviators in this country as well as two Englishmen. Among the Americans were Walter Brookins and Ralph Johnstone with Wright biplanes, Glenn H. Curties and Charles Foster Willard in Curtiss biplanes, William M. Hilliard with a Burgess biplane, and Cromwell Dixon with a dirigible balloon. The Englishmen were Claude Grahame-White, who used a Farman biplane and a Bleriot monoplane, and A. V. Roe with his triplanes...
Cromwell Dixon had his dirigible balloon in the air several times, and during the course of the meet made a successful flight to Boston...